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.va is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the State of the Vatican City. It is administered by the Internet Office of the Holy See.

There are 23 easily found names starting with "www" in the va zone, listed below. There are many more subdomains for email only

"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

** Login page for staff

*** www.cdp.osservatoreromano.va

*** www.cdp.ossrom.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

* No Response from these sites

** www.mlists.va (but see mlists.vatican.va below)

** www.pasquini.va

* Photo Ordering Site

** www.photo.va

* "Portale Catholica Di Test Accesso ai servizi intranet" - Java driven portal of sorts

** www.catholica.va

* Extranet, note SSL certificate expired 28 June 2007. Stats available but username/password required and links have to be rewritten from http to https

** www.extranet.va

Non-"www" names with websites:

* Main Vatican Website

** benedettoxvi.va

** benedictumxvi.va

** mv.vatican.va

** search.vatican.va

** seraphin.vatican.va

* Vatican Archives

** asv.vatican.va

* Mailing Lists (Mailman)

** mlists.vatican.va

* Vatican Museums

** 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

Second-level domains are not available to the public.

Name and email servers within the .va namespace include john.vatican.va (DNS and email), michael.vatican.va (DNS), paul.vatican.va (email), lists.vatican.va (email), and vatiradio.va (email).

Strangely enough, some offsite secondary DNS servers used by the Vatican are named after Egyptian gods, like:

* seth.namex.it.

* osiris.namex.it.