".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"
".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"
"and were able to redirect it to their co.uk domain. .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"
".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"
"refer to the United Kingdom, including the Universal Postal Union, international sports teams, NATO, the International Organization for Standardization country codes and ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, and international licence plate codes. On the Internet, .uk is the country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. A .gb top-level domain was used to a limited extent, but is now obsolete because the domain name registrar will not take new registrations. In the Olympics, ""Team GB"" is used by the British Olympic Association to represent the British Olympic team. The Olympic Council of Ireland claims to represent the whole island of Ireland, and"
"the United Kingdom, whose alpha-2 code is , uses .uk instead of .gb as its ccTLD, as is currently exceptionally reserved in ISO 3166-1 on the request of the United Kingdom. The WIPO coding standard ST.3 is based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, but includes a number of additional codes for international intellectual property organizations, which are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1. The European Commission generally uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: (not ) is used to represent Greece, and (not ) is used to represent the United Kingdom. This notwithstanding,"
"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,"
".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,"
"culture. However, "".cym"" was eventually assigned to the Cayman Islands because ICANN's policy states that new applications for 3-letter domains will not be accepted if they match existing ISO 3-letter codes. Wales was eventually granted the domain .cymru. In June 2012, ICANN opened the process of applications for new top level domains. Nominet, who own the "".uk"" TLD, applied to ICANN for both "".cymru"" and "".wales"". .cym .cym is a GeoTLD reserved for eventual assignment to the Cayman Islands. The primary top-level domain used by the Cayman Islands is .ky. The Islands already have the international three letter code, CYM."
"does not exist in DNS. Only one subdomain is still registered in gb (ISO 3166-1 for the United Kingdom), and no new registrations are being accepted for it. Sites in the United Kingdom generally use uk (see below). The former .um ccTLD for the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands was removed in April 2008. Under RFC 1591 rules, .um is eligible as a ccTLD on request by the relevant governmental agency and local Internet user community. Several ASCII ccTLDs are in use that are not ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes. Some of these codes were specified in older versions of the ISO"
"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"
"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""."
".ею, a top level domain using Cyrillic letters was put into operation on 1 June 2016. A Cyrillic domain was needed because Bulgaria, a member of the EU, uses the Cyrillic alphabet. The EU is called ЕС in Bulgarian Cyrillic, but .ес is much too similar to .ec, an existing domain, so .ею was chosen. (While the letters look identical to those used in English, ЕС and .ес in Bulgarian Cyrillic do not use the same character set, and are distinct for data-processing purposes.) EurId has a rule that the second-level domain name must be in the same script as"
".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"
".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"
"Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. By May 2010, 21 countries had submitted applications to ICANN, representing 11 languages. ICANN requires all potential international TLDs to use at least one letter that does not resemble a Latin letter, or have at least three letters, in an effort to avoid IDN homograph attacks. Nor shall the international domain name look like another domain name, even if they have different alphabets. Between Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, for example, this could happen. Lenient registration restrictions on certain ccTLDs have resulted in various domain hacks. Domain names such as I.am, tip.it, start.at"
"world can register .com domains, many countries have a second-level domain with a similar purpose under their own country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Taiwan (com.tw) Australia (com.au) Sri Lanka (com.lk) Greece (com.gr) Mexico (com.mx) South Korea (co.kr) India (co.in) Pakistan (com.pk) Indonesia (co.id) Japan (co.jp) Vietnam (.com.vn) or (.vn) and the United Kingdom (co.uk) are all examples of this. Many non-commercial sites and networks use com names to benefit from the perceived recognizability of a com domain. However, the registration statistics show varying popularity over the years. As of December 2011, VeriSign reported that approximately 100 million com domains were"
"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"
"top-level domain (ccTLD) is .uk. The most visited "".uk"" website is the British version of Google, followed by Amazon, eBay, BBC Online and MailOnline. Media of the United Kingdom There are several different types of media in the United Kingdom: television, radio, newspapers, magazines and websites. The country also has a strong music industry. The United Kingdom has a diverse range of providers, the most prominent being the publicly-owned public service broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The BBC's largest competitors are ITV plc, which operates 13 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, and"
".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"
".co (second-level domain) In a number of countries, .co is used as a second-level domain to mean ""commercial"" and domain registrants register second-level domains of the form .co.xx, where xx is the country code top level domain (e.g., .co.uk in the U.K. and .co.jp in Japan). Some of the countries using .co as a second-level domain include: Barbados (.bb), Cook Islands (.ck), Costa Rica (.cr), India (.in), Indonesia (.id), Israel (.il), Japan (.jp), New Zealand (.nz), South Africa (.za), South Korea (.kr), Thailand (.th) and the United Kingdom (.uk). .co is also a country top-level domain corresponding to Colombia. Its"
".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"
".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"
"are inadequate; the commitment they show and their willingness to be held to account are questionable.” Internet in the United Kingdom The United Kingdom has been involved with the Internet since it was created. The telecommunications infrastructure provides Internet access to businesses and home users in various forms, including cable, DSL, and wireless. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom is .uk and is sponsored by Nominet. The UK was involved in research and development of packet switching, wide area networks, and Internet protocols since their origins. The development of these technologies was international from the"
"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"
"""province"" (Northern Ireland). Three other geopolitical terms are included in the standard and designated ""nations"" (formerly ""included for completeness""): Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the United Kingdom. The second part is three letters, which is the British Standard BS 6879 three-letter code of the subdivision. Though is the United Kingdom's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, is exceptionally reserved for the United Kingdom on the request of the country. Its main usage is the .uk internet ccTLD. Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2"
".pt .pt is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Portugal and is managed by Associação DNS.PT. It has the following second-level domains: As from the 1 May 2012 Registration directly at second-level is available, without restrictions. On the first week there was a 28984 new domains register under the .pt Since July 1, 2005, some characters with diacritics have been supported in domain names (IDN). Currently permitted characters: ""à"", ""á"", ""â"", ""ã"", ""ç"", ""é"", ""ê"", ""í"", ""ó"", ""ô"", ""õ"", ""ú"". These are the only accentuated characters used in Portuguese words. Apart from .gov.pt, Portuguese subdomains were slow to"
".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,"
"June 2014, for example ""mod.uk"" (Ministry of Defence), ""parliament.uk"" (Parliament), ""bl.uk"" and ""british-library.uk"" (the British Library), ""nls.uk"" (the National Library of Scotland), ""nhs.uk"" (The National Health Service), and ""jet.uk"" (UKAEA as operator of the Joint European Torus experimental fusion tokamak). Currently the rights to the .uk domain name are owned by Nominet UK. It is possible to directly register a domain name with Nominet UK, but it is faster and cheaper to do it via a Nominet-accredited domain registrar. If a domain was registered before 23:59hrs on 28 October 2013 the user will have the rights to the equivalent .uk"
".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."
"Google's goo.gl. Unlike goo.gl, which is public and can be used for any web address, itun.es is used only for iTunes Ping URL shortening. Spotify also uses the URL Shortener , using the ccTLD of Finland, to link to artist, partners, playlists, albums and songs. Flickr uses with .kr being the ccTLD of South Korea. In most cases, registration of these short domain names relies on the use of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), each of which has a unique two-letter identifier. For example, makes use of the ccTLD .gs (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) to spell ""blogs"","
".gb .gb is a reserved Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the United Kingdom. The domain was introduced with RFC 920 in October 1984 that set out the creation of ccTLD generally using country codes derived from the corresponding two-letter code in the ISO 3166-1 list. However, the .uk domain had been created separately a few months before the compilation of this list. Consequently, .gb was never widely used. It is no longer possible to register under this domain. .gb was used for a number of years, mainly by British government organisations and commercial e-mail services using X.400-based e-mail"