<s>
.nz	B-General_Concept
is	O
the	O
Internet	B-Application
country	I-Application
code	I-Application
top-level	O
domain	O
(	O
ccTLD	B-Application
)	O
for	O
New	O
Zealand	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
there	O
were	O
747,865	O
registered	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
domains	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Prior	O
to	O
the	O
current	O
structure	O
,	O
the	O
registry	O
operator	O
of	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
was	O
Domainz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Historically	O
,	O
Domainz	O
was	O
a	O
subsidiary	O
of	O
InternetNZ	O
which	O
also	O
operated	O
as	O
a	O
registrar	O
and	O
vendor	O
of	O
other	O
add-on	O
services	O
such	O
as	O
DNS	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Shared	O
Registry	O
System	O
(	O
SRS	O
)	O
was	O
initially	O
developed	O
in	O
2002	O
,	O
and	O
provided	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
registry	O
services	O
until	O
November	O
2022	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
2010	O
the	O
SRS	O
also	O
supported	O
the	O
standard	O
Extensible	B-Protocol
Provisioning	I-Protocol
Protocol	I-Protocol
(	O
EPP	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
22	O
July	O
2010	O
,	O
the	O
Domain	O
Name	O
Commission	O
announced	O
that	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
domain	O
names	O
with	O
macron	O
vowels	O
( ā	O
,	O
ē	O
,	O
ī	O
,	O
ō	O
and	O
ū	O
)	O
would	O
be	O
available	O
from	O
the	O
following	O
week	O
to	O
allow	O
Māori	O
language	O
words	O
to	O
be	O
correctly	O
represented	O
in	O
domain	O
names	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
2013	O
,	O
InternetNZ	O
decided	O
to	O
allow	O
domain	O
names	O
to	O
be	O
registered	O
at	O
the	O
second	O
level	O
in	O
the	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
domain	O
name	O
space	O
,	O
aligning	O
the	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
domain	O
name	O
space	O
with	O
a	O
majority	O
of	O
other	O
top	O
level	O
domains	O
that	O
already	O
allow	O
registrations	O
directly	O
at	O
the	O
second	O
level	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
second	O
level	O
domain	O
names	O
were	O
launched	O
with	O
a	O
sunrise	B-Protocol
period	I-Protocol
from	O
30	O
September	O
2014	O
to	O
30	O
March	O
2015	O
(	O
to	O
allow	O
people	O
with	O
similar	O
domains	O
to	O
register	O
the	O
shorter	O
version	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
30	O
March	O
2015	O
.nz	B-General_Concept
domain	O
names	O
were	O
available	O
to	O
everyone	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
early	O
New	O
Zealand	O
second-level	O
domains	O
ac.nz,	O
.co.nz	B-General_Concept
and	O
.govt.nz	O
were	O
based	O
on	O
those	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
UK	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
archie.nz	O
–	O
used	O
for	O
an	O
Archie	B-Protocol
search	I-Protocol
engine	I-Protocol
server	O
operated	O
by	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Waikato	O
until	O
the	O
mid-1990s	O
.	O
</s>
