The National Information Technology Centre(NITC) was established in 2003 in accordance with the temporary law No. (81) for 2003 entitled “Deployment of Information Technology Resources in Government Organization Law”. Clauses number (6 and 19) stipulated the establishment of a "National Information Technology Centre" as a legal successor to the National Information Centre, which was established in 1992. NITC, as an independent government institute, is managed by a Board of Directors chaired by the Minister of Information and Communication Technology. The Board of Directors will draw NITC general policies and approve its plans and programs. NITC plays the role of the CTO of the government in all matters including the procurement, deployment, utilization, standardization, and budgeting of IT resources including the hardware, software, human, information, and process resources.

NITC is the only registrar of domain names under (.Jo), was granted this registration privilege by the ICANN, a body concerned with the development of Internet technology and management of domain names, and NITC is a member of the many domain name registration committees such as the ICANN committees i.e. ccNSO and GAC, and also a member of the Arabic Internet Domain Names Project,and the Asia Pacific Top-Level Domains (APTLD) Organization

NITC basically aims at efficiently providing the DNS registration service to the public by following the worldwide ICANN’s best practices by maintaining a solid operating environment that secures the customer rights and following a transparency policy of publishing the database of registered domain names under the (.JO) ccTLD.

NITC policy in domain registration under (.JO) complies with the worldwide recognized policies and Best Practices with essential modifications that accommodate with the Jordanian culture and the Jordanian Laws to protect the rights of the others.