.il

.il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel, 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985,<ref name=":0">IANA's Delegation Record, at the bottom of the page.</ref> it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and .uk,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> which were registered earlier that year.

As of 19 August 2023 there are 285,060 domain names registered under the .il ccTLD in Israel.<ref name="stat"/>

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the ישראל.‎ domain,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> that was proposed in 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was delegated on 11 February 2021, and since 22 November 2022 it is possible to register domain names in full Hebrew script.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Unlike the structure of .il, domain names registered under {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. may be either directly at second-level (for example: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) or at third-level under one of these second-level domains:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• אקדמיה.ישראל.: Academic institutions; equivalent to .ac.il.
• ממשל.ישראל.: Government and Governmental System; equivalent to .gov.il.
• צהל.ישראל.: Israel Defense Forces; equivalent to .idf.il.
• ישוב.ישראל.: Municipal Government; equivalent to .muni.il.

There will not be a Hebrew-script equivalent to these second-level domains:

• .co.il
• .org.il
• .k12.il
• .net.il

As a more private initiative the top-level domain {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("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.

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Domain names ending with .il will always be in the third level under one of these second-level domains:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• .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.<ref>Hebrew Domain Names Template:Webarchive</ref>

See also

• Country code top-level domain

External links

• IANA .il whois information
• Israeli Internet Association – Template:Webarchive
• Israeli Internet Association – official site of the .il ccTLD (English version)
• Israel Network Information CenterTemplate:Dead link