.ps
Appearance
Introduced | 22 March 2000 |
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TLDtype | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | PNINA |
Sponsor | PITA |
Intended use | Entities connected with:State of Palestine |
Actual use | Fairly popular in Palestine |
Registration restrictions | 2nd-level registrations unrestricted; 3rd-level registrations may have limitations based on which 2nd-level domain they are within |
Structure | May register at second level or beneath generic 2nd-level categories at 3rd level |
Documents | IANA reports:Delegation (2000),Redelegation (2004);ICANN MoU |
Dispute policies | DRS Policy |
Registry website | pnina.ps |
.psis theInternetcountry code top-level domainccTLDofficially assigned to theState of Palestine.[1] It is administered by the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority.[2]
Registrations are processed by certified registrars.
The Internationalized country code top-level domain for the State of Palestine is.فلسطين
,which is represented as.xn--ygbi2ammx
inPunycode.[2]
Second level domains
[edit]Registrations can be made at the second-level as well as at several third-level domain names:[3]
- .ps:open to anyone (not required to be Palestinian)[4]
- com.ps,net.ps,org.ps:unrestricted[3]
- edu.ps:Educational institutions.
- gov.ps:institutions of thePNAand government.
- sch.ps:Palestinian schools
Domain hacks
[edit]It has also been used indomain hacks,for examplemeetu.psfor meetups on the websiteMeetup,and by theUniversity of Marylandaster.ps.[5]
References
[edit]- ^"IANA —.ps Domain Delegation Data".iana.org.
- ^ab"IANA — Report on the Delegation ofفلسطين. (" Falasteen ") representing the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Arabic".
- ^ab"PNINA Registration Policies and Procedures for Registering Domains under the.ps ccTLD".The Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority.Retrieved2020-04-21.
- ^"How to register a.PS domain?".The Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority.Retrieved2020-04-21.
Anyone, Palestinians and non-Palestinians, from businesses to organizations to individuals, can register a.ps domain name
- ^"Central Authentication Service (CAS)".University of Maryland.
External links
[edit]- Official websitenic.ps PNINA
- Official websitepnina.ps PNINA
- List of.ps registrars
- IANA.ps whois information
- CR for.PS