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Introduced | 11 September 1995 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Internet Office of the Holy See |
Sponsor | Holy See Secretariat of State |
Intended use | Entities connected with ![]() |
Actual use | Used for the official Vatican / Holy See site |
Registration restrictions | No public registrations are available |
Structure | Only official sites of the Vatican are in this domain; they are at second-level names, as well as within vatican.va |
Dispute policies | None needed since registrations are unavailable outside Vatican administration |
Registry website | www.vatican.va |
.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City.[1] It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.[2]
Background
The .va top-level domain was created in 1995[3] by the Archbishop John Patrick Foley of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.[4] The website Vatican.va went live on Christmas day of 1995.[5]
Description
Second-level domains are not available to the public.[citation needed]
Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).[citation needed]
Websites
There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only[6]
"www" names with websites
- Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names: www.va - www.vatican.va - www.pcf.va - www.news.va
- Vatican State Government: www.vaticanstate.va
- Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano: www.osservatoreromano.va
- Vatican Museums: www.museivaticani.va - www.cappellasistina.va - www.chapellesixtine.va - www.capillasixtina.va - www.sistinechapel.va - www.sixtinischekapelle.va
- Apostolic Penitentiary: www.paenitentiaria.va www.penitenzieria.va
- Pontifical Mission Societies: www.ppoomm.va
- Parish Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican: www.santanna.va
- Istituto per le Opere di Religione: www.ior.va
- Photo Ordering Site: www.photo.va
- "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts: www.catholica.va
- Radio Vatican: www.radiovaticana.va
Non-"www" names with websites:
- Main Vatican Website: benedettoxvi.va - benedictumxvi.va - search.vatican.va - seraphin.vatican.va
- Vatican Archives: asv.vatican.va
- Mailing Lists (Mailman): mlists.vatican.va
- Vatican Museums: mv.vatican.va - sistinechapel.va
- Vatican Library: bav.vatican.va
- "Compendium" (Username/Password required): isidoro.vatican.va
- Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required): webmail.mailservice.va
- Radio Vatican language services (various two-letter language codes)
See also
References
- ^ "Delegation Record for .VA". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ^ "The Vatican Internet Service". www.lasalette.org. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "Vatican opposes faith-based Web addresses". Religion News Service. 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "Cardinal John Patrick Foley dies at the age of 76". Catholic Philly. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "Pope John Paul II Brings the Vatican Online". dummies. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "VA Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data. 2007-12-28. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-28.