Domain .UA is managed by Hostmaster, Ltd., a company based in Kiev, Ukraine. Not so far ago second level domains were allowed to register but with strong limitations - only registered (in Ukraine) trade marks can apply. Thus, in september 2005 there were totally only 1.898 domain in second level .UA registered (4.6% more then in august). It is very expensive to register the second level .UA. Aside of registration/renew fee of about 100 USD per year you have to register a trade mark on the territory of Ukraine. Hence a [YOURDOMAINNAME].UA will cost you over 600 USD.
Like in .UK, in it is used to register third level domains. Typically there were 5 generic - .COM.UA .NET.UA .ORG.UA .EDU.UA and .GOV.UA - and 26 (51 in total) regional domains (ODESSA.UA - OD.UA for Odessa, etc). And the most popular regional domain is .KIEV.UA. An avarage cost for registration of a third level domain is 12 USD/year. Any registration is semi-automated and manually approved by TLD administrators. Also recently a new third level domain registrations is available - .IN.UA (stated for individuals - like .NAME) but already widely used by businesses.
The dynamics of domain name registration in Ukraine is about 2% per month with total figure of registered domains 160.101 in september 2005.
.ORG.UA - 10,554 (+6.7% in comparision with august)
.NET.UA - 4679 (+3.8%)
.COM.UA - 38,567 (+3.3%)
There are also rumors that soon a new .CO.UA registration will be available soon.
Short reference: Ukraine is the first by territory (604,000 sq km) and the fifth by population (48 million) country in Europe.
Like in .UK, in it is used to register third level domains. Typically there were 5 generic - .COM.UA .NET.UA .ORG.UA .EDU.UA and .GOV.UA - and 26 (51 in total) regional domains (ODESSA.UA - OD.UA for Odessa, etc). And the most popular regional domain is .KIEV.UA. An avarage cost for registration of a third level domain is 12 USD/year. Any registration is semi-automated and manually approved by TLD administrators. Also recently a new third level domain registrations is available - .IN.UA (stated for individuals - like .NAME) but already widely used by businesses.
The dynamics of domain name registration in Ukraine is about 2% per month with total figure of registered domains 160.101 in september 2005.
.ORG.UA - 10,554 (+6.7% in comparision with august)
.NET.UA - 4679 (+3.8%)
.COM.UA - 38,567 (+3.3%)
There are also rumors that soon a new .CO.UA registration will be available soon.
Short reference: Ukraine is the first by territory (604,000 sq km) and the fifth by population (48 million) country in Europe.
