.Ss

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.

.ss

Introduced	10 August 2011 (allocated) 2 February 2019 (root zone)
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	ssNIC
Sponsor	Government of South Sudan
Intended use	Entities connected with  South Sudan
Registry website	nic.ss

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 1 June 2020, with general availability starting 1 September 2020.

There also exist a number of second-level domains:

• .com.ss – open to all applicants (intended for commercial entities)
• .biz.ss – any business entity
• .net.ss – for network operators
• .org.ss – for South Sudan NGOs
• .edu.ss – for South Sudan higher educational institutions
• .sch.ss – for South Sudan secondary and primary schools
• .me.ss – for personal websites (name.me.ss)
• .gov.ss – for South Sudan government entities only