| Introduced | 1990 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | NASK |
| Sponsor | NASK |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Poland |
| Actual use | Very popular in Poland |
| Registration restrictions | No restrictions stated |
| Structure | Registrations can be made directly at second level, or at third level beneath various second level labels |
| Dispute policies | PIIT arbitration (for Polish entities) WIPO expedited arbitration (for foreign entities) |
| Website | dns.pl |
.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.
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The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in .pl was .pwr.pl, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.
In 2003, the internationalized domain names were introduced. Registration of domains containing characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew script is allowed.
NASK is Sector Member [1] of ITU-T since 2004 and plays active role [2] in Study Group 17 working on Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Andrzej Bartosiewicz, Head of DNS Division at NASK, acts as Rapporteur [3] for Question 16 dedicated to IDN.
Several functional and regional domains exist. Most popular are:
(There are more than 100 regional SLDs in Poland.)
Many registrants prefer to create their own second-level domains, directly under .pl — as of 2008[update], over 930,000 of such domains are registered.[4]