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TLD stands for Top-Level Domain, which is the part of a domain name that comes after the last dot in any complete domain name. For ex, com in mavenheadsinfotech.com is a TLD. TLDs are commonly known as domain extensions. Initially only a handful of TLDs existed. Best example of some early TLDs are:

• .com - originally meant for (US) commercial organisations.
• .org - originally meant for Non-profit organizations.
• .net - originally meant for Internet providers.
• .info - Information services.

The restriction with these TLDs are no more in place and any person can register domain names with these TLDs. Not only this, over the period of time since usage of internet among general public has increased incredibly, a lot more TLDs have come into existence. These TLDs can be classified as follows:

• gTLD - called generic "Top-Level-Domains"
• sTLD - Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD).
• uTLD - Unsponsored Top Level Domains.
• ccTLD - Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD).

gTLD - Generic Top-Level-Domain: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .name, and .pro are some of the open gTLDs ie, they are open to all, that is to say that any person or organisation can get a domain name registered with any of these gTLDs. At the same time there are some gTLDs that have some restrictions. Only person or organisation who are members of certain organisation / institutions can have domain name registered with these "restricted" gTLDs. Ex. includce - .gov., .int, .mil.

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sTLD - A Sponsored Top Level Domain is a specialized top-level domain that has a sponsor representing a specific community served by the domain. The communities are formed/based on ethnic, geographical, professional, technical or other theme concepts. Some of these so called sTLDs have restrictive use (like .edu, .gov, .mil) while most of them are open to all for registration. Examples are .legal, .hotel, .club, .travel etc...

uTLD - An Unsponsored Top Level Domain operates under policies established by the global Internet community directly through the ICANN process. All the gTLDs that are not sponsored ones are uTLDs like .com, .net, .org etc...

ccTLD - TLDs with two letters (.xx) have been established for over 250 countries and external territories and are referred to as country-code Top Level Domain or "ccTLDs". Examples are .in for India, .ca for Canada, .jp for Japan etc... Registrants of .ccTLDs domains must meet the Local Presence Requirements of specific country / territory.

IDNs - Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) permit the global community to use a domain name in their native language or script. This is enabled by allowing domain names to have characters from different scripts, beyond the letters (a to z), digits (0 to 9) and hyphen (-). Such domain names could contain letters or characters from non-Latin scripts (for example, Arabic or Chinese or Devanagri).

IDNs variant TLDs (both gTLD & ccTLD) have also started coming into existence.

Examples: IDN ccTLDs are: .भारत (Devanagri/India), .中國 (Traditional Chinese/China)

Examples: IDN gTLDs are: .संगठन (.org in Devanagri), .コム (.com in Japaneese)