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Latest revision as of 21:18, 27 October 2024
.lt is the ccTLD for Lithuania. It is managed by Kaunas University of Technology.[1]
Delegation History[edit | edit source]
On 3 June 1992, IANA created the .lt domain. At the beginning, the management of this domain was delegated to the University of Oslo (external administration). In 1994, its administration was re-delegated to the Centre of Calculation of Kaunas University of Technology.
In terms of structure, the division of Kaunas University of Technology has been .lt registry since 1994: previously named the "Centre of Calculation", later "the Internet Service Office" at the "Information Technology Development Institute", afterwards, the "Internet Service Centre at the Information Technology Services", and from 1 March 2018, the "Internet Service Centre".
The website domreg.lt provides information on the news of .lt domain. As the services of .lt registry are marked by the registered trademark DOMREG with protected labels, the registry is sometimes informally called “Domreg”.[2]
Rules and Restrictions[edit | edit source]
The .lt domain is an Open Use ccTLD, with international registrations allowed.[3] In 2021, the domain has approximately 220,000 active registrations. As of 2024, this number grew to about 237,000. [4]
Characters[edit | edit source]
A domain name:
- consists of at least two standard Latin alphabet letters from “a” to “z” (IDN domains can have other letters), numbers from “0” to “9” as well as the dash (-es);
- consists at most of sixty-three symbols;
- does not have dashes at the beginning and (or) at the end, as well as at the third and fourth positions, unless it is IDN with a special prefix;
- when creating an IDN domain name, these Lithuanian alphabet letters can additionally be used: ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū and ž;
- the third and fourth positions of the IDN are dashes (when formulating according to the Internet self-regulatory institution provisions with the special prefix “xn--”);
- an IDN with a special prefix and domain name with the letters of the Lithuanian alphabet must correspond interchangeably when converted using IDN-compatible software.[5]