Country code top-level domains with commercial licenses
Country code top-level domains with commercial licenses are Internetcountry code top-level domain that have adopted a policy for worldwide commercial use. Some of the world's smallest countries have opened their country code domain to worldwide registrations for commercial purposes. For example, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia, small island-states in the Pacific, have partnered with VeriSign and FSM Telecommunications respectively, to sell domain name registrations using the and TLDs to television and radio stations. Some commercially available ccTLDs are in demand for use outside their home countries because their name can provide a component of a meaningful word or phrase. These are sometimes referred to as vanity ccTLDs.
is sometimes used to stand for "Access Connection" or "Access Card". It is occasionally used by universities to stand for "academic", for example by the University of Kurdistan – Hawler or Ralston College,
is sometimes used for agricultural sites. In Germany and German-speaking countries, AG is appended to the name of a stock-based company, similar to Inc. in USA.
is often used for AM radio stations, or for domain hacks.
In Estonia, Denmark and Norway, AS is appended to the name of a stock-based company, similar to Inc. in USA. In Czech Republic and Slovakia, the joint stock corporation a.s. abbreviation stands for :cs:Akciová společnost.
is used for English words ending in "at".
is sometimes used for the literal term "be". It is also used in some download sites as the end of the word "tube" such as, a site for the downloading of YouTube videos. YouTube site is accessible through domain, registered by Google itself.
is sometimes used in Germany, as "BY" is the official abbreviation of the state Bayern.
is occasionally used to create domain hacks like, the web domain of The Historica Dominion Institute. This type of use is limited by the.ca domain's Canadian residence requirements.
is used for a wide variety of sites such as community colleges, especially before such institutions were allowed to use.edu. It is also used by some churches as an abbreviation of Christian church. For example, www.gracechurch.cc, www.bible.cc, www.saintjohns.cc
is used for CD merchants and file sharing sites.
is used for a number of church websites.
was notably abused in Chris Morris'sNathan Barley by preceding it with ".co" in order to spell out the word "cock".
is marketed as commercial, corporation, or company.
is often used for Galician or Galicia-related sites, in waiting for the domain. This TLD is also used by Google's link shortening and analytics service Goo.gl.
is often used by the gaming and gambling industry, particularly in relation to horse racing and online poker.
. Notable examples are online storage site Drop.io and task list site Done.io. Commonly used by tech companies or individuals for its relation to Input/Output.
is used as the English verb, "to be" in conjunction with a directory name suffix to complete a linguistically correct sentence.
is used in domain hacks.
is the third-person neuter pronoun in English and is used for domains such as.
is often used as a diminutive in Dutch, as "your", or as "I" in French.
is also used to abbreviate Las Vegas or less frequently, love.
is also used for words ending with suffix "ly".
is marketed to the medical industry.
was opened in 2008, and has quickly become one of the most used ccTLDs for vanity. It is used worldwide by individuals, and companies offering services, because of the meaning in English and more languages. It is widely used as well in the Middle East for its abbreviation.