.tr

.tr is country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Turkey. It is administered by TRABİS (.tr Network Information Center, ). Before TRABİS; Nic.TR, owned by Middle East Technical University, was managing it but .tr domain was transferred to TRABİS on 12 September 2022. As of September 2024, 1,250,077 domain names have .tr TLD.

Second-level domains
.tr domain has some second-level domains (SLD) for classification. There are two parts which are restricted and non-restricted subdomains. These subdomains are listed below.

 Restricted subdomains 
These subdomains require a few documents.
 .gov.tr: Government websites
 .bel.tr: Municipality websites (that has a few exceptions such as İstanbul)
 .pol.tr: Police websites
 .edu.tr: University websites
 .k12.tr: Primary, secondary and high school websites
 .av.tr: Lawyer websites
 .dr.tr: Doctor and health organization websites
 .tsk.tr: Turkish Army Forces websites (the new version of .mil.tr)
 .ct.tr: Northern Cyprus websites (limited using, the new version of .nc.tr)

The necessary documents must be submitted within 15 days. The domain is registered in 2 days after the documents are transmitted.

Non-restricted subdomains
These subdomains don't require documents but have several informal rules. Actually, these rules aren't imperative.
com.tr: Commercial websites
 net.tr: Commercial websites
 org.tr: Nonprofit organization websites
 biz.tr: Commercial websites
 info.tr: commercial websites
 tv.tr: TV channels, programs etc. websites
 gen.tr: General
 web.tr: General

Note: The following three domains might want some documents on some cases.

 tel.tr: Telephone number websites (Onyl can register in Turkey)
 name.tr: Personal websites (Onyl can register in Turkey)
 bbs.tr: BBS (Bulletin Board System) websites (Onyl can register in Turkey)

a.tr program
On 14 September 2023, TRABİS announced that domain registrations can be directly second-level (such as a.tr). Then, registrations started with the following order:
 Governmental organizations had a domain with "gov.tr, "edu.tr", "tsk.tr", "bel.tr", "pol.tr", "k12.tr"(14 September 2023 - 14 November 2023)
 Non-profit organizations had a domain with "org.tr"(14 November 2023 - 14 February 2024)
 Any organizations or people had a domain with "kep.tr", "av.tr", "dr.tr", "com.tr", "org.tr", "net.tr", "gen.tr", "web.tr", "name.tr", "info.tr", "tv.tr", "bbs.tr", "tel.tr"(14 October 2024 - 7 August 2024)

Today, directly .tr domain registration is available for everyone.

Internationalized domain name support
.tr domain names support internationalized domain name (IDN) registrations. Domain names can include "ç, ğ, ı, ö, ü, ş" letters. However, IDN domain names are generally not used.

References

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