.nai's mission is to implement a top-level name space with an indigenous policy, provide an alternative to the several thousand indigenous public administrations, and the larger numbers of indigenous non-governmental, linguistic and cultural institutional, public and private economic enterprises, bands and individuals in the Western Hemisphere currently using name spaces operated under for-profit or colonial policies, and promote the economic development of Indian Country.
Top of the Pops | Top Gear | Top 40 | ZZ Top | Top Gear (2002 TV series) | America's Next Top Model | public domain | Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums | Top Gear (current format) | American Top 40 | Top Gun | Adult Top 40 | Top Chef | Domain Name System | Bill (proposed law) | Top 10 | Canada's Top 100 Employers | protein domain | Level 42 | High-level programming language | Top 14 | Mainstream Top 40 | Top End | Top Chef Masters | Race to the Top | eminent domain | Top Rank | Top Heatseekers | top 40 | Top Shelf Productions |
The top-level domain was founded by Hakon Haugnes and Geir Rasmussen and initially delegated to Global Name Registry in 2001, and become fully operational in January 2002.
AFNIC (Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération) is a non-profit corporation that was created in December 1997 in order to operate a number of French country code top-level domain names such as .fr, .re and .tf.
CentralNic is a domain registry and registry service provider based in London, England that currently manages the .la and .pw extensions, and is the back-end provider for sixty new Top-Level Domain applications.
DENIC Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft eG is the manager of the .de domain, the country-code top-level domain for Germany.
The initial set of top-level domains, defined by RFC 920 in October 1984, was a set of "general purpose domains": com, edu, gov, mil, org.
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Thus, domains edu, gov, int, and mil are now considered sponsored top-level domains, much like the many newly created themed domain names (e.g., jobs).
However, alpha-2 codes which were deleted before the popularization of the Domain Name System in the late 1980s and early 1990s were never used for the Internet's country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).
The .mobi sponsored top-level domain was launched specifically for the mobile Internet by a consortium of companies including Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, and Vodafone.
The Network Information Center Argentina, or NIC Argentina, is an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina responsible for operating the .ar country code top-level domain (ccTLD).
KCC Europe administers the .kp country code top-level domain (ccTLD) from Berlin, where many official North Korean websites are hosted including Naenara.
is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, and .edu top-level domains.