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(ccTLD) for the

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Use

An official .pn domain costs $100 per year from the registry. There are relatively few sites using these domains, but examples include

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, happn, and

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, each of whom use the domain for

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services. Subdomains under various two-letter .pn domains were offered as free redirections and as domain names by numerous providers. In August 2017, Free EU Hosting, one such provider, announced that due to reputation fears they will be discontinuing their popular eu.pn and me.pn subdomains and that they will eventually stop working, offering existing customers alternative subdomains. The .pn domain is also used as part of a

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marketing campaign promoting the '' Hunger Games'' film series, presenting it as the "official" country code of the fictional nation of Panem, with domains for the Capitol and the rebellion.

Management

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originally delegated the management of the domain to islander Tom Christian. In 2000, the government of Pitcairn Island wrote a letter to the

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stating that Christian did not "adequately serve the interests of the country and community of Pitcairn Island" and requesting reassignment of the delegation of the top-level domain to the office of the governor of Pitcairn Island. The dispute was resolved when ICANN ruled that the domain would be re-delegated to the Pitcairn Island Council.

Structure

The registrations are taken directly at the second level, and at third level under a number of reserved second level domains.

References

External links

IANA .pn whois information

.pn domain registration website

ACADEMIC second level ac.pn domain registration website
Country code top-level domains Pitcairn Islands Internet properties established in 1997 {{compu-domain-stub sv:Toppdomän#P

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