.sd is the

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Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

History

The .sd country code top-level domain (ccTLD) was delegated to Sudan in 1997. Initially, it was managed by the Sudan Internet Society (SIS), which played a key role in establishing the domain's infrastructure. On December 20, 2002, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) formally redelegated the management of .sd to the Sudanese National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC). This change reflected the evolving governance and administrative structure within Sudan's internet ecosystem as the government sought more centralized oversight of internet resources. In 2018, the Internet Society collaborated with stakeholders in Sudan to organize a DNSSEC deployathon in Khartoum. This event aimed to enhance the security and resilience of the .sd domain by promoting the adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). The deployathon marked a significant step in Sudan's efforts to modernize its internet infrastructure and align with global best practices.

2nd level domains

* com.sd - Companies * net.sd - Network providers and ISPs * org.sd - Sudanese NGOs * edu.sd - Sudanese universities and colleges * med.sd - Medical * tv.sd - TV channels and Electronic media * gov.sd - Sudanese government and ministries * info.sd - Newspapers, information, and media

Second top domain

A new

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string using Arabic letters, سودان, was reserved for Sudan in November 2012.

References

External links

IANA .sd whois information
Country code top-level domains Communications in Sudan {{compu-domain-stub sv:Toppdomän#S