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In the earliest days of the internet there were no domain names. There were few enough websites on the internet that reaching the one you wanted to visit by typing<\/a> an IP address<\/a> did<\/a>n\u2019t seem to be a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the number of websites on the internet grew it became more and more difficult to remember a list of websites and the long series of seemingly random numbers that made up the IP address<\/a> of each one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was no longer a problem after 1984, the year that the \u201cname server\u201d was invented.\u00a0 You no longer had to remember a long series of seemingly random numbers to reach a web server; you now could access it by a recognizable name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first domain names.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

.com was intended for commercial sites (released in 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.net was intended for network sites (released in 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.org was intended for non-commercial organizations (released in 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were other extensions to be aware of, but they did<\/a>n\u2019t come up too often:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.edu is used for educational institutions, mostly post-secondary (released in 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.gov is used for the US government (released in 1985)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as you remembered that the website of the White House was whitehouse.gov (as it is part of the government) and not a commercial or potentially pornographic website you knew what to expect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually many of the \u201cgood\u201d domain names were claimed and in 2000 the following top-level domains became available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More domain names.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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.aero is used exclusively for the aviation community. (released in 2002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.biz was intended for business sites. (released in 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.coop is used exclusively for co-operative community. (released in 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.info intended for informational websites, anyone can register one. (released in 2001 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.museum exclusively for the museum community. (released in 2001 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.name was intended for individuals. (released in 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.pro was intended for professionals. (released in 2004 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2003 the following were approved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.asia a regional domain\u00a0 (released in 2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.cat is used exclusively to highlight the Catalan language and culture. (released in 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.jobs is meant to help companies hire new employees. (released in 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.mobi is to be used exclusively for the mobile internet. (released in 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.tel was intended to be used for storing contact details. (released in 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.travel was intended for use by the travel industry (released in 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently well over 100 million active registered domain names with these extensions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more domain names.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In addition to all these there are also country-specific domains, such as .dk for Germany, .cn for China, and .ca for Canada. When these country-specific domains are included the total number of all active domain names world-wide is astronomical, and now \u201cnon-English-alphabet\u201d domain extensions are also available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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