.ps is the
Internet
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country code top-level domain
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 ...
ccTLD officially assigned to the
State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in West Asia. Recognized by International recognition of Palestine, 147 of the UN's 193 member states, it encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and th ...
.
It is administered by the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority.
Registrations are processed by certified registrars.
The Internationalized country code top-level domain for the State of Palestine is
.فلسطين, which is represented as
.xn--ygbi2ammx in
Punycode.
Second level domains
Registrations can be made at the second-level as well as at several third-level domain names:
* .ps: open to anyone (not required to be Palestinian)
* com.ps, net.ps, org.ps: unrestricted
* edu.ps: Educational institutions.
* gov.ps: institutions of the
PNA and government.
* sch.ps: Palestinian schools
Domain hacks
It has also been used in
domain hacks, for example meetu.ps for meetups on the website
Meetup
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, and by the
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
as ter.ps.
References
External links
* nic.ps PNINA
* pnina.ps PNINA
List of .ps registrars
Country code top-level domains
Economy of Palestine
Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members
Mass media in Palestine
Internet in Palestine
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