.sk

Top-level domain .sk
introduction	March 29, 1992
category	country-specific
Registry	SK-NIC
Award	unrestricted
number	0.3 million

.sk is the country-specific top-level domain (ccTLD) for Slovakia . It was introduced by IANA on March 29, 1992 and is operated by SK-NIC with its headquarters in Bratislava . Its direct forerunner was .cs for Czechoslovakia , which was not completely shut down until the mid- 2010s along with many other obsolete TLDs.

properties

A .sk domain can be between three and 60 characters long and it usually takes between two and four days. Internationalized domain names are currently unusable, so only alphanumeric characters in Latin script can be used. Compared to some other ccTLDs, domain owners had to have a place of residence or a branch in Slovakia, which was also strictly checked by the registry. In the course of Slovakia 's accession to the EU , numerous domain registrars started to enable the connection via a trustee . A third person based in the country was entered pro forma in the Whois directory. Since September 1, 2017, a place of residence or a company seat within the EU or EFTA is sufficient.

Web links

• Official website of the registration office SK-NIC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registered .sk domains. (No longer available online.) In: Domains.info. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; accessed on March 23, 2015 (current .sk domain number). 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .SK. IANA , accessed December 19, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: ICANN wants to retire TLDs. In: domain-right. December 15, 2006, accessed December 19, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Properties of a .sk domain. united-domains . Retrieved December 19, 2012 . 
5. ↑ .sk domain. united-domains, accessed on December 19, 2012 ("Features" tab). 
6. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: New EU countries in the domain test. In: domain-right. May 14, 2004, accessed December 19, 2012 . 
7. ↑ SK-NIC: Terms and Conditions of Domain Name Service in .sk Top Level Domain. September 1, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .