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Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

. To register at the second-level (example) domainname.ua, possession of the exact trademark (matching the domain name) is required. It is not required for third-level domains (.com.ua, .net.ua, etc.). Lo:.ua

History

* : Registered in root zone * : DNSSEC enabled in root zone * : Domain servers transferred out of

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

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Statistics

As of March 2017, around 10.78% of all the .ua domains were served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the Let's Encrypt Authority X3 being the most popular SSL certificate. Nginx is the most popular web server, serving 68.97% of the .ua domains, followed by Apache serving 17.75% of the total .ua domains.

Third-level domains

To remove the risk of cyber squatting, registration of second-level domains directly below .ua is restricted to owners of registered trade marks, who may register a domain name similar to that of the trade mark in question. However, third-level domains can be registered beneath some of the following: * .com.ua: paid, commercial organizations * .edu.ua: free, available only to proved educational organisations. * .gov.ua: free, available only to governmental organizations * .net.ua: paid, network service providers * .in.ua: paid, domains for individuals * .org.ua: paid, other organizations (non-commercial)

Second-level domains

There are also second-level domains which are region-specific. These are less popular than the above list (making domain names more available) but they are sometimes restricted to organisations exclusively from within the region. * .cherkasy.ua, .cherkassy.ua (also: ck.ua): Cherkasy Oblast * .chernigov.ua (.cn.ua): Chernihiv Oblast * .chernivtsi.ua, .chernovtsy.ua (cv.ua): Chernivtsi Oblast * .crimea.ua (.cr.ua):

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

* .dnipropetrovsk.ua, .dnepropetrovsk.ua (.dp.ua): Dnipropetrovsk Oblast * .donetsk.ua (.dn.ua): Donetsk Oblast * .ivano-frankivsk.ua (.if.ua): Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast * .kharkiv.ua, .kharkov.ua (.kh.ua): Kharkiv Oblast * .kherson.ua (.ks.ua): Kherson Oblast * .khmelnitskiy.ua (.km.ua): Khmelnytskyi Oblast * .kirovograd.ua (.kr.ua): Kirovohrad Oblast * .kyiv.ua, .kiev.ua (.kv.ua):

* .lugansk.ua (.lg.ua): Luhansk Oblast * .lutsk.ua, .volyn.ua (.vl.ua): Lutsk, Volyn Oblast * .lviv.ua (.lv.ua):

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a relational adjective—in English translating to a noun adjunct w ...

* .nikolaev.ua (.mk.ua): Mykolaiv Oblast * .odesa.ua, .odessa.ua (.od.ua): Odessa Oblast * .poltava.ua (.pl.ua): Poltava Oblast * .rivne.ua, .rovno.ua (.rv.ua): Rivne Oblast * .sevastopol.ua:

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

* .sumy.ua (.sm.ua)- Sumy Oblast * .ternopil.ua (.te.ua): Ternopil Oblast * .uzhgorod.ua (.uz.ua): Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast * .vinnica.ua (.vn.ua): Vinnytsia Oblast * .yalta.ua: Yalta * .zaporizhzhe.ua (.zp.ua): Zaporizhzhia Oblast * .zhitomir.ua (.zt.ua): Zhytomyr Oblast

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