.tl is the current
country code top-level domain
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 ...
(ccTLD) for
East Timor
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...
(Timor-Leste). It is administered through the Council of Country Code Administrators (
CoCCA) and second-level registration is available through resellers worldwide with no local presence requirement.
.tl complies with the
ISO 3166-1 standard for the two-letter codes of the name of countries and can be used as an abbreviation in either of the country's two official languages: ''Timor Lorosa'e'' in
Tetum
Tetum may refer to:
* Tetum language, an Austronesian language
** Tetum alphabet, used to write the Tetum language
* Tetum people, an ethnic group of East Timor and Indonesia
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or ''Timor-Leste'' in
Portuguese.
Registration is normally directly at second-level; one subdomain in use in the country itself is gov.tl, for government ministries. For example, the Government Portal is ''www.timor-leste.gov.tl''.
The previous ccTLD for East Timor was
.tp. This ccTLD was, according to
IANA
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet P ...
, assigned in May 1997.
According to the registry, all registrants in .tp were automatically given the equivalent domains in .tl, and no further .tp registrations were accepted until its removal from the root zone in February 2015.
For several years, the .tl
WHOIS
WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees. These resources include domain names, IP address blocks and autonomo ...
information at IANA showed no sponsoring organization or registry, and the domain did not appear to work even though the country involved claimed to be transitioning to it. However, as of 30 September 2005, there is contact information in the IANA WHOIS and a registry site at nic.tl, although the site has been inactive since 2021.
WHOIS serviceremains accessible.
The majority of current .tl registrations are
domain hacks directly at the second-level by various international entities, often with no direct connection with Timor Leste.
References
External links
IANA .tl whois information
Country code top-level domains
Telecommunications in Timor-Leste
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