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.

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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]


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