.বাংলা (

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as .bangla) is a secondary and

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) on the

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for

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

. This domain is meant for web addresses in the

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

. It is administered by the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. .bd (in the

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) is the primary Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bangladesh. .বাংলা was introduced in 2011 but delegated to the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company in 2016, meaning that the process of defining sub domains could start. .বাংলা is available for registration for all since 16 December 2016.

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