Internet organizations

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.

## Contents

* 1 Standards development and broad-based advocacy and educational organizations
* 2 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
* 3 United Nations bodies
* 4 Research and education organizations
* 5 Accessibility and affordability initiatives
* 6 Commercial organizations
* 7 Historical organizations

## 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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