.sh

This article describes the top-level domain. For the file extension see Unix shell .

Top-level domain .sh
introduction	September 23, 1997
category	country-specific
Registry	NIC.SH
Award	partially restricted

.sh is the country-specific top-level domain (ccTLD) of the equal sub-areas St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha of the British overseas territory St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha . It was introduced and assigned to the government on September 23, 1997 . Ascension has its own ccTLD with .ac .

properties

An .sh domain can be between three and 63 characters long and contain only alphanumeric characters ; internationalized domain names are supported. Any natural or legal person worldwide can own a .sh domain, a seat on the islands is not necessary. Despite the liberal award criteria, .sh hardly plays a role internationally, lottery.sh was the most expensive .sh domain ever traded. The domain is partly used by website operators to establish a reference to the German state of Schleswig-Holstein .

Web links

• Official website of the registry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Delegation Record for .SH. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority , accessed November 21, 2013 . 
2. ↑ IDN Code Points Policy for the .SH Top Level Domain. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2014 ; accessed on February 25, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Rules for the .SH Domain and Sub-Domains. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2013 ; accessed on November 21, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ .sh domain prices. In: domain-right. Retrieved November 21, 2013 .