.il is the Internet

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Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

, administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL which hosts the DNS root server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports

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and

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. The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985,IANA's Delegation Record
at the bottom of the page. it was the third registration of any

, after .us and .uk, which were registered earlier that year. As of 19 August 2023 there are 285,060 domain names registered under the .il

in Israel.

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the ישראל.‎ domain, that was proposed in 2012. It was delegated on 11 February 2021, and since 22 November 2022 it is possible to register domain names in full

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. Unlike the structure of .il, domain names registered under . may be either directly at second-level (for example: ) or at third-level under one of these second-level domains: * אקדמיה.ישראל.: Academic institutions; equivalent to .ac.il. * ממשל.ישראל.: Government and Governmental System; equivalent to .gov.il. * צהל.ישראל.:

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and ...

; equivalent to .idf.il. * ישוב.ישראל.: Municipal Government; equivalent to .muni.il. There will not be a Hebrew-script equivalent to these second-level domains: * .co.il * .org.il * .k12.il * .net.il As a more private initiative the top-level domain ("com") was registered by

VeriSign Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and generic top-level d ...

in 2016. It has as of 2020 many thousand second-level domains, mostly in Hebrew script, some in Latin script.

Second-level domains

Domain names ending with .il will always be in the third level under one of these second-level domains: * .ac.il: Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center. * .co.il: Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars. * .org.il: Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars. * .net.il: Israeli

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s; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association. * .k12.il: Schools and Kindergartens * .gov.il: Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to

Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfoli ...

. * .muni.il: Municipal Government * .idf.il: Israel Defense Forces; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems. Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported. Hebrew third level domains such as איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il
/code> are available since 2010.

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

Second-level domains

See also

References

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