.va is the Internet

Internet

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 country code

Country code

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 top-level domain

Top-level domain

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 (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City

Vatican City

Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...

. It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See

Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, in which its Bishop is commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent episcopal see of the Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church. As such, diplomatically, and in other spheres the Holy See acts and...

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There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only

"www" names with websites

• Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names:
  • www.va
  • www.vatican.va
  • www.pcf.va
  • www.news.va
• Vatican State Government
  • www.vaticanstate.va
• Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano
  L'Osservatore Romano
  L'Osservatore Romano is the "semi-official" newspaper of the Holy See. It covers all the Pope's public activities, publishes editorials by important churchmen, and runs official documents after being released...
  
  
  • www.osservatoreromano.va
  • Login page for staff
    • www.cdp.osservatoreromano.va
    • www.cdp.ossrom.va
• Vatican Museums
  • www.museivaticani.va
  • www.cappellasistina.va
  • www.chapellesixtine.va
  • www.capillasixtina.va
  • www.sistinechapel.va
  • www.sixtinischekapelle.va
• Apostolic Penitentiary
  Apostolic Penitentiary
  The Apostolic Penitentiary, formerly called the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary, is one of the three tribunals of the Roman Curia. The Apostolic Penitentiary is chiefly a tribunal of mercy, responsible for issues relating to the forgiveness of sins in the Catholic Church.The...
  
  
  • www.paenitentiaria.va
  • www.penitenzieria.va
• Pontifical Mission Societies
  • www.ppoomm.va
• No Response from these sites
  • www.mlists.va (but see mlists.vatican.va below)
  • www.pasquini.va
• Photo Ordering Site
  • www.photo.va
• "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts
  • www.catholica.va
• Extranet, note SSL certificate expired 28 June 2007. Stats available but username/password required and links have to be rewritten from http to https
  • www.extranet.va

Non-"www" names with websites:

• Main Vatican Website
  • benedettoxvi.va
  • benedictumxvi.va
  • mv.vatican.va
  • search.vatican.va
  • seraphin.vatican.va
• Vatican Archives
  • asv.vatican.va
• Mailing Lists (Mailman)
  • mlists.vatican.va
• Vatican Museums
  • sistinechapel.va
• Vatican Library
  • bav.vatican.va
• "Compendium" (Username/Password required)
  • isidoro.vatican.va
• Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required)
  • webmail.mailservice.va

Second-level domains are not available to the public.

Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).

Strangely enough, some offsite secondary DNS servers used by the Vatican are named after Egyptian gods, like:

• seth
  Set (mythology)
  Set was in Ancient Egyptian religion, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners. In later myths he was also the god of darkness, and chaos...
  
  .namex.it.
• osiris
  Osiris
  Osiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
  
  .namex.it.