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 | | Introduced | 1988 | | TLD type | Country code top-level domain | | Status | Active | | Registry | DNS Belgium | | Sponsoring organization | DNS Belgium | | Intended use | Entities connected with Belgium | | Actual use | Very popular in Belgium | | Registration restrictions | None | | Structure | Names can be registered directly at second level; some third-level names under categories such as ac.be for academic institutions also exist | | Documents | Documents | | Dispute policies | ADR | | Web site | DNS.be | .be is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Belgium. The domain became active in 1989 and was administrated by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In 2000, the control of the TLD was transferred to DNS Belgium. As of late 2005, more than 480,000 domains were registered. Image File history File links Dnsbe. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...
DNS.be, the Belgian internet top-level domain (TLD) administrator is a non-profit organisation. ...
DNS.be, the Belgian internet top-level domain (TLD) administrator is a non-profit organisation. ...
A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any URL. For example, in the domain name wikipedia. ...
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven in English - also the translated name of its French-speaking sister university) or K.U. Leuven is a Flemish university, located in the town of Leuven in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking (northern) region of Belgium. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
DNS.be, the Belgian internet top-level domain (TLD) administrator is a non-profit organisation. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This top level domain is one of several which happens to also be a two-letter English word, allowing for domain hacks like place.to.be. A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that uses parts other than the SLD (second level domain) or third level domain to create the full title of the domain name. ...
It was announced in November 2005 that the initial registration of domains would be free until the beginning of 2006, though with some limits on the number any individual was allowed to register. This was remarkably popular, with some 17,000 registrations coming in on the first day of the promotion. Domain names are registered directly at second level. Third-level names under ac.be for academic institutions also exist, but is becoming obsolete as main universities like the KU Leuven and UGent abandoned it in 2005 Furthermore, the comany Arta NV has bought the domain names com.be, co.be, ap.be & xa.be and sells subdomains beneath these domain names on the website http://icenter.be. Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the two large Flemish universities. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Domain Name System or DNS is a system that stores information about host names and domain names in a kind of distributed database on networks, such as the Internet. ...
Any .be registration has to be ordered via a registered agent.
Regional domains
The right-wing party Vlaams Belang introduced a draft resolution in the Parliament of the region of Flanders demanding the creation of a Flemish top level domain .vl (for "Vlaanderen", Flanders in Dutch) but this resolution failed to receive support of the region's other parties. Furthermore, the regional government responded that the creation of top level domains was outside its competence. Vlaams Belang (English: Flemish Interest) is a Belgian political party. ...
States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and redâthe former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ...
Flanders (Flemish, Fleming) (Dutch: Vlaanderen (Vlaams, Vlaming)) has two main designations: a geographical region in the north of Belgium, corresponding to the Flemish region, a constituent part of the federal Belgian state. ...
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