.cr

Top-level domain .cr
introduction	September 10, 1990
category	country-specific
Registry	Nic Costa Rica
Award	unrestricted
number	0.016 million

.cr is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Costa Rica . It was introduced on September 10, 1990 and is administered by the NIC Costa Rica department within the Academia Nacional de Ciencias (roughly the National Academy of Sciences ).

properties

Any natural or legal person can register a .cr domain. However, the official award criteria stipulate that private individuals must provide evidence of the date and place of birth as well as the number of their ID to the registration authority. Companies must provide at least their VAT number; in some cases an extract from the commercial register may be required.

At first, .cr domains could only be registered under special second-level domains . In March 2008 this restriction was lifted so that .cr can now be used directly. Existing address ranges were retained and continue to exist in parallel to the top-level domain, including:

• .ac.cr for academic institutions
• .co.cr for commercial companies
• .ed.cr for educational institutions
• .fi.cr for registered credit institutions
• .go.cr for the government of Costa Rica
• .or.cr for non-profit organizations
• .sa.cr for hospitals

Web links

• Official website of the registrar NIC Costa Rica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Registered .cr domains. In: Domains.info. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2015 (current .cr domain number). 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .CR. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority , accessed August 18, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Properties of a .cr domain. united-domains , accessed on July 4, 2012 ("Features" tab). 
4. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .eu, .rs and .cr. In: domain-right. March 18, 2008, accessed August 18, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Second and Third Level Domains. Academia Nacional de Ciencias, accessed February 3, 2016 .