Located in the Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan.

Iran is bordered by Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan.

Domain Information

Iran is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Iran you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Iran ccTLD: .ir

The country code is open to foreign registrations.

Country Information

Population

65397521 (July 07 est)

Capital

Tehran

GDP

$193.5 billion (2006 est)

Currency

Iranian Rial (IRR)

Internet Hosts

6111 (2007)

Internet Users

18 million (2006)