.sh is the Internet country code

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(

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) for the

British Overseas Territory The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), also known as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), are fourteen territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remnants of the former B ...

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of the island of Saint Helena, Ascension Island and the archipelago of Tristan da Cunha including Gough Island. Its name ...

, although it is primarily used in

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

( Ascension Island has its own ccTLD, .ac). Registrations of

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s are also accepted. On 22 February 2010 the

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code for

changed to reflect the SH used for the

Second level domains

There are seven second level domains: * co.sh – commercial entities * com.sh – commercial entities * org.sh – non-profit organizations * gov.sh – government departments and agencies * edu.sh – educational institutions * net.sh – network service providers * nom.sh – non-island Internet sites

Top level domains

A majority of sites under the .sh domain have nothing to do with Saint Helena, Ascension or Tristan da Cunha. Members of

DeviantArt DeviantArt (historically stylized as deviantART) is an American online art community that features artwork, videography and photography, launched on August 7, 2000 by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others. DeviantArt ...

are able to go to their "stash," a service where digital media can be uploaded, stored and published. The DeviantArt "stash" uses the .sh top level domain ''sta.sh''. Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla use the ''smo.sh'' domain name to link to addresses on their website, smosh.com from their YouTube channel, Smosh. Skillshare uses the domain hack ''skl.sh'' to redirect to their website. Since the .sh

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is also used by

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shell scripts, this domain has been used for websites about

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programs such as Homebrew. SH is the official abbreviation for the German federal state of

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schl ...

and the .sh domain is used for sites like ''nah.sh'', a public transportation site as well as the Verbraucherzentrale (''verbraucherzentrale.sh''), the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been th ...

party (''spd.sh'') and for some subpages by the official Schleswig-Holstein government (e.g. ''wahlen.sh''). The rhythm game osu! uses the .ppy.sh domain, such as /osu.ppy.sh osu.ppy.shor /old.ppy.sh old.ppy.sh The main

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of the popular movie torrent freeware program Popcorn Time is hosted at a .sh domain.

References

External links

IANA .sh whois information

Official .sh web hosting company.
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Second level domains

Top level domains

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