Domain registries from around the world.   by Clare Lawrence

Domain registries from around the world.

By Clare Lawrence 29th September 2003 Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.

Do you sometimes come across exotic looking TLD's?

Ever wondered which domain name is from where?

I created the following table out of interest. Watch out for the new .eu TLD. [ The European Union is working on the its own TLD. ]

Commercial TLD'

.aero Aviation .biz Business Organizations .com Commercial .coop Co-Operative Organisations .edu Educational .gov Government .info info TLD .int International Organisations .mil US Dept of Defense .museum Museums .name Personal .net Networks .org Organisations

Country codes:-

.ac Ascension Island .ad Andorra .ae United Arab Emirates .af Afghanistan .ag Antigua and Barbuda .ai Anguilla .al Albania .am Armenia .an Netherlands Antilles .ao Angola .aq Antarctica .ar Argentina .as American Samoa .at Austria .au Australia .aw Aruba .az Azerbaijan .ba Bosnia and Herzegovina .bb Barbados .bd Bangladesh .be Belgium .bf Burkina Faso .bg Bulgaria .bh Bahrain .bi Burundi .bj Benin .bm Bermuda .bn Brunei Darussalam .bo Bolivia .br Brazil .bs Bahamas .bt Bhutan .bv Bouvet Island .bw Botswana .by Belarus .bz Belize .ca Canada .cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands .cd Congo, Democratic republic of the (former Zaire) .cf Central African Republic .cg Congo, Republic of .ch Switzerland .ci Côte d'Ivoire .ck Cook Islands .cl Chile .cm Cameroon .cn China .co Colombia .cr Costa Rica .cs Czechoslovakia .cu Cuba .cv Cape Verde .cx Christmas Island .cy Cyprus .cz Czech Republic .de Germany .dj Djibouti .dk Denmark .dm Dominica .do Dominican Republic .dz Algeria .ec Ecuador .ee Estonia .eg Egypt .eh Western Sahara .er Eritrea .es Spain .et Ethiopia .fi Finland .fj Fiji .fk Falkland Islands .fm Micronesia .fo Faroe Islands .fr France .ga Gabon .gd Grenada .ge Georgia .gf French Guiana .gg Guernsey .gh Ghana .gi Gibraltar .gl Greenland .gm Gambia .gn Guinea .gp Guadeloupe .gq Equatorial Guinea .gr Greece .gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands .gt Guatemala .gu Guam .gw Guinea-Bissau .gy Guyana .hk Hong Kong .hm Heard and McDonald Islands .hn Honduras .hr Croatia .ht Haiti .hu Hungary .id Indonesia .ie Ireland .il Israel .im Isle of Man .in India .io British Indian Ocean Territory .iq Iraq .ir Iran .is Iceland .it Italy .je Jersey .jm Jamaica .jo Jordan .jp Japan .ke Kenya .kg Kyrgyzstan .kh Cambodia .ki Kiribati .km Comoros .kn Saint Kitts and Nevis .kp Korea, Democratic People's Republic of .kr Korea, Republic of .kw Kuwait .ky Cayman Islands .kz Kazakhstan .la Lao People's Democratic Republic .lb Lebanon .lc Saint Lucia .li Liechtenstein .lk Sri Lanka .lr Liberia .ls Lesotho .lt Lithuania .lu Luxembourg .lv Latvia .ly Libyan Arab Jamahiriya .ma Morocco .mc Monaco .md Moldova .mg Madagascar .mh Marshall Islands .mk Macedonia .ml Mali .mm Myanmar .mn Mongolia .mo Macau .mp Northern Mariana Islands .mq Martinique .mr Mauritania .ms Montserrat .mt Malta .mu Mauritius .mv Maldives .mw Malawi .mx Mexico .my Malaysia .mz Mozambique .na Namibia .nc New Caledonia .ne Niger .nf Norfolk Island .ng Nigeria .ni Nicaragua .nl The Netherlands .no Norway .np Nepal .nr Nauru .nu Niue .nz New Zealand .om Oman .pa Panama .pe Peru .pf French Polynesia .pg Papua New Guinea .ph Philippines .pk Pakistan .pl Poland .pm St. Pierre and Miquelon .pn Pitcairn .pr Puerto Rico .ps Palestine .pt Portugal .pw Palau .py Paraguay .qa Qatar .re Reunion .ro Romania .ru Russia .rw Rwanda .sa Saudi Arabia .sb Solomon Islands .sc Seychelles .sd Sudan .se Sweden .sg Singapore .sh St. Helena .si Slovenia .sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands .sk Slovakia .sl Sierra Leone .sm San Marino .sn Senegal .so Somalia .sr Surinam .st Sao Tome and Principe .su Sovier Union .sv El Salvador .sy Syrian Arab Republic .sz Swaziland .tc The Turks & Caicos Islands .td Chad .tf French Southern Territories .tg Togo .th Thailand .tj Tajikistan .tk Tokelau .tm Turkmenistan .tn Tunisia .to Tonga .tp East Timor .tr Turkey .tt Trinidad and Tobago .tv Tuvalu .tw Taiwan .tz Tanzania .ua Ukraine .ug Uganda .uk United Kingdom .um United States Minor Outlying Islands .us United States .uy Uruguay .uz Uzbekistan .va Holy See (Vatican City State) .vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .ve Venezuela .vg Virgin Islands British .vi Virgin Islands U.S .vn Vietnam .vu Vanuatu .wf Wallis and Futuna Islands .ws Samoa .ye Yemen .yt Mayotte .yu Yugoslavia .za South Africa .zm Zambia .zr Zaire (non-existent, see Congo) .zw Zimbabwe

About the Author

Clare Lawrence is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd - A leading UK provider of Domain name registration and Web Hosting services. Please feel free to re-publish this article provided this reference box remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.discountdomainsuk.com Clare can also be contacted on clare@discountdomainsuk.com.