New Zealand proxies

The country code is NZ, upper case. The city goes after it with _city_, hyphens instead of spaces, in the order country, city, session, lifetime.

New Zealand addresses come through rotation and sticky sessions, with the lifetime set by the ttl suffix.

The main mistake in this country, usually made by whoever already has Australia configured.

Australia and New Zealand are sold and planned as one line, so in reports they routinely end up as one line on the way out too. On the serving side they are two countries: their own catalogues, prices, currency, delivery times and often a different range under the same brand.

An Australian address does not prove a New Zealand placement. Checking a campaign bought across the region takes two addresses and two passes. The temptation to use the Australian one is usually explained as saving money, but there is nothing to save: the address costs the same.

Retail works the same way. Chains operating in both countries keep separate storefronts, and the price of an identical item diverges routinely, and not merely by the exchange rate.

The practical conclusion for data: country is its own column rather than a label on the export. Otherwise six months later nobody can tell which half of the rows was the New Zealand one.

The second thing, and it spoils conclusions more quietly than blocking spoils collection.

This is the southern hemisphere. When Europe is in winter, here it is summer, and range, seasonal sales and demand follow accordingly. A month-by-month comparison against northern data lines up opposite seasons and reports a difference the market never produced.

What to do about it. If you are building a picture across several countries, compare season against season rather than month against month: local summer here falls at the start of the calendar year.

Annual peaks are shifted too. Some categories peak in December and January not because the year is ending but because it is midsummer, and confusing those two explanations is expensive.

And a small thing that hits scheduling: the clock change here is inverted as well. Daylight saving starts in the northern autumn and ends in the northern spring, so the offset against Europe changes four times a year rather than twice.

The familiar split.

Retail chains and Trade Me filter server ranges and expect a home address: that means residential.

Publishers and government sites serve requests calmly.

Apps and the platforms grown out of them sometimes expect a carrier address: that is where mobile helps.

Search results are reachable but rate limited per address, and in a pool this size that limit arrives sooner than it would in a large country.

The New Zealand pool in practical terms.

The pool is small: a country of five million people with a third of them in Auckland. Enough for monitoring and ad verification; not enough for high concurrency.

Response times from Europe are among the longest in our coverage: the country is far away and traffic crosses half the world. Thirty seconds is the minimum timeout here rather than a margin.

Because the round trip is long, connection reuse and sensible parallelism matter more than usual: a sequential pipeline that was tolerable in Europe becomes unaffordably slow here.

Sticky sessions hold an address for up to fifty minutes, and mobile rotates by physical reconnect: seconds rather than milliseconds.

The order here is short.

A New Zealand address opens the first gate; language, time and the spelling of place names decide the rest.

Send en-NZ. An en-AU header on a New Zealand address is uncommon, and on some platforms it switches you to the Australian storefront.

The number format is English: 1,299.90, a comma for thousands and a dot for decimals. The currency is the New Zealand dollar, which shares its sign with the Australian and American ones, so check for an NZD marker nearby.

The time zone is UTC+12, or UTC+13 in local summer, and as noted above the switch is inverted relative to the north.

Place names appear in te reo Māori forms, including with macrons over vowels. The same locality turns up both with and without them: normalise the spelling on intake, or you will collect duplicate records for one place.

Three scenarios at our prices, so you have something to check a quote against.

New Zealand is not in the European Union, and GDPR does not apply here directly. Its own privacy legislation does, with its own commissioner, and collecting data that identifies people in the country is governed by it regardless of where your company sits.

This is general information rather than legal advice. Our terms require lawful use and we act on abuse reports. Where the answer carries commercial risk, ask a lawyer.

Under a minute. The second command matters most here: it shows the real round trip time, which is what your collector’s architecture has to be built around.