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| Introduced | 1997 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | eNIC (a VeriSign company) |
| Sponsor | Island Internet Services |
| Intended use | Entities connected with  Cocos Islands |
| Actual use | A ragtag assortment of sites, few of them relating to those islands |
| Registration restrictions | None |
| Structure | Registrations permitted at second level |
| Documents | Registration agreement |
| Dispute policies | UDRP |
| Web site | eNIC |
.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com". Originally assigned October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of Seattle WA by the IANA. eNIC managed and marketed the top level domain with great success to become the "second largest TLD registry in the United States second only to Verisign" according to Brian Cartmell Founder and CEO of eNIC[1] who testified before the United States Senate in regard to The Governance of the Domain Name System by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Feb 4, 2001. Registration is made directly at second-level. The .co.cc domain is not an official hierarchy; it is merely a standard domain like any other and is used for a free URL redirection service.
