Sponsored Top-Level Domains (sTLD)

The following table contains the Sponsored Top-Level Domains (sTLD) and their definitions.

Domain Purpose / Sponsoring Organization
.AERO Reserved for members of the air-transport industry
Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautique S.C.
(SITA SC)
.ASIA Restricted to the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific community
DotAsia Organization Ltd.
.CAT Reserved for the Catalan linguistic and cultural community
Fundacio puntCAT
.COOP Reserved for cooperative associations
DotCooperation LLC
.EDU Reserved for post-secondary institutions accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally Recognized Accrediting Agencies 
EDUCAUSE
.GOV Reserved exclusively for the United States Government
General Services Administration
Attn: QTDC, 2E08 (.gov Domain Registration)
.INT Used only for registering organizations established by international treaties between governments
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
.JOBS Reserved for human resource managers
Employ Media LLC
.MIL Reserved exclusively for the United States Military
DoD Network Information Center
.MOBI Reserved for consumers and providers of mobile products and services
mTLD Top Level Domain Limited dba dotMobi
.MUSEUM Reserved for museums
Museum Domain Management Association
.TEL Reserved for businesses and individuals to publish their contact data
Telnic Ltd.
.TRAVEL Reserved for entities whose primary area of activity is in the travel industry
Tralliance Registry Management Company, LLC.

The top-level domains in this list are recognized by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

For more top-level domains, see this article on top-level domains.

For a full list of top-level domains and other extensions, see domain name extension definitions

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