.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 gTLDs of the Internet's Domain Name System that is intended for commercial purposes. It was introduced in 1985 by IANA, which is responsible for the overall coordination and management of the DNS, and led by Jon Postel at the time. The .com gTLD was introduced along with other top level domains, which include .gov (government), .edu (education), .mil (military) and .org (organization).[1]
The .com is the most popular gTLD with more than 100 million registrants worldwide. The global demand for the .com gTLD remains strong as the number of global Internet users continues to grow.[2] Verisign is the registry operator of the .com gTLD, and was approved by ICANN in 2006.[3]