.ga is the

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) for

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

History

Between 1998 and 2004 it was administered by the ''Office des Postes et Télécommunications de la République Gabonaise'' and then transferred to '' Gabon Telecom''. ''Gabon Telecom'' in 2013 formed a partnership with international domain registrar Freenom to offer registrations of this domain for free. Since 2013, the
Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numériques et des Fréquences
' (ANINF) of Gabon is responsible for the .ga domain. In 2023, ANINF terminated their contract with Freenom because it found Freenom's service unsatisfactory. ANINF stated that upwards of seven million .ga domains would be deleted, as "the previous operator has not provided the data that concern them." The migration was carried out from 4 June to 7 June 2023. With this migration, free domain registration was removed. The technical operation is handled by AFNIC and domains are sold through accredited registrars.

Kim Dotcom controversy

Kim Dotcom attempted to use me.ga as an alternative domain for the Megaupload service. It was suspended by Communications Minister Blaise Louembe who stated

"Gabon cannot serve as a platform or screen for committing acts aimed at violating copyrights, nor be used by unscrupulous people."

Second-level domain names

Second-level domain names that end in .ga are:

References

External links

IANA .ga whois information
{{DEFAULTSORT:GA Country code top-level domains Communications in Gabon sv:Toppdomän#G