Top Level Domains

Question 1

.com

Answer 1

• Commercial
• Open
  
  • anyone is permitted to register
  • originally intended for use by for-profit business entities, but is currently used by all types of entities including nonprofits, schools, and private individuals

Question 2

.org

Answer 2

• Organization
• open
  
  • anyone is permitted to register
  • originally intended for use by non-profit organizations

Question 3

.net

Answer 3

• network
• open
  
  • anyone is permitted to register
  • originally intended for use by domains pointing to a distributed network of computers that act as the portal to set of smaller websites

Question 4

.int

Answer 4

• international organizations
• limited
  
  • organizations,offices, and programs endorsed by a treaty between two or more nations

Question 5

.edu

Answer 5

• U.S. higher education
• limited
  
  • educational institutions
  • in the U.S., use was restricted in 2001 to accredited post-secondary institutions
  • almost exclusively used by American colleges and universities

Question 6

.gov

Answer 6

• U.S. national & state government agencies
• limited
  
  • United States government and qualifying state, county and local municipal government agencies

Question 7

.mil

Answer 7

• U.S. Military
• limited
  
  • United states military