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Top-level Internet domain for Angola .ao Domain .ao logo.svg November 15, 1995 Country code top-level domain Active DNS.AO Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies Entities connected with Angola Gets some use in Angola ≈5,900 March 2024 Estatísticas https://www.dns.ao/ao/estatisticas-2/ 2024-04-03 DNS.AO pt Limited to registrants within Angola Registrations are at third level beneath second level labels; there appear to also be some direct second-level registrations https://www.dns.ao/ No .ao is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Angola. It was originally administered by the college of engineering of the University of Agostinho Neto before being redelegated to the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technologies. History New Registry (DNS.AO) On 17 June 2019, commercial registration of domains was relaunched, Massificação do domínio .AO https://www.dns.ao/ao/gca/index.php?id=15 www.dns.ao 2021-08-09 with a single registrar approved for issuance, the government-run Serviços Públicos Electrónicos do Governo de Angola. Lista de Registrars Licenciados https://www.dns.ao/ao/gca/index.php?id=18 www.dns.ao 2021-08-09 Registration cost was reduced to 8000 Kwanzas per year. By January 2020, 2500 new registrations were received, six times more than in the previous five years. Registrations from outside Angola are not yet permitted. Foreign Customer https://www.dns.ao/ao/gca/index.php?id=21 www.dns.ao 2021-08-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20210804212556/https://www.dns.ao/ao/gca/index.php?id=21 2021-08-04 Original Registry (Reg.AO) As of January 2019, the old registry's website had not been modified since December 2001, and consisted of a single page in Portuguese. One of the few links on the page was to a document in Microsoft Word format, in English, which gave registration rules for the domain; they stated that registration by entities outside Angola was to be done only in the .it.ao subdomain. The search engine Google seems to be the first .it.ao entityGoogle Angola http://www.zorgloob.com/2008/05/18/google-angola/ Zorgloob https://web.archive.org/web/20120723021808/http://www.zorgloob.com/2008/05/18/google-angola/ 23 July 2012 fr 18 May 2008 dead Google.it.ao est semble-t-il le premier et le seul nom de domaine enregistré en .it.ao ! Google.it.ao is apparently the first and only domain name registered in .it.ao! using the subdomain. It also said that registrations were only taken at the third level. Registration cost was US$300. AfriDNS - African Domain Names http://www.afridns.org/#.ao afridns.org 2021-08-09 References External links IANA .ao whois information Registrar Information about African domain names Category:Communications in Angola Category:Country code top-level domains Category:Internet properties established in 1995 sv:Toppdomän#A