.ir - Domain Ir

.ir is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iran. It is managed by the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences.

Second-level domains

source : inpublic.in

• .ir â€" public
• .ac.ir â€" academic (tertiary education and research establishments) and learned societies.
• .co.ir â€" commercial/companies
• .gov.ir â€" government (Islamic Republic of Iran)
• .id.ir â€" personal, everyone has a National Number from Islamic Republic of Iran
• .net.ir â€" ISPs and network companies approved by IRTCT
• .org.ir â€" non-profit organisations
• .sch.ir â€" schools, primary and secondary education

Persian domains

source : techrasa.com

Persian internationalized domain names are available for registration under .ایران.ir for public, in Perso-Arabic script.

In 2010, ICANN approved IRNIC's proposal for the ایران. IDN ccTLD (representing the Perso-Arabic spelling of Iran), pending the final step of String Delegation.

Domain hacks

source : cctld.directom.com

The URL "ryana.ir" is a redirect to the budget airline website ryanair.com. It is used as a typing shortcut. Some internet users may mistakenly believe that .ir is the ccTLD for the Republic of Ireland, the home country of Ryanair (which is actually .ie).

Testbeds

source : krypt3ia.wordpress.com

• .dnssec.ir - limited term testbed for DNSSEC support

References

source : techrasa.com

External links

source : motherboard.vice.com

• IANA .ir whois information
• (in Persian) IRNIC, Dot-IR (.ir) ccTLD Registry
• (in Persian) List of Resellers of IRNIC

source : techrasa.com