.ad

Top-level domain .ad
introduction	January 9, 1996
category	country-specific
Registry	Andorra Telecom
Award	Citizenship required
number	0.0015 million

.ad is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Principality of Andorra . It was introduced on January 9, 1996 and is administered by Andorra Telecom , which is state-owned .

properties

Only Andorran citizens and businesses are eligible to register an .ad address. Registrations are usually made on the second level, a maximum of three addresses can be registered. Each registration is checked individually by the Andorran government. An .ad domain can be between two and 63 characters long; the use of special characters is not supported.

Others

In the course of the introduction of new top-level domains , the Internet company Google Inc. wanted to register the .and domain for Andorra. Since the abbreviation is an ISO-3166-1 code , the application was withdrawn in September 2012. Thus, .and will not be introduced as an alternative to .ad in the foreseeable future .

Web links

• Official website of the registry Andorra Telecom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registered .ad domains. In: Domains.info. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on April 27, 2015 (current .ad domain number). 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .AD. IANA , accessed March 20, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Statement of Purpose (guidelines for the allocation of domains). (PDF) Accessed December 12, 2012 (English, 70 KB). 
4. ↑ register your .ad domain name - Andorra. Register SA, archived from the original on July 31, 2013 ; accessed on March 20, 2013 (English). 
5. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: So far, seven newgTLD applications withdrawn. In: domain-right. September 11, 2012, accessed September 13, 2013 .