 What is the meaning of NPPA? |
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NPPA stands for National Public Procurement Authority. |
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What
business does NPPA do? |
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The administrative contact is an
individual or a group name under which more than one individual is
authorized to interact with the SL Domain Registrar on behalf of the
domain name registrant. The administrative contact should be able to
answer non-technical questions about the domain name's registration and
the domain name registrant. It is strongly recommended that this
contact/agent be the registrant or someone from the registrant's
organization. |
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What
should I do to be registered with NPPA? |
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The technical handles the technical aspects of maintaining the domain's name
server and resolver software, and database files. They keep the name
server running. This person would be the technical contact running the
primary nameserver or making technical changes to the domain record. |
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I
have a question that is not listed here, what should I do? |
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Go to the Complaint tab and ask your question or post a complaint. |
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How can I learn of current or upcoming business opportunities? |
Reassign domain name to another holder, or change of ownership should be done by email.
The request to reassign should be submitted from the registrant email address and must be confirmed
by the new and the old registrant.
Reassignment of domain registrant is the same process of deleting a domain and then registering it
to another holder, merged to one action. The price for reassignment of domain registrant is the price
for one year registration which is $50.
The expiration date of the domain is reset to the date the reassign took place. |
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How can I register my firm with the NPPA? |
A valid domain is compatible with the following rules:
- Maximum domain name length is 63 characters, minimum is 4 characters.
- Valid characters for a domain name are letters (a-z), numbers (0-9) and hyphens
(-).
Though, domain cannot start or end with a hyphen. Also, two consecutive
hyphens are not valid.
- Internet reserved names such as company, example, icann, ripe, www, root-servers and more are not valid.
- Names are case insensitive.
Note: Domain names that promote or praise hatred, violence, child pornography, racial or religious intolerance will be rejected.
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How can I find out the names of firms that have been awarded contracts in projects? |
The following formats are accepted as a SL Domain name.
- EDU.SL is limited for educational organizations in Sierra Leone, or educational organizations
that have local representation in the country.
- GOV.SL is reserved for local government entities and organizations. Registration requires
a signed authorization letter from the Minister of Information Office.
- NET.SL is not enforced, but encouraged to be registered by network related companies
such as ISPs, cable companies etc.
- ORG.SL is not enforced, but encouraged to be registered by non-profit organizations.
- COM.SL and .SL are for commercial and general use, and fully open for registrations.
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How can I see the status of a given project? |
GOV.SL is reserved for Sierra Leone's government agencies and offices only.
To apply for a domain under GOV.SL zone you must complete the following steps:
- Download and fill the GOVSL.TXT template form.
- Request a signed authorization letter from the Minister of Information Office.
- Send the template and the authorization letter to registrar@nic.sl
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