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Internet country code top-level domain for Finland December 2019 .fi 17 December 1986 Country code top-level domain Active TRAFICOM TRAFICOM Entities connected with Finland 554,434 2025-03-21 2025-03-21 Traficom https://www.traficom.fi/fi/viestinta/fi-verkkotunnukset/fi-verkkotunnushaku live https://web.archive.org/web/20250316120919/https://www.traficom.fi/fi/viestinta/fi-verkkotunnukset/fi-verkkotunnushaku 2025-03-16 2025-03-21 Traficom Very popular in Finland Registrations are taken directly at second level 1986 delegation application Dispute policies https://www.traficom.fi/en/fi-domains Yes thumb|Logo under the administration of FICORA .fi is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Finland. It is operated by TRAFICOM, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains Fi-domain www.traficom.fi TRAFICOM 12 December 2019 12 April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220412010619/https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains dead On 4 December 1986, an application to register a top-level domain for Finland was sent by the Finnish Unix Users Group from Tampere. The application was accepted and the administration of .fi TLD was granted to Tampere University of Technology. Later the administration was transferred first to FICIX and later to TRAFICOM. In the past TRAFICOM regulated .fi domains very strictly. Domain names were only admitted to company names or companies that owned trademarks. This policy led to Finnish companies applying for domains under other top-level domains. The policy was changed on 1 September 2003. Since September 2016 anyone worldwide is permitted to register domain names under the .fi TLD.Fi-domain names now available for everyone all around the world (https://web.archive.org/web/20160916210616/https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ficora/news/2016/fi-domainnamesnowavailableforeveryoneallaroundtheworld.html 16 September 2016), read 7 September 2016, published 5 September 2016. .fi was once best known among non-Finnish internet users as the TLD of the Penet remailer (anon.penet.fi), a privately operated server which enabled users to post e-mail and Usenet messages anonymously in the early 1990s.https://johndecember.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html A Brief History of anon.penet.fi - The Legendary Anonymous Remailer Helmers Sabine September 1997 Another popular .fi address in the early 1990s was nic.funet.fi, one of the largest public file servers at the time which made Finland the only country outside the US that sent out more data than it received. Since 1 September 2005, .fi domains may contain letters from the Finnish alphabet (ä, å, ö), though they are not recommended to be used as the primary domain. Since 1 March 2006, private persons have also been able to apply for a domain name. Some restrictions still apply, for example, company names or trademarks can only be applied for by the companies concerned. It can also be (although not popular) be used for domain hacking as well. Examples like Spotify who has a domain hack called Spoti.fi. FICORA began supporting Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) on .fi domain names in late 2010. FICORA tests DNSSEC on fi TLD Blog.anta.net 21 June 2010 http://blog.anta.net/2010/06/21/ficora-tests-dnssec-on-fi-tld/ 1797-1993 https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135550/http://blog.anta.net/2010/06/21/ficora-tests-dnssec-on-fi-tld/ 26 July 2011 deadhttps://www.trex.fi/2016/ficora-trex2016.pdf .fi and DNSSEC Husa Ari-Matti 2016 TREX See also .ax, the top-level domain of Åland. References External links IANA .fi whois information FICORA.fi Ficora domains .fi top-level domain registration application Miten Internet tuli Suomeen - Nic.funet.fi (en. How the Internet came to Finland) Finland Internet Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Internet in Finland Category:Internet properties established in 1986