.is
Encyclopedia
.is is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Iceland
. The very first .is domain, hi.is, the domain of University of Iceland
, was registered on December 11. 1986. .Is registration is open to all without any special restriction. The country code is derived from the first two letters of Ísland, the Icelandic
word for Iceland. According to McAfee
report "Mapping the Mal Web", .is has been evaluated as one of the top 10 most secure TLD's in the world in year 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. As of November 2011 there were only about 36,000 registered .is domains.
s exist. Examples are who.is, th.is, this.is, pen.is, she.is, he.is, time.is, and hellomyname.is .
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 Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
. The very first .is domain, hi.is, the domain of University of Iceland
University of Iceland
The University of Iceland is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern comprehensive university, providing instruction for about...
, was registered on December 11. 1986. .Is registration is open to all without any special restriction. The country code is derived from the first two letters of Ísland, the Icelandic
Icelandic language
Icelandic is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese.Icelandic is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the...
word for Iceland. According to McAfee
McAfee
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report "Mapping the Mal Web", .is has been evaluated as one of the top 10 most secure TLD's in the world in year 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. As of November 2011 there were only about 36,000 registered .is domains.
Domain hacks
Several .is domain hackDomain hack
A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that combines domain levels, especially the top-level domain , to spell out the full "name" or title of the domain. Examples include del.icio.us , goo.gl and fold.it...
s exist. Examples are who.is, th.is, this.is, pen.is, she.is, he.is, time.is, and hellomyname.is .