.pl

.pl

.pl

Internet country code top-level domain for Poland

For other uses, see PL (disambiguation).

.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, the Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.

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History

The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of the COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in .pl was .pwr.pl, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.

In 2008 the number of registered .pl domain names exceeded one million, whereas at the end of 2013 the registry comprised more than 2.4 million domain names.[2][1]

Each domain must be registered in the National Domain Name Registry.

Second-level domains

Several functional and regional domain endings exist. Most popular are:

Functional domains

Regional domains

There are 118 regional domain endings in the .pl zone.[3] Some of them are:

References

  1. [1]
    "DNS | Krajowy Rejestr Domen". www.dns.pl. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  2. [2]
    "Statistics of domain names registered in NASK". dns.pl. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  3. [3]
    "List of regional domain names". NASK Domain Name Registry. Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
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