Located in Oceania a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, halfway from Hawaii to New Zealand.

Samoa has no land boundaries.

Domain Information

Samoa 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 Samoa 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.

Samoa ccTLD: .ws

The country code is often marketed as Website, and is open to foreign registrations.

Country Information

Population

214265 (July 07 est)

Capital

Apia

GDP

$399 million (2005)

Currency

Tala (SAT)

Internet Hosts

10156 (2007)

Internet Users

8000 (2006)