.nato

nato
Introduced	Late 1980s
Removed	July 1996
TLD type	Specific organization domain
Status	Deleted
Sponsor	NATO
Intended use	NATO sites and operations

The domain .nato was a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The domain was added in the late 1980s by the Network Information Center for the use of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, based on the rationale that none of the then-existing top-level domains adequately reflected its status as an international organization. Soon after this addition, however, Paul Mockapetris, the designer of the DNS, suggested to NATO representatives that nato.int would be a better choice.^[1] The TLD .int was created for the use of international organizations, and NATO switched to using nato.int. Without use, the TLD nato was deleted in July 1996.

References[]

^ Shaw, Robert (September 2003). History of the .int Top Level Domain (PowerPoint). ITU-T Workshop to Develop a Recommendation to Clarify the Management of ".int". International Telecommunication Union.

External links[]

nato.int - NATO Homepage

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[Shaw-1] Shaw, Robert (September 2003). History of the .int Top Level Domain (PowerPoint). ITU-T Workshop to Develop a Recommendation to Clarify the Management of ".int". International Telecommunication Union.

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