.cs
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| Introduced | ca. 1990 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Registry | None |
| Sponsoring organization | None |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Czechoslovakia (originally until deleted) and later Serbia and Montenegro (planned but never enacted) |
| Actual use | Was fairly heavily used in Czechoslovakia until discontinued in favor of .cz and .sk; never used while Serbia and Montenegro existed |
| Registration restrictions | No registrations are now taking place |
| Structure | Not in root |
| Documents | |
| Dispute policies | None |
| Web site | None |
.cs was for several years the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Czechoslovakia. However, the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, and the two new countries were soon assigned their own ccTLDs: .cz and .sk respectively. The use of .cs was gradually phased out, and the ccTLD was deleted some time around January 1995.
.cs was the most heavily used top-level domain ever to be deleted. Statistics from the RIPE Network Coordination Centre show that even in June 1994, after much of the conversion to .cz and .sk had been done, .cs still had over 2,300 hosts. By comparison, other deleted TLDs (.nato and .zr) may never have reached double figures.
Subsequently, CS was the ISO 3166-1 code for Serbia and Montenegro (Srbija i Crna Gora in Serbian). However Serbia and Montenegro have split, and they were assigned separate ISO 3166-1 codes, RS for Serbia and ME for Montenegro. .cs was never used by Serbia and Montenegro as a ccTLD. For the time being, Serbia and Montenegro both continue to use .yu as their ccTLD until their new domains (.rs and .me, respectively) become active.
[edit] External links
- IANA .cs whois information
- (Serbian) "Srbija i Crna Gora - koje će biti ime domena? Internet domen Srbije: RS, SS, SP, SQ, SW ili SX", Elitesecurity, February 5, 2003.
