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{{Short description|Internet country code top-level domain for Finland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Infobox Top level domain
|name=.fi
|image=
|caption=
|introduced=17 December 1986
|type=[[Country code top-level domain]]
|status=Active
|registry=[[TRAFICOM]]
|sponsor=[[TRAFICOM]]
|intendeduse=Entities connected with [[Finland]]
|registereddomains=554,434
|dateregistereddomains=2025-03-21
|refregistereddomains=<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-21 |title=Traficom |url=https://www.traficom.fi/fi/viestinta/fi-verkkotunnukset/fi-verkkotunnushaku |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250316120919/https://www.traficom.fi/fi/viestinta/fi-verkkotunnukset/fi-verkkotunnushaku |archive-date=2025-03-16 |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=Traficom}}</ref>
|actualuse=Very popular in Finland
|structure=Registrations are taken directly at second level
|document=[https://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/fi/fi-domain-application.txt 1986 delegation application]<br />[https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains/fi-domain-applicants-and-users Information for domain applicants and users]
|disputepolicy=[https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains/fi-domain-disputes Policies and procedures]
|website={{url|https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains}}
|dnssec=Yes
}}
[[File:DotFi domain logo.png|thumb|Logo under the administration of FICORA]]
'''.fi''' is the [[Internet]] [[country code]] [[top-level domain]] ([[ccTLD]]) for [[Finland]]. It is operated by [[TRAFICOM]], the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.traficom.fi/en/communications/fi-domains|title=Fi-domain|website=www.traficom.fi|publisher=TRAFICOM|access-date=12 December 2019}}</ref>

On 4 December 1986, an application to register a top-level domain for Finland was sent by the Finnish Unix Users Group from [[Tampere]]. The application was accepted and the administration of .fi TLD was granted to [[Tampere University of Technology]]. Later the administration was transferred first to [[FICIX]] and later to TRAFICOM.

In the past TRAFICOM regulated .fi domains very strictly. Domain names were only admitted to company names or companies that owned trademarks. This policy led to Finnish companies applying for domains under other top-level domains. The policy was changed on 1 September 2003. Since September 2016 anyone worldwide is permitted to register domain names under the .fi TLD.<ref>[https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ficora/news/2016/fi-domainnamesnowavailableforeveryoneallaroundtheworld.html Fi-domain names now available for everyone all around the world] ({{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916210616/https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/ficora/news/2016/fi-domainnamesnowavailableforeveryoneallaroundtheworld.html |date=16 September 2016}}), read 7 September 2016, published 5 September 2016.</ref>

.fi was once best known among non-Finnish internet users as the TLD of the [[Penet remailer]] (anon.penet.fi), a privately operated server which enabled users to post e-mail and [[Usenet]] messages anonymously in the early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://johndecember.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html|title=A Brief History of anon.penet.fi - The Legendary Anonymous Remailer|last=Helmers|first=Sabine|date=September 1997}}</ref> Another popular .fi address in the early 1990s was nic.funet.fi, one of the largest public file servers at the time which made Finland the only country outside the US that sent out more data than it received.

Since 1 September 2005, .fi domains may contain letters from the [[Finnish orthography|Finnish alphabet]] (ä, å, ö), though they are not recommended to be used as the primary domain. Since 1 March 2006, private persons have also been able to apply for a domain name. Some restrictions still apply, for example, company names or trademarks can only be applied for by the companies concerned.

It can also be (although not popular) be used for [[domain hack]]ing as well. Examples like [[Spotify]] who has a domain hack called Spoti.fi.

FICORA began supporting [[Domain Name System Security Extensions|Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC)]] on .fi domain names in late 2010.<ref>{{Cite journal
 |title        = FICORA tests DNSSEC on fi TLD
 |website      = Blog.anta.net
 |date         = 21 June 2010
 |url          = http://blog.anta.net/2010/06/21/ficora-tests-dnssec-on-fi-tld/
 |issn         = 1797-1993
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110726135550/http://blog.anta.net/2010/06/21/ficora-tests-dnssec-on-fi-tld/
 |archive-date = 26 July 2011
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trex.fi/2016/ficora-trex2016.pdf|title=.fi and DNSSEC|last=Husa|first=Ari-Matti|date=2016|website=TREX}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[.ax]], the top-level domain of [[Åland]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/fi.html IANA .fi whois information]
* [http://www.ficora.fi/en/index.html FICORA.fi]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060926110608/https://domain.ficora.fi/ Ficora domains]
* [https://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/fi/fi-domain-application.txt .fi top-level domain registration application]
* [http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Funet/history/history.ppt Miten Internet tuli Suomeen - Nic.funet.fi (en. How the Internet came to Finland)]

{{CcTLD}}
{{Portal bar|Finland|Internet}}
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