.pl

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.pl
Image:Dotpl.gif
Introduced	1990
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	NASK
Sponsoring organization	Research and Academic Computer Network
Intended use	Entities connected with Poland
Actual use	Very popular in Poland
Registration restrictions	No restrictions stated, but applicants are asked to "describe your rights to use this domain name"
Structure	Registrations can be made directly at second level, or at third level beneath various second level labels
Documents
Dispute policies	Arbitraz (for residents of Poland); Expedited arbitration rules (for foreigners)
Web site	dns.pl

.pl is also a common filename suffix for a Perl script, or for a Prolog program.

.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.

History

The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in .pl was .pwr.pl, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.

In 2003, the internationalized domain names were introduced. Registration of domains containing characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew script is allowed.

Second-level domains

Several functional and geographical domains exist. The best known ones are:

• .com.pl, .biz.pl – commerce
• .net.pl – network infrastructure
• .art.pl – art
• .edu.pl – education
• .org.pl, .ngo.pl – organizations
• .gov.pl – government
• .info.pl – information
• .mil.pl – military
• .waw.pl, .warszawa.pl – Warsaw
• .wroc.pl, .wroclaw.pl – Wrocław
• .krakow.pl – Kraków
• .poznan.pl – Poznań
• .lodz.pl – Łódź
• .gda.pl, .gdansk.pl – Gdańsk
• .szczecin.pl – Szczecin
• .lublin.pl – Lublin
• .bialystok.pl – Białystok
• .olsztyn.pl – Olsztyn
• .torun.pl – Toruń

Many registrants prefer to create their own second-level domains, directly under .pl — as of 2005, two hundred thousand of such domains are registered.

External links

• IANA .pl whois information
• Domain name registry of .pl
• Statistics of .pl
• IDN registration policy in .pl

Country code top-level domains

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Reserved/unassigned: .ax  .cs  .eh  .kp       Allocated/unused: .bv  .gb  .iq  .sj  .so  .um       Startup/transition:  .eu  .tl  .tp       Deleted/retired: .bu  .cs  .dd  .zr