Do international TLD's have restrictions?
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ML is using the .it TLD, which is obviously for Italy... but it's a perfect TLD for the site given the subject matter.... obviously. Just something I've never thought about until now but are there any actual restrictions on using the TLD like this despite this not necessarily being an Italian based site/company? Are they just free to use however you want along with some "suggestions" to use them a certain way?
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@dimforest said in Do international TLD's have restrictions?:
ML is using the .it TLD, which is obviously for Italy... but it's a perfect TLD for the site given the subject matter.... obviously. Just something I've never thought about until now but are there any actual restrictions on using the TLD like this despite this not necessarily being an Italian based site/company? Are they just free to use however you want along with some "suggestions" to use them a certain way?
Some country TLDs have restrictions and others do not.
If you check a domain name with a certain TLD at godaddy.com you'll see what restrictions apply.
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For the .it TLD.
Who can register a .it domain?
"An unlimited numbers of .it domain names can be registered by anyone who is an adult and has citizenship, residence or commercial headquarters in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), in the State of the Vatican, in the Republic of San Marino and the Swiss Confederation."
Source, the Italian NIC
https://www.nic.it/en/find-your-it/how-register -
@dimforest said in Do international TLD's have restrictions?:
ML is using the .it TLD, which is obviously for Italy... but it's a perfect TLD for the site given the subject matter.... obviously. Just something I've never thought about until now but are there any actual restrictions on using the TLD like this despite this not necessarily being an Italian based site/company? Are they just free to use however you want along with some "suggestions" to use them a certain way?
The owner of the TLD makes those decisions. It's not universal. The US designated uses for com, net and org, but didn't enforce them. But there are "rules".
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@Pete-S said in Do international TLD's have restrictions?:
For the .it TLD.
Who can register a .it domain?
"An unlimited numbers of .it domain names can be registered by anyone who is an adult and has citizenship, residence or commercial headquarters in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), in the State of the Vatican, in the Republic of San Marino and the Swiss Confederation."
Source, the Italian NIC
https://www.nic.it/en/find-your-it/how-registerEvery country has their own NIC for their own TLD. Only some countries allow third parties to register, very few. More allow a citizen to register on behalf of a third party. Many don't allow that at all.
Italy requires a citizen to register on behalf of a third party (I'm a citizen, but it's a pay so use someone in country anyway). Colombia (that NTG uses) is open for anyone, that only opened up to the global public around 2010 and we got ntg.co literally in the first 15 minutes it was open having lost the lotto for niagara.co
