.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Vatican City State. It is administered by the Vatican Internet Service.
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Background
The .va top-level domain was created in 1995 by Archbishop John Patrick Foley of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The website vatican.va went live on Christmas Day 1995.
Websites
There are 86 domain names starting with "www" in the .va zone, with many more email-only subdomains.
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"www" names with websites
- Vatican Main Website is pointed to by these names: www.va - www.vatican.va - www.pcf.va - www.news.va
- Vatican State Government: www.vaticanstate.va
- Landing page for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano: www.osservatoreromano.va
- Vatican Museums: www.museivaticani.va - www.cappellasistina.va - www.chapellesixtine.va - www.capillasixtina.va - www.sistinechapel.va - www.sixtinischekapelle.va
- Apostolic Penitentiary: www.paenitentiaria.va www.penitenzieria.va
- Pontifical Mission Societies: www.ppoomm.va
- Parish Church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri in the Vatican: www.santanna.va
- Istituto per le Opere di Religione: www.ior.va
- Photo Ordering Site: www.photo.va
- "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts: www.catholica.va
- Radio Vatican: www.radiovaticana.va
Non-"www" names with websites:
- Main Vatican Website: benedettoxvi.va - benedictumxvi.va - search.vatican.va - seraphin.vatican.va
- Vatican Archives: asv.vatican.va
- Mailing Lists (Mailman): mlists.vatican.va
- Vatican Museums: mv.vatican.va - sistinechapel.va
- Vatican Library: bav.vatican.va
- "Compendium" (Username/Password required): isidoro.vatican.va
- Vatican Webmail (note: SSL issued by same CA as for www.photo.va with CN of "Luigi Salimbeni") (Username/Password required): webmail.mailservice.va
- Radio Vatican language services (various two-letter language codes)
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See also
- Index of Vatican City-related articles