.mv is the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 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 Republic of Maldives

Maldives

The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...

. It is administered by Dhiraagu Pvt Ltd

Dhiraagu

Dhiraagu is the first Maldivian telecommunications company, which was established in 1988. The company remains the nation's largest telecom service provider and No.1 brand. It was the only company licensed to provide internet and GSM services until 2004 and 2005 respectively and continues to be...

, a Telecommunications company.

Mainly due to the unavailability of an online registration service, a whois

WHOIS

WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information. The protocol stores...

 lookup and large maintenance

Software maintenance

Software Maintenance in software engineering is the modification of a software product after delivery to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes....

 cost, Maldivian ccTLD is used
predominantly by government

Politics of the Maldives

The politics of the Maldives take place in the framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President is the Head of Government. Executive power is exercised by the government. The President heads the executive branch and appoints the Cabinet; Like many presidential democracies, each member of...

 agencies and large businesses. Smaller companies and organizations prefer generic TLDs such as .com

.com

The domain name com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for domains registered by commercial organizations...

and .net

.net

The domain name net is a generic top-level domain used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from network, indicating its originally intended purpose for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies...

.

Second-level Domains

• .aero.mv - Aviation
• .biz.mv - Business organization
• .com.mv - Commercial
• .coop.mv - Cooperative organization
• .edu.mv - Educational institutions
• .gov.mv - Government
• .info.mv - Information
• .int.mv - International Organization
• .mil.mv - Military
• .museum.mv - Museums
• .name.mv - Personal
• .net.mv - Networks
• .org.mv - Organizations
• .pro.mv - Professionals

External links

• .mv WHOIS information