.dd part of the Federal Republic of Germany, which had already been assigned the ccTLD .de. The ISO 3166-1 code "DD" was withdrawn in 1990. .dd .dd was the assigned country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was chosen based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the German Democratic Republic, the letters coming from the German name of the country: '. In accordance with IANA policy, .dd was therefore available to be assigned as the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Germany. However, this was never done, and so .dd was never added
Canadian Internet Registration Authority bid on the job of managing it. CIRA currently has a monopoly on .CA top-level domain management. Canadian Internet Registration Authority The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) (French: Autorité canadienne pour les enregistrements Internet ACEI) is the organization that manages the .CA country code top-level domain, the policies that support Canada's Internet community and Canada's involvement in international Internet governance. CIRA is a member-driven organization. Membership in CIRA is included in the cost of a .CA domain, and open to anyone who holds a .CA domain. There are approximately 15,000 CIRA members as of January 2013. In November 2012, CIRA