.re
Encyclopedia
.re is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Réunion
. Along with .fr
and .tf
, it is administered by AFNIC
.
AFNIC does not allow .re registrations from organisations or individuals outside Île de La Réunion.
In addition to direct second level registrations, registrations are made at the third level beneath these names:
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 Réunion
Réunion
Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
. Along with .fr
.fr
.fr is the country code top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. Along with .re and .tf, it is administered by AFNIC.The .fr top-level domain is divided into a number of second-level domains:...
and .tf
.tf
.tf is the Internet country code top-level domain for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands . Along with .fr and .re, it is administered by AFNIC. Before October 23, 2004, Adamsnames, based in Cambridge, administered this TLD....
, it is administered by AFNIC
AFNIC
AFNIC is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate a number of French country code top-level domain names such as .fr, .re and .tf. As of today, AFNIC is ruled under the 2007 February 6 decree...
.
AFNIC does not allow .re registrations from organisations or individuals outside Île de La Réunion.
In addition to direct second level registrations, registrations are made at the third level beneath these names:
- .asso.re: associations
- .nom.re: surnames
- .com.re: commercial (unrestricted registration)