Korean Internet & Security Agency

Overview
The Korean Internet & Security Agency is the Korea Communications Commission's sub-organization dealing with the allocation and maintenance of South Korea's IPv4/IPv6 address space (and the related WHOIS information), Autonomous System Numbers, and .kr country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

The organization was created in 2004 pursuant to Article 9 of the Act on Internet Address Resources (passed on July 30, 2004), and subsumed the Korea Network Information Center, previously a non-profit organization founded in 1999.

In July 2009, two other agencies were merged into KISA: the National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA) and the Korean IT International Cooperation Agency (KIICA).