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Introduced | 1995 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Internet Office of the Holy See |
Sponsor | Holy See Secretariat of State |
Intended use | Entities connected with ![]() |
Actual use | Used for the official Vatican / Holy See site |
Registration restrictions | No public registrations are available |
Structure | Only official sites of the Vatican are in this domain; they are at second-level names, as well as within vatican.va |
Dispute policies | None needed since registrations are unavailable outside Vatican administration |
Website | www.vatican.va |
.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City.[1] It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.
Contents
List of websites[edit]
There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only[2]
"www" names with websites
- Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names:
- Vatican State Government
- Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano
- www.osservatoreromano.va
- Login page for staff
- Vatican Museums
- Apostolic Penitentiary
- Pontifical Mission Societies
- Parish Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican
- Istituto per le Opere di Religione
- No Response from these sites
- www.mlists.va (but see mlists.vatican.va below)
- www.pasquini.va
- Photo Ordering Site
- "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts
- Radio Vatican
Non-"www" names with websites:
- Main Vatican Website
- Vatican Archives
- Mailing Lists (Mailman)
- Vatican Museums
- Vatican Library
- "Compendium" (Username/Password required)
- Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required)
- Radio Vatican language services (various two-letter language codes)
Second-level domains are not available to the public.
Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Delegation Record for .VA". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ^ "VA Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data. 2007-12-28. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-28.