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Domains
Personal Viewpoint:
Suitable for investment*
g/sTLDs: .com .org
ccTLDs: .in .ws
* Please make your own decisions based on your own research, this is not meant to be professional or financial advice of any sort. This is just what we are doing, things might be completely different in your experience or requirements based on your investment strategy.
All gTLDs/sTLDs
- .aero STLD the air transport industry.
- .asia STLD companies. organisations and individuals in the Asia-Pacific region
- .biz GTLD business use
- .cat RTLD Catalan language/culture
- .com GTLD commercial organizations, but unrestricted
- .coop STLD cooperatives
- .edu RTLD post-secondary educational establishments
- .gov RTLD government entities within the United States at the federal, state, and local levels
- .info GTLD informational sites, but unrestricted
- .int RTLD international organizations established by treaty
- .jobs STLD employment-related sites
- .mil RTLD the U.S. military
- .mobi STLD sites catering to mobile devices
- .museum RTLD museums
- .name GTLD families and individuals
- .net GTLD originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted
- .org GTLD originally for organizations not clearly falling within the other gTLDs, now unrestricted
- .pro GTLD certain professions
- .tel STLD services involving connections between the telephone network and the Internet
- .travel STLD travel agents, airlines, hoteliers, tourism bureaus, etc.
All ccTLDs
- .ac Ascension Island
- .ad Andorra
- .ae United Arab Emirates
- .af Afghanistan
- .ag Antigua and Barbuda
- .ai Anguilla
- .al Albania
- .am Armenia
- .an Netherlands Antilles
- .ao Angola
- .aq Antarctica
- .ar Argentina
- .as American Samoa
- .at Austria
- .au Australia
- .aw Aruba
- .ax Åland Islands
- .az Azerbaijan
- .ba Bosnia and Herzegovina
- .bb Barbados
- .bd Bangladesh
- .be Belgium
- .bf Burkina Faso
- .bg Bulgaria
- .bh Bahrain
- .bi Burundi
- .bj Benin
- .bm Bermuda
- .bn Brunei
- .bo Bolivia
- .br Brazil
- .bs Bahamas
- .bt Bhutan
- .bv Bouvet Island (not in use; no registrations)
- .bw Botswana
- .by Belarus
- .bz Belize
- .ca Canada
- .cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- .cd Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly .zr
- .cf Central African Republic
- .cg Republic of the Congo
- .ch Switzerland
- .ci Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)*
- .ck Cook Islands
- .cl Chile
- .cm Cameroon
- .cn People’s Republic of China
- .co Colombia
- .cr Costa Rica
- .cu Cuba
- .cv Cape Verde
- .cx Christmas Island
- .cy Cyprus
- .cz Czech Republic
- .de Germany
- .dj Djibouti
- .dk Denmark
- .dm Dominica
- .do Dominican Republic
- .dz Algeria
- .ec Ecuador
- .ee Estonia
- .eg Egypt
- .eh Western Sahara (not assigned; no DNS)
- .er Eritrea
- .es Spain
- .et Ethiopia
- .eu European Union (code “exceptionally reserved” by ISO 3166-1)
- .fi Finland
- .fj Fiji
- .fk Falkland Islands
- .fm Federated States of Micronesia
- .fo Faroe Islands
- .fr France
- .ga Gabon
- .gb United Kingdom (Reserved domain by IANA; deprecated
- .gd Grenada
- .ge Georgia
- .gf French Guiana
- .gg Guernsey
- .gh Ghana
- .gi Gibraltar
- .gl Greenland
- .gm Gambia
- .gn Guinea
- .gp Guadeloupe
- .gq Equatorial Guinea
- .gr Greece
- .gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- .gt Guatemala
- .gu Guam
- .gw Guinea-Bissau
- .gy Guyana
- .hk Hong Kong
- .hm Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- .hn Honduras
- .hr Croatia
- .ht Haiti
- .hu Hungary
- .id Indonesia
- .ie Ireland
- .il Israel
- .im Isle of Man
- .in India
- .io British Indian Ocean Territory
- .iq Iraq
- .ir Iran
- .is Iceland
- .it Italy
- .je Jersey
- .jm Jamaica
- .jo Jordan
- .jp Japan
- .ke Kenya
- .kg Kyrgyzstan
- .kh Cambodia
- .ki Kiribati
- .km Comoros
- .kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
- .kp North Korea
- .kr South Korea
- .kw Kuwait
- .ky Cayman Islands
- .kz Kazakhstan
- .la Laos
- .lb Lebanon
- .lc Saint Lucia
- .li Liechtenstein
- .lk Sri Lanka
- .lr Liberia
- .ls Lesotho
- .lt Lithuania
- .lu Luxembourg
- .lv Latvia
- .ly Libya
- .ma Morocco
- .mc Monaco
- .md Moldova
- .me Montenegro
- .mg Madagascar
- .mh Marshall Islands
- .mk Republic of Macedonia
- .ml Mali
- .mm Myanmar
- .mn Mongolia
- .mo Macau
- .mp Northern Mariana Islands
- .mq Martinique
- .mr Mauritania
- .ms Montserrat
- .mt Malta
- .mu Mauritius
- .mv Maldives
- .mw Malawi
- .mx Mexico
- .my Malaysia
- .mz Mozambique
- .na Namibia
- .nc New Caledonia
- .ne Niger
- .nf Norfolk Island
- .ng Nigeria
- .ni Nicaragua
- .nl Netherlands
- .no Norway
- .np Nepal
- .nr Nauru
- .nu Niue
- .nz New Zealand
- .om Oman
- .pa Panama
- .pe Peru
- .pf French Polynesia
- .pg Papua New Guinea
- .ph Philippines
- .pk Pakistan
- .pl Poland
- .pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- .pn Pitcairn Islands
- .pr Puerto Rico
- .ps Palestine
- .pt Portugal
- .pw Palau
- .py Paraguay
- .qa Qatar
- .re Réunion
- .ro Romania
- .rs Serbia
- .ru Russia
- .rw Rwanda
- .sa Saudi Arabia
- .sb Solomon Islands
- .sc Seychelles
- .sd Sudan
- .se Sweden
- .sg Singapore
- .sh Saint Helena
- .si Slovenia
- .sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen islands (not in use)
- .sk Slovakia
- .sl Sierra Leone
- .sm San Marino
- .sn Senegal
- .so Somalia (down)
- .sr Suriname
- .st São Tomé and Príncipe
- .su Soviet Union (deprecated)
- .sv El Salvador
- .sy Syria
- .sz Swaziland
- .tc Turks and Caicos Islands
- .td Chad
- .tf French Southern Territories
- .tg Togo
- .th Thailand
- .tj Tajikistan
- .tk Tokelau
- .tl East Timor (formerly .tp)
- .tm Turkmenistan
- .tn Tunisia
- .to Tonga
- .tp East Timor (deprecated
- .tr Turkey
- .tt Trinidad and Tobago
- .tv Tuvalu
- .tw Taiwan
- .tz Tanzania
- .ua Ukraine
- .ug Uganda
- .uk United Kingdom (code “exceptionally reserved” by ISO 3166-1) (see also .gb)
- .us United States
- .uy Uruguay
- .uz Uzbekistan
- .va Vatican City
- .vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- .ve Venezuela
- .vg British Virgin Islands
- .vi United States Virgin Islands
- .vn Vietnam
- .vu Vanuatu
- .wf Wallis and Futuna
- .ws Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)
- .ye Yemen
- .yt Mayotte
- .za South Africa
- .zm Zambia
- .zw Zimbabwe
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about 5 months ago - No comments
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about 7 months ago - 8 comments
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about 9 months ago - 14 comments
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about 1 year ago - 5 comments
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about 2 years ago - 4 comments
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about 2 years ago - No comments
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about 1 year ago
Great guide to all the available extensions Samit. Very helpful!
Thanks!
about 3 months ago
Great guide to all the available extensions Samit. Very helpful!
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