.frl is the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks ...

top-level domain A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domain name, 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 DNS root zone, root zone of the nam ...

for

Friesland Friesland ( ; ; official ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia (), named after the Frisians, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen (p ...

. frl domain names are issued by FRLregistry B.V., which is responsible for the

'.frl'. On September 1, 2014, the delegation took place and .frl was established. On September 2 the first .frl domain nic.frl went online.

.fy April Fools' Day joke

.fy is a fictional

of Friesland, as provided on April 1, 2006, as an April Fools' Day joke by the equally fictitious Stichting Internet Domeinnammeregistraasje Fryslân (SIDF). The reason for its own top-level domain was because it was felt that information in the

West Frisian language West Frisian (; ), or simply Frisian ( ; ), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland () in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisians, Frisian ancestry. It is the most widely spoken of the Frisian ...

had to be offered from domains where it could be read from the domain name that it was Frisian information.

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Network Information Center (NIC)

ICANN website about new TLDs
Internet in the Netherlands Mass media in the Netherlands {{Compu-domain-stub

.fy April Fools' Day joke

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