country code top-level domain

Also known as ccTLD

internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country

AI overview

A country code top-level domain is the final part of a website address that identifies a specific country or territory—for example, ".uk" for the United Kingdom or ".jp" for Japan. These domains matter because they help organize the internet geographically and let people know where a website is associated with, though they can also be used creatively by anyone, regardless of location.

AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, country code top-level domain is referenced by 1,360 other articles, and connects out to .in, .il and .sg.

It is catalogued under topics including Country codes, Domain Name System and International telecommunications.

Its subject is documented across 81 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Official website: www.iana.org/domains/root/db
Image: Europe ISO 3166-1.svg

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Commons category: Country code top-level domains

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Encyclopedic overview

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, [territory] identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all top-level domains are ccTLDs.

In 2018, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) began implementing internationalized country code top-level domains, consisting of language-native characters when displayed in an end-user application. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is described in RFC 1591, corresponding to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. While gTLDs have to obey international regulations, ccTLDs are subjected to requirements that are determined by each country’s domain name regulation corporation. With over 150 million domain name registrations today or as of 2022, ccTLDs make up about 40% of the total domain name industry.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “country code top-level domain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.