.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
Internationalized domain name under the guidance of Tan Tin Wee. After much debate and many competing proposals, a system called "Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications" (IDNA) was adopted as a standard, and has been implemented in several top-level domains. In IDNA, the term "internationalized domain name" means specifically any domain name consisting only of labels to which the IDNA ToASCII algorithm (see below) can be successfully applied. In March 2008, the IETF formed a new IDN working group to update the current IDNA protocol. In October 2009, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the creation of internationalized country code