.ss is the designated country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Sudan in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is derived from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Sudan, which is SS. According to CIO East Africa, the TLD was allocated on 10 August 2011 following the country's declaration of independence from Sudan. The TLD was registered on 31 August 2011, but not added to the DNS root zone and was thus not operational. It was approved at the ICANN Board meeting on 27 January 2019 and was added to the DNS root zone on 2 February 2019.
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".ss" is the internet address suffix designated for South Sudan, similar to how ".com" or ".uk" work for other entities. It became operational in 2019, nearly eight years after South Sudan's independence, when it was finally approved and connected to the internet's domain system.
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Key facts
- Top level domain.name
- .ss
- Top level domain.image
- SSNIC logo.png
- Top level domain.introduced
- 10 August 2011 2 February 2019
- Top level domain.type
- Country code top-level domain
- Top level domain.status
- Active
- Top level domain.registry
- ssNIC
- Top level domain.sponsor
- Government of South Sudan
- Top level domain.intendeduse
- Entities connected with South Sudan
- Top level domain.actualuse
- Rarely used. When it is used, it is often in South Sudan.
- Top level domain.restrictions
- generally none; some SLDs are only for local entities
- Top level domain.website
- nic.ss
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.ss is the designated country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Sudan in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is derived from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Sudan, which is SS. According to CIO East Africa, the TLD was allocated on 10 August 2011 following the country's declaration of independence from Sudan. The TLD was registered on 31 August 2011, but not added to the DNS root zone and was thus not operational. It was approved at the ICANN Board meeting on 27 January 2019 and was added to the DNS root zone on 2 February 2019.
Before .ss was successfully registered, the country's Undersecretary for Telecommunications had initially been concerned about the ccTLD request's possible rejection due to SS also being an abbreviation for the , the paramilitary force of Nazi Germany.