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Introduced | 1985 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Israel Internet Association |
Sponsor | Internet Society of Israel, NIC - ISRAEL |
Intended use | Entities connected with ![]() |
Actual use | Popular in Israel |
Registration restrictions | Limitations vary based on which 2nd-level domain registration is within; registry reserves right to screen and reject applications |
Structure | Names are registered at third level within generic second-level categories |
Dispute policies | Optional dispute resolution via Advisory Committee |
DNSSEC | yes |
Registry website |
Introduced | not yet |
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TLD type | Internationalized country code top-level domain |
Status | Not introduced |
Intended use | Entities connected with ![]() |
Actual use | Not yet |
DNS name | xn--4dbrk0ce |
Registry website | www |
.il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel. It is administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL, which hosts the DNS root server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports IPv4 and IPv6.[1][2]
The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985,[1] it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us[3] and .uk,[4] which were registered earlier that year.
As of 10 June 2014 there are 227,066 domain names registered under the .il ccTLD in Israel.[2]
Top-level domains in Hebrew script
On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the .ישראל
domain,[5][6] that was proposed in 2012.[7]
As a more private initiative the top-level domain .קום ("com") was registered by VeriSign in 2016. It has as of 2020 many thousand second-level domains, mostly in Hebrew script, some in Latin script.
Second-level domains
There are eight Second Level Domains:[8]
.ac.il
: Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center..co.il
: Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars..org.il
: Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars..net.il
: Israeli Internet service providers; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association..k12.il
: Schools and Kindergartens.gov.il
: Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to Ministry of Finance..muni.il
: Municipal Government.idf.il
: Israel Defense Forces; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems.
Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported.
Hebrew third level domains such as איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il
are available since 2010.[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b IANA's Delegation Record, at the bottom of the page.
- ^ a b "About Us". Israel Internet Association - ISOC-IL. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Delegation Record for .US". IANA. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "Delegation Record for .UK". IANA. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ "".ישראל " – New Israeli country code top-level domain (ccTLD)". ISOC. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "ICANN Announces Successful String Evaluation for Israel IDN ccTLD". ICANN. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ "IDN ccTLD Form of Interest - Israel". ICANN. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ "Rules for the Allocation of Domain Names Under the Israel Country Code Top Level Domain ("IL ")". Israel Internet Association - ISOC-IL. August 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Hebrew Domain Names Archived 10 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- IANA .il whois information
- Israeli Internet Association – official site of the .il ccTLD.
- [permanent dead link] Israel Network Information Center (another website)[permanent dead link]