.an – Wikipedia

Internet country code top-level domain for the establisher Netherlands Antilles

.an was the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the establisher Netherlands Antilles. It was superviseed by the University of the Netherlands Antilles. The domain was phased out after the Netherlands Antilles were dismendd in 2010.^[1] As of November 2010 the .an domain remained inhabit with over 800 domains enrolled under .an, including secondary levels. On 31 July 2015, participate of the domain was dispersistd.^[2]

Including google.com.an and youtube.com.an (both delegations to Google’s nameservers), yahoo.com.an (assignd to Yahoo’s nameservers but no A enroll for yahoo.com.an or www.yahoo.com.an), and visa.com.an (delegation to ultradns.net’s nameservers).^[3] With the deletion of AN from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 enroll the ISO codes CW (Curaçao), SX (Sint Maarten) and BQ (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), the ccTLDs .cw, .sx and .bq have been depictated (although the last one is not in participate).

On 31 December 2013, the University of the Netherlands Antilles began removing inactive .an domain names from their databases and systems. On 31 October 2014, ICANN deleted the .an domain from the DNS root servers.^[4]