A top-level domain , or TLD , are the letters that follow the final dot of the domain names.

There are several kinds of TLDs:

• Infrastructure : One TLD, the .arpa ^[1]
• Countries : Usually they are codes with two letters according to ISO 3166 .
• Sponsored : They are promoted by collectives, organizations, the US government or territories with its own language and culture.
• Generic : They are .com, .net, .org and .info.
• Generic restricted : .edu, .gov, .mil

Related pages [ change | change source ]

• Country code top-level domain (includes a list)

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