.il is the Internet

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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 in ...

(

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 ...

) of

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed b
NIC - ISRAEL
which hosts the

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and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports IPv4 and

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv ...

. The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered

ccTLDs 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 ...

. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985,IANA's Delegation Record
at the bottom of the page. it was the third registration of any

, after

.us .us is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States. It was established in early 1985. Registrants of .us domains must be U.S. citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United ...

and

.uk .uk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United Kingdom. It was first registered in July 1985, seven months after the original generic top-level domains such as .com and the first country code after .us. , it is the fift ...

, which were registered earlier that year. As of 10 June 2014 there are 227,066 domain names registered under the .il

in Israel.

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the ישראל.‎ domain, that was proposed in 2012. It was delegated on 11 February 2021, and since 22 November 2022 it is possible to register domain names in full

Hebrew script The Hebrew alphabet ( he, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish ...

. Unlike the structure of .il, domain names registered under ישראל. may be either directly at second-level (for example: איגוד-האינטרנט.ישראל) or at third-level under one of these second-level domains: * אקדמיה.ישראל.: Academic institutions; equivalent to .ac.il. * ממשל.ישראל.: Government and Governmental System; equivalent to .gov.il. * צהל.ישראל.: Israel Defense Forces; equivalent to .idf.il. * ישוב.ישראל.: Municipal Government; equivalent to .muni.il. There will not be a Hebrew-script equivalent to these second-level domains: * .co.il * .org.il * .k12.il * .net.il As a more private initiative the top-level domain ("com") was registered by

VeriSign Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and gene ...

in 2016. It has as of 2020 many thousand second-level domains, mostly in Hebrew script, some in Latin script.

Second-level domains

Domain names ending with .il will always be in the third level under one of these second-level domains: * .ac.il: Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center. * .co.il: Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars. * .org.il: Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars. * .net.il: Israeli

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s; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association. * .k12.il: Schools and Kindergartens * .gov.il: Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to

Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance. Lists of current ministries of finance Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Finance and Ec ...

. * .muni.il: Municipal Government * .idf.il: Israel Defense Forces; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems. Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported. Hebrew third level domains such as איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il
/code> are available since 2010.

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

Second-level domains

See also

References

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