.mm

Overview

• .mm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Myanmar.
• Introduced on 4 February 1997. The domain corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code MM.
• Registrations are structured at the third level beneath defined second-level categories (for example, example.com.mm).
• Intended for entities connected with Myanmar; historically there was relatively little local Internet activity under .mm.

History

• 1997: .mm was assigned and the first Internet access in Myanmar was set up by Eagle Group, which contracted Digiserve (UK) to provide DNS services.
• 1999: Eagle Group's service was shut down by the Burmese government.
• Early 2000s: Digiserve's name servers initially handled .mm. Authority for several second-level zones (com.mm, net.mm, edu.mm, org.mm) was later delegated to name servers managed by Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) in Yangon.
• February 2002: DigiServe DNS servers were hacked and .mm traffic (including gov.mm) was redirected for several days to a protest page.
• 2005: MPT retook management control of the .mm namespace and replaced Digiserve's name servers with its own.
• Later years: Myanmar Teleport (formerly Bagan Cybertech) provided registration services for a time but was shut down, leaving Myanmar Post & Telecoms as the primary controller.
• 12 June 2011: ISO 3166-1 code for Myanmar officially reflected MM (matching the ccTLD).
• 1 October 2019: The Department of Telecommunications began operating as the .mm Domain Registry; Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Yatanarpon Teleport Public Co., Ltd and Myanmar Technology Gateway Co., Ltd began acting as .mm domain registrars.

Usage and Audience

• Target audience: entities and individuals connected with Myanmar; applicants are generally required to be Myanmar entities or, for natural persons, permanent residents.
• Common uses include commercial (.com.mm, .biz.mm), network (.net.mm), organizational (.org.mm), educational (.edu.mm), government (.gov.mm, .hluttaw.mm) and personal (.name.mm, .per.mm) third-level registrations beneath their respective second-level labels.
• Historically there was limited local uptake; some activity came from foreign sites, and usage has grown more recently with the establishment of local registrars.

Registration Rules

• Eligibility: Applicants must be Myanmar entities or, for natural persons, permanent residents of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
• Structure: Registrations are made at the third level under defined second-level domains (see list below).
• Reserved names: Country/state/province/district/city/town/village names and related short codes; names related to the Government of Myanmar; religious names; bank/finance names; geographical names; trademarked names; and names considered scandalous, obscene, offensive or contrary to public norms are reserved and not publicly available.
• Character rules:
  • Minimum length: 2 characters.
  • A domain may not begin or end with a hyphen (-).
  • ASCII domain names: letters a-z, numbers 0-9 and hyphens.
  • Non-ASCII (internationalized) names: Myanmar script characters, numbers 0-9 and hyphens.
• Whois/service notes: Historically there has been no public whois service for .mm.

Second-level domains (commonly used)

• .biz.mm
• .com.mm
• .net.mm
• .pro.mm
• .org.mm
• .edu.mm
• .name.mm
• .per.mm
• .gov.mm
• .hluttaw.mm

Notable Cases or Examples

• 2002 DNS incident: Pro-democracy activists hacked DigiServe's DNS servers and redirected traffic for .mm domains (including government sites) to a page demanding the release of student leader Min Ko Naing for about three days.
• Administrative shifts: Initial operation by Eagle Group and Digiserve, later control and management by Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), and formal operation changes in 2019 when the Department of Telecommunications began operating as the .mm registry with multiple local registrars.

% IANA WHOIS server
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% This query returned 1 object

domain:       MM

organisation: Ministry of Transport and Communications
address:      Zayya Htar Ni Street
address:      Nay Pyi Taw Mandalay Division 150111
address:      Myanmar

contact:      administrative
name:         Director General
organisation: Posts and Telecommunications Department
address:      Zayya Htar Ni Street
address:      Nay Pyi Taw Mandalay Division 150111
address:      Myanmar
phone:        +95 67 407535
fax-no:       +95 67 407227
e-mail:       dg@registry.gov.mm

contact:      technical
name:         Deputy Director
organisation: Posts and Telecommunications Department
address:      Zayya Htar Ni Street
address:      Nay Pyi Taw Mandalay Division 150111
address:      Myanmar
phone:        +95 67 3407626
fax-no:       +95 67 3407227
e-mail:       ptd@registry.gov.mm

nserver:      A.NIC.NET.MM 37.209.192.4
nserver:      B.NIC.NET.MM 37.209.194.4
nserver:      C.NIC.NET.MM 37.209.196.4
nserver:      D.NIC.NET.MM 37.209.198.4
ds-rdata:     18589 8 2 0a66403da2ceb4c3960750739074d5ca799334b45c85e3fedd7838e01a2435d8

whois:        whois.registry.gov.mm

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://www.ptd.gov.mm/

created:      1997-02-04
changed:      2025-07-28
source:       IANA