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.ao

Introduced	1995
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	University of Agostinho Neto (College of Engineering)
Sponsor	University of Agostinho Neto
Intended use	Entities connected with  Angola
Actual use	Gets some use in Angola
Registration restrictions	Limited to registrants within Angola, except for .it.ao domain for international institutions
Structure	Registrations are at third level beneath second level labels; there appear to also be some direct second-level registrations
Documents
Dispute policies
Website	Dns.ao

.ao is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Angola. It is administered by the college of engineering of the University of Agostinho Neto.

The registry Web site, as of 2006, has not been modified since 2002, and consists of a single page in Portuguese. One of the few links on the page is to a document in Microsoft Word format, in English, which gives registration rules for the domain which may not be up-to-date; they state that registration by entities outside Angola is to be done only in the .it.ao subdomain. The search engine Google seems to be the unique entity^[1] using the subdomain ".it.ao". It also says that registrations are only taken at the third level (when a Google search shows some sites exist at second-level .ao names).

[edit] Second level domains

• .ed.ao - Educational institutions. (Seated in Angola.)
• .gv.ao - Governmental institutions. (Seated in Angola.)
• .og.ao - Any other organisations (Seated in Angola.)
• .co.ao - Commercial institutions (Seated in Angola.)
• .pb.ao - Publishing (Seated in Angola. Not used?)
• .it.ao - International institutions (Outside Angola. Not used?)

[edit] References

1. ^ (French) Google first to use .it.ao : Article of Zorgloob.com about Google Angola.

[edit] External links

• IANA .ao whois information
• Registrar
• Information about African domain names