.cc

Infobox Top level domain
name=.cc
background=#CCF


introduced=1997
type=Country code top-level domain
status=Active
registry=eNIC (a VeriSign company)
sponsor=Island Internet Services
intendeduse=Entities connected with flag|Cocos Islands
actualuse=A varied assortment of sites, few of them relating to those islands
restrictions=None
structure=Registrations permitted at second level
document= [http://www.enom.cc/terms/agreement.asp Registration agreement]
disputepolicy=UDRP
website= [http://www.enic.cc/ eNIC] |

.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com"; .cc was originally assigned October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle WA by the IANA.

With the help of SamsDirect Internet, headed by David Sams, the marketing guru who launched Oprah Winfrey nationally for King World, eNIC managed and marketed the top level domain with great success to become the "second largest TLD registry in the United States second only to Verisign" according to Brian Cartmell, founder and CEO of eNIC [ [http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/DNS_control/ICANN_IANA_IAHC/20010214_icann_sen_hearing/0214car.pdf Brian Cartmell CEO of eNIC testimony before the United States Senate] ] who testified before the United States Senate in regard to The Governance of the Domain Name System by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on February 4, 2001. Much of the success of the domain sales came as a direct result of Sams entering into a deal with the largest radio broadcaster in the United States, Clear Channel (CC) Communications, to advertise and promote the domain on several hundred radio stations over a three month period.

Registration is made directly at second-level.

The ".co.cc" domain is not an official hierarchy; it is merely a standard domain like any other and is used for a free URL redirection service.

References

External links

* [http://www.iana.org/root-whois/cc.htm IANA .cc whois information]
* [http://www.enic.cc/ .cc Homepage]
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