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| Introduced | 1985 |
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| TLD type | Sponsored top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Defense Information Systems Agency |
| Sponsor | DoD Network Information Center |
| Intended use | Military entities |
| Actual use | Agencies, services and divisions of the United States Department of Defense |
| Registration restrictions | Tightly restricted to eligible agencies |
| Structure | Divisions of particular services usually have third and higher level subdomains, such as within army.mil for United States Army sites. |
| Documents | RFC 920; RFC 1591 |
| Dispute policies | None |
| Website | nic.mil |
.mil (military) is the sponsored top-level domain for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary organizations. It was one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985.
The United States is the only country that has a top-level domain for its military. Other countries often use second-level domains for this purpose, e.g., .mod.uk for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.
Although the United States military has its own top-level domain, it still uses .com domains for some of its recruitment sites, such as goarmy.com. Also, the military uses .edu domains for its service academies: the United States Military Academy, United States Coast Guard Academy, United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy can all be reached using either an .edu or a .mil domain. The official athletic program sites of the three academies that are members of NCAA Division I (Army, Navy, Air Force) use .com domains.
The Department of Defense is, however, also using some "vanity domains" within .mil in recent times, such as americasupportsyou.mil and norad.mil.
External links
- IANA .mil whois information
- RFC 920 defined .mil and the other original top-level domains.
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