.pa
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| Introduced | 1994 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Nic Panama |
| Sponsoring organization | PANNET, Universidad Tecnologica de Panama |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Panama |
| Actual use | Fairly popular in Panama |
| Registration restrictions | Primary and secondary name servers must be geographically separated |
| Structure | Registrations are at third level beneath second-level labels |
| Documents | Policies (English) |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Web site | Nic Panama |
.pa is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Panama.
Since "PA" is also the postal code for the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, it has had occasional use under that meaning, but this has not become widespread.
The requirement by the registry for two name servers that are geographically separated is a traditional Internet practice designed to ensure redundancy in case one network is down or unreachable at a given time. However, few domain registries impose this as an actual requirement, and it is common in most TLDs to have all name servers be in the network of the hosting provider for the domain. Some people currently question the need for geographically redundant name service for domains which are (as most are at present) virtually hosted and used exclusively to point at Web sites and e-mail addresses within a single network, usually the same one that hosts its name servers, so that if the entire network is down the site would be down anyway.
[edit] Second level domains
- net.pa - reserved for isps
- com.pa
- ac.pa
- sld.pa
- gob.pa
- edu.pa
- org.pa
- abo.pa
- ing.pa
- med.pa
- nom.pa
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