Introduced | 22 March 2000 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | PNINA |
Sponsor | PITA |
Intended use | Entities connected with: State of Palestine |
Actual use | Fairly popular in Palestine |
Registration restrictions | 2nd-level registrations unrestricted; 3rd-level registrations may have limitations based on which 2nd-level domain they are within |
Structure | May register at second level or beneath generic 2nd-level categories at 3rd level |
Documents | IANA reports: Delegation (2000), Redelegation (2004); ICANN MoU |
Dispute policies | DRS Policy |
Registry website | pnina.ps |
.ps is the Internet country code top-level domain ccTLD officially assigned to the State of Palestine. [1] It is administered by the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority. [2]
Registrations are processed by certified registrars.
The Internationalized country code top-level domain for the State of Palestine is .فلسطين
, which is represented as .xn--ygbi2ammx
in Punycode. [2]
Registrations can be made at the second-level as well as at several third-level domain names: [3]
It has also been used in domain hacks, for example meetu.ps for meetups on the website Meetup, and by the University of Maryland as ter.ps. [5]
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last non-empty label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the ICANN, an Internet multi-stakeholder community, which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.
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Anyone, Palestinians and non-Palestinians, from businesses to organizations to individuals, can register a .ps domain name