.is

{{Short description|Internet country-code top level domain for Iceland}}

{{Infobox Top level domain

| name=.is

| image=isnic

| introduced=11 December 1986

| type=Country code top-level domain

| status=Active

| dnssec=Yes

| registry=ISNIC

| sponsor=ISNIC

| registereddomains = 91,705

| dateregistereddomains = 2024-05-16

| refregistereddomains = {{Cite web |date=2024-05-16 |title=Statistics for ccTLD .is |url=https://www.isnic.is/en/tolur |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516144208/https://www.isnic.is/en/tolur |archive-date=2024-05-16 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=ISNIC Registry}}

| intendeduse=Entities connected with Iceland

| actualuse=Very popular in Iceland

| restrictions=None

| structure=Registrations are directly at second level

| document={{cite web |url=https://www.isnic.is/en/domain/rules.php |title=ISNIC Registry: Domain Rules |publisher=Isnic.is |date= |accessdate=2013-09-22 |archive-date=2024-10-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009175657/https://www.isnic.is/en/domain/rules |url-status=live }}

| disputepolicy=[https://www.neytendastofa.is/English Icelandic Consumer Agency] and/or [https://www.isnic.is/en/domain/dispute ISNIC's Board of Appeals]

| website=[https://www.isnic.is/ isnic.is]}}

.is (dot is) is the top-level domain for Iceland. The country code is derived from the first two letters of Ísland, which is the Icelandic word for Iceland. Registration of .is domains is open to all people and companies without any special restriction.

The first .is domain, hi.is, is the domain of {{Lang|is|Háskóli Íslands}} (University of Iceland). It was registered on December 11, 1986, making it one of the earliest ever domain registrations on the Internet.{{Cite web|url=https://isnic.is/is/whois/search?query=hi.is|title=ISNIC Lénaskrá: Leit í rétthafaskrá (WHOIS)|website=isnic.is|access-date=2019-12-09|archive-date=2021-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107055411/https://isnic.is/is/whois/search?query=hi.is|url-status=live}} The domain is managed by ISNIC, a private corporation.{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Steven Lee |last2=Hsu |first2=Tiffany |date=October 9, 2024 |title=How Iceland Became a Virtual Home for Online Disinformation and Identity Theft |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/business/iceland-online-disinformation-identity-theft.html |access-date=October 9, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}

According to McAfee report "Mapping the Mal Web," .is was evaluated as one of the top 10 most secure TLDs in the world in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. No report has come out since then.{{cite web

|url = https://www.isnic.is/about/isnic.php

|title = ISNIC Lénaskrá: Fyrirtækið

|accessdate = 9 January 2009

|language = Icelandic

|quote = .IS amongst the most secure top level domains in the world.

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081221084945/http://www.isnic.is/about/isnic.php

|archive-date = 2008-12-21

|url-status = dead

}} {{as of|2024|may}}, there were just over 91,000 .is domains registered.

{{as of|2016|October}}, .is domains can be registered for up to five years.{{cite web|url=https://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=449|title=.is registrations can now be renewed for up to five years|accessdate=2017-03-16|archive-date=2017-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316204824/https://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=449|url-status=live}}