.ss
.ss is the designated country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Sudan in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is derived from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Sudan, which is "SS". According to "CIO East Africa", the TLD was allocated on 10 August 2011 following the country's declaration of independence from Sudan. The TLD was registered on 31 August 2011, but not added to the DNS root zone and was thus not operational. It was approved at the ICANN Board meeting on 27 January 2019 and was added to the DNS root zone on 2 February 2019.

Before .ss was successfully registered, the country's Undersecretary for Telecommunications had initially been concerned about the ccTLD request's possible rejection due to "SS" also being an abbreviation for Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary force of Nazi Germany.

Before the independence of South Sudan, the applicable domain was .sd, Sudan's top-level Internet domain.

Registration of .ss domain names launched in three phases starting June 1, 2020, with general availability starting September 1, 2020.
Q42032
country code top-level domain
Concept
Q958
South Sudan
LOC
Q8767
Domain Name System
MEDIA
Q75
Internet
Concept
Q1140221
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
Concept
SS
UNK
Q1464916
declaration of independence
Concept
Q1049
Sudan
LOC
Q849163
DNS root zone
Concept
Q485750
ICANN
ORG
Q849163
DNS root zone
Concept
Q44687
Schutzstaffel
Concept
Q7318
Nazi Germany
Concept
Q43762
.sd
MEDIA
Q717118
.ss
MEDIA
Q717118
.ss
MEDIA
Q717118
.ss
MEDIA
3166-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
3166
DATE
2011-08-10T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
10 August 2011
DATE
2011-08-31T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
31 August 2011
DATE
2019-01-27T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
27 January 2019
DATE
2019-02-02T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2 February 2019
DATE
2020-06-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
June 1, 2020
DATE
2020-09-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
September 1, 2020
DATE
-1^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-1
NUMBER
-2^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
-2
NUMBER
instance of
country
top-level Internet domain