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top-level domain A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domain name, 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 DNS root zone, root zone of the nam ...

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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 tw ...

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Oman Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia and the Middle East. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman’s coastline ...

. .om domains are used by less than 0.1% of all websites.

Registry

Currently, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority is the registry of .om ccTLD. The Authority is solely responsible for the management of the top level Internet domain name ".om" and ".عمان". They are responsible for auto-renewing registered domains. In doing so, the Authority may: # Set rules, instructions and guidelines for the aforesaid domain names administration. # Approve the accredited registrars and publish a list of their names in the Authority's website or by any other means. # Monitor the accredited registrars and registrants to check their compliance with the rules, instructions and guidance related to the respective domain names. # Publish the decisions of terminating the accreditation of the accredited registrars in the Authority's website or by any other means. # Take action concerning appeals and complaints that are submitted by accredited registrars or registrants or any concern party in any matter related to implementing the provisions of this Regulation, but without prejudice to the provisions of the Industrial Property Act and its executive regulation.

.om Zones

The top-level .om consists of the following domain zones:

Accredited registrars

The accredited registrar is any person or entity authorized by the Authority under an agreement (Registrar Accreditation) to receive registration applications of Internet domains, make a decision, register, transfer, stop, delete them and taking any steps necessary related to the domain names within the defined lines in the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. The Authority will review the applications submitted to it from the firms and establishments wanting to receive accreditation from the Authority and make decisions. The current Accredited Registrars as of September 2022 are: * GulfCyberTech *

Ooredoo Oman Ooredoo Oman (formerly Nawras) is an Omani telecommunications company owned by Ooredoo (formerly the Qtel Group). It is the Sultanate's first privately owned telecommunications company and had a consolidated global customer base of more than 58 ...

* Oman Telecommunication Company * Oman Digital Data Corporation (Oman Data Park) * Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property

Typosquatting

.om domains were used in a

typosquatting Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, a cousin domain, or a fake URL, is a form of cybersquatting, and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typos made by Internet users when inputting a website address into ...

attack in 2016 to target

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users mistakenly visiting netflix.om instead of netflix.com, along with other websites.

References

External links

Domain Name Administration

Telecommunication Regulatory Authority
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