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Vatican City (in Internet addresses)


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.va
Vatican crest
Introduced 1995
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Internet Office of the Holy See
Sponsor Holy See Secretariat of State
Intended use Flag of the Vatican City Entities connected with Vatican City
Actual use Used for the official Vatican / Holy See site
Registration restrictions No public registrations are available
Structure Only official sites of the Vatican are in this domain; they are at second-level names, as well as within vatican.va
Documents
Dispute policies None needed since registrations are unavailable outside Vatican administration
Website Vatican site

.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City. It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.

There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only[1]

"www" names with websites

Non-"www" names with websites:

Second-level domains are not available to the public.

Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).

Strangely enough, some offsite secondary DNS servers used by the Vatican are named after Egyptian gods, like:

External links

References

  1. ^ "VA Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data. 2007-12-28. http://www.robert.net/ccTLD/VA. Retrieved 2007-12-28. 

 
 
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