.nato

. nato was a generic top -level domain ( gTLD ), which was intended for use by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization ). It existed only in the years 1988 to 1996.

History

The top -level domain was originally intended as a counterpart to the purely American. Mil extension. In accordance with the RFC 920 October 1984, was in fact permitted to introduce their own TLDs for multisite organization. In order not to have any international organization allocate its own address, it was decided in November 1988 to introduce. Int. This nato was superfluous, so the domain itself is no longer used in the follow- NATO -. Instead, the subdomain has been registered nato.int. For a transitional period, the top-level domain remained in the Domain Name System included. Finally, she was no longer mentioned in RFC 1591 in March 1994 and their operation shut down in July 1996 perfectly.

This is. Nato the only generic domain that has ever been deleted. Notwithstanding the tendency to introduce new generic top -level domains, there are currently (as of January 2013) no plans to reactivate nato in any form..