List Of Internet Organizations

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This is a list of Internet organizations, or organizations that play or played a key role in the evolution of the Internet by developing recommendations, standards, and technology; deploying infrastructure and services; and addressing other major issues.

Standards development and broad-based advocacy and educational organizations

  • IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
  • IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
  • ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
  • IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group)
  • IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
  • IRTF (Internet Research Task Force)
  • ISOC (Internet Society)
  • NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group)
  • NRO (Number Resource Organization)
  • W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)

  • AfriNIC (African Network Information Centre)
  • ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers)
  • APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre)
  • LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre)
  • RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre)

United Nations bodies

  • Internet Governance Forum
  • World Summit on the Information Society
  • Working Group on Internet Governance

Research and education organizations

  • Merit (Merit Network, Inc.)
  • NLR (National LambdaRail)
  • Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development)

Accessibility and affordability initiatives

  • Internet.org
  • Alliance for Affordable Internet

Commercial organizations

Commercial organizations that made early and significant contributions to the development of the Internet or services available on the Internet:


  • Amazon.com
  • AOL (America Online)
  • eBay
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Google
  • LinkedIn
  • Network Solutions (NSI)
  • Twitter
  • Yahoo!
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

Historical organizations

Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past:

  • Advanced Network and Services (ANS)
  • DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
  • InterNIC
  • NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation)
  • PSINet
  • UUNet



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