Generic top-level domain
A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is one category of internet domain with (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use on the Internet.
| gTLD | intended use |
|---|---|
| .aero | the air transport industry. |
| .arpa | reserved exclusively to support operationally-critical infrastructural identifier spaces as advised by the Internet Architecture Board |
| .asia | companies. organisations and individuals in the Asia-Pacific region |
| .biz | business use |
| .cat | Catalan language/culture |
| .com | commercial organizations, but unrestricted |
| .coop | cooperatives |
| .edu | post-secondary educational establishments |
| .gov | government entities within the United States at the federal, state, and local levels |
| .info | informational sites, but unrestricted |
| .int | international organizations established by treaty |
| .jobs | employment-related sites |
| .mil | the U.S. military |
| .mobi | sites catering to mobile devices |
| .museum | museums |
| .name | families and individuals |
| .net | originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted |
| .org | originally for organizations not clearly falling within the other gTLDs, now unrestricted |
| .pro | certain professions |
| .tel | services involving connections between the telephone network and the Internet (added March 2, 2007) |
| .travel | travel agents, airlines, hoteliers, tourism bureaus, etc. |
Now, IANA differenting next groups of Inttop-level domain:[1]
- infrastructure top-level domain (.arpa)
- country-code top-level domains (ccTLD)
- sponsored top-level domains (sTLD)
- generic top-level domains (gTLD)
- generic-restricted top-level domains
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