.ac

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2011)

.ac (short for academia) is a second level domain for academic establishments, such as universities, colleges and research institutes.^[1] Many countries use .edu for the same purpose, for example .edu.au in Australia, .edu.my in Malaysia. Still other countries (examples include France, the Netherlands and Switzerland), do not maintain a second level domain specifically for academic institutions. Rather, each institution will have its own second-level domain (such as sorbonne.fr for the Sorbonne, or tum.de for the Technical University of Munich).

Though similar, there can be a slight distinction between .edu and .ac. For example, in 2006 China announced that .edu would be used (with .cn) as the second-level domain for educational institutions, while .ac would be used for research institutions. ^[2]

See also

• .co
• .edu (top level and USA education sites)

References

• "New requests for an ac.uk Domain" JANET (UK) November 2006 archived from the original on 05 January 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/20110105074525/http://www.ja.net/services/domain-name-registration/register.ac.uk/eligibility-ac.html. Retrieved 2011-03-17 

This Internet-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e