What is ccTLD

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.
 
Probably most recognizable as the letters after the final period in a domain name (e.g., the "mx" in www.example.mx), a ccTLD shows users and search engines in what country, sovereign state, or dependent territory a website is registered — and usually, by extension, where in the world searchers who will find this site relevant reside.
For examples, the ccTLD is bolded:

http://www.sample.fr (France)
http://www.sample.co.uk (United Kingdom)
 
Country code TLDs use the ISO 3166-1 country codes except in a few rare cases, where ASCII identifiers are used instead (for instance, .uk instead of .gb). In some cases (including Arabic and Chinese), TLDs using non-Latin characters are also available — these are called internationalized country code top-level domains (IDN ccTLDs or ccIDNs).
 
A ccTLD is a country code top-level domain extension that is assigned to a country in the world. Each country has their own domain extension based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. This means that all ccTLDs are only two characters, and all two character TLDs are ccTLDs.
 
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.
 
Back
Top