.ao
Encyclopedia
.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 2010, has not been modified since December 2001, 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 first .it.ao entity 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).
Internet
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country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
top-level domain
Top-level domain
A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...
(ccTLD) for Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
. It is administered by the college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
of engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
of the University of Agostinho Neto
University of Agostinho Neto
The Agostinho Neto University is a public Angolan university based in the capital, Luanda. Until 2009, it had campuses in all major Angolan cities...
.
The registry Web site, as of 2010, has not been modified since December 2001, and consists of a single page in Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
. One of the few links on the page is to a document in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word
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format, in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, 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 first .it.ao entity 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).
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.)
- .it.ao - International institutions (Outside Angola.)