Top Level Domains

Published April 21, 2010 | By InetDaemon

The Original TLD’s (Top Level Domains)

These were the ‘original’ top level domains:

arpa (used for reverse lookups in DNS; in-addr.arpa)
com – companies
net – networks
edu – educational institutions
org – non-corporate, non-govermental organizations
gov – U.S. Government

Why are they in English? Because the Internet architeture was originally developed and conceived of in the United States, so names tended to follow U.S. English conventions. Only recently have non-english top level domains been added.

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