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.tp

.tp Domain Registration
Introduced	December 1997
Removed	February 2015
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Deleted in favour of new ccTLD, .tl
Registry	Timor-Leste NIC
Intended use	Entities connected with  Timor-Leste
Structure	Registrations were accepted directly at second level, with some sites (mostly governmental) at third level

.tp was the listed Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Timor. The letters refer to Timor Português or Portuguese Timor, the name of the present independent nation when it was an overseas territory of Portugal. The domain .tp was officially launched in December 1997 by connect.ie, an internet service provider based in Dublin, Ireland, in cooperation with the East Timorese authorities in absentia, while East Timor was under Indonesian authority.

.tp remained active for the period of transition, although it now no longer complies with the ISO 3166-1 standard for the two-letter codes for the name of countries as the code for East Timor changed from TP to TL after independence. Regardless, it retained a number of domains until it was finally deleted in February 2015.^[1] The last listed change and update for .tp was on April 22, 2008.