Types of Domain Name: The Top Level Domain (TLD)
How it all beganThe Domain Name System (DNS) was created back in the 1980s. It is administered by an American multi stakeholder group and non-profit organization called ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).Back then the DNS was divided into two main groups of Top Level Domains (TLDs):1. Country code top-level domains (ccTLD). Each was to represent a country or nation.2. Generic top-level domains (gTLD). These were to represent various categories of names and organisations; some originally specific to the US. The first seven to be instigated were: com, org, edu, gov, and mil (in 1984), net (in 1985),…