Introduced | 25 August 1993 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | AZNIC |
Sponsor | IntraNS |
Intended use | Entities connected with Azerbaijan |
Actual use | Popular in Azerbaijan. Some use in Arizona and the Azores. |
Registered domains | 40,690 (2022-12-10) [1] |
Registration restrictions | Pornography is not allowed. Registration is available only for residents. |
Structure | Registrations are directly at second level, or at third level beneath some second-level labels |
Documents | Regulations |
Registry website | Whois.az |
.az is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Azerbaijan. It is administered by Azerbaijani Communications (AZNIC).
Second-level domains under .az are:
.aq is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Antarctica. It is derived from the French Antarctique and is reserved for organizations that work in Antarctica or promote the Antarctic and Southern Ocean regions. It is administered by Peter Mott of Antarctica Network Information Centre Limited from Christchurch, New Zealand.
.bh is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bahrain. It is administered by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Bahrain (TRA).
.bj is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Benin. It is administered by the Office of Stations and Telecommunications of Benin. Despite having no "j" in its name in any of its official languages, Benin was allocated .bj as the other possible codes .be
, .bn
, and .bi
had already been allocated to other entities.
.bm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bermuda. It was originally delegated in March 1993 to Bermuda College and was redelegated to the Registrar General of Bermuda, the de facto manager of the .BM domain, in 2007.
.bs is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Bahamas. It is administered by the University of the Bahamas.
.bw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Botswana. It is officially administered by the Botswana Communication Regulatory Authority since 2013, previously being administered by the University of Botswana.
.tl is the current country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Timor (Timor-Leste). It is administered through the Council of Country Code Administrators (CoCCA) and second-level registration is available through resellers worldwide with no local presence requirement.
.ci is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Côte d'Ivoire.
.dm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Commonwealth of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean. Registrants of a second-level .dm domain get the corresponding third-level names within .com.dm, .net.dm and .org.dm automatically included. There are no restrictions on who can register these names, but they are not very heavily used.
.ir is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iran. It is managed by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.
.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 people and companies without any special restriction.
.hu is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Hungary. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars.
.ht is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Haiti. It was introduced in 1997 and is managed Réseau de Développement Durable d'Haïti (RDDH) with assistance from the State University of Haiti.
.lt is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Lithuania.
.ma is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Morocco. A local registrar with a local Moroccan company as administrative contact is needed to register a .ma or .co.ma domain name. Further restrictions are imposed on the registering of other second-level domains.
.md is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Moldova introduced on March 24, 1994.
.nc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for New Caledonia. Registry operations are managed by the Office des postes et télécommunications.
.pa is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Panama. It was first registered in 1994-05-25. It is administered by NIC Panamá, which is run by the Universidad Tecnologica de Panama.
WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees. These resources include domain names, IP address blocks and autonomous systems, but it is also used for a wider range of other information. The protocol stores and delivers database content in a human-readable format. The current iteration of the WHOIS protocol was drafted by the Internet Society, and is documented in RFC 3912.
.cw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Curaçao. It was created following the decision on December 15, 2010 by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency to allocate CW as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Curaçao. This decision followed Curaçao's new status as an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on October 10, 2010. The University of Curaçao, which already was the sponsor for .an was designated as the sponsoring organization. Registration of .cw domains was available from 1 February 2012.