Domain names are key for websites, making them easy to find and remember. This piece sheds light on country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) and their importance, highlighting how they connect websites to specific countries and boost local search visibility.

1 day ago - The registered country code extensions in 1989 included .in (India) and .yu (Yugoslavia). In the 1990s, .cn (People's Republic of China) and .ru (Russian Federation) were first registered. There are 308 delegated ccTLDs. The .cn, .tk, .de, .uk, .nl and .ru ccTLDs contain the highest number ...

Examples include .рф (Russia), .中国 (China), .日本 (Japan), .السعودية (Saudi Arabia) and .இந்தியா (India). Fast forward to the present day and the country domain list now has over 300 ccTLDs with 132 million-plus country domain name registrations.

December 12, 2023 - An example of a country with several variations of the same ccTLD is Sri Lanka; as well as the country code, .lk, Sri Lanka also uses the TLDs, .ලංකා and .இலங்கை, which refer to the country in Sinhalese and Tamil, respectively.

January 18, 2023 - A country code top-level domain, ... engines and users which country or region you’re based in. An example of a ccTLD would be the .co.uk part of www.fasthosts.co.uk....

The following domain extensions are grouped by geography and include official country-specific extensions, known as country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Examples include .be (Belgium), .in (India), and .mx (Mexico). The rules for registration of ccTLDs vary by country.

October 16, 2025 - They help indicate a website’s country of origin; a generic top-level domain (gTLD) like .com doesn’t do that. For instance, while a .com domain might suggest a commercial and global brand, a .ca domain tells visitors that the website is intended for a Canadian audience. However, there’s an exception to the two-letter rule: internationalized domain ccTLDs (IDN ccTLDs) that allow non-Latin characters in the ccTLD itself. For example, Sri Lanka offers both .lk and scripts in Sinhalese/Tamil (e.g., .ලංකා, .இலங்கை).

5 days ago - There are multiple types of TLDs, ... and widely recognized extensions. Country code top-level domains (ccTLDs), such as .uk and .ca, target specific geographic regions....

May 1, 2025 - This is a full list of all country TLDs (top-level domains). The official list of top-level domains is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). IANA is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

1 week ago - These domains are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, which are standard two-letter codes used to represent countries. For example, .fr is for France, .be is for Belgium and .nl is for the Netherlands.

July 25, 2023 - Take Germany as a prime example. They can flaunt vowels with umlauts and the unique ‘ß’, yet their steadfast domain remains ‘.de’. An intricate realm, isn’t it? On another note, there’s a sidebar (or let’s call it our ‘informative column’) that elucidates if a domain, under its specific country code, can be granted the privilege of an internationalized domain name (IDN).

Country code top-level domains ... alpha-2 country codes. For example, .us is the ccTLD for the United States, .uk is the ccTLD for the United Kingdom, and .de is the ccTLD for Germany....

3 days ago - Seven generic top-level domains were created early in the development of the Internet, prior to the creation of ICANN in 1998. ... As of 20 May 2017, there were 255 country-code top-level domains, purely in the Latin alphabet, using two-character codes.

The Root Zone Database represents the delegation details of top-level domains, including gTLDs such as .com, and country-code TLDs such as .uk.

2 weeks ago - They are a relatively new registration for domain names for the Internet. Every domain name by country is two letters long and is developed by using the letters in the nation’s name. These two letters are called the country code to- level domain or also the ccTLD.

July 27, 2023 - Some ccTLDs are interesting for domain registration as homonyms, i.e. due to the various interpretation possibilities. In these cases, the connection to the respective countries takes a back seat, while the focus moves to the linguistic interpretation – TLDs with multiple meanings. Using country-specific TLDs generally does not pose any problems with regard to SEO. We’ve picked ten examples of TLDs with multiple meanings that are growing in popularity.

Innovative website owners also use what is known as a ‘domain hack’ to create an exciting name with wordplay. Using both the domain name and the TLD, new words or sayings can be spelled out. Why not try exploring our country domain extension list to see what fun domain hacks you can make? For example, take Anguilla’s .ai, the British Indian Ocean Territory’s .io, and Colombia’s .co.

This Help article provides information about the different country-code top-level domain names (ccTLDs) that you can register. These two-letter domain name extensions have special rules and requirements.

The .country domain extension is not actually tied to geographical countries, but instead, it is specifically designed to highlight country music, culture, and lifestyle. Introduced in 2014, .country is considered a gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain) and is managed by Rightside Registry.

November 1, 2025 - While the Indian government also applied for .বাংলা (Bengali), it was given to a competing applicant, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL).These domains were not available (as of October 2016): But, they were later on made available and now are open for domain registration in India.