.pl

.pl

Introduced	1990
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	NASK
Sponsor	NASK
Intended use	Entities connected with  Poland
Actual use	Very popular in Poland
Registration restrictions	No restrictions stated
Structure	Registrations can be made directly at second level, or at third level beneath various second level labels
Documents
Dispute policies	PIIT arbitration (for Polish entities) WIPO expedited arbitration (for foreign entities)
Website	dns.pl

.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.

History

The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in .pl was .pwr.pl, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.

In 2003, the internationalized domain names were introduced. Registration of domains containing characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew script is allowed.

NASK is Sector Member [1] of ITU-T since 2004 and plays active role [2]in Study Group 17 working on Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Andrzej Bartosiewicz, Head of DNS Division at NASK, acts as Rapporteur [3] for Question 16 dedicated to IDN.

Second-level domains

Several functional and geographical domains exist. The best known ones are:

• .com.pl, .biz.pl – commerce
• .net.pl – network infrastructure
• .art.pl – art
• .edu.pl – education
• .org.pl, .ngo.pl – organizations
• .gov.pl – government
• .info.pl – information
• .mil.pl – military
• .waw.pl, .warszawa.pl – Warsaw (city)
• .wroc.pl, .wroclaw.pl – Wrocław (city)
• .krakow.pl – Kraków (city)
• .katowice.pl – Katowice (city)
• .poznan.pl – Poznań (city)
• .lodz.pl – Łódź (city)
• .gda.pl, .gdansk.pl – Gdańsk (city)
• .slupsk.pl – Słupsk (city)
• .radom.pl – Radom (city)
• .szczecin.pl – Szczecin (city)
• .lublin.pl – Lublin (city)
• .bialystok.pl – Białystok (city)
• .olsztyn.pl – Olsztyn (city)
• .torun.pl – Toruń (city)
• .gorzow.pl – Gorzów Wielkopolski (city)
• .zgora.pl – Zielona Góra (city)

Many registrants prefer to create their own second-level domains, directly under .pl — as of 2008^[update], over 930,000 of such domains are registered.[4]

External links

• IANA .pl whois information
• Domain name registry of .pl
• Statistics of .pl
• List of accredited Registrars
• IDN registration policy in .pl