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.pw
Image:Pw logo.gif
Introduced 1997
TLD type Country code top-level domain
Status Active
Registry PW Registry Corporation
Sponsoring organization Micronesia Investment and Development Corporation
Intended use Entities connected with Palau
Actual use Marketed for personal e-mail addresses
Registration restrictions None
Structure Registrations are for third-level names and their corresponding e-mail addresses within second-level names
Documents
Dispute policies PWTLD dispute resolution policy
Web site PW Registry

.pw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Palau.

.pw has been opened for personal registrations under a similar structure to that which .name had at its original launch, in which people can obtain third level registrations of the form john.smith.pw along with the corresponding e-mail address of john@smith.pw. Second-level domain registrations are not permitted, so that the registry can reserve all second-level names for use in constructing these addresses. Trademark owners have the possibly to apply for a defensive registration that will prevent anybody else from registering a third-level domain that contains that trademark.

The personal e-mail offered in .pw has the feature of spam-prevention through the use of whitelisting; senders must be authorized before their messages can get through.

Through a DNS wildcard record, most second-level names in .pw go to a page offering registration of addresses within that name. The traditional registry address of nic.pw goes to one of these wildcard pages; the actual official registry site is at pwregistry.pw.

There is very little use of this domain for anything actually related to Palau, other than a site at survivorpw.pw pertaining to the reality television program Survivor: Palau. Even the government of Palau does not use this domain for its own sites; for instance, the site of the Palau embassy in Washington, DC is at palauembassy.com, an address using the .com domain which was intended for commercial entities.

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See also: Generic top-level domains

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