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.li is the Internet
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 Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...

. It was created in 1993. The domain is sponsored and administered by the Hochschule Liechtenstein
Hochschule Liechtenstein
The University of Liechtenstein is one of the four centers for higher education in the Principality of Liechtenstein. It focuses on two main fields of study. These are architecture and business economics. The is located in Vaduz, the capital of the principality...

 (University of Applied Sciences of Liechtenstein) in Vaduz
Vaduz
Vaduz is the capital of the principality of Liechtenstein and the seat of the national parliament. The town, located along the Rhine, has about 5,100 inhabitants , most of whom are Roman Catholic. Its cathedral is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop....

, but domain names with the extension can also be registered with SWITCH
SWITCH Information Technology Services
SWITCH is the manager of the .ch and .li country-code top-level domains for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, respectively. It also manages the educational networks among Swiss universities, and the links to other university networks. It also mirrors open source software .- External links :**...

, administrator of Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

's .ch
.ch
.ch is the Internet country code top-level domain for Switzerland. It is administered by SWITCH Information Technology Services.The ".ch" domain does not come from the name for Switzerland in any of its national languages; "die Schweiz", "Suisse", "Svizzera" or "Svizra"...

 ccTLD. There are no requirements to apply for the extension. Registrations of internationalized domain name
Internationalized domain name
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s have been accepted since March 2004.

Long Island Usage

Many Long Island
Long Island
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, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 (USA), organizations and companies have adopted the .li TLD as a domain hack
Domain hack
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Swiss usage

In addition to Switzerlands’ being geographically adjacent to Liechtenstein, “.li” on the end of a noun in Swiss German is commonly used as a diminutive. This is widespread, notable with Muesli (the diminutive of Mus, or “puree”), and even shows up in family names, such as the well-known chocolate manufacturer “Spruengli” (or Sprüngli), now a part of Lindt. Due to this vernacular usage, many Swiss companies register an additional, or alternative, .li domain for their businesses and services.

Russian usage

In Russian, -li is a verbal ending of past tense plural form. That is why some Russian-oriented sites use it as a part of the site name with the verbal stem before the dot, like http://www.zadolba.li (cf. Russian colloquial задолбать "to piss somebody off") or http://www.ulibnu.li (cf. Russian colloquial улыбнуть "to make someone smile").In addition, must pay attention to such addition, you should pay attention to nouns forming domain names. As for example, http://vaf.li http://gus.li, http://yas.li, http://motoral.li, http://avtolubite.li http://avtoral.li.

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