.sg is the

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( ccTLD) for

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. It was first registered in September 1988. It is administered by the Singapore Network Information Centre. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars. In 2011, two new

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s were registered for Singapore, intended for domain names in the local languages. These domains are (encoded as .xn—yfro4i67o) and (encoded as .xn—clchc0ea0b2g2a9gcd).

Restrictions

SGNIC requires that all .sg domains registered after 2 May 2013 have proof of Singaporean presence. This is facilitated by requiring the registrant to login to the Verified@SG portal with their SingPass account.

Second-level domains

* .com.sg – Commercial entities * .net.sg – Network providers and info-com operators * .org.sg – Organizations in the Registry of Societies * .gov.sg – Government entities * .edu.sg – Educational institutions * .per.sg – Personal domain names (retired as of March 2023) * .sg – Open to all with a valid Singapore postal address * .新加坡 – for Chinese websites * .சிங்கப்பூர் – for Tamil websites

.sg domain statistics

As of September 2022, there were 198,564 registered .sg domains.

References

External links

IANA .sg whois information

Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC)
Country code top-level domains Domain names of Singapore Internet properties established in 1988 Internet in Singapore {{compu-domain-stub sv:Toppdomän#S