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Internet country code top-level domain for Poland
PL (disambiguation)
.pl DNS-NASK.svg 220px 1990 07 30 Country code Active NASK NASK Entities connected with Poland Very popular in Poland No restrictions stated Registrations can be made directly at second level, or at third level beneath various second level labels PIIT arbitration (for Polish entities) WIPO expedited arbitration (for foreign entities) dns.pl yes 2,569,407 1 December 2025 https://www.dns.pl/en/news/report-Q2-2025 DNS Report on the .pl domain name market for Q2 2025 www.dns.pl 2026-02-04
.pl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Poland, administered by NASK, the Polish research and development organization. It is one of the founding members of CENTR.
History
The .pl domain was created in 1990, following the mitigation of the COCOM embargo on technological collaboration with post-communist countries. The first subdomain in .pl was .pwr.pl, belonging to the Wrocław University of Technology.
In 2008 the number of registered .pl domain names exceeded one million, whereas at the end of 2013 the registry comprised more than 2.4 million domain names.Statistics of domain names registered in NASK https://www.dns.pl/en/statistics/number_of_active_names_in_DNS_zone 1 June 2018 dns.pl
Each domain must be registered in the National Domain Name Registry.
Second-level domains
Several functional and regional domain endings exist. Most popular are:
Functional domains
.com.pl, .biz.pl, .pl: commercial entities
.net.pl: network infrastructure
.art.pl: art
.edu.pl: education
.gov.pl: government
.info.pl: (general) information
.mil.pl: military
.org.pl: NGOs and not-for-profit organizations
Regional domains
There are 118 regional domain endings in the .pl zone.List of regional domain names https://www.dns.pl/en/list_of_regional_domain_names live 2021-10-19 NASK Domain Name Registry https://web.archive.org/web/20190402095518/https://www.dns.pl/en/list_of_regional_domain_names 2019-04-02 Some of them are:
.bialystok.pl: Białystok (city)
.czest.pl: Częstochowa (city)
.gda.pl, .gdansk.pl: Gdańsk (city)
.gorzow.pl: Gorzów Wielkopolski (city)
.katowice.pl: Katowice (city)
.krakow.pl: Kraków (city)
.lublin.pl: Lublin (city)
.malopolska.pl: Małopolska (region)
.mazowsze.pl: Mazowsze (region)
.olsztyn.pl: Olsztyn (city)
.pila.pl: Piła (city)
.poznan.pl: Poznań (city)
.rzeszow.pl: Rzeszów (city)
.szczecin.pl: Szczecin (city)
.slask.pl: Śląsk (region)
.torun.pl: Toruń (city)
.wroc.pl, .wroclaw.pl: Wrocław (city)
.waw.pl, .warszawa.pl: Warsaw (city)
.zgora.pl: Zielona Góra (city)
References
External links
IANA .pl whois information
Domain name registry of .pl
Statistics of .pl
List of accredited Registrars
IDN registration policy in .pl
Category:Country code top-level domains
Category:Internet in Poland
Category:Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members
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