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.va

Internet country code top-level domain for Vatican City

Field	Value
name	.va
image	Emblem of the Holy See (no background).svg
image_alt	Vatican emblem
introduced	11 September 1995 (root zone)
type	Country code top-level domain
status	Active
registry	Vatican Internet Service
sponsor	Holy See Secretariat of State
intendeduse	Entities connected with Vatican City
restrictions	No public registrations are available
disputepolicy	None
website	comunicazione.va

.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Vatican City State. It is administered by the Vatican Internet Service.

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Background

The .va top-level domain was created in 1995 by Archbishop John Patrick Foley of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The website vatican.va went live on Christmas Day 1995.

Websites

There are 86 domain names starting with "www" in the .va zone, with many more email-only subdomains. "www" names with websites

Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names: www.va - www.vatican.va - www.pcf.va - www.news.va
Vatican State Government: www.vaticanstate.va
Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano: www.osservatoreromano.va
Vatican Museums: www.museivaticani.va - www.cappellasistina.va - www.chapellesixtine.va - www.capillasixtina.va - www.sistinechapel.va - www.sixtinischekapelle.va
Apostolic Penitentiary: www.paenitentiaria.va www.penitenzieria.va
Pontifical Mission Societies: www.ppoomm.va
Parish Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican: www.santanna.va
Istituto per le Opere di Religione: www.ior.va
Photo Ordering Site: www.photo.va
"Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts: www.catholica.va
Radio Vatican: www.radiovaticana.va

Non-"www" names with websites:

Main Vatican Website: benedettoxvi.va - benedictumxvi.va - search.vatican.va - seraphin.vatican.va
Vatican Archives: asv.vatican.va
Mailing Lists (Mailman): mlists.vatican.va
Vatican Museums: mv.vatican.va - sistinechapel.va
Vatican Library: bav.vatican.va
"Compendium" (Username/Password required): isidoro.vatican.va
Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required): webmail.mailservice.va
Radio Vatican language services (various two-letter language codes) --

References

"Delegation Record for .VA". [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]].
"The Vatican Internet Service".
(2009-03-07). "Vatican opposes faith-based Web addresses".
"Cardinal John Patrick Foley dies at the age of 76".
"Pope John Paul II Brings the Vatican Online".
"Vatican Internet Sites".
(2007-12-28). "VA Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data.

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