.tw is the Internet country code

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) for Taiwan. The domain name is based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code TW. The registry is maintained by the

Taiwan Network Information Center Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

(TWNIC), a Taiwanese non-profit organization appointed by the National Communications Commission (NCC) and the Ministry of Transportation and Communication. Since 1 March 2001, TWNIC has stopped allowing itself to sign up new domain names directly, instead allowing new registration through its contracted reseller registrars. The current reseller registrars are as follows: Chunghwa Telecom,

Chunghwa Int'l Communication Network Co., Ltd. Chunghwa Int'l Communication Network (CCNET; ) is a telecommunication and networking provider in Taiwan, services includes VOIP, SMS, Payment Gateway, Domain name, web hosting, co-location, IDC. See also * List of companies of Taiwan Taiwan ...

FarEasTone Far EasTone Telecommunications (Far EasTone/FET; ) is a telecommunications company based in Taiwan. It is the third largest behind Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile. History Far EasTone was founded in October 1996 by the Far Eastern Group, in a ...

, Taiwan Mobile, Asia Pacific Telecom, PC Home, Net-Chinese, TISNet, IP Mirror, Webnic, Neulevel.

Registering .tw website domains

Internationalized ccTLDs

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assigned two Internationalized country code top-level domains (IDN ccTLDs) for Taiwan on 25 June 2010: * : ''taiwan'' in traditional Chinese characters (DNS name: xn--kpry57d) * : ''taiwan'' in simplified Chinese characters (DNS name: xn--kprw13d) Presently in November 2019, and since at least November 2015 (), the simplified suffix is a DNAME alias for the traditional suffix. As a result any subdomain of the traditional xn--kpry57d TLD automatically has a CNAME alias from the simplified xn--kprw13d TLD. The traditional suffix is in active use.

Second-Level Domains

Registrations under are possible in second-level space or under various domains as third-level domains: * : for educational and academic institutions * : for agencies of the Government of the Republic of China, operated by Taiwan * : for the Republic of China Armed Forces, operated by Taiwan * : for companies or firms (Taiwanese or foreign) registered under the laws of their country * : for network or telecommunications license holders * : for non-profit organizations (Taiwanese or foreign) established according to the laws of their country * : for individuals (must verify their identity by e-mail) * : unrestricted (but registrant must verify their identity by email), intended for gaming-related content * : unrestricted (but registrant must verify their identity by email), intended for online business-related content * : unrestricted (but registrant must verify their identity by email) * : unrestricted Domain names in Chinese characters may also be registered at the second level. Furthermore, any registrant of a standard domain name who has chosen a domestic registrar may automatically get two more domain names in Chinese characters in the following second-level domains: 網路.tw, 組織.tw and 商業.tw. These second-level domains correspond to , and , respectively.

Statistics

As of March 2017, around 8.31％ of the .tw domains are served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the cPanel, Inc. Certification Authority being the most popular SSL certificate.

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is the most popular web server, serving 47.60% of the .tw domains, followed by Microsoft-IIS serving 20.31% of the total .tw domains.

References

External links

.TW Whois Service

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