.com

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

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).