ACRO.IT Acronym Directory

Top-Level Domain name is the suffix attached to Internet domain names.

There are a limited number of predefined suffixes, and each one represent a top-level domain.

The most famous are:

• com - Commercial businesses
• org - Organizations (mostly nonprofit)
• edu - Educational institutions such as universities
• gov - US government agencies
• net - Network organizations

Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by ICANN, which operates the Internet IANA and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.