.va

.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City.[1] It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.

.va

Introduced	1995
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Internet Office of the Holy See
Sponsor	Holy See Secretariat of State
Intended use	Entities connected with   Vatican City
Actual use	Used for the official Vatican / Holy See site
Registration restrictions	No public registrations are available
Structure	Only official sites of the Vatican are in this domain; they are at second-level names, as well as within vatican.va
Dispute policies	None needed since registrations are unavailable outside Vatican administration
Registry website	www.vatican.va

List of websites

There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only[2]

"www" names with websites

• Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names:
  • www.va
  • www.vatican.va
  • www.pcf.va
  • www.news.va
• Vatican State Government
  • www.vaticanstate.va
• Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano
  • www.osservatoreromano.va
  • Login page for staff
    • www.cdp.osservatoreromano.va
    • www.cdp.ossrom.va
• Vatican Museums
  • www.museivaticani.va
  • www.cappellasistina.va
  • www.chapellesixtine.va
  • www.capillasixtina.va
  • www.sistinechapel.va
  • www.sixtinischekapelle.va
• Apostolic Penitentiary
  • www.paenitentiaria.va
  • www.penitenzieria.va
• Pontifical Mission Societies
  • www.ppoomm.va
• Parish Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican
  • www.santanna.va
• Istituto per le Opere di Religione
  • www.ior.va
• No Response from these sites
  • www.mlists.va (but see mlists.vatican.va below)
  • www.pasquini.va
• Photo Ordering Site
  • www.photo.va
• "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts
  • www.catholica.va
• Radio Vatican
  • www.radiovaticana.va

Non-"www" names with websites:

• Main Vatican Website
  • benedettoxvi.va
  • benedictumxvi.va
  • search.vatican.va
  • seraphin.vatican.va
• Vatican Archives
  • asv.vatican.va
• Mailing Lists (Mailman)
  • mlists.vatican.va
• Vatican Museums
  • mv.vatican.va
  • sistinechapel.va
• Vatican Library
  • bav.vatican.va
• "Compendium" (Username/Password required)
  • isidoro.vatican.va
• Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required)
  • webmail.mailservice.va
• Radio Vatican language services (various two-letter language codes)

Second-level domains are not available to the public.

Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).

See also

• Index of Vatican City-related articles

References

1. "Delegation Record for .VA". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
2. "VA Zone File". Robert Baskerville's ccTLD analysis data. 2007-12-28. Archived from the original on 19 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-28.