.is .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 persons and companies without any special restriction. The very first .is-domain, hi.is, is the domain of University of Iceland. It was registered on December 11, 1986, making it one of the earliest ever domain registrations on the Internet. According to McAfee report "Mapping the Mal Web", ".is" has been evaluated as one of the top 10 most secure TLDs in the world in
Fully qualified domain address Fully qualified domain address A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail, but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988. A FQDA is composed of a "local part", followed by the symbol @ and the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host responsible for a mailbox. An example of a FQDA is: localpart@mailhost.example.com. The local part usually denotes a username, while the fully qualified domain name is used by