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", or other things, like an informal, but common, abbreviation of "você" (, in Portuguese). In this way, ".com.vc" could be understood in Portuguese like ".with.you" would be in English. .vc is sometimes mistaken for being the ccTLD of the

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, which is .va. On October 31, 2000, the .vc registry operations contract was awarded to

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by the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Tucows serviced .vc through their wholly-owned subsidiary Liberty RMS. On March 25, 2002,

Afilias Afilias, Inc. was a US corporation that was the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services f ...

acquired Liberty RMS from Tucows, and the binding registry operations contract for the .vc ccTLD was assigned to Afilias by Tucows. Afilias is the current .VC ccTLD registry operator. Names under the domain began to be registered by the public on July 9, 2002 and began resolving the following month.

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IANA .vc information
Internet properties established in 1991 Country code top-level domains Communications in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines {{SaintVincent-stub sv:Toppdomän#V