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.ar is the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 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 Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. It is administered by NIC Argentina
NIC Argentina
The Network Information Center Argentina, or NIC Argentina, is an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina responsible for operating the .ar country code top-level domain ....

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Second Level Domains

  • .com.ar (general purpose)
  • .edu.ar (educational entities)
  • .gob.ar (government entities, homonym for .gov.ar)
  • .gov.ar (government entities)
  • .int.ar (international organizations)
  • .mil.ar (military forces)
  • .net.ar (locally based ISPs)
  • .org.ar (non-profit organizations)
  • .tur.ar (officially registered tourism agencies)


Although there are some exceptions, all of them belonging to public and governmental organizations:

Special characters

In November 2008, a resolution approved the use of special characters in domain names, including ñ, á, é, í ó, ú, ä, ë, ï, ö, and ü. The .gob.ar domain was also approved for government entities (.gob stands for "gobierno", government in Spanish).

External links

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