The Internet domain structure
In the United States, the Internet domain name space is divided into several
organizational and geographical top-level domains. Other countries follow
similar structures.
In the US, some of the top-level domains include:
COM-
commercial organizations
EDU-
educational organizations
GOV-
government organizations
INT-
international organizations
MIL-
military departments
NET-
networking organizations
ORG-
miscellaneous organizations
Geographical domains follow the standard ISO 3166, which contains
abbreviations for each country (for example, ca, ch,
it, for Canada, Switzerland, and Italy, respectively).
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