.an
Encyclopedia
.an is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for the former Netherlands Antilles
. It is administered by the University of the Netherlands Antilles
. As the Netherlands Antilles have been dissolved in 2010, the domain is being phased out. As of November 2010 the .an domain remains live with over 800 domains registered under .an (directly or at third level), including google.com.an and youtube.com.an (both delegations to Google's nameservers), yahoo.com.an (delegated to Yahoo's nameservers but no A record for yahoo.com.an or www.yahoo.com.an), and visa.com.an (delegation to ultradns.net's nameservers). With the deletion of AN
from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
register the ISO codes CW
(Curaçao), SX
(Sint Maarten) and BQ
(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), the ccTLDs .cw
, .sx
and .bq
have been designated. As of 28 February 2011, they are however not in use.
Internet
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country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
top-level domain
Top-level domain
A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...
(ccTLD) for the former Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
. It is administered by the University of the Netherlands Antilles
University of the Netherlands Antilles
The University of Curaçao mr. dr. Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez is the state university of Curaçao. It is a public university, graduating approximately one hundred students per year. Since 2010, the university has been the seat of the UNESCO Caribbean Small Island Developing State Good Governance...
. As the Netherlands Antilles have been dissolved in 2010, the domain is being phased out. As of November 2010 the .an domain remains live with over 800 domains registered under .an (directly or at third level), including google.com.an and youtube.com.an (both delegations to Google's nameservers), yahoo.com.an (delegated to Yahoo's nameservers but no A record for yahoo.com.an or www.yahoo.com.an), and visa.com.an (delegation to ultradns.net's nameservers). With the deletion of AN
ISO 3166-2:AN
ISO 3166-2:AN is the entry for the Netherlands Antilles in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.The Netherlands Antilles were...
from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...
register the ISO codes CW
ISO 3166-2:CW
ISO 3166-2:CW is the likely future entry for Curaçao in ISO 3166-2, after assignment of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code CW in December 2010. IOS3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal...
(Curaçao), SX
ISO 3166-2:SX
ISO 3166-2:SX is the likely future entry for Sint Maarten in ISO 3166-2, after assignment of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code SX in December 2010. IOS3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the...
(Sint Maarten) and BQ
ISO 3166-2:BQ
ISO 3166-2:BQ will likely be the entry for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba in ISO 3166-2 after definition of BQ as the ISO-3166-1 alfa2 code...
(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), the ccTLDs .cw
.cw
.cw is a future Internet country code top-level domain that is likely to be created for Curaçao, following the decision on December 15, 2010 by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency to allocate CW as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Curaçao...
, .sx
.sx
.sx is a future Internet country code top-level domain that is likely to be created for Sint Maarten, following the decision on December 15, 2010 by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency to allocate SX as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Sint Maarten...
and .bq
.bq
.bq is designated -but not in use- as the Internet country code top-level domain for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba following the assignment on December 15, 2010 by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency of BQ as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 to the area...
have been designated. As of 28 February 2011, they are however not in use.