Types of top level domain names

What are the types of top-level domain names?

Top level domain names are divided into international general top-level domain names and country / region top-level domain names.

International top level domain name:

Also called international domain name, it is the earliest and most widely used domain name. For example, it means ". Com" of a company, ". Net" of a network service, and ". Org" of a non-profit organization.

Country / region top level domain name:

Also known as country domain name, it is different suffixes assigned according to different countries. For example, "CN" for China, "us" for the United States, "JP" for Japan, etc.

There are thousands of top-level domain names, which can be divided into the following categories.

Generic Top-level Domain（gTLD）：

It is a top-level domain for specific organizations, corresponding to different categories of domain names. Examples are ". COM /. Net /. Org /. Int /. ARPA /. Biz /. Info /. Name and. Pro".

New Generic Top-level Domain(New gTLD）：

It is also called new top-level domain, new top-level domain, etc. The new top-level domain suffixes are open for registration under the condition that the resources of traditional domain suffixes are increasingly exhausted. The first batch of new top-level domains were approved by ICANN in 2012 and began to be registered globally in 2014. Such as ". Xin /. Top /. XYZ /. VIP"

Top level domain name with two characters:

Such as ". UK" and ". De", which correspond to the official abbreviations of more than 250 countries and regions. These domain names are called country code top-level domain names or abbreviated ccTLDs. Behind each country code top-level domain name is a registered operator who operates the country code top-level domain name according to local policies (for example, to register a name in ccTLDs, the registrant must be a local resident).