.uy
Encyclopedia
.uy is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Uruguay
. Domain names must be registered at third-level.
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 Uruguay
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
. Domain names must be registered at third-level.
Second-level domains
- .com.uy: for commercial companies (a local billing contact is required for foreign registrants.)
- .edu.uy: for local educational entities.
- .gub.uy: for local governmental entities.
- .net.uy: for local Internet service providers.
- .mil.uy: for local military.
- .org.uy: for non-profit organisations.