The Network Information Center Argentina, or NIC Argentina, is an office of the Legal and Technical Secretariat of the

Presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by a ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

responsible for operating the

.ar .ar is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America South America ...

country code top-level domain 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 t ...

(ccTLD). Delegation for the

ccTLD, was requested on 20 August 1987, as part of the transition to the Internet Domain Name System. The delegation was approved and became effective on 13 September 1987. Since then, the

Argentine Foreign Ministry The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship ( es, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto; MRECIC), informally referred to as the Chancellery ( es, Cancillería), is the Argentine government minis ...

has been the sole sponsor and entity responsible for the management of Internet Domain Names for the .AR ccTLD, this role was reaffirmed b
Executive Decree 267/2005
on 4 April 2005. Until

was able to establish its first permanent connection to the global Internet, name services were provided by

UUNET UUNET, founded in 1987, was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the early Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern Virginia and was one of the first commercial Internet service providers. Today, UUNET is an internal brand ...

. The NIC-DDN WHOIS entry for AR-DOM in 1991 showed:

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (AR-DOM)
   Departamento de Informatica
   Recoquista 1088
   Buenos Aires - 1003
   ARGENTINA

   Domain Name: AR

   Administrative Contact:
      Porter, Sergio  (SP48)  SERGIOP@ATINA.AR
      +54 1-311-0071
   Technical Contact:
      Amodio, Jorge Marcelo  (JMA49)  PETE@ATINA.AR
      +54 1313 8082
   Zone Contact:
      Chapman, Malcom  (MC328)  malcom@atina.ar
      +54 1-313-8082

   Record last updated on 24-Mar-91.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3
   UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM         16.1.0.18

   Top Level domain for Argentine Republic

   For information concerning this domain, please consult
   the Administrative Contact listed above.

Current contact information for the .AR ccTLD can be obtained from th
IANA Root Zone Database

References

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External links

Network Information Center Argentina (NIC)
- official site.
Historia y Evolucion de Internet en Argentina
- (Spanish only) Domain name registries Internet in Argentina