.mv is the Internet

country code Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...

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 i ...

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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 t ...

) for the Republic of Maldives. It is administered by Dhiraagu Pvt Ltd, a telecommunications company. Mainly due to the unavailability of an online registration service, a whois lookup and large maintenance cost, the Maldivian ccTLD is used predominantly by

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

agencies and large

businesses Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit." Having a business name does not separ ...

. Smaller companies and organizations prefer generic TLDs such as and

Second-level Domains

* – Aviation * – Business organization * – Commercial * – Cooperative organization * – Educational institutions * – Government * – Information * – International Organization * – Military * – Museums * – Personal * – Networks * – Organizations * – Professionals

External links

.mv WHOIS information

Application(s)
Country code top-level domains Telecommunications in the Maldives Computer-related introductions in 1996 Internet in the Maldives {{Maldives-stub sv:Toppdomän#M