.tp is the This article is about the Internet An internet is a more general term for any set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking Graphic representation of the WWW information network structure around Wikipedia, as represented by hyperlinks The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide... Internet Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The most famous of these is ISO 3166-1. Lists of country codes by country A - B... country code A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of which Internet domain names consist of. For example, in the domain name wikipedia.org the top-level domain is org (or ORG, as domain names are not case-sensitive). The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently classifies top-level domains... top-level domain ( A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. These are two letters long, and most of them correspond to the ISO 3166-1 standard for country codes. General information There are over 240 ccTLDs; see the... ccTLD) for The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor, is an island nation in Southeast Asia, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, a political exclave of East Timor situated on the western side of... East Timor. The choice of letters, which stand for Timor Português or Portuguese Timor is the former name (1596 - 1975) of East Timor when it was under Portuguese administration. During this period, Portugal shared Timor island with the Dutch East Indies and, after 1949, Indonesia. Portuguese Timor ceased to be called in that way in 1975, after the Indonesian invasion following the... Portuguese Timor are a legacy of the nation's former status as a The Republic of Portugal (República Portuguesa), or Portugal, is a democratic republic located on the west and southwest parts of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe; it is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic... Portuguese This article refers to a colony in politics and history. For alternate meanings of colony, see colony (disambiguation). In politics and in history, a colony is an administrative unit under the control of a geographically- distinct entity, usually an autonomous state. The term informal colony is used by some historians... colony. It was first introduced in December 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. Events January January 3 - NBCs Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame... 1997 by Connect Ireland, an internet service provider in Dublins Hapenny Bridge. Beyond it, the dome of the 18th century Custom House and Liberty Hall, the citys tallest building. Dublin (Baile Átha Cliath in Irish) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast... Dublin, The Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. It is the westernmost state of the European Union, and has a developed economy and... Ireland, when East Timor was still under The Republic of Indonesia, the worlds largest archipelago, is located between the Southeast Asian peninsula and Australia, between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the most populous Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populous overall. It has had free elections since the Indonesian 1998... Indonesian rule.

It remains in use, although it does not comply with the ISO 3166-1 as part of the ISO 3166 standard provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. It was first published in 1974 by the International Organization for Standardization and defines three different codes for each area: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a two-letter system, has... ISO 3166-1 standard for the two-letter codes of the name of countries, as the code for East Timor changed from TP to TL upon independence.

Controversy

In 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. Events Kosovo War Shooting in Littleton, Colorado, United States, leaves several high school students dead. Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in... 1999, prior to the holding of a referendum in East Timor on self-determination, websites with the '.tp' domain were attacked by hackers with pro-Indonesian sympathies, and Connect Ireland received malicious telephone calls. However, when independence leader José Ramos Horta, now East Timor's Foreign Minister, spoke out in favour of using hackers to attack Indonesian sites, Connect Ireland issued a press release condemning any use of hacking, least of all for political aims.

Transition to .tl

.tl is the ccTLD that does comply with the ISO 3166-1 standard, and the Department of Information Technology in East Timor is now working cooperatively with Connect Ireland to ensure a stable and secure transition to the .tl ccTLD, with existing registrants in the .tp ccTLD granted the same domain in the .tl ccTLD at no cost. Both the .tp and .tl "versions" will continue to resolve and registrant information, who-is data, and name server delegations will be the same for both .tp and .tl for legacy domains.

Presently, the only valid web address with .tl is that of the Network Information Centre. www.nic.tl

Dated IANA information

According to the The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is an organisation that oversees IP address, top level domain and Internet protocol code point allocations. IANA was formerly one man, the late Jon Postel. General information IANA delegates local registrations of IP addresses to Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Each RIR allocates addresses for... IANA site, however, .tl is currently unassigned, with .tp still being listed for East Timor. ( President Xanana Gusmão Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão (born June 20, 1946), born José Alexandre Gusmão, is the inaugural President of the small nation of East Timor in Southeast Asia. Gusmão was born to school-teacher parents in Manaututo in what was... Xanana Gusmão, now the country's President, is still listed as the administrative contact.)

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The Department of Information Technology in East Timor has sent a letter (http://www.nic.tp/doc/pdf/IANA27Dec04.pdf) to IANA requesting that this information be updated.

External links

• Timor-Leste (.TL) & East Timor (.TP) ccTLD NIC (http://www.nic.tl)
• Legacy www.nic.tp website (http://old.nic.tp)
• IANA .tp whois information (http://www.iana.org/root-whois/tp.htm)
• IANA .tl whois information (http://www.iana.org/root-whois/tl.htm)