.com
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| Industry: | TLD |
| Founded: | 1985 |
| Headquarters: | 21355 Ridgetop Circle Dulles, VA 20166 |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | www.verisigninc.com |
| Key People | |
| Mark McLaughlin, President & CEO | |
.com is one of the first generic top level domain name (gTLD) of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). Verisign manages the .com gTLD registry.
History[edit | edit source]
In 1985, the working group which was led by Jon Postel introduced the first set of top level domain in the Domain Name System which include .com (commercial), .gov (government), .edu (education), .mil (military) and .org (organization).[1]