.fi is the
Internet country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes ( geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...
top-level domain
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains ...
(
ccTLD
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 ...
) for
Finland. It is operated by
TRAFICOM, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.
On 4 December 1986, an application to register a top-level domain for Finland was sent by the Finnish Unix Users Group from
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a populati ...
. The application was accepted and the administration of .fi TLD was granted to
Tampere University of Technology. Later the administration was transferred first to
FICIX and later to TRAFICOM.
In the past TRAFICOM regulated .fi domains very strictly. Domain names were only admitted to company names or companies that owned trademarks. This policy led to Finnish companies applying for domains under other top-level domains. The policy was changed on 1 September 2003. Since September 2016 anyone worldwide is permitted to register domain names under the .fi TLD.
.fi was once best known among non-Finnish internet users as the TLD of the
Penet remailer
The Penet remailer () was a pseudonymous remailer operated by Johan "Julf" Helsingius of Finland from 1993 to 1996. Its initial creation stemmed from an argument in a Finnish newsgroup over whether people should be required to tie their real nam ...
(anon.penet.fi), a privately operated server which enabled users to post e-mail and
Usenet messages anonymously in the early 1990s. Another popular .fi address in the early 1990s was nic.funet.fi, one of the largest public file servers at the time which made Finland the only country outside the US that sent out more data than it received.
Since 1 September 2005, .fi domains may contain
Scandinavian letters (ä, å, ö), though they are not recommended to be used as the primary domain. Since 1 March 2006, private persons have also been able to apply for a domain name. Some restrictions still apply, for example, company names or trademarks can only be applied for by the companies concerned.
It can also be (although not popular) be used for domain hacking as well. Examples like
Spotify who has a domain hack called Spoti.fi.
FICORA began supporting
Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) on .fi domain names in late 2010.
See also
*
.ax
.ax is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Åland, Finland, introduced in 2006. Previously, most Åland websites were under the .aland.fi subdomain.
History
On February 17, 2006, the Finnish parliament approved a modification ...
, the top-level domain of
Åland
Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populat ...
.
References
External links
IANA .fi whois informationFicora domains.fi top-level domain registration applicationMiten Internet tuli Suomeen - Nic.funet.fi (en. How the Internet came to Finland)
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Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members
Country code top-level domains
Internet in Finland
Internet properties established in 1986