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I always like it when a new tld goes online. Today’s such a day.

.cat, the top level domain for the Catalan community has been added to the dns root somewhere yesterday.

What I like even more is that – probably by accident – their zone is transferable, using the name server dns-cat.pch.net. This means that anyone can get a list of all the domains that are registered under this top level domain. More in that in the next post.

Further reading:

• Campaign site puntcat.org
• .CAT registry, apparently in Catalan only
• ICANN application form

Currently the following domains are registered under .cat:

• assaciacio.cat
• associaci??.cat
• domini.cat
• fundacio.cat
• fundaci??.cat
• nic.cat
• puntcat.cat
• registre.cat
• tan.cat
• whois.cat
• www.cat

Some observations:

• The TLD supports Internationalised Domain Names, somewhat logical given the nature of the tld.
• assaciacio.cat seems like a typo to me, given the IDN version is associaci??.cat (But then again, I don’t speak Spanish Catalan, so who knows..)
• All the domains except whois.cat point to the registry website, which is in Catalan only.