8 The k12.mn.us Domain

MN.IT Services (officially “The State of Minnesota, Office of Enterprise Technology”) is the domain manager for the k12.mn.us domain.

All K-12 schools, community colleges/technical schools, state and local governments are required to register under the .us domain. Only four year universities are allowed to register under the .edu domain.

MN.IT Services will provide DNS service for any K-12 organization at no cost. Most ISPs also provide this service.

8.1 Name Forms For K-12 districts, domain names are of the form: hostname.districtname.k12.mn.us and we will delegate authority at the district level. One (only) domain will be established per school district.

Typically names are either the district name or number, for example:

isd910.k12.mn.us

woodfalls.k12.mn.us

For K-12 Charter schools, domain names are typically either of the form:

hostname.schoolname.charter.k12.mn.us

Actually, the entity.ci/co.state.mn.us and entity.ci/co.minnesota.gov variants will also exist and can be used, but the emphasis has been on the mn.gov form.

and we will delegate authority at the school level, or of the form:

hostname.schoolname.district.k12.mn.us
where district is the sponsoring school district under which the charter school is formed. Either format is acceptable for charter schools. Per RFC 1480, we do not register charter school names as domains:

schoolname.k12.mn.us - NOT For K-12 private schools, domain names are of the form:

hostname.schoolname.pvt.k12.mn.us and we will delegate authority at the school level.