<s>
.pt	B-Language
is	O
the	O
Internet	B-Application
country	I-Application
code	I-Application
top-level	O
domain	O
(	O
ccTLD	B-Application
)	O
for	O
Portugal	O
and	O
is	O
managed	O
by	O
Associação	O
DNS.PT	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
the	O
following	O
second-level	B-Protocol
domains	I-Protocol
:	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
July	O
1	O
,	O
2005	O
,	O
some	O
characters	O
with	O
diacritics	O
have	O
been	O
supported	O
in	O
domain	O
names	O
(	O
IDN	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Apart	O
from	O
.gov.pt	O
,	O
Portuguese	O
subdomains	O
were	O
slow	O
to	O
catch	O
on	O
,	O
because	O
many	O
people	O
had	O
already	O
registered	O
under	O
.pt	B-Language
when	O
the	O
new	O
ones	O
became	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
companies	O
,	O
colleges	O
and	O
people	O
still	O
prefer	O
to	O
use	O
a	O
.pt	B-Language
because	O
these	O
are	O
harder	O
to	O
get	O
(	O
the	O
chance	O
of	O
getting	O
a	O
spam	O
link	O
is	O
very	O
low	O
)	O
and	O
simpler	O
to	O
remember	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
years	O
,	O
FCCN	B-Language
(	O
)	O
tried	O
to	O
keep	O
control	O
of	O
the	O
.pt	B-Language
domain	O
using	O
stringent	O
rules	O
,	O
which	O
were	O
adjusted	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
times	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
situation	O
was	O
out	O
of	O
control	O
,	O
FCCN	B-Language
tried	O
to	O
promote	O
subdomains	O
like	O
com.pt	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nevertheless	O
,	O
since	O
the	O
registration	O
directly	O
under	O
.pt	B-Language
was	O
still	O
available	O
,	O
users	O
tended	O
to	O
prefer	O
these	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
estimated	O
that	O
the	O
.pt	B-Language
suffix	O
comprises	O
a	O
little	O
less	O
than	O
10%	O
of	O
all	O
the	O
Portuguese-language	O
Internet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
the	O
third	O
most	O
popular	O
Portuguese-language	O
suffix	O
,	O
after	O
.br	O
and	O
.com	O
,	O
and	O
ahead	O
of	O
.net	B-Application
,	O
.org	O
and	O
.info	O
,	O
all	O
above	O
10	O
million	O
pages	O
.	O
</s>
