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About Nic.pr
"Gauss Research Laboratory Inc" (GRL-INC) is the managing organization of the Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
's top level domain under the website. They operate the website nic.pr, which stands for the Network Information Center of Puerto Rico.
They operate according to the ccNSO
CcNSO
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the policy-development body for a narrow range of global issues regarding country code top-level domains within the ICANN structure.Established under the bylaws of ICANN, it is...
and ICANN
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...
agreements and currently participate in various working groups such as the Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and the ccNSO
CcNSO
The Country Code Names Supporting Organization of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the policy-development body for a narrow range of global issues regarding country code top-level domains within the ICANN structure.Established under the bylaws of ICANN, it is...
regions. Nic.pr has already implemented IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
, Anycast
Anycast
Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which datagrams from a single sender are routed to the topologically nearest node in a group of potential receivers all identified by the same destination address.-Addressing methodologies:...
and DNSSEC
DNSSEC
The Domain Name System Security Extensions is a suite of Internet Engineering Task Force specifications for securing certain kinds of information provided by the Domain Name System as used on Internet Protocol networks...
technology.
Acquiring a .pr TLD has an annual cost of $1,000.00USD. Small and Medium Businesses may request special pricing discount by filling out and mailing in a request.
Domains and sub domains
- .pr - for businesses, professionals, individuals, companies, public relationsPublic relationsPublic relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
, etc. (costs for direct second-level domains are currently $1,000/yr). - .biz.pr - for businesses
- .com.pr - for companies, but not restricted to
- .edu.pr - for educational institutions with presence in Puerto Rico
- .gov.pr - for agencies of the government of Puerto RicoGovernment of Puerto RicoThe Government of Puerto Rico is a republican form of government subject to U.S. jurisdiction and sovereignty. Its current powers are all delegated by the United States Congress and lack full protection under the United States Constitution...
- .info.pr - for informative websites
- .isla.pr - for people with presence in Puerto Rico
- .name.pr - for individuals
- .net.pr - for network oriented entities, but not restricted to
- .org.pr - for organizations, but not restricted to
- .pro.pr - for professionals
- .est.pr - for university students www.est.pr
- .prof.pr - for university professors www.prof.pr
- .ac.pr - for academics www.ac.pr