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.ag is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Antigua and Barbuda. As of 2021 the .ag CcTLD is maintained by the UHSA School of Medicine.[1]

Second and third level registrations

Registrations can be made at the second level directly beneath .ag, or at the third level beneath:

Domain Intended use
.com.ag Commercial entities
.co.ag
.org.ag Organisations, especially nonprofits
.net.ag Network operators / providers
.nom.ag Individuals

There are no restrictions on who can register.

Domain hacks

In addition to its original intended use as a country code, the .ag domain has been marketed for use for agriculture-related sites, and for sites referencing the atomic symbol for silver, Ag.

It also has a potential use for other domain hacks for English words that end in -ag. The Heritage Foundation uses .ag for URL shortening (herit.ag), as well as The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University (tx.ag).[2][3]

“.ag” meaning “Aktiengesellschaft“

Aktiengesellschaft, abbreviated AG, is a German term that refers to a corporation that is limited by shares, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market.

The term is used in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, but not Liechtenstein or Luxembourg.

A German court (5. Zivilsenat des Oberlandesgerichtes Hamburg) ruled in July 2004 that a .ag domain may only be registered by an Aktiengesellschaft, and then only by an AG that has the same name as the domain.

For example, a company with shareholders in Germany having the name X AG may not register as y.ag.[4][5]

Use in Greenland

The newspaper Sermitsiaq uses the TLD since its merger with the paper Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten, which was marketed as AG as an abbreviation of its combined Greenlandic and Danish names, thus implying a continuation of its identity.

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