Check .lt domain
While Lithuania celebrates the 100th anniversary of the restored independence, .lt domain, created in 1992 and identifying the country online, counts the 26th year of its existence. The possibility to register domains with Lithuanian labels was provided in 2004. It brings the internet closer to the native language. Today, there are more than 1600 domains with specific Lithuanian letters while total number of the Lithuanian internet names is close to 200 thousands.
Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in cooperation with the Lithuanian Computer Society and the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language organises the annual election of the most beautiful Lithuanian internet name. The most beautiful Lithuanian domain name of the year is chosen from the registered Lithuanian names with specific Lithuanian labels.
The Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) signed the reporting framework with the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on 3 November 2017.
LT area domain was created on 3 June 1992 with the help of the Norwegian Government at the proposal of the University of Oslo. The first internet names mii.lt, ktu.lt, vu.lt were registered in 1993.
“Businesses have to understand that internet addressed with specific Lithuanian letters are convenient only for the use in the local market”, – states Tomas Mackus, representative of the Internet Service Centre at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU ITC). He suggest for the business to register both options of the internet address.
The Internet Service Centre DOMREG at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) which is .lt registry, in cooperation with IT and telecommunication company “Teo” installed the additional measures for protection against the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattacks. The relevant equipment of KTU IPC will be protected by .lt protection system, as well as the special firewall equipment against cyberattacks from “Teo”.
