.pk is the designated
Internet
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country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical
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top-level domain
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(
ccTLD) for
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia
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.
PKNIC is the only organization endorsed by the
Government of Pakistan
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to undertake the administration of 'pk' domain names. PKNIC is a non-profit making, non-statutory, member-based corporation established in June 1992.
Domain categories
All new domains that are registered under .pk must belong to one of the following second-level or third-level domains.
Urdu domain
In 2011 a new top domain was registered for Pakistan, intended for domain names in the
local language
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A regional language is a language
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Huma ...
. The domain, , was approved by the
ICANN
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Board on 7 January 2011 to represent Pakistan in the Perso-Arabic script. On 4 February 2011, IDN ccTLD پاکستان. was delegated to the
National Telecommunication Corporation and the zone was added to the root servers in February 2017.
See also
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Communications in Pakistan
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Internationalized domain name
An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet
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Telecommunications in Pakistan
Notes
References
External links
PKNIC Official Website
Country code top-level domains
Communications in Pakistan
Internet in Pakistan
Computer-related introductions in 1992
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