.je is the

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for

Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the ...

. The domain is administered by Island Networks, who also administer the .gg domain for neighbouring territory

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" ( Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), ( Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor ...

. In 2003, a

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website was made available for Jersey, which uses the .je domain.

History

Alderney Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands The Channel Islands ( nrf, Îles d'la Manche; french: îles Anglo-Normandes or ''îles de la Manche'') are an archipelago An arch ...

hosts the

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for both

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s of the Channel Islands. The country-code top-level domains of .je and .gg first appeared on the Internet in August 1996 after

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agreed with Nigel Roberts to add four codes (GG and JE, and IM and AC) to the IANA list of TLDs. The codes for the Channel Islands and for the

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were entered on to the official

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ISO-3166 list in 2006.

Second-level domains

Since 2000, names have been registered principally directly under the country code. However the following legacy sub-domain are still open for registration * .co.je: commercial/personal domains * .net.je:

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s and commercial * .org.je: organisations (free to local good causes) * .sch.je: schools, primary and secondary education

References

External links

IANA .je whois information

Island Networks website
Country code top-level domains Jersey Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Computer-related introductions in 1996 {{Compu-domain-stub