Can you name the currently available generic top level domains (gTLDs) for internet addresses?

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Note: A top level domain (TLD) is the last part of an internet address following the ".", as in .com.
Excluded from this quiz are country code TLDs (ccTLDs) such as .uk reserved for a country or a geographic area.
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gTLD	Intended Use
	Air-Transport Industy
	Internet Infrastructure
	Entities in the Asia-Pacific Region
	Commercial Entities
	Catalan Language and Culture
	Open
	Cooperatives
	Educational Institutions
	U.S. Government Entities
	Open
	International Organizations

gTLD	Intended Use
	Job Opportunities
	U.S. Military
	Mobile Devices
	Museums
	Individuals
	Open
	Open
	Professionals
	Internet Communication Services
	Travel and Tourism

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Generic Top Level Domains Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: May 30th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 45,768

Tags: gold, generic, level, internet, domain, available, address, gtld, intended, top, current

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	johnlk:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:15 GMT	13 points
	no ".tv"? I've seen various sites that do not seem to be hosted in Tuvalu with that as their ending.

	Julian:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:19 GMT	7 points
	Thank God this quiz didn't include any IDNA TLD's. :-) I also wonder how the Catalans managed to successfully lobby ICANN to get their own TLD . . .

	Julian:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:20 GMT	8 points
	@johnlk: most countries don't require that the site be locally hosted.

	gjm3:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:20 GMT	27 points
	If we are excluding "countries and geogrpahic areas" then shouldn't .cat and .asia be excluded? Or if .asia is included, then why not .eu?

	milkmeister:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:30 GMT	6 points
	Seems that .asia is slightly different from .eu, in that it is sponsored and enforced by dot asia.

	RobH:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:36 GMT	41 points
	I think they've left out the most famous, .cotton

	Journey2688:	May 30th, 2009 at 15:53 GMT	1 point
	i missed .org..... sigh

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:04 GMT	10 points
	@johnlk: Believe it or not, .tv is really the country code TLD for the island nation of Tuvalu. Tuvalu has licensed use of the TLD to make money.

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	8 points
	@ gjm: .eu is the ccTLD for the European Union. There is no similar governmental entity in Asia. As a result, .asia is not a ccTLD, but a privately sponsored generic TLD.

	debbiedoesnothin:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:13 GMT	5 points
	@Booger - Does that mean I could get a .asia domain if I was willing to pay for it? Or is it restricted to entities in Asia?

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:15 GMT	8 points
	@debbiedoesnothin: You are supposed to be an entity in the Asia-Pacific region to get a .asia domain, but many people simply hire agents in the region to register the domain for them. There is controversy about this, but it is done.

	davidr:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:22 GMT	11 points
	On the one hand, the recent profusion of gTLDs is just a gratuitous and transparent attempt to make yet more money from registrations. On the other hand, it's incredibly cool that the British Museum's website is http://the.british.museum/ .

	That_Guy:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:34 GMT	4 points
	there's also .mod for the British Ministry of Defence.

	twisty:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:40 GMT	0 points
	I would agree that .asia should not be included, as it specifically refers to a geographic entity. I also think .cat should have been excluded. Otherwise, good quiz.

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 16:57 GMT	7 points
	@twisty: Thanks. As for .asia and .cat, the issue is not whether they should or should not be included, the issue is whether or not .asia and .cat are generic TLDs. They are. Contrary to what gjm wrote, the directions do not say that "countries and geographic areas" are excluded. The directions say only that ccTLDs are excluded. See this site for more info on .asia and .cat as gTLDs: http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/

	Hope:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:22 GMT	3 points
	That was really good. I liked it. Got all of them! 21/21. They left out .cotton, .invalid, and .localhost though

	Loona:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:36 GMT	2 points
	Wow, I can't believe I missed gov, edu and info. o.O Yet somehow I was still above the average. Good quiz though.

	Joe_Ball:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:37 GMT	4 points
	.ac? I use that one all the time.

	Havok3595:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:41 GMT	3 points
	I'm pretty sure there's a .xxx for adult material (not that it isn't all over the internet anyway).

	Idran:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:46 GMT	6 points
	@Booger: .arpa is an infrastructure TLD, though, not a gTLD. The site you link even points that out specifically. Also, how about including .example, .invalid, .localhost, and .test as bonus answers? They are RFC-defined TLDs, they're simply explicitly excluded from ever being used for a domain, or in the case of .localhost only used for the loopback IP. :D

	Skydog:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	2 points
	Fun Quiz, Thanks Booger! Missed quite of few of the ones I've never seen before, but that's ok!

	zifyoip:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	5 points
	@Joe_Ball: .ac is the ccTLD for Ascension Island. Perhaps you mean .ac.uk or .ac.nz or similar? In that case the top-level domain is .uk or .nz or whatever, not .ac.

	Idran:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:48 GMT	4 points
	@Havok: It's been proposed and rejected 3 times by the ICANN, but some DNSes use it unofficially, though you can only access it through those DNSes.

	Hope:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT	7 points
	I completely agree with Idran you should at least include .invalid, .localhost, .test, .example, and even .cotton as bonus answers. I don't have a problem with .arpa it still is a TLD.

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT	3 points
	@Idran: These are all gTLDs. The mere fact that a TLD may be sponsored does not mean that it is not a gTLD. As ICANN itself says on the page I linked above: "Most TLDs with three or more characters are referred to as 'generic' TLDs, or 'gTLDs'. They can be subdivided into two types, "sponsored" TLDs (sTLDs) and "unsponsored TLDs (uTLDs)"

	Booger:	May 30th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	4 points
	@Hope: As you know, .invalid, .localhost, .test and .example are all reserved TLDs that are not available for use in the public domain name system. Sure, I guess they could have been bonus answers, but I can't imagine many people would have gotten them.

	davidr:	May 30th, 2009 at 18:30 GMT	2 points
	@That_Guy: .mod is not a top-level domain: it's a sub-domain of .uk .

	davidr:	May 30th, 2009 at 18:39 GMT	1 point
	@Booger: Sponsored vs. unsponsored is irrelevant to .arpa. In the very next sentence of the page you reference (after "Most TLDS... are referred to as `generic' "), it says, "in addition to gTLDs and ccTLDs, there is one special TLD, .arpa". .arpa is not a gTLD: it is a special TLD.

	Nitram_Odarp:	May 30th, 2009 at 19:02 GMT	7 points
	How can there be any less than 100% for .com?

	imprettygood:	May 30th, 2009 at 19:08 GMT	3 points
	i got 8 and the ones i missed i didn't know oh wait .biz i should have gotten but whatever good quiz

	JohnJF:	May 30th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	3 points
	.mil+the five everyone else knows. And @nitram_odarp: My guess is it's from people who don't know what a gTLD is so instead started typing random things like continents or household pets and therefore still bothered to submit answers.

	Hope:	May 30th, 2009 at 20:58 GMT	7 points
	@Booger: They are reserved TLDs but they still are TLDs whether reserved or unreserved. I would of just liked them on the quiz or as bonus answers. Its still a good quiz regardless.

	eln77:	May 30th, 2009 at 21:11 GMT	5 points
	The proliferation of gTLDs as a transparent effort by ICANN to make more money has basically made the whole concept of the TLD meaningless. Their practice of allowing domain "tasting" has also enabled the massive domain squatting problem we have today. ICANN has been mismanaged for years, and has consistently put profit above usability concerns, despite the fact that they're supposed to be a non-profit that answers to the Internet community at large, not just the registrars. Rant over. Good quiz, Sporcle.

	happyjoe5:	May 30th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT	2 points
	I assumed since .com was given as an example in the instructions it wouldn't be an answer in the quiz.

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	GeoExpert:	May 31st, 2009 at 01:26 GMT	0 points
	There are many that I have never heard of. Just got .com,net,gov,edu,org,int, and .info.

	debbiedoesnothin:	May 31st, 2009 at 01:43 GMT	0 points
	@ Booger - Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure the instructions specified ccLTDs when I took it - I just remember that it said LTDs for reserved for a country or geographic area. I enjoyed the quiz even though I did miserably and I learned something from the comments. Thanks again.

	win:	May 31st, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	1 point
	so how many museums actually use .museum and not .org?

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	davidr:	May 31st, 2009 at 09:21 GMT	1 point
	@IHR: No. See the discussion above.