.ee
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| Introduced | 1992 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | EENet |
| Sponsoring organization | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Estonia |
| Actual use | Fairly popular in Estonia |
| Registration restrictions | Must be Estonian; some subdomains have further restrictions; limit of one domain per legal entity; name servers must be configured prior to registration |
| Structure | Registrations are taken directly at the second level, or at the third level beneath various second-level labels |
| Documents | |
| Dispute policies | None |
| Web site | EENet registration page |
.ee is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Estonia. It is operated by EENet.
The registration restrictions seem like a throwback to the early days of the Internet, before it became commercialized; there is a limit of one domain name per legal entity, and registrations of additional names to protect trademarks are specifically denied because "The domain name has no trademark status. As domains under .ee are meant to be institution's identification on the Internet (like the register code in the commercial register), registration of additional domain in the defense of a trademark or a name form is not possible."<ref name="notrademarkstatus">EENet registration page (in FAQ)[1]</ref>
As registrations are taken directly at the second level, this allows for domain hacks with words that end with -ee.
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