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Introduced | December 1, 1992 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Hostmaster Ltd. |
Intended use | Entities connected with ![]() |
Actual use | Popular in Ukraine |
Registered domains | 549,180 (Jan 2021)[1] |
Registration restrictions | Must be the owner of a trade mark registered in Ukraine for second-level domains (and may only register if the domain name is the same as the trade mark); no restrictions for third-level domains |
Documents | Policy documents |
Dispute policies | Domain dispute resolution policy |
DNSSEC | Yes |
Registry website | Hostmaster |
.ua is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Ukraine. To register at the second-level (example) domainname.ua, possession of the exact trademark (matching the domain name) is required. It is not required for third-level domains (.com.ua, .net.ua, etc.).
History
- December 1, 1992: Registered in root zone
- April 13, 2012: DNSSEC enabled in root zone
- February 26, 2022: Domain servers transferred out of Kyiv for continuity reasons amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[2]
Statistics
As of March 2017, around 10.78% of all the .ua domains were served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the Let's Encrypt Authority X3 being the most popular SSL certificate.[3] Nginx is the most popular web server, serving 68.97% of the .ua domains, followed by Apache serving 17.75% of the total .ua domains.[3]
Third-level domains
To remove the risk of cyber squatting, registration of second-level domains directly below .ua is restricted to owners of registered trade marks, who may register a domain name similar to that of the trade mark in question. However, third-level domains can be registered beneath some of the following:
- .com.ua: paid, commercial organizations
- .edu.ua: free, available only to proved educational organisations.
- .gov.ua: free, available only to governmental organizations
- .net.ua: paid, network service providers
- .in.ua: paid, domains for individuals
- .org.ua: paid, other organizations (non-commercial)
There are also second-level domains which are region-specific. These are less popular than the above list (making domain names more available) but they are sometimes restricted to organisations exclusively from within the region.
- .cherkasy.ua, .cherkassy.ua (also: ck.ua): Cherkasy Oblast
- .chernigov.ua (.cn.ua): Chernihiv Oblast
- .chernivtsi.ua, .chernovtsy.ua (cv.ua): Chernivtsi Oblast
- .crimea.ua (.cr.ua): Crimea
- .dnipropetrovsk.ua, .dnepropetrovsk.ua (.dp.ua): Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- .donetsk.ua (.dn.ua): Donetsk Oblast
- .ivano-frankivsk.ua (.if.ua): Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- .kharkiv.ua, .kharkov.ua (.kh.ua): Kharkiv Oblast
- .kherson.ua (.ks.ua): Kherson Oblast
- .khmelnitskiy.ua (.km.ua): Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- .kirovograd.ua (.kr.ua): Kirovohrad Oblast
- .kyiv.ua, .kiev.ua (.kv.ua): Kyiv
- .lugansk.ua (.lg.ua): Luhansk Oblast
- .lutsk.ua, .volyn.ua (.vl.ua): Lutsk, Volyn Oblast
- .lviv.ua (.lv.ua): Lviv Oblast
- .nikolaev.ua (.mk.ua): Mykolaiv Oblast
- .odesa.ua, .odessa.ua (.od.ua): Odessa Oblast
- .poltava.ua (.pl.ua): Poltava Oblast
- .rivne.ua, .rovno.ua (.rv.ua): Rivne Oblast
- .sevastopol.ua: Sevastopol
- .sumy.ua (.sm.ua)- Sumy Oblast
- .ternopil.ua (.te.ua): Ternopil Oblast
- .uzhgorod.ua (.uz.ua): Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast
- .vinnica.ua (.vn.ua): Vinnytsia Oblast
- .yalta.ua: Yalta
- .zaporizhzhe.ua (.zp.ua): Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- .zhitomir.ua (.zt.ua): Zhytomyr Oblast
See also
- .укр, a second top domain for Ukraine, active from 2013, which has domains with Cyrillic characters.
- Internet in Ukraine
References
- ^ "Доменна статистика .UA за підсумками 2020 року". hostmaster.ua (in Ukrainian). 2021-01-22. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ "Сервера домену .UA переведено до країн Європи". hostmaster.ua (in Ukrainian). 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ^ a b "Статистика українського інтернету". www.ukralio.com (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2017-02-17. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
External links
- IANA .ua whois information
- Official site of domain .ua
- Official site of .ua registry
- Statistic of domain names usage
- Ukrainian Domains Statistics and Information
- Public Suffix List