.vn

Overview

• .vn is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Vietnam.
• Introduced on 14 April 1994 and intended for entities connected with Vietnam.
• The registry is the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC); the domain is sponsored by the Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication.
• As of February 2023 there were 572,102 registered .vn domains.
• The national domain name server system for .vn consists of seven server clusters (five located in Vietnam and two overseas) with more than 70 points in major cities worldwide.
• .vn supports Vietnamese internationalized domain name (IDN) characters.

History

• 1994: Rob Hurle was among the first authorized to register the .vn domain; VNPT initially managed the DNS and .vn.
• 2000: VNPT transferred DNS and .vn management to VNNIC when the center was established by the Vietnamese government.
• 2003: Dot VN, Inc. signed an agreement with VNNIC to market the .vn domain overseas.
• The domain was implemented on 14 April 1994 and remains active under VNNIC operation.

Usage and Audience

• .vn is fairly popular within Vietnam and is intended for organizations, businesses, government bodies, educational and research institutions, and individuals connected with Vietnam.
• Common second-level categories (ccSLDs) and typical uses include:
  • com.vn: commercial activities
  • biz.vn: business activities (equivalent to com.vn)
  • edu.vn: education and training
  • gov.vn: central and local government agencies
  • net.vn: online service providers
  • org.vn: political, cultural and social organizations
  • int.vn: Vietnam-based international organizations
  • ac.vn: research and academic organizations
  • pro.vn: highly specialized professional domains
  • info.vn: information creation and distribution
  • health.vn: pharmaceutical and medical activities
  • name.vn: personal names, trade names, aliases
  • id.vn: personal registrations for Vietnamese citizens
  • io.vn: technology-related organizations and services
  • ai.vn: artificial intelligence activities and services
  • regional/province SLDs (e.g., hanoi.vn, haiphong.vn): entities related to specific municipalities or provinces

Registration Rules

• Eligibility: Individuals and organizations may register .vn domains subject to policy and legal requirements.
• Content restrictions:
  • Domain names must not contain words or phrases that infringe national sovereignty, security, or social ethics, or violate traditional customs and values.
  • Registrants should avoid names that cause confusion through abuse of polysemy or omission of Vietnamese diacritics.
• Character and format rules:
  • Labels may contain letters a-z, digits 0-9, Vietnamese letters (IDN characters), and the hyphen "-".
  • Labels must not begin or end with a hyphen and may not contain two consecutive hyphens.
  • Uppercase and lowercase letters are not distinguished.
  • At each label level, the maximum length is 63 characters (for IDNs the length is considered after conversion to ASCII/Punycode).
• Short domains and auctions:
  • 1- and 2-character .vn domain names are allocated through auction.
  • There are 43 one-character .vn domains (36 plain ASCII characters and 7 Vietnam-specific characters) and 1,296 two-character ASCII combinations.

Notable Cases or Examples

• Allocation of short domains: single- and two-character .vn names are specifically handled via auction to allocate scarce short names.
• International marketing: Dot VN, Inc.'s 2003 agreement with VNNIC to market .vn overseas is a notable milestone in promoting the namespace beyond Vietnam.

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domain:       VN

organisation: Viet Nam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC)
address:      Ministry of Information and Communications of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
address:      18 Nguyen Du
address:      Hanoi 100000
address:      Viet Nam

contact:      administrative
name:         Nguyen Hong Thang
organisation: Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC)
address:      Ministry of Information and Communications of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
address:      18 Nguyen Du
address:      Hanoi 10000
address:      Viet Nam
phone:        +84 24 35564944 ext 301
fax-no:       +84 24 37821462
e-mail:       nhthang@vnnic.vn

contact:      technical
name:         Nguyen Truong Thanh
organisation: Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC)
address:      Ministry of Information and Communications of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
address:      18 Nguyen Du
address:      Hanoi 10000
address:      Viet Nam
phone:        +84 24 35564944 ext 302
fax-no:       +84 24 37821462
e-mail:       thanh@vnnic.vn

nserver:      A.DNS-SERVERS.VN 194.0.1.18 2001:678:4:0:0:0:0:12
nserver:      B.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:1:2:0:0:0:105 203.119.73.105
nserver:      C.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:c000:7:0:0:0:105 203.119.38.105
nserver:      D.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:8000:2:0:0:0:105 203.119.44.105
nserver:      E.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:1000:2:0:0:0:105 203.119.60.105
nserver:      F.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:d000:2:0:0:0:105 203.119.68.105
nserver:      G.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:500:14:6115:ad:0:0:1 204.61.216.115
nserver:      H.DNS-SERVERS.VN 2001:dc8:6000:0:0:0:0:105 202.47.142.105
ds-rdata:     16196 8 2 cb68c5384104b31e1d9cbc1c45f861a92cda9d8121afe76f9a8978527983fd99
ds-rdata:     16196 8 4 276643f5ef43a0610277c06cc5261056728450b1584b34f6d19f4c5bd9dd1deff2d5d3cb805b86718b1e0778682afe91

whois:        

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: https://www.vnnic.vn/

created:      1994-04-14
changed:      2023-07-19
source:       IANA