.pl

.pl
Introduced	1990
TLD type	Country code
Status	Active
Registry	NASK
Sponsor	NASK
Intended use	Entities connected with Poland
Actual use	Very popular in Poland
Registered domains	2,467,559 (30 September 2020)
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)
DNSSEC	yes
Registry website	dns.pl

.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, the Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.

History[]

The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of the 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 2008 the number of registered .pl domain names exceeded one million, whereas at the end of 2013 the registry comprised more than 2.4 million domain names.^[1]

Each domain must be registered in the National Domain Name Registry.

Second-level domains[]

Several functional and regional domains exist. Most popular are:

Functional domains[]

.com.pl, .biz.pl: commercial entities
.net.pl: network infrastructure
.art.pl: art
.edu.pl: education
.gov.pl: government
.info.pl: (general) information
.mil.pl: military
.org.pl: NGOs and not-for-profit organizations

Regional domains[]

(There are more than 100 regional SLDs in Poland.)

.bialystok.pl: Białystok (city)
.bydgoszcz.pl: Bydgoszcz (city)
.czest.pl: Częstochowa (city)
.elk.pl: Ełk (city)
.gda.pl, .gdansk.pl: Gdańsk (city)
.gorzow.pl: Gorzów Wielkopolski (city)
.kalisz.pl: Kalisz (city)
.katowice.pl: Katowice (city)
.konin.pl: Konin (city)
.krakow.pl: Kraków (city)
.lublin.pl: Lublin (city)
.malopolska.pl: Małopolska (region)
.nysa.pl: Nysa (city)
.olsztyn.pl: Olsztyn (city)
.opole.pl: Opole (city)
.pila.pl: Piła (city)
.poznan.pl: Poznań (city)
.radom.pl: Radom (city)
.rzeszow.pl: Rzeszów (city)
.slupsk.pl: Słupsk (city)
.szczecin.pl: Szczecin (city)
.slask.pl: Śląsk (region)
.tychy.pl: Tychy (city)
.torun.pl: Toruń (city)
.wroc.pl, .wroclaw.pl: Wrocław (city)
.waw.pl, .warszawa.pl: Warsaw (city)
.zgora.pl: Zielona Góra (city)

Many registrants prefer to create their own second-level domains, directly under .pl—as of 2012, over 1,500,000 such domains are registered.^[2]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "DNS | Krajowy Rejestr Domen". www.dns.pl. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
^ "Statistics of domain names registered in NASK". dns.pl. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

External links[]

[stat-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "DNS | Krajowy Rejestr Domen". www.dns.pl. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

[2] "Statistics of domain names registered in NASK". dns.pl. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

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