.il

Introduced	24 October 1985; 37 years ago (1985-10-24)
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Israel Internet Association
Sponsor	Internet Society of Israel, NIC - ISRAEL[permanent dead link]
Intended use	Entities connected with:  Israel
Actual use	Popular in Israel
Registered domains	285,060 (2023-08-19)[1]
Registration restrictions	Limitations vary based on which 2nd-level domain registration is within; registry reserves right to screen and reject applications
Structure	Names are registered at third-level within generic second-level categories; second-level name registry directly under .il not supported
Documents	Registration rules
Dispute policies	Optional dispute resolution via Advisory Committee
DNSSEC	yes
Registry website	en.isoc.org.il

.ישראל

Introduced	22 November 2022; 8 months ago (2022-11-22)
TLD type	Internationalized country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Israel Internet Association
Sponsor	Internet Society of Israel
Intended use	Entities connected with  Israel with content in the Hebrew alphabet
Registered domains	22,186 (2023-08-19)[1]
Registration restrictions	Only Hebrew alphabet, digits, hyphens can be used.[2]
Structure	Names to be registered either at second-level directly under ישראל. or at third-level within generic second-level categories
Documents	Registration rules
DNS name	xn--4dbrk0ce
Registry website	כולנו.ישראל

.il is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Israel, administered by the Israel Internet Association and managed by NIC - ISRAEL^{[permanent dead link]}, which hosts the DNS root server and manages the Israeli Internet Exchange, that supports IPv4 and IPv6.^[3][4]

The .il top-level domain is one of the earliest registered ccTLDs. When Israel registered it, on 24 October 1985,^[3] it was the third registration of any ccTLD, after .us^[5] and .uk,^[6] which were registered earlier that year.

As of 19 August 2023 there are 285,060 domain names registered under the .il ccTLD in Israel.^[1]

Top-level domains in Hebrew script

On 19 May 2020, ICANN approved the use of the ישראל.‎ domain,^[7][8] that was proposed in 2012.^[9] It was delegated on 11 February 2021, and since 22 November 2022 it is possible to register domain names in full Hebrew script.^[10]

Unlike the structure of .il, domain names registered under ישראל. may be either directly at second-level (for example: איגוד-האינטרנט.ישראל) or at third-level under one of these second-level domains:^[11]

• אקדמיה.ישראל.: Academic institutions; equivalent to .ac.il.
• ממשל.ישראל.: Government and Governmental System; equivalent to .gov.il.
• צהל.ישראל.: Israel Defense Forces; equivalent to .idf.il.
• ישוב.ישראל.: Municipal Government; equivalent to .muni.il.

There will not be a Hebrew-script equivalent to these second-level domains:

• .co.il
• .org.il
• .k12.il
• .net.il

As a more private initiative the top-level domain .קום ("com") was registered by VeriSign in 2016. It has as of 2020 many thousand second-level domains, mostly in Hebrew script, some in Latin script.

Second-level domains

Domain names ending with .il will always be in the third level under one of these second-level domains:^[12]

• .ac.il: Academic Institutions; administration delegated to the Inter-University Computation Center.
• .co.il: Commercial Entities; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• .org.il: Non-commercial Organizations; administration delegated to five private registrars.
• .net.il: Israeli Internet service providers; available only to licensed providers by the Israel Internet Association.
• .k12.il: Schools and Kindergartens
• .gov.il: Government and Governmental System; administration delegated to Ministry of Finance.
• .muni.il: Municipal Government
• .idf.il: Israel Defense Forces; administration delegated to the army's Center of Computing and Information Systems.

Registration of other second-level domain names directly under .il is not supported.

Hebrew third level domains such as איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il are available since 2010.^[13]