Introduced | 24 March 1994 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | STISC[1] |
Intended use | Entities connected with Moldova |
Actual use | Very popular in Moldova, limited use by medical doctors,[2] limited use by Markdown-related applications[3][4] |
Registered domains | over 25,000 (2020-07-25)[5] |
Registration restrictions | Prohibited domain names with bad taste, foul language, injurious to public order or to public sensibilities, with offending character, or with obscene or pornographic words |
Structure | Registrations are taken directly at the second level |
Documents | Terms and conditions |
Dispute policies | UDRP |
DNSSEC | yes |
Registry website | nic.md |
.md is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Moldova introduced on March 24, 1994.
The price of domain registration is 450 lei[5] or US$39 (including VAT)[6] per year.
The TLD is currently administered by STISC (Service for Information Technology and Cyber Security);[1] before being merged into STISC, the Moldovan state company MoldData had an exclusive agreement to administer and distribute domain names within the .MD domain.[7]
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