.dm is the
Internet
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country code
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The term ''country code'' frequently re ...
top-level domain
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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 tw ...
) for the
Commonwealth of Dominica in the eastern
Caribbean
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. Registrants of a second-level .dm domain get the corresponding third-level names within .com.dm, .net.dm and .org.dm automatically included. There are no restrictions on who can register these names, but they are not very heavily used.
One example of a ".dm" web property is a
URL shortener, play.dm, used exclusively by
Playdom, which is an example of
domain hack
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ing.
See also
*
Internet in Dominica
References
External links
IANA .dm whois information.dm registration website
Country code top-level domains
Communications in Dominica
Internet properties established in 1991
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