".is .is (dot is) is the top-level domain for Iceland. The country code is derived from the first two letters of ""Ísland"", which is the Icelandic word for Iceland. Registration of .is domains is open to all persons and companies without any special restriction. The very first .is-domain, hi.is, is the domain of University of Iceland. It was registered on December 11, 1986, making it one of the earliest ever domain registrations on the Internet. According to McAfee report ""Mapping the Mal Web"", "".is"" has been evaluated as one of the top 10 most secure TLDs in the world in"
".ir .ir is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iran. It is managed by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. Persian internationalized domain names are available for registration under .ایران.ir for public, in the Perso-Arabic script. In 2010, ICANN approved IRNIC's proposal for the ایران. IDN ccTLD (representing the Perso-Arabic spelling of ""Iran""), pending the final step of String Delegation. The URL ""ryana.ir"" is a redirect to the budget airline website ryanair.com. It is used as a typing shortcut. Some internet users may mistakenly believe that .ir is the ccTLD for the Republic of Ireland, the home"
".il .il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel. It is administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL, which hosts the DNS Root Server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports IPv4 and IPv6. The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985, it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us and .uk, which were registered earlier that year. As of 10 June 2014 there are 227,066 domain names registered under the .il ccTLD in Israel. Israel is still"
".im .im is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Isle of Man. It is administered by the Government of the Isle of Man and managed on a day-to-day basis by Domicilium, an offshore Internet Service Provider based on the Isle of Man. On July 1, 2006, .im registration was made available to anyone in the world, including one, two, and three letter domains directly under .im, which opens up the possibility of .im domain hacks. The domain has gained popularity among companies who produce instant messaging (IM) software with names registered by Adium, ejabberd, Coccinella, Meebo, Pandion,"
"for £995.00. .im .im is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Isle of Man. It is administered by the Government of the Isle of Man and managed on a day-to-day basis by Domicilium, an offshore Internet Service Provider based on the Isle of Man. On July 1, 2006, .im registration was made available to anyone in the world, including one, two, and three letter domains directly under .im, which opens up the possibility of .im domain hacks. The domain has gained popularity among companies who produce instant messaging (IM) software with names registered by Adium, ejabberd, Coccinella,"
".ie .ie is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) which corresponds with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the Republic of Ireland. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) list the Computing Services Computer Centre of University College Dublin as its sponsoring organisation for the .ie domain. Since 2000 the business of administrating the domain registry has been handled by IE Domain Registry Limited. Domain name registration is open to individuals located in, or with a significant connection with, any part of the island of Ireland. In 2006, .irish was a proposed new generic top-level domain (gTLD) for the global Irish"
"year 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. No report has come out since then. there were just about 63,500 .is-domains registered. In April 2013, ISNIC briefly hosted The Pirate Bay's domain ""ThePirateBay.is"" In October, 2014 ISNIC suspended Khilafah.is which hosted material produced by the Islamic State. In September 2017, ISNIC briefly hosted American neo-Nazi domain ""dailystormer.is"", which had been removed by several domain Registries around the world. It was pulled from its .is domain after its publisher did not fulfil the standard procedure of disclosing his address. Many domain hacks exist which use the .is suffix as the English verb ""is""."
".as .as is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for American Samoa. It is administered by AS Domain Registry. There is no restriction on the nationality of registrants, and many .as names are registered to and used by people, companies and organizations with no connection to American Samoa (as example, people and organizations related to Asturias, a Spanish region). ""AS"" or ""A/S"" is a suffix indicating a joint stock company in some countries including Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Czech Republic, so this TLD may be of use by companies of this sort. Also, some autonomous systems or websites providing"
".as .as is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for American Samoa. It is administered by AS Domain Registry. There is no restriction on the nationality of registrants, and many .as names are registered to and used by people, companies and organizations with no connection to American Samoa (as example, people and organizations related to Asturias, a Spanish region). ""AS"" or ""A/S"" is a suffix indicating a joint stock company in some countries including Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Czech Republic, so this TLD may be of use by companies of this sort. Also, some autonomous systems or websites providing"
".io The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory. The .io domain is administered by the Internet Computer Bureau, a domain name registry company based in the United Kingdom. Google's ad targeting treats .io as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because ""users and webmasters frequently see [the domain] more generic than country-targeted."" The .io domain extension has existed since 1997. The first .io domain was registered in 1998, when Levi Strauss & Co. registered the domain levi.io. Labels for .io domains may only contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens, and must be between"
"country of Ryanair (which is actually .ie). The URL ""renmark.ir"" is a redirect to the Investor Relations firm Renmark Financial Communications Inc. The .ir in this instance would stand for Investor Relations. .ir .ir is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iran. It is managed by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. Persian internationalized domain names are available for registration under .ایران.ir for public, in the Perso-Arabic script. In 2010, ICANN approved IRNIC's proposal for the ایران. IDN ccTLD (representing the Perso-Arabic spelling of ""Iran""), pending the final step of String Delegation. The URL ""ryana.ir"" is a"
"Internet Solutions Internet Solutions (IS) is an Internet services provider for public and private sector organisations. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dimension Data Group and part of NTT. Headquartered in South Africa, IS has operating offices in Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, as well as sales offices in the UK, Singapore and USA. IS has six international Points of Presence (PoPs) – in New York, London (2), Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore, and 65 PoPs across the African continent. The company has over 12 000 m of data centre space across Africa and is the largest"
"The Internet Foundation in Sweden The Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS, is an independent public-service organisation that acts to ensure positive development of the internet. IIS are based in Sweden and are responsible for the Internet’s Swedish top-level domain, .se, and the operation of the .nu top-level domain. IIS are also a public-service organization that operates identity federations, which comprise secure and scalable solutions for account and password management. These create the preconditions to facilitate work with digital processes within healthcare and schools in Sweden. The IIS’s charter states that any surplus should be used to improve the stability of"
".cc .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory of and about 600 inhabitants. It is administered by a US company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as ""the next .com""; .cc was originally assigned in October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle, Washington, by the IANA. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — a country the UN does not recognise (they consider it to belong to the republic of Cyprus) — also uses the .cc domain, along with .nc.tr. With the help of SamsDirect Internet,"
".uk .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. , it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide (after .com, .cn, .de and .net), with over 10 million registrations. In October 1984, RFC 920 set out the creation of ccTLDs generally using country codes derived from the corresponding two-letter code in the ISO 3166-1 list. ""GB"" is the UK's ISO 3166 country code. However, the .uk domain had been created separately a few months before the compilation of the ISO-derived list. Consequently, .gb was never widely used and"
".si .si is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Slovenia. It is administered by the ARNES, the Academic and Research Network of Slovenia. In 2010, the registry has hosted 80,000 domain names. In 2012, that number increased to 100,000 "".si"" domain names when the domain ""zj.si"" was registered by Jasico d.o.o. Domain hacks for the .si TLD are quite popular, since ""si"" is second person singular of the ""to be"" verb in the Slovene language. As such, many domains have been created that are using such domain hack, one of the most popular being ""zadovoljna.si"" (""""You are pleased"""","
".us .us is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States of America. It was established in 1985. Registrants of .us domains must be American citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United States of America. Most registrants in the United States of America have registered for .com, .net, .org and other gTLDs, instead of .us, which has primarily been used by state and local governments despite any entity having the option of registering a .us domain. On February 15, 1985, .us was created as the Internet's first ccTLD. Its original"
".it .it is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy. Because it is also the English word it, and many words end with -it, this can commonly used in the construction of domain hacks, such as play.it(now owned by CBS Radio), write.it, make.it or rabb.it. There are a number of reserved second-level domain names, for example, domain names like Italy.it, or other names that are referring to geographical regions of Italy. Reserved domains are not limited to the provided examples: any domain name which appears to be linked to an administrative geographical subdivision is reserved. E.g. the town"
"in the process of getting an internationalized top-level domain, codice_1‎. There are eight Second Level Domains: Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported. Hebrew third level domains such as codice_10 are available since 2010. .il .il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel. It is administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL, which hosts the DNS Root Server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports IPv4 and IPv6. The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October"
"American Internet Services American Internet Services (AIS) is a data center and cloud computing services provider in San Diego, California, US. AIS provides cloud computing, colocation, Internet service, disaster recovery, high availability, managed security, managed storage, structured cabling, and other IT infrastructure services. AIS service offerings are as follows: AIS has completed the SOC 1, 2, and 3 Type II audit examinations for each facility. AIS has also completed the Title 21 CFR Part 11 audit of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines on electronic records and electronic signatures (ERES). These audits were conducted by public accounting"
"Cube (imagecu.be), and I Am The Cube (iamthecu.be). .be .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2000, the control of the TLD was transferred to DNS Belgium. As of June 2013 there are 1,392,477 registered domains. It was announced in November 2005 that the initial registration of domains would be free until the beginning of 2006, though with some limits on the number any individual was allowed to register. This was remarkably popular, with some 17,000 registrations coming"
".es .es is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain. It is administered by the Network Information Centre of Spain. Registrations are permitted at the second level or at the third level beneath various generic second level categories. Some qualifications and restrictions apply to third-level registrations depending on which second-level domain they are within. Second-level registrations have had some limitations including requiring registrants to have a connection with Spain, but these restrictions were lifted in a multi-stage process completed by the end of 2005, at which point registrations at the second level of .es were open to anybody worldwide."
".be .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2000, the control of the TLD was transferred to DNS Belgium. As of June 2013 there are 1,392,477 registered domains. It was announced in November 2005 that the initial registration of domains would be free until the beginning of 2006, though with some limits on the number any individual was allowed to register. This was remarkably popular, with some 17,000 registrations coming in on the first day of the promotion."
".se .se is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Sweden (Sverige). The top domain is operated by Internetstiftelsen i Sverige (The Internet Foundation, formerly the Internet Infrastructure Foundation, and formerly branded as .SE), but domains must be registered through one of the approved registrars. Internetstiftelsen i Sverige is managed on the basis of its charter of foundation and its statutes. The Foundation is managed by a Board of Directors, whose decisions are executed by the executive management. Prior to April 2003, the rules governing domains under the .se top domain were highly restrictive. Only companies, associations and authorities"
".iq .iq is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iraq. This domain was in limbo for years, as the delegated manager was imprisoned in Texas on charges of alleged connection to Hamas (a State Department designated terrorist organization), for which he was later convicted in 2005. Some talk of redelegation and relaunching began taking place at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and in 2005 a redelegation to the National Communications and Media Commission of Iraq was approved by ICANN. Registrations are within these categories: Whois services can be found at whois.cmc.iq. The registration of .iq"
".ee .ee is the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Estonia, operated by the Estonian Internet Foundation. The top-level domain .ee was introduced in 1992 and was operated by EENet until July 2010. The administrator of .ee domain was the academic Endel Lippmaa. There was a limit of one domain name per legal entity, and registrations of additional names to protect trademarks were specifically denied because ""The domain name has no trademark status"". As domains under .ee were meant to be an institution's identification on the Internet (like the register code in the commercial register), registration of additional domains"
".tr .tr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Turkey. It is administered by NIC.TR (under Middle East Technical University) Computer Center and Turkey Internet Society (Local Chapter of ISOC).. .nc.tr is used as a second-level domain for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is a self declared state and not recognised by the United Nations, and as such has no country code assigned. As of March 2017, around 15.53% of all the .tr domains were served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the Let s Encrypt Authority X3 being the most popular SSL certificate. Microsoft-IIS is the"
"of 211 countries in the world. The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. Internet top-level domain names specific to the U.S. include .us, .edu, .gov, .mil, .as (American Samoa), .gu (Guam), .mp (Northern Mariana Islands), .pr (Puerto Rico), and .vi (U.S. Virgin Islands). Many U.S.-based organizations and individuals also use generic top-level domains, such as .com, .net, .org, .name, etc. Access to the Internet can be divided into dial-up and broadband access. Around the start of the 21st century, most residential access was by dial-up, while access from businesses"
".rs .rs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Serbia and Kosovo. The domain name registry that operates it is the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS). The letters ""rs"" stand for """"/Република Србија (Republic of Serbia). It is intended to be used with few restrictions, and it is widely used in Serbia. Because of English words ending with the letters ""rs"", this domain is also used in the construction of domain hacks, and projects written in Rust. The former Serbia and Montenegro used the .yu domain when still called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In June 2006"
"the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. NetNames of London initially maintained the domain following an agreement with the IANA. .af .af is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Afghanistan. It is administered by AFGNIC, a service of the UNDP and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Registration is made directly at the second level, or on the third level beneath various categorized subdomains at the second level. Third-level domains have restrictions based on which second-level domain they are registered under. Registration on second level is unrestricted, but more expensive. All fees are higher for international registrants. The domain was delegated"
".ws .ws is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Samoa. It is administered by SamoaNIC, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Samoa. The .ws domain is an abbreviation for ""Western Samoa"", which was the nation's official name in the 1970s when two-letter country codes were standardized. Although there are no geographic restrictions on registration of most second-level .ws domains, .org.ws, .gov.ws, and .edu.ws registration is restricted. Prior to March 14, 2008, .ws domains were not allowed to be transferred from one domain registrar to another. The .ws country code has been marketed as a"
"minimum of three characters in the name, though some exceptions like hp.es (Hewlett-Packard Spain) and pp.es (People's Party) were allowed. As an alternative many Spanish organizations registered under .com, .org or .net. Although very popular in Spain for its intended use, .es has been used for domain hacks such as geociti.es, a website mirroring Geocities; adspac.es, a mobile - based advertising firm; broni.es, a forum for of ; thelettervsixtim.es, for the game VVVVVV; and iTun.es for iTunes Ping URL shortening. .es .es is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Spain. It is administered by the Network Information Centre of"
"preferred extension for new Irish businesses. Approximately 130 new .ie domains are registered each working day. As of the 5th of August 2018, there are 253,697 registered .ie domain names. .ie .ie is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) which corresponds with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the Republic of Ireland. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) list the Computing Services Computer Centre of University College Dublin as its sponsoring organisation for the .ie domain. Since 2000 the business of administrating the domain registry has been handled by IE Domain Registry Limited. Domain name registration is open to individuals"