.cc

.cc

Introduced	1997
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	eNIC (a VeriSign company)
Sponsor	Island Internet Services
Intended use	Entities connected with  Cocos Islands
Actual use	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus A varied assortment of sites, few of them relating to those islands
Registration restrictions	None
Structure	Registrations permitted at second level
Documents	Registration agreement
Dispute policies	UDRP
Website	eNIC

.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com"; .cc was originally assigned October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle WA by the IANA. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus also uses the .cc domain, along with .nc.tr. This is due to them not being recognized as a sovereign state by anyone except Turkey.

With the help of SamsDirect Internet, eNIC managed and marketed the top level domain with great success to become the "second largest TLD registry in the United States second only to Verisign" according to Brian Cartmell, founder and CEO of eNIC^[1] who testified before the United States Senate in regard to The Governance of the Domain Name System by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on February 4, 2001. Much of the success of the domain sales came as a direct result of Sams entering into a deal with the largest radio broadcaster in the United States, Clear Channel (CC) Communications, to advertise and promote the domain on several hundred radio stations over a three month period.

Registration is made directly at second-level.

The .cz.cc, .co.cc, cc.cc & uni.cc domains are not official TLDs. They are used for free URL redirection services, though .cz.cc, .co.cc and .cc.cc can be used as a real DNS service.

References

1. ^ Brian Cartmell CEO of eNIC testimony before the United States Senate

External links

• IANA .cc whois information