History

About the .pl domain name registry

Naukowa i Akademicka Sieć Komputerowa (NASK), a national research institute, maintains the registry of the country code domain, enabling registration of .pl domain names as well as a series of functional and regional domains. Registration is effected through registrars enrolled to the Partner Programme established by NASK in December 2002.

In 2003 NASK, as one of the first registries, provided a fully automatic registry system, based on a modified Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP).

In July 2013 NASK took over the service of .gov.pl domain from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Polish Academy of Sciences). Registration of .gov.pl domain names is available only to entitled entities and effected directly by NASK.

NASK is an active member of CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries), closely cooperates with the organization coordinating the operation of the Internet worldwide, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), associating county code registries within ICANN.

Timeline of milestones in the history of the .pl registry: