ccTLD (Country-Code Top-Level Domain)
A two-letter top-level domain assigned to a country or territory, such as .uk, .de, or .jp.
- glossary
A ccTLD (country-code top-level domain) is a two-letter TLD assigned to a country or territory based on the ISO 3166 list — .uk, .de, .jp, .io (British Indian Ocean Territory), and so on. Unlike a gTLD, a ccTLD is administered under the authority of its country rather than directly by ICANN contract, so each one sets its own eligibility, pricing, and policy rules — some require local presence, others (like .io or .co) sell globally.
Related keywords
- ccTLD
- country-code TLD
- country domain
- .uk
- .de
- ISO 3166
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Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.