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{{Short description|Internet country code top-level domain for Greenland}}{{Refimprove|date=April 2011}}
{{Infobox top level domain
|name          = .gl
|background    = #CCF
|image         = DotGL domain logo (custom).svg
|introduced    = 8 April 1994
|type          = [[Country code top-level domain]]
|status        = Active
|registry      = [[Tusass]]
|sponsor       = Tusass
|intendeduse   = Entities connected with [[Greenland]]
|actualuse     = Has some use in Greenland; also used as an abbreviation for [[Gloucestershire]].<br>Previously used by The Pirate Bay and [[goo.gl]] URL shortening for [[Google]].
|restrictions  = None
|structure     = Names can be registered directly at second level
|document      =
|disputepolicy =
|website       = [http://www.nic.gl/ www.nic.gl]
|dnssec        = yes
}}

'''.gl''' is the [[country code top-level domain]] (ccTLD) in the [[Domain Name System]] of the [[Internet]] for [[Greenland]]. 

== Registration ==
The domain is available for Internet services worldwide and registrations are handled by [[ICANN]]-accredited domain name registrars.

== Domain hack ==
The domain name has sometimes been marketed as standing for "good luck", "[[graphics library]]" or [[Gloucestershire]].

In December 2009, [[Google]] released a [[URL shortener]] service using the [[domain hack]] <code>[[Google URL Shortener|goo.gl]]</code>.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10415148-248.html
|title=Google gets into the URL-shrinking biz with Goo.gl
|date=2009-12-14
|publisher=cnet news
|author=Josh Lowensohn
|access-date=2009-12-19
|archive-date=2012-11-02
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102061411/http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10415148-248.html
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The service was shut down on 30 March 2019.

== Suspension ==
In April 2013, the registry unilaterally voluntarily suspended resolution of thepiratebay.gl, intended to be a new primary [[domain name]] for [[Bittorrent]] search engine [[The Pirate Bay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://torrentfreak.com/new-pirate-bay-greenland-domains-about-to-be-seized-130410 |title=New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains (About to be) Seized |publisher=TorrentFreak |date=2013-04-25 |accessdate=2013-05-13}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[.dk]]
*[[.eu]]
*[[.fo]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gl.html IANA .gl whois information]

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[[Category:Country code top-level domains]]
[[Category:Communications in Greenland]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 1994]]


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