Internet top level domain country code for Bouvet Island
.bv
is the
Internet
country code top-level domain
(
ccTLD
) reserved for the uninhabited
Norwegian
dependent territory
of
Bouvet Island
. The
domain name registry
and sponsor is
Norid
, but
.bv
is not open for registration.
.bv
was designated on 21 August 1997 and was placed under the
.no
registry Norid. Norwegian policy states that
.no
is sufficient for those institutions connected to Bouvet Island, and therefore the domain is not open to registration. It is Norwegian policy not to commercialize domain resources, so there are no plans to sell
.bv
. Should the domain later come into use, it will be under the regulation of the
Norwegian Communications Authority
and follow the same policy as
.no
.
History
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Bouvet Island
is an uninhabited
volcanic island
in the
South Atlantic Ocean
. It was claimed by Norway in 1927.
[1]
The domain was allocated on 21 August 1997,
[2]
at the same time
.sj
was allocated for
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
.
[3]
The allocation occurred because the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA) assigns ccTLDs to all entities with an
ISO 3166
code,
[4]
for which Bouvet Island is designated
BV
.
[5]
In March 2012,
Norid
began an initial collaboration with the Dutch domain registry SIDN, with the purpose of examining the possibility of utilizing the
.bv
domain on the Dutch market.
[6]
BV
is the most common form of limited company in the
Netherlands
, which could have made
.bv
a popular domain. The collaboration ended in June 2016, when The Ministry of Transport and Communications advised that dispensation from certain parts of the Norwegian Domain Regulations, which would have opened for the sale of the
.bv
domain, should not be granted.
[7]
In June 2015, Norwegian computer scientist
Hakon Wium Lie
and the
Socialist Left Party
proposed using the
.bv
domain, along with
.sj
, as online free havens. The proposal aims at protecting both the Norwegian authorities and foreign dissidents from surveillance.
[8]
Policy
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Management of
.bv
lies with
Trondheim
-based Norid, which is also the domain name registry for
.no
and the unused
.sj
. Norid is a limited company owned by
Uninett
, which is owned by the
Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research
.
[9]
The legal right to manage the domains is twofold, based both on an agreement with the IANA and regulations via the
Telecommunication Act
which is supervised by the
Lillesand
-based Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority.
[10]
The policy for the use of
.bv
is regulated by the
Regulation Concerning Domain Names Under Norwegian Country Code Top-level Domains
, also known as the
Domain Regulation
. This regulation also regulates Norway's other two ccTLDs,
.no
and
.sj
. Should
.bv
eventually come into use, the same rules and procedures as those currently regarding
.no
would be used for
.bv
.
[11]
The domain remains reserved for potential future use.
References
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