.cs
Introduced | c. 1990 |
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Removed | c. 1995 |
TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Discontinued |
Registry | None |
Sponsor | None |
Intended use | Entities connected with Czechoslovakia (originally, until deleted) and later Serbia and Montenegro (reserved, but never used) |
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 |
Dispute policies | None |
Registry website | 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 domain first appeared in
Until the deletion of
In July 2003, CS became the ISO 3166-1 code for Serbia and Montenegro (Srbija i Crna Gora in Serbian), and remained so until 2006, when the country split and the codes for domains .rs and .me were created. However, Serbia and Montenegro did not use .cs as its ccTLD, but continued instead to use the Yugoslavian ccTLD .yu until it finally expired on 30 March 2010.[2]
References
- ^ Peterka, Jiří, Historie prvního milionu (PDF) (in Czech), p. 32
- ^ "RNIDS news". RNIDS. 30 March 2010. Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
External links
- (in Serbian) "Srbija i Crna Gora - koje će biti ime domena? Internet domen Srbije: RS, SS, SP, SQ, SW ili SX" Archived 2019-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, Elitesecurity, February 5, 2003.
- List of .cs domains in September 1992