.il

.il

Introduced	24 October 1985 ; 38 years ago  ( 1985-10-24 )
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Israel Internet Association
Sponsor	Internet Society of Israel , NIC - ISRAEL [ permanent dead link ]
Intended use	Entities connected with:   Israel
Actual use	Popular in Israel
Registered domains	285,060 (2023-08-19) [1]
Registration restrictions	Limitations vary based on which 2nd-level domain registration is within; registry reserves right to screen and reject applications
Structure	Names are registered at third-level within generic second-level categories; second-level name registry directly under .il not supported
Documents	Registration rules
Dispute policies	Optional dispute resolution via Advisory Committee
DNSSEC	yes
Registry website	en .isoc .org .il

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Introduced	22 November 2022 ; 18 months ago  ( 2022-11-22 )
TLD type	Internationalized country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Israel Internet Association
Sponsor	Internet Society of Israel
Intended use	Entities connected with   Israel with content in the Hebrew alphabet
Registered domains	22,186 (2023-08-19) [1]
Registration restrictions	Only Hebrew alphabet, digits, hyphens can be used. [2]
Structure	Names to be registered either at second-level directly under ?????. or at third-level within generic second-level categories
Documents	Registration rules
DNS name	xn--4dbrk0ce
Registry website	?????.?????

.il is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD ) of Israel , administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL ^{[ permanent dead link ]} , which hosts the DNS root server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange , that supports IPv4 and IPv6 . ^{[3] [4]}

The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs . When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985, ^[3] it was the third registration of any ccTLD , after .us ^[5] and .uk , ^[6] which were registered earlier that year.

As of 19 August 2023 there are 285,060 domain names registered under the .il ccTLD in Israel. ^[1]

Top-level domains in Hebrew script [ edit ]

On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the ?????. ‎ domain, ^{[7] [8]} that was proposed in 2012. ^[9] It was delegated on 11 February 2021, and since 22 November 2022 it is possible to register domain names in full Hebrew script . ^[10]

Unlike the structure of .il, domain names registered under ?????. may be either directly at second-level (for example: ?????-????????.????? ) or at third-level under one of these second-level domains: ^[11]

• ??????.?????. : Academic institutions; equivalent to .ac.il.
• ????.?????. : Government and Governmental System; equivalent to .gov.il.
• ???.?????. : Israel Defense Forces ; equivalent to .idf.il.
• ????.?????. : Municipal Government; equivalent to .muni.il.

There will not be a Hebrew-script equivalent to these second-level domains:

• .co.il
• .org.il
• .k12.il
• .net.il

As a more private initiative the top-level domain .??? ("com") was registered by VeriSign in 2016. It has as of 2020 many thousand second-level domains, mostly in Hebrew script, some in Latin script.

Second-level domains [ edit ]

Domain names ending with .il will always be in the third level under one of these second-level domains: ^[12]

• .ac.il : Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center.
• .co.il : Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• .org.il : Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• .net.il : Israeli Internet service providers ; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association.
• .k12.il : Schools and Kindergartens
• .gov.il : Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to Ministry of Finance .
• .muni.il : Municipal Government
• .idf.il : Israel Defense Forces; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems .

Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported.

Hebrew third level domains such as ?????-????????.org.il are available since 2010. ^[13]

See also [ edit ]

• Country code top-level domain

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• IANA .il whois information
• Israeli Internet Association ? Archived 29 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
• Israeli Internet Association ? official site of the .il ccTLD ( English version )
• Israel Network Information Center ^{[ permanent dead link ]}