.al

Top-level domain .al
introduction	April 21, 1992
category	country-specific
Registry	ACEP
Award	unrestricted
number	0.0095 million

.al is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Albania . It has existed since April 21, 1992 and is administered by the State Telecommunications Authority ( Electronic and Postal Communications Authority , AKEP for short). Until May 1, 2013, only Albanian citizens and businesses were allowed to register an .al address. This restriction has now been removed so that .al domains can be freely registered for everyone. Only alphanumeric characters may be used; a domain must also be between two and 63 characters long. At the end of 2011, around 8,000 domain addresses were registered.

Web links

• Official website of the registration office AKEP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registered .al domains. In: Domains.info. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; accessed on April 27, 2015 (current .al domain number). 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .AL. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, accessed August 13, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Albania relaxes registration conditions for .al. In: domain-right. May 8, 2013, accessed August 12, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Properties of an .al domain. InterNetX , accessed on August 12, 2013 . 
5. ↑ The number of .al internet domains in Albania almost double. In: Balkans. January 19, 2012, archived from the original on January 30, 2016 ; accessed on January 30, 2012 (English).