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{{Infobox top level domain
|name=.mm
|image=
|introduced=4 February 1997
|type=[[Country code top-level domain]]
|status=Active
|registry=[[Myanma Posts and Telecommunications|MPT]]<!--see also Posts and Telecommunications Department at https://www.ptd.gov.mm/-->
|sponsor=[[Ministry of Transport and Communications (Myanmar)|Ministry of Transport and Communications]]
|intendeduse=Entities connected with {{MYA}}
|actualuse=There are some functional sites in Myanmar under this domain although there has been relatively little Internet activity until recently, and much of that activity comes from foreign sites
|restrictions=Unknown
|structure=Registrations are at third level beneath second-level categories
|document=
|disputepolicy=
|website={{url|https://www.ptd.gov.mm/nic.aspx}}
}}

'''.mm''' is the [[Internet]] [[country code]] [[top-level domain]] ([[ccTLD]]) for [[Myanmar]].<ref>[https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/mm.html IANA .mm whois information], accessed January 2011</ref> It was assigned in 1997. Before 1989, the [[ISO 3166]] alpha-2 code for Burma was BU, but no '''.bu''' ccTLD was assigned.

On 12 June 2011, the [[ISO 3166-1]] code for Myanmar changed to reflect the MM used for the [[ccTLD]].

==History==
A company run by two Australian immigrants in Myanmar, Eagle Group, set up the first Internet access to [[Myanmar]] in 1997. They contracted with British company called Digiserve based in [[High Wycombe]], to provide DNS services for .mm.  All .mm DNS queries were handled by Digiserve's two name servers acting as root name servers for .mm, ''ns1.digiserve.com'' and ''ns2.digiserve.com'' respectively. In 1999, Eagle Group's service was shut down by the Burmese government.

Afterwards, these two servers then delegated the SOA authority of .com.mm, .net.mm, .edu.mm and org.mm TLDs to the two name servers managed by Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications, ''ns0.mpt.net.mm'' and ''ns1.mpt.net.mm'', both servers were located in Yangon.

In February 2002, the DigiServe [[Domain Name System|DNS]] servers were hacked by pro-democracy activists, which resulted in the traffic to all .mm domain names including www.gov.mm being redirected to a website demanding the release of famous student leader [[Min Ko Naing]] for a period of three days.

In the beginning of 2005, MPT finally retook management control of .mm name space and replaced Digiserve nameservers with their own.

Businesses in Myanmar could register for domain names within the '''.net.mm''' and '''.com.mm''' zones through [[Myanmar Teleport]] (formerly Bagan Cybertech) or from [[Myanma Posts and Telecommunications|Myanmar Post & Telecoms]] directly. '''.edu.mm''', '''.org.mm''', '''.gov.mm''' domain names are reserved for official and government use. There is no whois service provided.

Myanmar Teleport's service was later shut down by the Burmese government as well, leaving government-owned Myanmar Post & Telecoms as the sole controller for all the services for internet and email.

== See also ==
* [[Internet in Burma]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://archive.today/20121204162622/http://www.nic.mm/ NIC Domain Registry for Burma, Not Working as of 2017 May 04 ]
* [http://www.name.com.mm/ NIC Domain Registry for Burma/Myanmar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704002537/http://name.com.mm/ |date=2017-07-04 }}
* [https://www.ptd.gov.mm/nic.aspx Network Information Center - Posts and Telecommunications Department]

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