Country code top-level domain

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

Related Article - Open Use ccTLD An open ccTLD refers to a country code top level domain name that can be registered by anyone, regardless of which country the person resides in. These ccTLDs generally represent a particular branding opportunity aside from the name of the country or territory it represents. Examples include .cc (Cocos Island) for consulting companies, .tv (Tuvalu) for television, .ws (Western Samoa) for websites, and .co (Colombia) as an alternative to .com for companies.[11]

October 18, 2023 - Some popular examples of ccTLDs include .us (United States), .ca (Canada), .de (Germany), .in (India), and .au (Australia). You can acquire a ccTLD for your website by registering it through a domain registrar that supports the specific ccTLD ...

October 25, 2024 - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) oversees the management and delegation of ccTLDs to ensure they correspond to the appropriate ISO 3166-1 codes. Early examples of ccTLDs include .us for the United States, .uk for the United Kingdom, .il for Israel, and .fr for France.

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.

May 1, 2024 - A country-code TLD (ccTLD) is a domain name signaling that content relates to a certain country. For example a “.au” site is for Australia and “.de” is for Germany. The opposite of a ccTLD is a generic TLD (gTLD).

August 6, 2025 - The first .is domain, hi.is, is the domain of Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland). It was registered on December 11, 1986, making it one of the earliest ever domain registrations on the Internet...

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).

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....

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.

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.

September 5, 2023 - It acts as a unique identifier for websites that target users in a specific country. Examples of countriesdomain extensionen are .de for Germany.uk for Great Britain and .jp for Japan.

1).com stands for "commercial"- is the most common and most recognized domain extension. 2).in stands for "India" - suitable for businesses in India. A .com is must if you expect a good amount of Non-Indian traffic via s...

The official list of all top-level domains is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Notes: 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)