.zw is the

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Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

. Although no registry website is shown in the IANA whois listing, .co.zw registrations are presently being taken by the Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers Association (ZISPA), whose charter claims that one of the purposes of the organization's founding was to oversee the .zw domain. TelOne is also listed as the administrative and technical contact of the domain. .ac.zw registrations are being taken by the

University of Zimbabwe The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is a public university in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was opened in 1952 as the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was initially affiliated with the University of London. It was later renamed the Univers ...

. Applications are handled by this institution's Computer Centre. As with the general norm, .ac.zw registrations are for academic institutions. .org.zw registrations are taken by the country's fixed telecommunications provider, TelOne. These are intended for use by

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, and similar organisations but any restrictions are not clear. .gov.zw and .mil.zw are used for military and government websites for Zimbabwe. .zw domains are used by less than 0.1% of all websites worldwide.

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IANA .zw whois information
Country code top-level domains Communications in Zimbabwe Internet properties established in 1991 Internet in Zimbabwe {{Zimbabwe-stub sv:Toppdomän#Z