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| Introduced | 4 February 1997 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | MPT |
| Sponsor | Ministry of Transport and Communications |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  Myanmar |
| Actual use | There are some functional sites in Myanmar under this domain although there has been relatively little Internet activity until recently, and much of that activity comes from foreign sites |
| Registration restrictions | Unknown |
| Structure | Registrations are at third level beneath second-level categories |
| Registry website | www |
.mm is the
alpha-2 code for Burma was BU, but no .bu ccTLD was assigned.On 12 June 2011, the
Description
A company run by two Australian immigrants in Myanmar, Eagle Group, set up the first Internet access to
Afterwards, these two servers then delegated the SOA authority of .com.mm, .net.mm, .edu.mm and org.mm TLDs to the two name servers managed by Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, ns0.mpt.net.mm and ns1.mpt.net.mm, both servers were located in Yangon.
In February 2002, the DigiServe DNS servers were hacked by pro-democracy activists, which resulted in the traffic to all .mm domain names including www.gov.mm being redirected to a website demanding the release of famous student leader Min Ko Naing for a period of three days.
In the beginning of 2005, MPT finally retook management control of .mm name space and replaced Digiserve nameservers with their own.
Businesses in Myanmar could register for domain names within the .net.mm and .com.mm zones through
Myanmar Teleport's service was later shut down by the Burmese government as well, leaving government-owned Myanmar Post & Telecoms as the sole controller for all the services for internet and email.
See also
- Internet in Burma
References
- ^ IANA .mm whois information, accessed January 2011