.ar

Introduced	1987
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	NIC Argentina
Sponsor	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina
Intended use	Entities connected with  Argentina
Actual use	Very popular in Argentina
Registration restrictions	Must have contact with address in Argentina, but registrant may be foreign; some subdomains have particular restrictions
Structure	Registrations are at third level beneath second level labels
Documents	Government resolution on domain registration
Dispute policies
Website	NIC Argentina

.ar is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Argentina. It is administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina.

All Argentine domains must be third-level-domains under:

• .com.ar (general purpose)
• .edu.ar (educational entities)
• .gob.ar (government entities, homonym for .gov.ar)¹
• .gov.ar (government entities)
• .int.ar (international organizations)
• .mil.ar (military forces)
• .net.ar (locally based ISPs)
• .org.ar (non-profit organizations)
• .Tur.ar (officially registered tourism agencies)

Although there are some exceptions, all of them belonging to public and governmental organizations:

• argentina.ar
• educ.ar
• gobiernoelectronico.ar
• nic.ar
• promocion.ar
• retina.ar
• uba.ar

Special characters

In November 2008, a resolution approved the use of special characters in domain names, including ñ, á, é, í ó, ú, ä, ë, ï, ö, and ü. The .gob.ar domain was algo approved for government entities (.gob stands for "gobierno", government in Spanish).²

References

External links

• NIC Argentina
• Resolution N° 904/2008 about Tur.ar domains
• IANA .ar whois information
• NameAction (website) Local Presence for foreign registrants-to-be of "com.ar" domains.
• Requirements for .com.ar domain registration

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