1. com - this is the most common and indicates either a business or commercial site. It stands for company or commercial.
2. edu - used mostly for educational institution, such as schools, colleges, private schools, libraries, and other educational resources. Means 'education.'
3. org - means organization, for various community organizations, charity, non profits, etc.
4. info - means information.
5. biz - means business and used for businesses, including non profits.
6. gov - means government and indicates a governmental site.
7. net - means networks and often used by network-related businesses.
Other common top-level domains are actually country codes, such as .us for United States, .uk for United Kingdom, and .au for Australia.
About 250 top level domains existed as of the year 2000, but these are the most common ones.
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top-level domains
top-level domains
verisign Inc, owns root nameserver for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains. http://www.verisign.com
List of Internet top-level domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Top level domains aren't installed in one specific location. These domains are at the top of the hierarchy of the internet. These appear at the end of website links in the form or "org" and "com". These are commonly installed in each country around the world, in government buildings and Universities.
ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the group that assigns top level domains. It is a private corporation overseen by several regulatory agencies.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
There are a total of about 280 different TLDs (Top Level Domains), the best known of which are ".com", ".net", and ".org".Most countries have their own country code Top Level Domains, such as ".ca" for Canada, ".jp" for Japan, ".mx" for Mexico, and so on.
a-z, 0-9 and - (hyphen). Then there are native characters like é, á, í etc. for the top level domains where these are used
This is the top level domain for Papua New Guinea.