.lc is the

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(

ccTLD A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all tw ...

) for

Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent ...

, sponsored by the

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and created on September 3, 1991. The registry is operated by

Afilias Afilias, Inc. was a US corporation that was the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services f ...

and markets towards companies structured as LCs, LLCs or PLCs due to the possibility of a

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, such as CompanyName.L.LC (companyname.l.lc uses the open SLD l.lc) and supposedly better names.

Second and third level domains

Registrations take place directly at the second level or at one of the following third level domains. There are a number of registrars, but .gov.lc and .edu.lc can only be registered at the NIC. * .co.lc * .com.lc * .org.lc (local non-profit organizations get this domain free of charge) * .net.lc * .l.lc (domain hack for LLCs) * .p.lc (domain hack for PLCs) * .gov.lc (restricted to government departments, agencies, ministries, etc.) * .edu.lc (restricted to educational institutions)

Rules

All domains must be between 1 and 63 characters long, excluding the TLD. In addition, domains may not contain anything other than letters, numbers, and a hyphen. .lc does not support internationalized domain names, and domain names may not start or end with a hyphen. Domain names considered offensive by the registry may not be registered.

References

External links

IANA .lc whois information

.lc domain registration website

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