Каймар аралдарының .ky домендік аймағының тарихы

Internet country code top level domain for the Cayman Islands
ky is the Internet country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the Cayman Islands. The code was chosen as other possible options had already been allocated. Registration was limited to residents and registered companies in the Cayman Islands with a local address, but this restriction was removed in September 2015. The Cayman Islands also has the international three letter code CYM and has won a bid to be awarded the cym domain in a future expansion of the top level domain space.

IANA received a request to establish the ky ccTLD in April 1995. From 1995 to 2002, the ky ccTLD registry was operated by an individual, Clint Mole, initially as an employee of the Cayman Islands government, but then later under contract with a company Domain Name Trust (DNT). In 2002, the Cayman Islands government established the Information and Communications Technical Authority (ICTA) and contacted ICANN requesting that administrative operation be changed to ICTA. In June 2003, IANA and ICANN concluded that the ky ccTLD should be redelegated to ICTA. In January 2015 the Cayman Islands ICTA announced a partnership with Uniregistry for the operation of the ky name extension. Uniregistry became the exclusive accredited registrar to retail ky names on 2 March 2015. In February 2020 GoDaddy announced that it had acquired Uniregistry's registrar business and with it the exclusive ky deal.

The logo was designed by Darren Cornwell and approved on 17 December 2014 as Uniregistry took on the ky namespace. It's a representation of the islands based on their geographical dimensions (the largest island being Grand Cayman, the next being Cayman Brac and finally Little Cayman). The blue was chosen to represent the sea that surrounds the islands.