The Network Information Center Argentina, or NIC Argentina, is an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina responsible for operating the .ar

.ar

.ar is the Internet country code top-level domain for Argentina. It is administered by NIC Argentina.-Second Level Domains:*.com.ar *.edu.ar...

 country code top-level domain

Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

 (ccTLD).

Delegation for the .ar

.ar

.ar is the Internet country code top-level domain for Argentina. It is administered by NIC Argentina.-Second Level Domains:*.com.ar *.edu.ar...

 ccTLD, was requested on August 20, 1987, as part of the transition to the Internet Domain Name System. The delegation was approved and became effective on September 13, 1987. Since then, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina has been the sole sponsor and entity responsible for the management of Internet Domain Names for the .AR ccTLD, this role was reaffirmed by Executive Decree 267/2005 on April 4, 2005.

Until Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 was able to establish its first permanent connection to the global Internet, name services were provided by UUNET

UUNET

UUNET founded in 1987, was one of the largest Internet service providers and one of the nine Tier 1 networks. It was based in Northern Virginia and was the first commercial Internet service provider...

.

The NIC-DDN WHOIS entry for AR-DOM in 1991 showed:

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto (AR-DOM)

   Departamento de Informatica

   Recoquista 1088

   Buenos Aires - 1003

   ARGENTINA



   Domain Name: AR



   Administrative Contact:

      Porter, Sergio  (SP48)  SERGIOP@ATINA.AR

      +54 1-311-0071

   Technical Contact:

      Amodio, Jorge Marcelo  (JMA49)  PETE@ATINA.AR

      +54 1313 8082

   Zone Contact:

      Chapman, Malcom  (MC328)  malcom@atina.ar

      +54 1-313-8082



   Record last updated on 24-Mar-91.



   Domain servers in listed order:



   NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3

   UUCP-GW-1.PA.DEC.COM         16.1.0.18



   Top Level domain for Argentine Republic



   For information concerning this domain, please consult

   the Administrative Contact listed above.

Current contact information for the .AR ccTLD can be obtained from the IANA Root Zone Database.

External links

• Network Information Center Argentina (NIC) - official site.
• Historia y Evolucion de Internet en Argentina - (Spanish only)