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{{short description|Internet country code top-level domain for Burkina Faso}}
{{Infobox top level domain
| name          = 
| image         = DotBf domain logo.png
| image_size    = 
| alt           = bf
| caption       = 
| introduced    = 29 March 1993
| removed       = (optional)
| type          = [[Country code top-level domain]]
| status        = Active
| registry      = ARCEP, Onatel SA
| sponsor       = [[Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts|ARCEP]]
| intendeduse   = Entities connected with [[Burkina Faso]]
| actualuse     = Some use in Burkina Faso, occasionally used by dating sites
| restrictions  = Unknown
| structure     = Registrations are made directly at second level; government
sites are often at third level beneath '''.gov.bf'''
| document      = [https://www.registre.bf/index.php/procedures-et-formulaires/ Procedures and forms]
| DNSname       = DNS name of internationalized TLD
| disputepolicy = Unknown
| website       = {{url|https://www.registre.bf/}}
| registereddomains     = 2,024
| dateregistereddomains = 31 December 2022
| refregistereddomains  = <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.registre.bf/index.php/statistiques/ | title=Statistiques &#124; Registre officiel du domaine national «.bf» }}</ref> 
| dnssec       = Yes if DNSSEC is implemented in the TLD, otherwise No or Unknown
| idn          = Yes if IDN is implemented in the TLD, otherwise No
}}

'''.bf''' is the [[Internet]] [[country code]] [[top-level domain]] ([[ccTLD]]) for the West African nation of [[Burkina Faso]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=.bf Domain Delegation Data |url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/bf.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.iana.org}}</ref> It was introduced in 1993.<ref>{{citation
|title=The World Factbook
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT3Jo4Ekm7sC&pg=PA113
|year=2013
|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency
|isbn=978-0-16-092195-7
|pages=113–}}</ref><ref name="SchumacherErnstschneider2013">{{citation|author1=Tim Schumacher|title=Domain-Namen im Internet: Ein Wegweiser für Namensstrategien|date=11 March 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmX6BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189|volume=|pages=189–|publisher=Springer-Verlag|language=German|isbn=978-3-642-55963-1|author2=Thomas Ernstschneider|author3=Andrea Wiehager}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=IANA — Report on the Redelegation of the .BF domain representing Burkina Faso to the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques|url=https://www.iana.org/reports/2011/bf-report-07jan2011.html|access-date=2021-02-11|website=www.iana.org}}</ref>

It is administered by the [[Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts|ARCEP]] since 2011. Previously it was sponsored and administered by [[Delegational Generale Informatique]] (DELGI).

== See also ==
* [[AFRINIC]]
* [[Internet in Burkina Faso]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{Official website|https://www.registre.bf/}}
*[http://www.arcep.bf/noms-de-domaine/ ARCEP]
*[https://abdi.bf/ Burkinabe Association of Internet Domains]

{{Burkina Faso topics}}
{{CcTLD}}

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[[Category:Communications in Burkina Faso]]
[[Category:Country code top-level domains]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 1993]]

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