.ps is the

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officially assigned to the

State of Palestine Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

. 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

is .فلسطين, which is represented as .xn--ygbi2ammx in

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. On 6 February 2013 the

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code for the State of Palestine changed to reflect the PS used for the

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

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s, for example meetu.ps for meetups on the website

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, and by the

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as ter.ps.

References

External links

* nic.ps PNINA * pnina.ps PNINA
List of .ps registrars

CR for .PS
Country code top-level domains Economy of the State of Palestine Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Mass media in the State of Palestine Internet in the State of Palestine {{compu-domain-stub he:סיומת אינטרנט#טבלת סיומות המדינות sv:Toppdomän#P