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Common Top Level Domains

google.com

.com Any person or entity is permitted to register this TLD. Originally intended for use by for-profit business entities, for a number of reasons it became the main TLD for domain names and is currently used by all types of entities including nonprofits, schools, and private individuals.

pbs.org

.org Any person or entity is permitted to register TLD. Intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here. While mainly non-profits have used this domain, it was never restricted from miscellaneous use.

php.net

.net Originally intended to hold only the computers of network providers and more technological businesses, however now are commonly used by businesses and individuals for their websites, email, and online applications.

harvard.edu

.edu Limited to specific higher educational institutions such as, but not limited to, trade schools and universities. In the U.S., its use was restricted in 2001 to post-secondary institutions accredited by an agency on the list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies.

nasa.gov

.gov Limited to governmental entities and agencies as well as qualifying state, county and local municipal government agencies, and tribal governments.

army.mil

.mil Limited to divisions, services and agencies of the United States Department of Defense.

Top Level Domain (TLD)

A Top-Level Domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, such as the last non-empty label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the ICANN, an Internet multi-stakeholder community, which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

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