.om

Introduced	1996
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Oman Network Information Center
Sponsor	Oman Telecommunications Company
Intended use	Entities connected with  Oman
Actual use	Used in Oman
Registration restrictions	Local nexus requirement for registrant; admin contact must be physically in Oman; sale or transfer of domains prohibited
Structure	Registrations are made at the third level beneath second-level names
Documents	Rules; Service agreement
Dispute policies	Disputes must be settled using normal legal methods; the registry does not act as arbiter
Website	Omnic

.om is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Oman.

Currently, OMnic only allows third level domain registration. However, there are a number of domains directly under .om including mediaphone.om, nawrastelecom.om, omanmobile.om, omanpost.om, omantel.om, rakpetroleum.om, siemens.om, songfest.om, statecouncil.om^[1]

If .om were to ever allow unrestricted second level domain registration, many forms of cybersquatting would then be possible. For example, instead of yahoo.com, one could register "yahooc" under ".om" to create the typo yahooc.om.

  Second-level domains

As of 11 May 2007, the following SLD's are listed in the rules at OMnic:

• .com.om – Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Sultanate of Oman
• .co.om – Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the sultanate of Oman
• .edu.om – Educational institutions, e.g., universities and colleges, registered at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman
• .ac.om – Academic Organization (e.g. university, college), registered at the Ministry of Higher Education of the Sultanate of Oman
• .sch.om – Elementary schools, secondary schools, and high schools with valid licenses from Ministry of Education
• .gov.om – Government Departments and Ministries of the Sultanate of Oman
• .net.om – Intended to hold only the computers of network providers that are the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers, registered at the Ministry of Transportation and communications or registered at Oman Telecommunication Company.
• .org.om – Non-profit organizations, registered at Ministry of Social Affairs, Labour and Vocational Training
• .mil.om – Used by all Ministry of Defense establishments
• .museum.om – For Museums
• .biz.om – Commercial Company, trading company, registered at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of the Sultanate of Oman
• .pro.om – for Professionals, and Professional Associations.
• .med.om – Hospitals and medical clinics with valid licenses from Ministry of Health.

  Second top-level domain

A second top-level domain will be used for Oman, intended for domain names in the local language, using Arabic characters. The string عمان. has been registered and approved for this purpose, but it is not active yet (April 2011) and lower lever domains have not been granted yet.

  External links

• IANA .om whois information
• OMnic - .om domain name registration information
• OMnic Rules & Regulations

  References

1. ^ "OM Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data. 2007-12-28. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080119124038/http://www.robert.net/ccTLD/OM. Retrieved 2007-12-28. 

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