List of all country top-level domains

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List of all country top-level domains

List of all country top-level domains – Ogni website possiede un indirizzo Internet. L’estensione di questo indirizzo si chiama TLD, ovvero dominio di primo livello. I national top-level domains refer to a very specific country, such as .en Is the extension for Italian domains.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) regulates the basic granting of all ccTLDs. The management and registration of a country's domains, on the other hand, is in the hands of the NIC (Network Information Center, also known as Registry); in Italy the jurisdiction is Registro.it (or simply NIC.it).

Characteristics of ccTLDs

National domain extensions generally refer back to the region or to the linguistic territory and are always composed of two letters of the Latin alphabet.

Only the internationalized national top-level domains, internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN or NDI), of some countries are an exception: for example are the different ccTLDs in Sri Lanka: in addition to the national extension .lk there are also TLDs ලංකා And .இலங்கை, which indicate the name of the island in Sinhalese and Tamil languages.

Using ccTLD for other purposes

In contrast to ccTLDs, generic top level domains (gTLDs) do not indicate any regional affiliation, but refer to a specific theme, such as .com Which is used for commercial/business sites or .org indicating an organization, and they can have more than two letters. But some ccTLDs are used for different purposes. Some examples:

Tivu.tv: there are many websites that use the domain of Tuvalu .tv. The reason is that the domain lends itself well to pointing to those sites that offer streaming services or relate to television programming.

Meet.me: literally means "Meet me" and is one of the domains of Montenegro most expensive ever sold (about $450,000). Meet.me is the name of a U.S. social network, which was able to fully place its brand name in the domain thanks to the Montenegro ccTLD.

A special case among the national domain extensions is represented by the .tk. More than 30 million websites use this ccTLD, although the island state Tokelau, to which this extension is assigned, has no more than 2 million inhabitants. The mass registration of .tk is mainly motivated by the fact that in the past one could register an Internet address with this ccTLD completely free of charge. Even now the first 12 months after registration are completely free.

List of national top-level domains

All national domain extensions are listed below. The table not only shows to which countries or territories respective domains belong, but also whether the ccTLD has DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions).

In the last column find out whether you can assign an internationalized web address to a domain registered with the respective ccTLD. Internationalized domain names can be composed, in addition to Latin characters, of letters from other alphabets, such as umlauts or diacritical marks in the second-level domain (i.e., in the website name before the national top-level domain). An example would be a hypothetical German website müller-büromöbel.de, which contains several umlauts in the domain name.

ccTLD	Nation (or region)	DNSSEC	IDN
.ac	Ascension Island	Yes	Yes
.ad	Andorra	Yes	No
.ae	United Arab Emirates	No	No
.af	Afghanistan	Yes	No
.ag	Antigua and Barbuda	Yes	No
.ai	Eel	No	No
.to the	Albania	No	No
.am	Armenia	Yes	No
.an	Netherlands Antilles (since eliminated due to the political breakup of the overseas territory in 2010. In 2015, the ccTLD was suspended).	No	No
.ao	Angola	No	No
.aq	Antarctica	No	No
.ar	Argentina	Yes	Yes
.as	American Samoa	No	Yes
.at	Austria	Yes	No
.au	Australia	Yes	No
.aw	Aruba	Yes	No
.ax	Åland Islands (through March 2006. .aland.fi)	No	No
.az	Azerbaijan	No	No
.ba	Bosnia and Herzegovina	No	No
.bb	Barbados	No	No
.bd	Bangladesh	No	Yes
.be	Belgium	Yes	Yes
.bf	Burkina Faso	No	No
.bg	Bulgaria	Yes	Yes
.bh	Bahrain	No	No
.bi	Burundi	No	No
.bj	Benin	No	No
.bl	Saint-Barthélemy (French Antilles)	No	No
.bm	Bermuda	No	No
.bn	Brunei	No	No
.bo	Bolivia	No	No
.br	Brazil	Yes	Yes
.bq	Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius	No	No
.bs	Bahamas	No	No
.bt	Bhutan	No	No
.bv	Bouvet Island (no registration available at this time)	No	No
.bw	Botswana	Yes	No
.by	Bierlorussia	Yes	No
.bz	Belize	Yes	No
.ca	Canada	Yes	Yes
.cc	Cocos Islands	Yes	No
.cd	Democratic Republic of the Congo	No	No
.cf	Central African Republic	No	No
.cg	Republic of the Congo	Yes	No
.ch	Switzerland	Yes	Yes
.there	Ivory Coast	No	No
.ck	IIsole Cook	Yes	No
.cl	Chile	Yes	Yes
.cm	Cameroon	Yes	No
.cn	People's Republic of China	Yes	Yes
.co	Colombia	Yes	No
.cr	Costa Rica	Yes	No
.cs	Czechoslovakia (meanwhile eliminated)	No	No
.cu	Cuba	No	No
.cv	Cape Verde	No	No
.cw	Curaçao	Yes	No
.cx	Christmas Island	No	No
.cy	Cyprus	Yes	No
.cz	Czech Republic	Yes	No
.dd	German Democratic Republic (never activated)	No	No
.de	Germany	Yes	Yes
.dj	Djibouti	Yes	No
.dk	Denmark	Yes	Yes
.dm	Dominica	No	No
.do	Dominican Republic	No	No
.dz	Algeria	No	No
.ec	Ecuador	Yes	No
.ee	Estonia	No	Yes
.eg	Egypt	No	No
.eh	Western Sahara (due to political conflicts between the government of Western Sahara and Morocco, it has not been activated)	No	No
.er	Eritrea	Yes	No
.es	Spain	No	No
.et	Ethiopia	Yes	No
.eu	European Union	Yes	Yes
.fi	Finland	Yes	Yes
.fj	Fiji	No	No
.fk	Falkland Islands	No	No
.fm	Micronesia	Yes	No
.fo	Faroe Islands	Yes	No
.fr	France	Yes	Yes
.ga	Gabon	DNSSEC not available	No
.gb	United Kingdom (no longer in use; replaced by .uk)	Yes	No
.gd	Grenada	No	No
.ge	Georgia	No	No
.gf	French Guiana	No	No
.gg	Guernsey	No	No
.gh	Ghana	Yes	No
.gi	Gibraltar	Yes	No
.gl	Greenland	No	No
.gm	Gambia	Yes	No
.gn	Guinea	DNSSEC not available	No
.gp	Guadeloupe	No	No
.gq	Equatorial Guinea	Yes	No
.gr	Greece	Yes	Yes
.gs	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	No	No
.gt	Guatemala	No	Yes
.gu	Territory of Guam	No	No
.gw	Guinea-Bissau	No	No
.gy	Guyana	No	No
.hk	Hong kong	No	Yes
.hm	Heard and McDonald Islands	Yes	No
.hn	Honduras	Yes	No
.hr	Croatia	No	No
.ht	Haiti	Yes	Yes
.hu	Hungary	Yes	No
.id	Indonesia	Yes	Yes
.ie	Ireland	No	No
.the	Israel	No	Yes
.im	Isle of Man	Yes	No
.in	India	Yes	No
.me	British Indian Ocean Territory	Yes	No
.iq	Iraq	No	No
.ir	Iran	No	Yes
.is	Iceland	No	Yes
.it	Italy	No	Yes
.je	Jersey	No	No
.jm	Jamaica	No	No
.jo	Jordan	Yes	No
.jp	Japan	Yes	No
.ke	Kenya	Yes	No
.kg	Kyrgyzstan	Yes	No
.kh	Cambodia	Yes	No
.ki	Kiribati	No	No
.km	Union of the Comoros	No	No
.kn	St. Kitts and Nevis	No	No
.kp	North Korea	Yes	No
.kr	South Korea	Yes	Yes
.kw	Kuwait	Yes	No
.ky	Cayman Islands	No	No
.kz	Kazakhstan	Yes	No
.the	Laos	Yes	No
.lb	Lebanon	Yes	No
.lc	Saint Lucia	Yes	No
.li	Liechtenstein	Yes	Yes
.lk	Sri Lanka	Yes	Yes
.lr	Liberia	DNSSEC not available	No
.ls	Lesotho	Yes	No
.lt	Lithuania	Yes	Yes
.lu	Luxembourg	Yes	Yes
.lv	Latvia	Yes	Yes
.ly	Libya	Yes	No
.but	Morocco	No	No
.mc	Monaco	No	No
.md	Moldova	Yes	No
.me	Montenegro	Yes	No
.mf	Saint Martin	No	No
.mg	Madagascar	No	No
.mh	Marshall Islands	No	No
.mk	Macedonia	Yes	No
.ml	Mali	Yes	No
.mm	Burma	Yes	No
.mn	Mongolia	Yes	No
.mo	Macau	No	No
.mp	Northern Mariana Islands	No	No
.sqm	Martinique	No	No
.mr	Mauritania	No	No
.ms	Montserrat	No	No
.mt	Malta	No	No
.mu	Mauritius	No	No
.mv	Maldives	Yes	No
.mw	Malawi	Yes	No
.mx	Mexico	No	No
.my	Malaysia	Yes	Yes
.mz	Mozambique	Yes	No
.na	Namibia	Yes	No
.nc	New Caledonia	Yes	No
.ne	Niger	No	No
.nf	Norfolk Island	No	No
.ng	Nigeria	Yes	No
.ni	Nicaragua	Yes	No
.nl	Netherlands	Yes	No
.no	Norway	No	Yes
.np	Nepal	Yes	No
.nr	Nauru	Yes	No
.nu	Niue	Yes	Yes
.nz	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
.om	Oman	Yes	No
.pa	Panama	No	No
.pe	Peru	No	Yes
.pf	French Polynesia	No	No
.pg	Papua New Guinea	No	No
.ph	Philippines	Yes	No
.pk	Pakistan	Yes	No
.pl	Poland	Yes	Yes
.pm	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Yes	Yes
.pn	Pitcairn Island	No	No
.pr	Puerto Rico	Yes	No
.ps	State of Palestine	Yes	No
.pt	Portugal	Yes	Yes
.pw	Republic of Palau	No	No
.py	Paraguay	Yes	No
.qa	Qàtar State	Yes	No
.re	Meeting	Yes	Yes
.ro	Romania	Yes	Yes
.rs	Serbia	No	No
.ru	Russia	No	No
.rw	Rwanda	Yes	No
.sa	Saudi Arabia	Yes	Yes
.sb	Solomon Islands	No	No
.sc	Seychelles Islands	Yes	No
.sd	Sudan	No	No
.if	Sweden	Yes	Yes
.sg	Singapore	Yes	No
.sh	St. Helena	Yes	Yes
.yes	Slovenia	Yes	Yes
.sj	Svalbard and Jan Mayen Island (registration not yet available)	No	No
.sk	Slovakia	No	No
.sl	Sierra Leone	No	No
.sm	San Marino	No	No
.sn	Senegal	No	No
.so	Somalia	No	No
.sr	Suriname	No	No
.ss	South Sudan	Yes	No
.st	São Tomé and Príncipe	No	No
.on	Soviet Union (after the dissolution, the TLD is managed by Russia)	Yes	Yes
.sv	El Salvador	No	No
.sx	Saint Martin	Yes	No
.sy	Syria	No	No
.sz	Kingdom of Swaziland	No	No
.tc	Turks and Caicos	Yes	No
.td	Chad	No	No
.tf	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	Yes	Yes
.tg	Togo	No	No
.th	Thailand	No	Yes
.tj	Tajikistan	No	No
.tk	Tokelau	Yes	No
.tl	Timor-Leste (formerly.tp)	Yes	No
.tm	Turkmenistan	Yes	Yes
.tn	Tunisia	No	Yes
.to	Tonga	No	Yes
.tp	West Timor (eliminated - since 2002 replaced by. .tl)	Yes	No
.tr	Turkey, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	Yes	Yes
.tt	Trinidad and Tobago	Yes	No
.tv	Tuvalu	Yes	No
.tw	Taiwan	Yes	Yes
.tz	Tanzania	DNSSEC not available	No
.ua	Ukraine	Yes	No
.ug	Uganda	Yes	No
.uk	United Kingdom	Yes	No
.um	Minor outer islands of the United States of America (later eliminated)	No	No
.us	United States	No	No
.uy	Uruguay	Yes	No
.uz	Uzbekistan	No	No
.goes	Vatican City	No	No
.vc	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNSSEC not available	No
.ve	Venezuela	No	No
.vg	British Virgin Islands	Yes	No
.vi	U.S. Virgin Islands	Yes	No
.vn	Vietnam	Yes	Yes
.vu	Vanuatu	No	No
.wf	Wallis and Futuna (also .fr)	Yes	Yes
.ws	Samoa	No	Yes
.ye	Yemen	Yes	No
.yt	Mayotte (a region of France, it is also used .fr)	Yes	Yes
.yu	Yugoslavia (eliminated after political dissolution. Until 2010 used as a domain for Serbia and Montenegro)	No	No
.za	Republic of South Africa	No	No
.zm	Zambia	No	No
.zr	Zaire (since eliminated following the country's name change in 1997. Today it is used .cd)	No	No
.zw	Zimbabwe	No	No