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- .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites
- .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet infrastructure
- .ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG
* .com, .net and .org domain names exceeding a total of 26
characters are supported by most web browsers. However, certain web
browsers, email programs and other Internet related applications may not
support domain names over 26 characters.
| .CO.UK and .ORG.UK Domain Names: |
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- .CO.UK - United Kingdom TLD used for both commercial and personal sites
- .ORG.UK - United Kingdom TLD used for both commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have at least 3 characters, but less than 23, not including .CO.UK and .ORG.UK
- .CC - Cocos Islands, to be used by all enterprises
- There is no residency requirement
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Cannot have more than 26 characters, including .CC
- .TO - Tonga, to be used for commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have less than 23 characters, not including .TO
- .CO.NZ - New Zealand, intended for commercial purposes
- .NET.NZ - New Zealand, intended for NZ internet services providers
- .ORG.NZ - New Zealand, intended for non-profit organizations
- .GEN.NZ - New Zealand, intended for individuals
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have less than 23 characters, not including .CO.NZ, .ORG.NZ, .GEN.NZ, and .NET.NZ
- .AS - American Samoa, to be used for commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have at least 3 characters, but less than 23, not including .AS
- .CO.ZA - South Africa, to be used for commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have less than 23 characters, not including .ZA
- .WS - WebSite, to be used for commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- .WS domains registered through register.com must have between 4 and 59 characters, not including the .WS extension
- .TV - Tuvalu, to be used for commercial and personal sites
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Must have less than 63 characters, not including .TV
- .COM.AU -Australia, to be use for commercial sites only with ABN/ACN busines registration & derivative of Company Name
- .NET.AU -Australia, intended for Australian internet services providers
- .ORG.AU -Australia, intended for non-profit organizations
- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- Cannot have more than 26 characters, including .AU
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