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.tp was the ccTLD for Timor-Leste before the country's independence from Indonesia [1] [2]. The letters "tp" represented Portuguese Timor, or Timor Português.

History[edit | edit source]

ccTLD
Type ccTLD
Region AP
Country
  • Timor-Leste
Implemented May 9, 1997

The .tp top-level domain was delegated for use by Portuguese Timor on May 9, 1997.

The territory known as Portuguese Timor ceased to exist in 2002 following a declaration of independence, superseded by the country of Timor-Leste.

On March 23, 2005, .tl was delegated to Department of Information Technology of the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Public Works of Timor-Leste. As per the ICANN Board resolution that approved the delegation of .tl, the "Government of the [the Democratic Republic of] Timor-Leste endorsed the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) at the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Public Works as the appropriate entity to both hold the delegation of administrative authority for the .tl ccTLD and to manage the process of migration from the legacy .tp ccTLD."

Following the successful delegation of .tl, all new registrations within the .tp domain were disallowed, and the existing registry was maintained in a caretaker state to provide existing registrants time to transition to the new .tl domain.

IANA staff and .tp contacts continued discussions on the removal of .tp. In August 2013, the IANA Department received a letter from Flavio Cardoso Neves, Vice Minister of Ministry of Transport and Communications from the Government of Timor-Leste. The letter confirmed that the Government was fully supportive of removing the .tp from the DNS Root Zone and asked for ICANN's assistance in facilitating this process.[1]

The record indicates that .tp was officially out of the root zone on March 4, 2015.[3]

References[edit | edit source]

Country code top-level domain. Determined by "ISO 3166-1: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country codes".

Asia/Australia/Pacific, according to the ICANN Geographic Regions (ICANN Geographic Regions).

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