One can purchase an edu domain name from the Domain website. They can also purchase an edu domain name from a person who already owns one, because edu domain names are quite hard to come across.
I know 5: .com .org .net .gov and .edu
.Edu = education
Anyone can purchase a .org domain. You might be thinking of .edu domains, which do require that you are an accredited institution to own one.
.EDU is an abbreviation for "education." It's a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the internet Domain Name System (DNS). To register a .EDU domain name, the registrant must be a U.S.-affiliated institution of higher education.
Only schools or education learning webistes have the .edu.
All of these are domains name: .edu, .gov, .com and .org.
.com is the domain extension for a commercial website (business, etc.) .edu is the domain extension for Education websites (Universities, Colleges, etc.) .gov is the domain extension for a State or Federal government website. While anyone can get a .com domain. .edu and .gov domains are strictly regulated by ICANN and only official organizations fitting the description of the domain extension can request one.
.edu
Virginia Tech University owns webmail vt edu domain. Their email services are second to none, and very safe for people to use.
The domain name edu is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the internet. Since 2001, new registrants to the domain have been required to be United States-affiliated institutions of higher education, though before then non-U.S
edu - as in, princeton.edu
.edu (education) is a top-level domain name used for educational and training organizations originally used in the United States.