.pl
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Infobox Top level domain Template:Mono is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, the Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.
HistoryEdit
The Template:Mono domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of the COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in Template:Mono was Template:Mono, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.
In 2008 the number of registered .pl domain names exceeded one million, whereas at the end of 2013 the registry comprised more than 2.4 million domain names.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="stat" />
Each domain must be registered in the National Domain Name Registry.
Second-level domainsEdit
Several functional and regional domain endings exist. Most popular are:
Functional domainsEdit
- Template:Mono, Template:Mono, Template:Mono: commercial entities
- Template:Mono: network infrastructure
- Template:Mono: art
- Template:Mono: education
- Template:Mono: government
- Template:Mono: (general) information
- Template:Mono: military
- Template:Mono: NGOs and not-for-profit organizations
Regional domainsEdit
There are 118 regional domain endings in the Template:Mono zone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some of them are:
- Template:Mono: Białystok (city)
- Template:Mono: Częstochowa (city)
- Template:Mono, Template:Mono: Gdańsk (city)
- Template:Mono: Gorzów Wielkopolski (city)
- Template:Mono: Katowice (city)
- Template:Mono: Kraków (city)
- Template:Mono: Lublin (city)
- Template:Mono: Małopolska (region)
- Template:Mono: Mazowsze (region)
- Template:Mono: Olsztyn (city)
- Template:Mono: Piła (city)
- Template:Mono: Poznań (city)
- Template:Mono: Rzeszów (city)
- Template:Mono: Szczecin (city)
- Template:Mono: Śląsk (region)
- Template:Mono: Toruń (city)
- Template:Mono, Template:Mono: Wrocław (city)
- Template:Mono, Template:Mono: Warsaw (city)
- Template:Mono: Zielona Góra (city)
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- IANA Template:Mono whois information
- Domain name registry of Template:Mono
- Statistics of Template:Mono
- List of accredited Registrars
- IDN registration policy in Template:Mono