Country Code

Major companies typically register their name in multiple countries under country-code domain names such as dot-uk for Great Britain, as well as under multiple top-level domain names such as dot-com and dot-net. ❋ Sam Holmes (2011)

More than 300 suffixes are available today, the bulk of them country-code domains, such as ".uk" for the United Kingdom and ".de" for Germany. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There are currently about 20 generic top-level domain names, like dot-org, and more than 200 country-code domain names, like dot-de for Germany. ❋ Sam Holmes (2011)

"It gives a sense of false confidence to state that country-code domains are impervious to these kinds of government-mandated Internet shutdowns," said Davies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A handful of countries — including Sweden, the Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Bulgaria and Brazil — already support DNSSEC on their country-code domains as does the. org domain for non-profit organizations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Icann is aiming to allow the country-code domains to use other alphabets as soon as next month, though countries will likely take several months to decide on their own rules. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The regulations, published in the Uzbek press on July 2, were approved by the government agency in charge of IT and telecoms and the justice ministry, and cover all sites in the “- uz” country-code domain. ❋ IWPR (2008)

The Chinese government has announced plans to create three new country-code domains in a move that looks like the creation of an alternate root. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Critics of the current system have begun an effort to dislodge the United States as sole keeper of the master list of Web addresses and to give national governments sovereign control over their country-code domain names (such as. ca for Canada). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Example One: This: I will back in .[fi] (the country code top-level domain for [Finland]) [next week]. Translates to this: I will be in Finland next week. Example Two: Person One: Where will you be next week? Person Two: .fi Person One: And where will you be the week after that? Person Two: .uk ❋ 569 Clifford (2009)