.cc
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| Introduced | 13 October 1997 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | eNIC (a VeriSign company) |
| Sponsor | Island Internet Services |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
| Actual use | See usage |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Registrations permitted at second level |
| Documents | Registration agreement |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Registry website | Verisign .cc Registry |
.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory.
Management
[edit]It is administered by an American company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company, eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com".
The .cc domain was originally assigned to eNIC in October 1997 by the IANA; eNIC manages the TLD alongside SamsDirect Internet.[1]
Registration
[edit]Registration is made directly at second-level.
Second level domains
[edit]gov.cu.cc, com.cc, net.cc, edu.cc, org.cc
[edit]A number of second-level domain names are also maintained by CoCCA, including "com.cc", "net.cc", "edu.cc", and "org.cc".
cc.cc, co.cc, cu.cc, cz.cc
[edit]These are not official hierarchies of .cc, but domains held by companies who offer no charge subdomain registration.
co.cc
[edit]The co.cc URL has been known to host spammers, who create spam blogs, or "splogs", often with nonsense names.
Due to such spamming, in July 2011 Google removed over 11 million .co.cc websites from its search results.
Legitimate sites (per Google's Webmaster Guidelines) on the .co.cc subdomain could send a reconsideration request to Google to have their specific site excluded from the ban.[2][3][4]