.il is the Internet 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

Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

) of Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It is administered by the Israel Internet Association.

The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985, it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us

.us

.us is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United States and was established in 1985. Registrants of .us domains must be United States citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United States...

 and .uk

.uk

.uk is the Internet country code top-level domain for the United Kingdom. , it is the fourth most popular top-level domain worldwide , with over 9.5 million registrations....

, which were registered earlier that year.

Israel is still in the process of getting an internationalized top-level domain, ‎.

Second level domains

There are eight Second Level Domains:

• ac.il: Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center.
• co.il: Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• org.il: Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• net.il: Israeli Internet service provider
  Internet service provider
  An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
  
  s; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association.
• k12.il: Schools and Kindergartens
• gov.il: Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to ministry of finance.
• muni.il: Municipal Government
• idf.il: Israel Defense Forces
  Israel Defense Forces
  The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal , are the military forces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force and navy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel...
  
  ; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems
  MAMRAM
  Mamram , abbreviation for Center of Computing and Information Systems , originally Center of Computing and Mechanized Registration is the Israel Defense Forces' central computing system unit, providing data processing services for all arms and the general staff of the IDF...
  
  .

External links

• IANA .il whois information
• Israeli Internet Association – official site of the .il ccTLD.