.pw
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| Introduced | 1997 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | PW Registry Corporation |
| Sponsoring organization | Micronesia Investment and Development Corporation |
| Intended use | Entities connected with Palau |
| Actual use | Marketed for personal e-mail addresses |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Registrations are for third-level names and their corresponding e-mail addresses within second-level names |
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| Dispute policies | PWTLD dispute resolution policy |
| Web site | PW Registry |
.pw is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Palau.
.pw has been opened for personal registrations under a similar structure to that which .name had at its original launch, in which people can obtain third level registrations of the form john.smith.pw along with the corresponding e-mail address of john@smith.pw. Second-level domain registrations are not permitted, so that the registry can reserve all second-level names for use in constructing these addresses. Trademark owners have the possibly to apply for a defensive registration that will prevent anybody else from registering a third-level domain that contains that trademark.
The personal e-mail offered in .pw has the feature of spam-prevention through the use of whitelisting; senders must be authorized before their messages can get through.
Through a DNS wildcard record, most second-level names in .pw go to a page offering registration of addresses within that name. The traditional registry address of nic.pw goes to one of these wildcard pages; the actual official registry site is at pwregistry.pw.
There is very little use of this domain for anything actually related to Palau, other than a site at survivorpw.pw pertaining to the reality television program Survivor: Palau. Even the government of Palau does not use this domain for its own sites; for instance, the site of the Palau embassy in Washington, DC is at palauembassy.com, an address using the .com domain which was intended for commercial entities.
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