The NTP servers that people connect to are normally provided by volunteers as there are virtually no official NTP providers. A few countries have scientific laboratories responsible for the national time standard that also provide NTP but the NTP service is normally a nice to have feature rather than a core service. In New Zealand the Measurement Standards Laboratory provide a stratum 1 NTP server connected to their Caesium clock...
NTP is a core technology for the .nz domain name space, used amongst other things to synchronise data collection across our nameserver network to precisely order distributed events. It is because NTP is such a critical technology to .nz that we provide these timeservers and support them professionally...
NTP stands for Network Time Protocol, which is the standard way of distributing time over the Internet. The software and protocols are freely available.
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