.queensland is the sovereign name of reference — the namespace under which the State’s primary entities and services take a permanent, verifiable address.
Every register needs a root. .queensland is it — the anchor the other namespaces sit alongside, and the name a citizen recognises first.
Reserved for what matters. Because it carries the State’s name in full, it is best kept for entities that genuinely represent Queensland — departments, statewide services, official programs.
It is not a marketing label. It is the address a public entity would put on a form, a payment, an official notice.
The default public name for departments and agencies operating across Queensland.
A citizen reading a .queensland address knows, by the name alone, whose it is.
The namespace the rest of the register is understood in relation to.
Each name issues beneath .queensland — identity, payment and mail under one root.
Each namespace covers a different scale of the State.
Assignment, co-administration or transfer — the same three models apply to the flagship as to every namespace.
For the State