gy domain Domain

The domain extension .gy is the country-specific top-level domain of Guyana, a state on the Atlantic coast of South America with a population of approximately 750,000 inhabitants. It borders on Brazil to the south and west, Venezuela to the northwest and Suriname to the east.

Award guidelines

The domain extension .gy was launched on 13 September 1994 and is administered by the University of Guyana and the Centre for Information Technology of the University of Guyana. In order to register a domain address ending in .gy, you do not need to be a resident of Guyana if you are a private individual wishing to do so. If a company has the ambition to acquire a domain address ending in .gy, it does not need to have a registered office or a branch in that country. For Internet providers and companies there is also the possibility to register a sub-level domain. In 2007, the incident that the registry blocked registrations for this domain ending caused a sensation. The background is still unclear today. A connection with the border conflict between Suriname and Guyana, which could only be finally clarified by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, cannot be ruled out.

Use

Many of the approximately 750,000 inhabitants of Guyana have no direct access to the WWW. For this reason, there are hardly any registrations for a domain with the ending .gy from private parties of the inhabitants of this country. In the course of the free market economy prevailing in the country there are many companies that advertise their products and services in their own country or abroad under such a domain with the ending .gy.

Meaning

The importance of the .gy domain extension is quite low, as is the economic performance of the country. Sugar, gold and bauxite are among the country's export hits. However, many goods have to be imported into the country, because there is not much industry in Guyana itself. However, there are only recently discovered unused oil deposits lying dormant off the country's coast. Therefore the importance of the domain extension .gy might increase in the next years.