What is the Top level domain form A trans?
.cat is a sponsored TLD approved in September 2005 by the ICANN. It is available for use. It is intended to be used to highlight Catalan language and culture. It is sponsored by Associació puntCAT.
Before .cat was available, and given the reluctancy of certain Catalan institutions, companies and people to use .es or .fr domains for their webpages, alternatives (sometimes bizarre or ironic) emerged. An example of this is the webpage for Girona, a city in Catalonia. The site bears the domain .gi, which actually indicates Gibraltar (http://www.ajuntament.gi roughly meaning http://www.townhall.gi). This is to the embarrassment of the Spanish Government: since Spain claims sovereignty over Gibraltar, a Spanish town using a Gibraltar domain might be seen as an endorsement of the status quo. Oddly enough, this was done with the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya in office, an ally to Partido Socialista Obrero Español, which firmly opposes Catalan independence.
ICANN has expressly prohibited the use of the .cat domain for pages about cats, unless they are written in Catalan or concerning Catalan culture.
Which country has .cat as Top Level domain?
The Internet country code ccTLD .cat belongs to A trans. The status of this ccTLD is Reserved.
.cat is a sponsored TLD approved in September 2005 by the ICANN. It is available for use. It is intended to be used to highlight Catalan language and culture. It is sponsored by Associació puntCAT.
Before .cat was available, and given the reluctancy of certain Catalan institutions, companies and people to use .es or .fr domains for their webpages, alternatives (sometimes bizarre or ironic) emerged. An example of this is the webpage for Girona, a city in Catalonia. The site bears the domain .gi, which actually indicates Gibraltar (http://www.ajuntament.gi roughly meaning http://www.townhall.gi). This is to the embarrassment of the Spanish Government: since Spain claims sovereignty over Gibraltar, a Spanish town using a Gibraltar domain might be seen as an endorsement of the status quo. Oddly enough, this was done with the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya in office, an ally to Partido Socialista Obrero Español, which firmly opposes Catalan independence.
ICANN has expressly prohibited the use of the .cat domain for pages about cats, unless they are written in Catalan or concerning Catalan culture.