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full list of domain name extensions Generic top-level domains Name Entity Notes IDN DNSSEC .aero air-transport industry Must verify eligibility for registration; only those in various categories of air-travel-related entities may register. No No .asia Asia-Pacific region This is a TLD for companies, organizations, and individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. Yes Yes .biz business This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register; however, registrations may be challenged later if they are not held by commercial entities in accordance with the domain's charter. This TLD was created to provide relief for the wildly popular .com TLD. No Yes .cat Catalan This is a TLD for Web sites in the Catalan language or related to Catalan culture. Yes Yes .com commercial This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register. Though originally intended for use by for-profit business entities, for a number of reasons it became the "main" TLD for domain names and is currently used by all types of entities including nonprofits, schools and private individuals. Domain name registrations may be challenged if the holder cannot prove an outside relation justifying reservation of the name, to prevent "squatting". Yes Yes .coop cooperatives The .coop TLD is limited to cooperatives as defined by the Rochdale Principles. No No .info information This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to register. Yes Yes .int international The .int TLD is strictly limited to organizations, offices, and programs which are endorsed by a treaty between No No

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Generic top-level domains

Name Entity Notes IDN DNSSEC

.aero air-transport

industry

Must verify eligibility for registration; only those in various

categories of air-travel-related entities may register. No No

.asia Asia-Pacific

region

This is a TLD for companies, organizations, and

individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the

Pacific.

Yes Yes

.biz business This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register; however, registrations may be challenged later if

they are not held by commercial entities in accordance

with the domain's charter. This TLD was created to

provide relief for the wildly popular .com TLD.

No Yes

.cat Catalan This is a TLD for Web sites in the Catalan language or

related to Catalan culture. Yes Yes

.com commercial This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register. Though originally intended for use by for-profit

business entities, for a number of reasons it became the

"main" TLD for domain names and is currently used by all

types of entities including nonprofits, schools and private

individuals. Domain name registrations may be

challenged if the holder cannot prove an outside relation

justifying reservation of the name, to prevent "squatting".

Yes Yes

.coop cooperatives The .coop TLD is limited to cooperatives as defined by

the Rochdale Principles. No No

.info information This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register. Yes Yes

.int international The .int TLD is strictly limited to organizations, offices,

and programs which are endorsed by a treaty between

No No

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organizations two or more nations. However, there are a few

grandfathered domain names that do not meet these

criteria.

.jobs companies The .jobs TLD is designed to be added after the names

of established companies with jobs to advertise. At this

time, owners of a "company.jobs" domain are not

permitted to post jobs of third party employers.

No No

.mobi mobile devices Must be used for mobile-compatible sites in accordance

with standards. No No

.museum museums Must be verified as a legitimate museum. Yes Yes

.name individuals, by

name

This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register; however, registrations may be challenged later if

they are not by individuals (or the owners of fictional

characters) in accordance with the domain's charter.

Yes No

.net network This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register. Originally intended for use by domains pointing

to a distributed network of computers, or "umbrella" sites

that act as the portal to a set of smaller websites.

No Yes

.org organization This is an open TLD; any person or entity is permitted to

register. Originally intended for use by non-profit

organizations, and still primarily used by some.

Yes Yes

.pro professions Currently, .pro is reserved for licensed or certified

professionals worldwide. A professional seeking to

register a .pro domain must provide their registrar with

the appropriate credentials.

No No

.tel Internet

communication

services

A contact directory housing all types of contact

information directly in the Domain Name System. Yes[2]

No

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.travel travel and tourism

industry related

sites

Must be verified as a legitimate travel-related entity.

No No

.xxx adult

entertainment

For sites providing sexually explicit content, such as

pornography. No No

USA top-level domains

Name Entity Notes IDN DNSSEC

.edu educational The .edu TLD is limited to specific educational institutions

such as, but not limited to, primary schools, middle schools,

secondary schools, colleges, and universities. In the US, its

usability was limited in 2001 to post-secondary institutions

accredited by an agency on the list of nationally recognized

accrediting agencies maintained by the United States

Department of Education. This domain is therefore almost

exclusively used by US colleges and universities. Some

institutions that do not meet the current registration criteria

have grandfathered domain names.

No Yes

.gov governmental The .gov TLD is limited to governmental entities and agencies

in the US. No Yes

.mil US military The .mil TLD is limited to use by the US military. No Yes

Country code top-level domains

name: DNS name of the country code top-level domain

Entity: country, dependency, or region

Explanation: explanation of the code when not self-evident from the English name of the country

Notes: general remarks

IDN: support for internationalized domain names (IDN)

DNSSEC: presence of DS records for Domain Name System Security Extensions

SLD: allows Second-level domain registration (restrictions may apply)

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.ac Ascension

Island

Commonly used for

academic websites, such

as universities

Yes Yes Yes

.ad Andorra Local trademark, trade

name or citizenship

required [3][4]

No Yes

.ae United Arab

Emirates

No Yes

.af Afghanistan No Yes

.ag Antigua and

Barbuda

Yes Yes

.ai Anguilla No Yes

.al Albania Citizenship required No No

.am Armenia Yes Yes

.an Netherlands

Antilles

Local presence

required; Netherland

Antilles were

dissolved on October 10,

2010;

No Yes

.ao Angola No

.aq Antarctica Antarctique Defined by the Antarctic

Treaty as everything

south of latitude 60°S.

No Yes

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AQ domain names are

available to government

organizations who are

signatories to the

Antarctic Treaty and to

other registrants who

have a physical presence

in Antarctica.

.ar Argentina Yes[a 1]

No No

.as American

Samoa

No Yes

.at Austria Yes Yes Yes

.au Australia Includes Ashmore and

Cartier Islands and Coral

Sea

Islands. ABN required.

No No

.aw Aruba Aruba, West

Indies

Restricted to registered

Aruban companies,

organisations and

citizens

No Yes

.ax Åland No Yes

.az Azerbaijan No Yes

.ba Bosnia and

Herzegovina

No Yes

.bb Barbados No Yes

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.bd Bangladesh No No

.be Belgium (Also unofficially used in

the canton of Berne,

Switzerland)

Yes Yes

.bf Burkina Faso No Yes

.bg Bulgaria Yes[a 2]

Yes Yes

.bh Bahrain No Yes

.bi Burundi No Yes

.bj Benin No Yes

.bm Bermuda Local corporate

registration required

No Yes

.bn Brunei No No

.bo Bolivia No Yes

.br Brazil Restricted. Registration

is done under several

categories (i.e.: .com.br

for businesses, .gov.br

for government agencies,

etc.)[5]

Yes[6]

Yes No[a 3]

.bs Bahamas No Yes

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.bt Bhutan No No

.bv Bouvet Island Not in use (Norwegian

dependency; see .no). No No No

.bw Botswana No Yes

.by Belarus Byelorussia No Yes

.bz Belize Yes Yes

.ca Canada Subject to Canadian

Presence Requirements.

No Yes

.cc Cocos

(Keeling) Islands

(Australian territory: do

not confuse with Cocos

islands in Guam. Also

used as a free domain

service to the public as

co.cc, cx.cc, cz.cc, or

uni.cc domain.)

No Yes

.cd Democratic

Republic of the

Congo

No Yes

.cf Central African

Republic

No Yes

.cg Republic of the

Congo

No Yes

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.ch Switzerland Confoederatio

Helvetica (Latin)

Yes

[a 4] Yes Yes

.ci Côte d'Ivoire No Yes

.ck Cook Islands No Yes

.cl Chile Yes Yes Yes

.cm Cameroon A local entity/company in

Cameroon is required to

register a domain name.

No Yes

.cn People's

Republic of China

A local company in China

is required to register a

domain name. Hong

Kong and Macau also

maintain TLDs.

No Yes

.co Colombia Marketed as a global

domain - recognized as a

gccTLD by Google.

Anyone can register.

Yes Yes

.cr Costa Rica Yes Yes

.cs Czechoslovaki

a

Czecho-Slovakia domain

has not been use since

1993. The ISO-code cs

was later allocated for

Serbia and Montenegro,

which used .yu instead.

No No

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.cu Cuba No Yes

.cv Cape Verde No Yes

.cx Christmas

Island

No Yes

.cy Cyprus No No

.cz Czech

Republic

Yes Yes

.dd East Germany Deutsche

Demokratische

Republik

Was proposed, but never

implemented due to

German re-unification.

No No

.de Germany Deutschland German postal address

for administrative contact

(admin-c) required. Proxy

registrations are allowed.

Yes[a 5]

Yes Yes

.dj Djibouti No Yes

.dk Denmark Yes[a 6]

Yes Yes

.dm Dominica No Yes

.do Dominican

Republic

No Yes

.dz Algeria Dzayer No Yes

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.ec Ecuador No Yes

.ee Estonia Eesti Anyone can register but

local administrative

contact is required.

Yes[a 7]

No Yes

.eg Egypt No Yes

.eh Western

Sahara

.eh is reserved for

Western Sahara, but

does not exist in the root.

No

.er Eritrea Inactive - The domain

registrar Eritrea

Telecommunication

Services

Corporation offers no

services to register

domains.

No No

.es Spain España No Yes

.et Ethiopia No No

.eu European

Union

Restricted to institutions

(under

the .europa.eu subdomai

n), companies, and

individuals in the

European Union (or in

other overseas or

autonomous regions of

member countries).

Yes[a 8]

Yes Yes

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.fi Finland Open for registration to

individuals/companies

around Europe.

Yes[a 9]

Yes Yes

.fj Fiji No Yes

.fk Falkland

Islands

No No

.fm Federated

States of

Micronesia

(Also unofficially used by

FM Radio Stations or

related business)

No Yes

.fo Faroe Islands Føroyar Yes Yes

.fr France Restricted to individuals

and companies

in European Union,

Switzerland, Norway,

Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes Yes

.ga Gabon Partial[7]

Yes

.gb United

Kingdom

Great Britain Seldom used; the

primary ccTLD used

is .uk for United

Kingdom.

No No

.gd Grenada No Yes

.ge Georgia To register you must be

either a citizen of

Georgia, or a Georgian

No Yes

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company.

.gf French Guiana Guyane française No

.gg Guernsey No Yes

.gh Ghana No No

.gi Gibraltar Yes Yes

.gl Greenland (Also unofficially used in

Galicia, Spain)

Yes Yes

.gm The Gambia No Yes

.gn Guinea A local contact is

required

Partial

[7] No

.gp Guadeloupe Still used for Saint-

Barthélemy and Saint-

Martin

No Yes

.gq Equatorial

Guinea

Guinée

Équatoriale

No

.gr Greece Yes Yes

.gs South Georgia

and the South

Sandwich Islands

No Yes

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.gt Guatemala No Yes

.gu Guam No No

.gw Guinea-Bissau No Yes

.gy Guyana No Yes

.hk Hong Kong Special administrative

region of the People's

Republic of China.

Yes No Yes

.hm Heard Island

and McDonald

Islands

No Yes

.hn Honduras Yes Yes

.hr Croatia Hrvatska No Yes

.ht Haiti Yes No Yes

.hu Hungary Restricted to Hungarian

companies, organisations

and citizens

No Yes

.id Indonesia No No

.ie Republic of

Ireland

Northern

Only available

for Ireland-registered

brands and companies.

Foreign companies can

No Yes

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Ireland register if doing business

in Ireland or provide

TM.[clarification needed]

Since

2007 personal names are

allowed to be registered

subject to guidelines.

.il Israel Yes No No

.im Isle of Man No Yes

.in India Under INRegistry since

April 2005 (except:

gov.in, nic.in, mil.in,

ac.in, edu.in, res.in).

Yes Yes

.io British Indian

Ocean Territory

Yes Yes

.iq Iraq No Yes

.ir Iran Yes No Yes

.is Iceland Ísland Yes No Yes

.it Italy Restricted to companies

and individuals in

the European Union.

Yes[a 11]

No Yes

.je Jersey No Yes

.jm Jamaica No No

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.jo Jordan No Yes

.jp Japan Restricted to individuals

or companies with a

physical address in

Japan.

Yes Yes

.ke Kenya No Yes

.kg Kyrgyzstan Yes Yes

.kh Cambodia Khmer,

formerKâmpŭche

a

No No

.ki Kiribati No Yes

.km Comoros Komori No Yes

.kn Saint Kitts and

Nevis

No Yes

.kp Democratic

People's Republic

of Korea

No No

.kr Republic of

Korea

Yes Yes Yes

.kw Kuwait No No

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.ky Cayman

Islands

Restricted to qualified

Cayman entities[8]

No Yes

.kz Kazakhstan No Yes

.la Laos Currently being marketed

as the unofficial domain

for Los Angeles[9]

Yes Yes

.lb Lebanon Restricted to registration

with a company

in Lebanon

Yes No

.lc Saint Lucia Yes Yes

.li Liechtenstein Yes Yes Yes

.lk Sri Lanka Yes Yes

.lr Liberia Partial[7]

No

.ls Lesotho No Yes

.lt Lithuania Yes No Yes

.lu Luxembourg Yes Yes Yes

.lv Latvia Yes Yes Yes

.ly Libya No Yes

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.ma Morocco Maroc No Yes

.mc Monaco No Yes

.md Moldova Marketed for Medical use

(Doctors)

No Yes

.me Montenegro Yes Yes

.mg Madagascar No Yes

.mh Marshall

Islands

No

.mk Macedonia Makedonija Restricted to registration

with a company

in Macedonia

No Yes

.ml Mali No Yes

.mm Myanmar Yes No

.mn Mongolia Some second-level

domains are reserved for

special use .mn[clarification

needed]

Yes Yes

.mo Macau Macao Special administrative

region of the People's

Republic of China.

No Yes

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.mp Northern

Mariana Islands

No Yes

.mq Martinique No No

.mr Mauritania No Yes

.ms Montserrat No Yes

.mt Malta No No

.mu Mauritius No Yes

.mv Maldives No Yes

.mw Malawi No Yes

.mx Mexico No Yes

.my Malaysia Restricted to registration

by an individual or

company in Malaysia

Yes[a 12]

Yes Yes

.mz Mozambique No No

.na Namibia Yes Yes

.nc New Caledonia Yes Yes

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.ne Niger No Yes

.nf Norfolk Island No Yes

.ng Nigeria No Yes

.ni Nicaragua No No

.nl Netherlands First official country code

TLD.[10]

No Yes Yes

.no Norway Restricted to registration

by a company in Norway.

Individuals in the country

can only register

under .priv.no.

No Yes

.np Nepal No No

.nr Nauru Also used as a free

domain service to the

public as co.nr.

No Yes

.nu Niue Commonly used by

Danish, Dutch and

Swedish websites,

because in those

languages "nu" means

"now".

Yes Yes Yes

.nz New Zealand Yes[a 13]

Yes No

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.om Oman Registrant must have

company or trademark

registered in Oman as

well as a local

administrative contact.

No No

.pa Panama No No

.pe Peru Yes[a 14]

No Yes

.pf French

Polynesia

Polynésie

française

With Clipperton Island No Yes

.pg Papua New

Guinea

No No

.ph Philippines No Yes

.pk Pakistan Operated

by PKNIC since 1992.

No Yes

.pl Poland Yes[a 15]

Yes Yes

.pm Saint-Pierre

and Miquelon

Restricted to individuals

and companies

in European Union,

Switzerland, Norway,

Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes[a 16]

Yes

.pn Pitcairn Islands No Yes

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.pr Puerto Rico Yes Yes

.ps Palestinian

territories

West Bank and Gaza

Strip.

No Yes

.pt Portugal Yes[a 17]

Yes Yes

.pw Palau Pelew No Yes

.py Paraguay No No

.qa Qatar No No

.re Réunion Restricted to individuals

and companies

in European Union,

Switzerland, Norway,

Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes Yes

.ro Romania No Yes

.rs Serbia Republika Srbija No Yes

.ru Russia See also .su, still in use,

and .рф.

No Yes

.rw Rwanda No Yes

.sa Saudi Arabia Registrant must have a

registered trademark in

Saudi Arabia matching

No No

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the domain name to

register or provide

company incorporation

documents of a company

in Saudi Arabia or for

personal registrations a

copy of valid ID. A letter

on the official letterhead

of your organization

addressed to SaudiNIC

requesting the domain

name registration is also

required. Local

administrative contact

required.

.sb Solomon

Islands

British Solomon

Islands

No No

.sc Seychelles Yes Yes

.sd Sudan No Yes

.se Sweden Yes[a 18]

Yes Yes

.sg Singapore No Yes

.sh Saint Helena Yes[a 19]

Yes Yes

.si Slovenia Yes[a 20]

Yes Yes

.sj Svalbardand

Jan

MayenIslands

Not in use (Norwegian

dependencies; see .no). No No No

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.sk Slovakia Restricted to Slovakian

companies, organisations

and citizens

No Yes

.sl Sierra Leone No Yes

.sm San Marino Domain name must be

same as company name

or trademark

No Yes

.sn Senegal No Yes

.so Somalia Relaunched on

November 1st, 2010

No No Yes

.sr Suriname No Yes

.ss South Sudan No

.st São Tomé and

Príncipe

No Yes

.su Soviet Union Still in Use. Yes[a 21]

Yes Yes

.sv El Salvador No No

.sy Syria No Yes

.sz Swaziland No No

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.tc Turks and

Caicos Islands

No Yes

.td Chad Tchad Chadian (.td) domains

are available for

registration to entities

connected with Chad

only.

No Yes

.tf French

Southern and

Antarctic Lands

Terres australes

et antarctiques

françaises

Seldom used. Restricted

to individuals and

companies in European

Union, Switzerland,

Norway, Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes Yes

.tg Togo No Yes

.th Thailand Yes Yes No

.tj Tajikistan No Yes

.tk Tokelau Also used as a free

domain service to the

public.

No Yes

.tl East Timor Timor-Leste Old code .tp is still in use. No Yes

.tm Turkmenistan Yes[a 22]

Yes Yes

.tn Tunisia No Yes

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.to Tonga Often used unofficially

for Torrent, Turin, Toront

o, or Tokyo

Yes No Yes

.tp East Timor Timor Português ISO code has changed to

TL; .tl is now assigned

but .tp is still in use.

No Yes

.tr Turkey .nc.tr used by Northern

Cyprus Yes

[a 23] No Yes

.tt Trinidad and

Tobago

Yes Yes

.tv Tuvalu Used as an abbreviation

of television, the domain

is currently operated by

dotTV,

a VeriSign company; the

Tuvalu government owns

twenty percent of the

company.

No Yes

.tw Taiwan Registration allowed

worldwide, local

presence not required.

Yes[a 24]

Yes Yes

.tz Tanzania Must have a presence in

Tanzania

No No

.ua Ukraine Україна/Ukraina Ukrainian trademark

required

Yes Yes

.ug Uganda Yes Yes

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.uk United

Kingdom

ISO 3166-1 code is gb,

but .uk correctly

correlates with the state

of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and

Northern Ireland. The

use of .gb would exclude

Northern Ireland

Yes No

.us United States

of America

Commonly used by US

State and local

governments instead

of .gov TLD

Yes Yes

.uy Uruguay No No

.uz Uzbekistan No Yes

.va Vatican City Limited to the official

sites of the Vatican/Holy

See

No No

.vc Saint Vincent

and the Grenadines

Partial

[7] Yes

.ve Venezuela No No

.vg British Virgin

Islands

No Yes

.vi United States

Virgin Islands

No Yes

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.vn Vietnam Yes[a 25]

No Yes

.vu Vanuatu No Yes

.wf Wallis and

Futuna

Restricted to individuals

and companies

in European Union,

Switzerland, Norway,

Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes Yes

.ws Samoa Formerly Western

Samoa

Marketed to be used in

general WebSites Yes No No

.ye Yemen No No

.yt Mayotte Restricted to individuals

and companies

in European Union,

Switzerland, Norway,

Iceland and

Liechtenstein.[a 10]

Yes Yes[a 16]

Yes

.yu SFR

Yugoslavia

FR Yugoslavia

After dissolution of

Yugoslavia used for

Serbia and Montenegro.

Not used after 2010.

No No

.za South Africa Zuid-Afrika No No

.zm Zambia No No

.zw Zimbabwe No No