.pl
 | |
| Introduced | July 30, 1990 |
|---|---|
| TLDtype | Country code |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | NASK |
| Sponsor | NASK |
| Intended use | Entities connected withPoland |
| Actual use | Very popular in Poland |
| Registered domains | 2,467,559 (30 September 2020)[1] |
| Registration restrictions | No restrictions stated |
| Structure | Registrations can be made directly at second level, or at third level beneath various second level labels |
| Dispute policies | PIIT arbitration(for Polish entities) WIPO expedited arbitration(for foreign entities) |
| DNSSEC | yes |
| Registry website | dns.pl |
.plis theInternetcountry codetop-level domain(ccTLD) forPoland,administered byNASK,the Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members ofCENTR.
History[edit]
The.pldomain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of theCOCOMembargo on technological collaboration with post-communistcountries. The firstsubdomainin.plwas.pwr.pl,belonging to theWrocław University of Technology.
In 2008 the number of registered.pl domain names exceeded one million, whereas at the end of 2013 the registry comprised more than 2.4 million domain names.[2][1]
Each domain must be registered in the National Domain Name Registry.
Second-level domains[edit]
Several functional and regional domain endings exist. Most popular are:
Functional domains[edit]
- .pl,.biz.pl,.pl:commercial entities
- .net.pl:network infrastructure
- .art.pl:art
- .edu.pl:education
- .gov.pl:government
- .info.pl:(general) information
- .mil.pl:military
- .org.pl:NGOsand not-for-profit organizations
Regional domains[edit]
There are 118 regional domain endings in the.plzone.[3]Some of them are:
- .bialystok.pl:Białystok(city)
- .czest.pl:Częstochowa(city)
- .gda.pl,.gdansk.pl:Gdańsk(city)
- .gorzow.pl:Gorzów Wielkopolski(city)
- .katowice.pl:Katowice(city)
- .krakow.pl:Kraków(city)
- .lublin.pl:Lublin(city)
- .malopolska.pl:Małopolska(region)
- .mazowsze.pl:Mazowsze(region)
- .olsztyn.pl:Olsztyn(city)
- .pila.pl:Piła(city)
- .poznan.pl:Poznań(city)
- .rzeszow.pl:Rzeszów(city)
- .szczecin.pl:Szczecin(city)
- .slask.pl:Śląsk(region)
- .torun.pl:Toruń(city)
- .wroc.pl,.wroclaw.pl:Wrocław(city)
- .waw.pl,.warszawa.pl:Warsaw(city)
- .zgora.pl:Zielona Góra(city)
References[edit]
- ^ab"DNS | Krajowy Rejestr Domen".dns.pl.Retrieved2020-09-30.
- ^"Statistics of domain names registered in NASK".dns.pl.Retrieved1 June2018.
- ^"List of regional domain names".NASK Domain Name Registry.Archivedfrom the original on 2019-04-02.Retrieved2021-10-19.