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Internet country-code top level domain for Mali the top-level domain the filename extension ML (programming language) .mil .ml #CCF .ml_domain.png 29 September 1993 Country code top-level domain Active Agence des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication Agence des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication Entities connected with Sees some use in Mali and for some websites about machine learning. Use is relatively rare elsewhere. Registrations are at third level beneath various second-level names UDRP https://point.ml/ .ml is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mali. History The domain was initially managed by Sotelma, a Malian telecommunications company. After Sotelma was privatised in 2009, the .ml zone was redelegated by IANA to the Agence des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (AGETIC), a Malian government agency, and the process completed in 2013.https://www.iana.org/reports/2013/ml-report-20130211.html Redelegation of the .ML domain representing Mali to the Agence des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication 2013-02-13 2018-01-04 The agency then announced that it would give away .ml domains for free in partnership with Freenom with a view to improve the usage and the knowledge of the IT industry in Mali. It was the first African nation to start giving away domains for free.Mali Gives Away Its .ML Domain Names for Free Business Wire http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130407005038/en/Mali-.ML-Domain-Names-Free 7 April 2013 15 May 2015http://www.freedomregistry.com/dotml_pressrelease_04082013.pdf Mali gives away its .ML domain names for free Freedom Registry 8 April 2013 10 April 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130417233107/http://www.freedomregistry.com/dotml_pressrelease_04082013.pdf 2013-04-17 dead https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/mali_gives_away_dotml_domains/ Mali to give away .ML domains for free The Register 10 April 2013 10 April 2013 The ten-year contract with Freenom expired on 17 July 2023. Since then the registry is operated by AGETIC itself and the free domain offer was discontinued. All paid Freenom .ml domains were migrated to the new system. Second-level domains Registrations are possible at the second level and at the third level beneath these names: .com.ml: Companies .net.ml: Internet providers .org.ml: Associations (must show registration); international organizations permitted, but must be registered with the local administration .edu.ml: Local schools .presse.ml: Local pressPrésentation du ccTLD du Mali (.ML) http://www.aftld.org/bk/cairo2007/docs/ML_ccTLD.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20151222113218/http://www.aftld.org/bk/cairo2007/docs/ML_ccTLD.pdf 2015-12-22 dead 2024-04-13 .gov.ml: Governmental organisations Domain names of between one and three characters are considered premium domain names with a higher price. Military emails Employees for the United States Armed Forces regularly misspell emails—suffixed with the .mil TLD—with .ml. In 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier took on the .ml TLD. He attempted to contact the United States government about classified information being sent to army.ml and navy.ml in 2014 through Dutch diplomats.https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/17/dutch-man-receives-american-military-email-years-due-typo-risk-real Dutch man receives American military email for years due to typo; "Risk is real" 2023-07-17 2025-01-27 The contents of these emails include crew and staff lists, maps and photos of installations, naval inspection reports, and passwords. Emails that were sent to the .ml TLD include the travel itinerary of chief of staff James McConville on a trip to Indonesia in 2023, information about Kurdistan Workers' Party efforts in the United States, and Australian Department of Defence documents detailing issues with Australian F-35s.January 2025 On 17 July 2023, Zuurbier's contract expired and control was reverted to the Malian government. References External links IANA .ml whois information Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Communications in Mali Category:Internet in Mali Category:Internet properties established in 1993 sv:Toppdomän#M