.ua is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Ukraine.
History
Dmitry Kohmanyuk, .UA domain administrator - Dmitry Kohmanyuk, .UA domain administrator.
- December 1, 1992 - Registered in root zone>
- April 13, 2012 - DNSSEC enabled in root zone
Statistics
As of March 2017, around 10.78% of all the .ua domains were served via secured HTTPS protocol, with the Let's Encrypt Authority X3 being the most popular SSL certificate. Nginx is the most popular web server, serving 68.97% of the .ua domains, followed by Apache serving 17.75% of the total .ua domains.
2nd level domains
To remove the risk of cyber squatting, registration of second-level domains directly below .ua is restricted to owners of registered trade marks, who may register a domain name similar to that of the trade mark in question. However you can register third-level domains beneath some of the following:
- com.ua - paid, commercial organizations, one of the most popular
- edu.ua - free, available only to proved educational organisations.
- gov.ua - free, available only to governmental organizations
- net.ua - paid, network service providers
- in.ua - paid, domains for individuals
- pp.ua - free, domains for individuals
- org.ua - paid, other organizations (non-commercial), individuals
There are also second-level domains which are region-specific. These are less popular than the above list (making domain names more available) but they are sometimes restricted to organisations exclusively from within the region.
- cherkasy.ua, cherkassy.ua (also: ck.ua) - Cherkasy Oblast
- chernigov.ua (cn.ua) - Chernihiv Oblast
- chernivtsi.ua, chernovtsy.ua (cv.ua) - Chernivtsi Oblast
- crimea.ua - Crimea
- dnipropetrovsk.ua, dnepropetrovsk.ua (dp.ua) - Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
- donetsk.ua (dn.ua) - Donetsk Oblast
- ivano-frankivsk.ua (if.ua) - Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- kharkiv.ua, kharkov.ua (kh.ua) - Kharkiv Oblast
- kherson.ua (ks.ua) - Kherson Oblast
- khmelnitskiy.ua (km.ua) - Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- kyiv.ua, kiev.ua - Kiev
- kirovograd.ua (kr.ua) - Kirovohrad Oblast
- lugansk.ua (lg.ua) - Luhansk Oblast
- lutsk.ua, volyn.ua (lt.ua) - Lutsk, Volyn Oblast
- lviv.ua - Lviv Oblast
- nikolaev.ua (mk.ua) - Mykolaiv Oblast
- odesa.ua, odessa.ua (od.ua) - Odessa Oblast
- poltava.ua (pl.ua) - Poltava Oblast
- rivne.ua, rovno.ua (rv.ua) - Rivne Oblast
- sebastopol.ua - Sevastopol
- yalta.ua - Yalta
- sumy.ua - Sumy Oblast
- ternopil.ua (te.ua) - Ternopil Oblast
- uzhgorod.ua (uz.ua) - Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast
- vinnica.ua (vn.ua) - Vinnytsia Oblast
- zaporizhzhe.ua (zp.ua) - Zaporizhia Oblast
- zhitomir.ua (zt.ua) - Zhytomyr Oblast
See also
- .укр, a second top domain for Ukraine, active from 2013, which has domains with Cyrillic characters.
- Internet in Ukraine
External links
- IANA .ua whois information
- Official site of domain .ua
- Official site of .ua registry
- Statistic of domain names usage
- Ukrainian Domains Statistics and Information
References
