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Top-level Internet domain for Åland .ax #CCF Ålands Landskapsregering (logotyp).png Ålands Landskapsregeringen 21 June 2006 Country code top-level domain Active Government of Åland Government of Åland Entities connected with the Åland Islands Popular on the Åland Islands IANA delegation report https://whois.ax/ .ax is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Åland, Finland, introduced in 2006. History Previously, most Åland websites were under the .aland.fi subdomain. On 17 February 2006, the Finnish parliament approved a modification of the laws regulating Finnish domain names to include the .ax top-level domain. During a three-year period, the aland.fi subdomain was phased out while .ax was used in parallel; no new registrations under the aland.fi subdomain were to be accepted, and all owners of domains under the aland.fi subdomain would receive registrations for the corresponding .ax domain.axapproved On 17 March 2006, Finnish president Tarja Halonen signed the bill into law, effective as of 27 March.signed The government of Åland began accepting registrations immediately following the changing of the law. On 9 June 2006, ICANN approved delegating the .ax top-level domain to the government of Åland.IANA Report on Delegation of the .AX Top-Level Domain, from IANA website The .ax domain was added to the root zone on 21 June 2006, and became active on 15 August 2006.Ansökan om domännamn, The government of Åland's domain registration website The code ax itself comes from the ISO 3166 standard, and was assigned to Åland in 2004.RE: Inclusion of an entry for Åland Islands ISO 3166-1 Newsletter 2004-02-13 V-9 http://www.iso.org/iso/newsletter_v-9_aland_islands.pdf 2015-12-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110722001657/http://www.iso.org/iso/newsletter_v-9_aland_islands.pdf 2011-07-22 The letter X is not included in any major or locally used language, but other possible codes were already taken, e.g. .al by Albania, .ad by Andorra, and .an by what was at the time the Netherlands Antilles. Since 5 September 2016, anyone worldwide is permitted to register domain names under the .ax TLD. References delegated Adopted Resolutions, special meeting of the board of ICANN External links IANA .ax whois information .ax domain whois Category:Communications in Åland Category:Mass media in Åland Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Communications in Finland Category:Internet properties established in 2006