.lk
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.lk is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Sri Lanka
. Foreign companies who do not have a local presence can only reserve their top-level and corresponding open second-level domains (either through the LK Domain Registry or agents). In order to register and use a name they must have a contact address in Sri Lanka (which may be obtained through an agent or law firm).
These second-level names are available for registrations within them:
Restricted registration:
Open registration:
Those two are:
Internet
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country code
Country code
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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 Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
. Foreign companies who do not have a local presence can only reserve their top-level and corresponding open second-level domains (either through the LK Domain Registry or agents). In order to register and use a name they must have a contact address in Sri Lanka (which may be obtained through an agent or law firm).
Second-level domains
Registrations are taken at the second level and also at the third level beneath various categorized second level names. A second-level registration automatically blocks the name from registration by anybody else under any of the third-level names.These second-level names are available for registrations within them:
Restricted registration:
- .gov.lk: governmental departments of Sri Lanka (Automatically reserves name at second level and under all other second level names)
- .sch.lk: registered schools in Sri Lanka
- .net.lk: licensed Internet Service Providers in Sri Lanka
- .int.lk: international treaty organizations
Open registration:
- .com.lk: commercial entities
- .org.lk: noncommercial organizations
- .edu.lk: educational sites
- .ngo.lk: non-governmental organizations
- .soc.lk: registered societies
- .web.lk: web sites
- .ltd.lk: limited liability companies
- .assn.lk: associations
- .grp.lk: groups of companies
- .hotel.lk: hotels
Internationalized top-level domains
In September 2010 two new top-level domain were introduced for Sri Lanka.Those two are:
- .ලංකා for domain names in the Sinhala language.
- .இலங்கை for domain names in the Tamil languageTamil languageTamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
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