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Generic top-level domain

Index Generic top-level domain

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. [1]

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Association of National Advertisers

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) is a representative body for the marketing community in the United States.

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Catalan language

Catalan (autonym: català) is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern modern Spain.

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Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.

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Country code top-level domain

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code.

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Domain name registry

A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that allow third party entities to request administrative control of a domain name.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.

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Donuts (company)

Donuts Inc. is a domain name registry with a portfolio of 239 new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), as made possible by ICANN's gTLD expansion program.

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Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist.

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Fully qualified domain name

A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name,RFC 1035, Domain names: implementation and specification is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS).

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Generic top-level domain

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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GeoTLD

A GeoTLD (geographic TLD) is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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IAHC

Prior to globalization of the Internet, its assignment of domain names was administered within the research and academic communities, through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

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ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numericalspaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.

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Internationalized country code top-level domain

An internationalized country code top-level domain is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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Internationalized domain name

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics or ligatures, such as French.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet Architecture Board

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is "a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC).

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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a function of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Internet Society

The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American non-profit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, access, and policy.

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IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

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Jon Postel

Jonathan Bruce Postel (August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

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List of Internet top-level domains

This list of Internet top-level domain (TLD) extensions contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Melbourne IT

Melbourne IT is an Australian Internet company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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National Restaurant Association

The National Restaurant Association is a restaurant industry business association in the United States, representing more than 380,000 restaurant locations.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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Pseudo-top-level domain

A pseudo-top-level domain is a label or name for a computer network that is not participating in the world-wide official Domain Name System and may not even participate in the Internet, but may use a similar domain name hierarchy.

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Reverse DNS lookup

In computer networks, a reverse DNS lookup or reverse DNS resolution (rDNS) is the querying of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address – the reverse of the usual "forward" DNS lookup of an IP address from a domain name.

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SITA (company)

SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry.

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Spamming

Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.

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Sponsored top-level domain

A sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Sunrise period

The sunrise period of domain registration is a special period during which trademark holders may preregister names that are the same or similar to their trademarks in order to avoid cybersquatting.

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The Spamhaus Project

The Spamhaus Project is an international organisation, based in both London and Geneva, founded in 1998 by Steve Linford to track email spammers and spam-related activity.

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Top-level domain

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

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Uniregistry

Uniregistry is a large retail domain name registrar and web services provider; as well as a domain name registry that administers the generic top-level domains.audio,.auto,.blackfriday,.car,.cars,.christmas,.click,.diet,.flowers,.game,.gift,.guitars,.help,.hiphop,.hiv,.hosting,.juegos,.link,.lol,.mom,.photo,.pics,.property,.sexy, and.tattoo.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.

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.aero

.aero (derived from aeronautics) is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.arpa

The domain name arpa is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.asia

.asia is the official designated regional domain extension for Asia and the Pacific.

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.biz

.biz is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.cat

.cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture.

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.com

The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.coop

The domain coop is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.edu

The domain name.edu is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.gal

.gal is a GeoTLD intended to highlight the Galician people, Galician language, and Galician culture.

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.gov

The domain name gov is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.info

The domain name info is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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.int

The domain name int is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.jobs

The domain name jobs is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.kiwi

.kiwi is an Internet generic top-level domain with emphasis on New Zealand.

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.mail

.mail is a generic top-level domain proposed by The Spamhaus Project in 2004, but unapproved by ICANN.

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.mil

The domain name mil is the sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations.

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.mobi

The domain name mobi is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.museum

museum is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

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.name

The domain name is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.net

The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.org

The domain name org is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet.

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.paris

.paris is a top-level domain for the city of Paris, France.

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.post

.post is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) available exclusively for the postal sector.

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.pro

The domain name pro is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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.scot

.scot is a top-level domain for Scotland and Scottish culture, including the Gaelic and Scots languages.

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.tel

The domain name.tel is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.

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.travel

The domain name.travel is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

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