IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 83R of the Kenya Information
and Communications Act, 1998, the Minister for Information and
Communications, in consultation with the Communications Commission of Kenya,
makes the following
Regulations: —
THE KENYA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (ELECTRONIC
CERTIFICATION AND DOMAIN NAME ADMINISTRATION)
REGULATIONS, 2010
1. Citation.
These Regulations may be cited as the Kenya Information and Communications
(Electronic Certification and Domain Name Administration) Regulations, 2010.
2. Interpretation.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —
“Administrative contact” means the entity responsible for maintenance of a domain
name;
“Certification personnel” means any person who has—
(a) Direct responsibility for the day-to-day operations, security and performance of
any activity, relating to a certification service provider, regulated under the Act and
these Regulations; or
(b) Duties that directly involve the issuance, renewal, suspension, revocation of
certificates, and creation of private keys or administration of a certification service
provider’s computing facilities;
“Certification practice statement” means a statement of the practices that a
certification service providers employs when approving or rejecting certificate
applications, or issuing, managing or revoking certificates.
“Country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) administrator” means the entity
managing the .ke ccTLD;
“ccTLD namespace” means a collection of uniquely-assigned identifiers within the
Kenya country code Top Level Domain;