On 22/07/11 12:29, Simon Green wrote:
Me too. When registrations were handled by University
of Waikato, .school.nz
and .ac.nz were
moderated. When Domainz took over admin of .nz, they were un
moderated. IIRC[1], the reason was it was too hard to define what
a school and��academic��institute were.
In reality, before ISOCNZ / Domainz took over, there was no
"moderated" vs "unmoderated" dichotomy. All domain requests were
eyeballed to some degree, as the updates were a completely manual
process. In co.nz, they really just had to look kosher; other
domains got higher levels of scrutiny, but there wasn't a really any
formal policy around it.
When ISOCNZ took responsibility for the domain updates, and things
started to be automated to a greater degree, the initial plan was to
make all domains unmoderated, and that is what happened to most of
the domains that were mastered at UoW. The domains that were
mastered at VUW (govt, mil, iwi) continued to be moderated,
primarily due to rearguard action by VUW and Government folk.
-- don