.fi is the
Internet
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country code
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top-level domain
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(
ccTLD) for
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Exper ...
. 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
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. 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 (anon.penet.fi), a privately operated server which enabled users to post e-mail and
Usenet
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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
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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, the top-level domain of
Åland.
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