.an was the
Internet
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country code
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top-level domain
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(
ccTLD) for the former
Netherlands Antilles. It was administered by the
University of the Netherlands Antilles. The domain was phased out after the Netherlands Antilles were
dissolved in 2010. As of November 2010 the .an domain remained live with over 800 domains registered under .an, including secondary levels. On 31 July 2015, use of the domain was discontinued.
Second level domain
Including google.com.an and youtube.com.an (both delegations to Google's nameservers), yahoo.com.an (delegated to Yahoo's nameservers but no
A record for yahoo.com.an or www.yahoo.com.an), and visa.com.an (delegation to ultradns.net's nameservers). With the deletion of
AN from the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 register the ISO codes
CW (Curaçao),
SX (Sint Maarten) and
BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), the ccTLDs
.cw,
.sx and
.bq have been designated (although the last one is not in use).
Phasing out
On 31 December 2013, the
University of the Netherlands Antilles began removing inactive .an domain names from their databases and systems. On 31 October 2014,
ICANN
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removed the .an domain from the DNS root servers.
See also
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Internet in the Netherlands
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Internet in the Netherlands Antilles
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ISO 3166-2:AN
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.nl – ccTLD for the Netherlands
*
.eu – ccTLD for the European Union
*
.aw – ccTLD for
Aruba
*
.bq – ccTLD for the
Caribbean Netherlands ''(
Bonaire
Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Netherlands, Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (Windward and leeward, leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bona ...
,
Sint Eustatius, and
Saba)''
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.cw – ccTLD for
Curaçao
*
.sr – ccTLD for
Suriname
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.sx – ccTLD for
Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the island.
References
External links
IANA .an whois information
Country code top-level domains
Communications in the Netherlands Antilles
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