.pa

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


introduced=1994
type=Country code top-level domain
status=Active
registry=Nic Panama
sponsor=PANNET, Universidad Tecnologica de Panama
intendeduse=Entities connected with Panama
actualuse=Fairly popular in Panama
restrictions=Primary and secondary name servers must be geographically separated
structure=Registrations are at third level beneath second-level labels
document= [http://www.nic.pa/egh/politicas.html Policies (English)]
disputepolicy=UDRP
website= [http://www.nic.pa/ 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.

econd 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

External links

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