.as

For the file extension .as, see ActionScript.

.as

Introduced	1997
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	AS Domain Registry
Sponsor	AS Domain Registry
Intended use	Entities connected with American Samoa
Actual use	Used for a variety of things, mostly not connected with American Samoa
Registration restrictions	Domains may not be used for pornographic or racist material; registry has right of refusal for all applications
Structure	Registrations are directly at second level
Documents	Registry policy
Dispute policies	UDRP
Website	AS Domain Registry

.as is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for American Samoa. It is administered by AS Domain Registry.

Usage

There is no restriction on the nationality of registrants, and many .as names are registered to and used by people, companies and organizations with no connection to American Samoa (as example, people and organizations related to Asturias, a Spanish region). "AS" or "A/S" is a suffix indicating a joint stock company in some countries including Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Czech Republic, so this TLD may be of use by companies of this sort. Also, some autonomous systems or websites providing information about autonomous systems or BGP, such as bgp4.as, have registered domain names. It is, sometimes, used as a domain hack, since the suffix "-s" means plural in some languages like English and Spanish, thus "-as" would be the end of the plural of a word that ends with an "a". An example of that is the Brazilian website escol.as, meaning "schools".

External links

• IANA .as whois information