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Comment by ljw1001 | Hacker News Reader

IDK, but I've been anxious AF for a chance to use Afghanistan's, and it doesn't seem to be actively administered.

I once looked into whether it was possible to get a ".ck" domain name, for juvenile and obvious yet potentially humorous domains. It turns out that that's Cook Islands' TLD, and they don't allow direct use of it... instead, they've done the same thing as the UK did, and only allowed domains under ".co.ck".

Which made me chuckle for very similar reasons.

And if you want to make a domain name that makes use of that suffix in a crude way, you won't be allowed to:

> Domains considered profane will not be considered on any level, and the application will be dissolved with the applicant being notified, and future requests for the same domain name will be ignored. '.ck' domains are monitored on the web, on a regular basis for profanity on the Internet if it is found to be doing so, or if the site is deemed inappropriate, the domain will be terminated without notification or refund.

If they were that worried about the crude name possibilities, I wonder why they didn't go with ".com.ck" like some other gTLDs did?

Nathan Barley dot cock

It was trashbat.co.ck which sadly seems to be down right now.

It is actively administered but you need to physically communicate with the Ministry of Communications, in Kabul, to register a domain. This for the most part requires being present in Kabul. There are a number of Afghan domestic corporations that use .AF. The zone files are still edited by hand.

Example of live .AF companies:

http://www.jobs.af/

https://www.roshan.af/en/personal/

http://etisalat.af/

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