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Since 2000, new top level domains were approved. Prior to this, there were only four major top level domains: .com, .net .org and .edu as described below.

.com (Commercial) This is the most common extension for domain names that companies use. It is also used for personal web sites.
.net Is most often used by Internet Service Providers (ISP's) or other Internet related businesses.
.org Is used by nonprofit organizations or groups.
.edu Is primarily used by universities, colleges and other educational institutions.
Now, the following domains are also available:
.ac (Academic) is used by educational networks, same as .edu.
.biz Is used for business organizations.
.co Is used for commercial Internet web sites (same as .com).
.info Has unrestricted use, can be used by individuals or companies. It usually indicates that the web site is informative.
.name Is used by individuals.
.us Country code top level domain available to registrants in the United States.
.ws (Web Site) This is an all purpose, universally accepted domain.

Many companies register their name under many of these domains, so that others can not infringe on their name and possibly divert traffic away from their web site. How many domains you register is strictly up to you.


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