.uz
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.uz is the Internet
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
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 (ccTLD) for Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

. Registry services were formerly operated by Euracom GmBH, but were later redelegated to UZINFOCOM
UZINFOCOM
UZINFOCOM is a Computerization and IT Developing Center of Uzbekistan. It was established in 2002 by the Decree of the President of Uzbekistan and is a structural division of the Communication and Information Agency of Uzbekistan....

. Registrations are taken directly at the second level, but the former registry also advertised the availability of registrations at the third level beneath co.uz and com.uz, and some domain names under other second-level names such as org.uz also exist.

In Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, .uz is used as short-link address - ej.uz , which means "go to".

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