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Country Code and ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain)

This is page two of a series, and it lists and discusses country codes and ccTLD's. Page one of this series lists and discusses Language Codes and Attributes. Page three discusses gTLD (generic Top Level Domain) issues.

IANA

The top level domain (TLD) system is run by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) which also assigns IP addresses and ranges, ports, and other related attributes.

ICANN

For those of you who were wondering, ICANN is the private contractor with an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the US government that currently runs IANA, so sometimes people use the organizations interchangeably. They are not, however. As a matter of fact there are a lot of people who are not happy with ICANN.

One of my clients is Industry Canada, and I discovered a very well written description of ICANN in their website I'd like to share: Consultation on ICANN reform.

Registering a ccTLD

There are many registrars for ccTLD's. I personally use CanReg for .ca domains, and BulkRegister for the rest.

Country Code Domain (ccTLD) List

Sorted By Country		Sorted By Domain
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Afghanistan	.af	Ascension Island	.ac
Aland Islands	.ax	Andorra	.ad
Albania	.al	United Arab Emirates	.ae
Algeria	.dz	Afghanistan	.af
American Samoa	.as	Antigua and Barbuda	.ag
Andorra	.ad	Anguilla	.ai
Angola	.ao	Albania	.al
Anguilla	.ai	Armenia	.am
Antarctica	.aq	Netherlands Antilles	.an
Antigua and Barbuda	.ag	Angola	.ao
Argentina	.ar	Antarctica	.aq
Armenia	.am	Argentina	.ar
Aruba	.aw	American Samoa	.as
Ascension Island	.ac	Austria	.at
Australia	.au	Australia	.au
Austria	.at	Aruba	.aw
Azerbaijan	.az	Aland Islands	.ax
Bahamas	.bs	Azerbaijan	.az
Bahrain	.bh	Bosnia and Herzegovina	.ba
Bangladesh	.bd	Barbados	.bb
Barbados	.bb	Bangladesh	.bd
Belarus	.by	Belgium	.be
Belgium	.be	Burkina Faso	.bf
Belize	.bz	Bulgaria	.bg
Benin	.bj	Bahrain	.bh
Bermuda	.bm	Burundi	.bi
Bhutan	.bt	Benin	.bj
Bolivia	.bo	Bermuda	.bm
Bosnia and Herzegovina	.ba	Brunei Darussalam	.bn
Botswana	.bw	Bolivia	.bo
Bouvet Island	.bv	Brazil	.br
Brazil	.br	Bahamas	.bs
British Indian Ocean Territory	.io	Bhutan	.bt
Brunei Darussalam	.bn	Bouvet Island	.bv
Bulgaria	.bg	Botswana	.bw
Burkina Faso	.bf	Belarus	.by
Burundi	.bi	Belize	.bz
Cambodia	.kh	Canada	.ca
Cameroon	.cm	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	.cc
Canada	.ca	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	.cd
Cape Verde	.cv	Central African Republic	.cf
Cayman Islands	.ky	Congo, Republic of	.cg
Central African Republic	.cf	Switzerland	.ch
Chad	.td	Cote d'Ivoire	.ci
Chile	.cl	Cook Islands	.ck
China	.cn	Chile	.cl
Christmas Island	.cx	Cameroon	.cm
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	.cc	China	.cn
Colombia	.co	Colombia	.co
Comoros	.km	Costa Rica	.cr
Congo, Republic of	.cg	Serbia and Montenegro	.cs
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	.cd	Cuba	.cu
Cook Islands	.ck	Cape Verde	.cv
Costa Rica	.cr	Christmas Island	.cx
Cote d'Ivoire	.ci	Cyprus	.cy
Croatia/Hrvatska	.hr	Czech Republic	.cz
Cuba	.cu	Germany	.de
Cyprus	.cy	Djibouti	.dj
Czech Republic	.cz	Denmark	.dk
Denmark	.dk	Dominica	.dm
Djibouti	.dj	Dominican Republic	.do
Dominica	.dm	Algeria	.dz
Dominican Republic	.do	Ecuador	.ec
East Timor	.tp	Estonia	.ee
Ecuador	.ec	Egypt	.eg
Egypt	.eg	Western Sahara	.eh
El Salvador	.sv	Eritrea	.er
Equatorial Guinea	.gq	Spain	.es
Eritrea	.er	Ethiopia	.et
Estonia	.ee	European Union	.eu
Ethiopia	.et	Finland	.fi
European Union	.eu	Fiji	.fj
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	.fk	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	.fk
Faroe Islands	.fo	Micronesia, Federal State of	.fm
Fiji	.fj	Faroe Islands	.fo
Finland	.fi	France	.fr
France	.fr	Gabon	.ga
French Guiana	.gf	United Kingdom	.gb
French Polynesia	.pf	Grenada	.gd
French Southern Territories	.tf	Georgia	.ge
Gabon	.ga	French Guiana	.gf
Gambia	.gm	Guernsey	.gg
Georgia	.ge	Ghana	.gh
Germany	.de	Gibraltar	.gi
Ghana	.gh	Greenland	.gl
Gibraltar	.gi	Gambia	.gm
Greece	.gr	Guinea	.gn
Greenland	.gl	Guadeloupe	.gp
Grenada	.gd	Equatorial Guinea	.gq
Guadeloupe	.gp	Greece	.gr
Guam	.gu	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	.gs