.nato was an
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
top-level domainA top-level domain or domain name is the highest level of domain names in the root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the label that follows the last dot of a fully qualified domain name...
. The nato
TLDTLD is a three-letter acronym that may stand for:* Top-level domain, the last part of an Internet domain name* Tag Library Descriptor, an XML document that maps JSP tags to their handlers or associated files...
was added in the late 1980s by
InterNICInterNIC, short for Internet Network Information Center, was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name and IP address allocations until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
for the use of
NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization ); ), also called "the Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949...
, who felt that none of the then existing TLDs adequately reflected their status as an
international organizationAn intergovernmental organization, sometimes rendered as an international governmental organization and both abbreviated as IGO, is an organization comprised primarily of sovereign states , or of other intergovernmental organization...
. Soon after this addition, however, the
.intint is a sponsored top-level domain used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.According to current Internet Assigned Numbers Authority policy, the int sTLD is reserved for international treaty-based organizations, United Nations agencies and organizations or entities having...
TLD was created for the use of international organizations, and NATO was persuaded to use
nato.int instead. However, the
NATO TLD, although no longer in use, was not deleted until July 1996.
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.nato was an
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
top-level domainA top-level domain or domain name is the highest level of domain names in the root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the label that follows the last dot of a fully qualified domain name...
. The nato
TLDTLD is a three-letter acronym that may stand for:* Top-level domain, the last part of an Internet domain name* Tag Library Descriptor, an XML document that maps JSP tags to their handlers or associated files...
was added in the late 1980s by
InterNICInterNIC, short for Internet Network Information Center, was the Internet governing body primarily responsible for domain name and IP address allocations until September 18, 1998 when this role was assumed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
for the use of
NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization ); ), also called "the Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949...
, who felt that none of the then existing TLDs adequately reflected their status as an
international organizationAn intergovernmental organization, sometimes rendered as an international governmental organization and both abbreviated as IGO, is an organization comprised primarily of sovereign states , or of other intergovernmental organization...
. Soon after this addition, however, the
.intint is a sponsored top-level domain used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.According to current Internet Assigned Numbers Authority policy, the int sTLD is reserved for international treaty-based organizations, United Nations agencies and organizations or entities having...
TLD was created for the use of international organizations, and NATO was persuaded to use
nato.int instead. However, the
NATO TLD, although no longer in use, was not deleted until July 1996.