.ac (second-level domain)

Domain used for academia May 2024 .edu (second-level domain) The sequence ac (short for academia) is in use in many countries as a second-level domain for academic institutions such as universities, colleges, and research institutes.Training to Teach in Further and Adult Education David Gray Colin Griffin, Tony Nasta Nelson Thornes 2000 978-0-7487-3366-8 144 In the United Kingdom and Japan, for example, academic institutions use domain names ending in ac.uk and ac.jp respectively. Many countries use edu for the same purpose, such as Australia (edu.au) and Malaysia (edu.my). Still others do not maintain a second-level domain specifically for academic institutions. In France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, for example, each institution will have its own second-level domain (thus sorbonne.fr for the Sorbonne, hslu.ch for the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and tum.de for the Technical University of Munich). In some countries, both .edu and .ac second-level domains exist, differentiating between different types of academic institutions. China, for example, announced in 2006 that it would use edu.cn for educational institutions and ac.cn for research institutions.China adds top-level domain names, People's Daily Online, 28 February 2006. Retrieved 24 November 2011. Countries with .ac as second-level domain for educational institutions Austria: ac.at Bangladesh: ac.bd Belgium: ac.be Botswana: ac.bw China: ac.cn Costa Rica: ac.cr Cyprus: ac.cy Fiji: ac.fj India: ac.in Indonesia: ac.id Iran: ac.ir Israel: ac.il Japan: ac.jp Kenya: ac.ke Morocco: ac.ma New Zealand: ac.nz North Korea: ac.kp (also uses aca.kp) Papua New Guinea: ac.pg Rwanda: ac.rw Serbia: ac.rs South Africa: ac.za South Korea: ac.kr South Sudan: ac.ss Sri Lanka: ac.lk Tanzania: ac.tz Thailand: ac.th Uganda: ac.ug United Kingdom: ac.uk United Arab Emirates: ac.ae Uzbekistan: ac.uzhttps://cctld.uz/whois/?domain=ac&zone=uz Zambia: ac.zm Zimbabwe: ac.zw See also ac (a first-level domain for the Ascension Island but also used worldwide) .edu_(second-level_domain) References http://www.ja.net/services/domain-name-registration/register.ac.uk/eligibility-ac.html New requests for an ac.uk domain Sarajane Brock Nov 2006 JANET UK 17 March 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110105074525/http://www.ja.net/services/domain-name-registration/register.ac.uk/eligibility-ac.html 5 January 2011 Category:Second-level domains