.nato

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.nato
Introduced Late 1980s
TLD type Specific-organization domain
Status Discontinued
Registry NIC
Sponsor NATO
Intended use NATO sites and operations
Actual use Not used
Registration restrictions No registrations are being taken
Structure Unused; no longer in root
Documents
Dispute policies
Website

.nato was an Internet top-level domain. The nato TLD was added in the late 1980s by the NIC for the use of NATO, who felt that none of the then existing TLDs adequately reflected their status as an international organization. Soon after this addition, however, the NIC created the .int TLD for the use of international organizations, and convinced NATO to use nato.int instead. However, the NATO TLD, although no longer used, was not deleted until July 1996.