.st is the

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(

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) for

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equiv ...

. The code is marketed worldwide as an abbreviation for various entities.

Second-level domains

Registrations are taken directly at the second level, but some names have been reserved for use in specialized third-level registrations (though not all of these are actually in use at present): * nic.st: Official ST domain registry (older: ''registry.st'') * gov.st: Government of São Tomé and Príncipe * saotome.st: Island of São Tomé * principe.st: Island of Príncipe * consulado.st: São Tomé and Príncipe consulates * embaixada.st: São Tomé and Príncipe embassies * org.st: non-profit organisations * edu.st: educational institutions * net.st: network providers/operators, ISPs * com.st: commercial entities * store.st * mil.st: Armed Forces of São Tomé and Príncipe * co.st

Other uses

The .st domain is being marketed as a general-use domain, with a number of meanings suggested, including the abbreviation of "street", "state", short for "

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" and more. The .st domain is also commonly used to create domain names that spell words ending in st, such as ''bur.st'' or ''ho.st''. It is used for

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domains like The Washington Post's ''wapo.st'', and

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's ''play.st''.

Smalltalk

The

Smalltalk Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may a ...

programming language uses the .st extension, and several websites about it use the .st domain.

Styria

The state of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and ...

, in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political ent ...

, has ST as its unofficial but common abbreviation. Therefore, the .st extension is used by some small businesses located in

South Tyrol

Also some registrations in

South Tyrol it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol , settlement_type = Autonomous area, Autonomous Provinces of Italy, province , image_skyline = ...

, an autonomous, chiefly German-speaking Italian province, use the .st extension to abbreviate ''Südtirol'', its German name.

Stockholm

There is limited usage of .st in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World G ...

, Sweden, by smaller businesses and private people. Falck Emergency in Stockholm uses .st for all their employees in the ambulance service of the Swedish capital Stockholm. Since 2018 the city has its own top level domain, .stockholm.

Telstra

Australia's Telstra, uses ''tel.st'' as a shortcut to its main website. The shortcut is occasionally used for marketing purposes.

Australia Post

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uses ''mypo.st'' as a shortcut to its site when sending SMS alerts.

Washington Post

The U.S. newspaper

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uses ''wapo.st'' (along with ''wapo.com'') as a shortcut redirect to their main URL washingtonpost.com

References

External links

IANA .st whois information
{{DEFAULTSORT:ST Country code top-level domains Communications in São Tomé and Príncipe Computer-related introductions in 1997 sv:Toppdomän#S