Unsponsored top-level domain

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An unsponsored top-level domain (uTLD) is one of the categories of

country-code top-level domains (ccTLD), generic top-level domains

(gTLD) and infrastructure top-level domain.

Unsponsored TLD is a specialized top-level domain that has no sponsor, in opposition of sTLD (sponsored), that has a sponsor representing a specific community served by the domain. Generally speaking, uTLD is a TLD without "owner", where ICANN has an important governance role.

It is a reduced set of TLDs: old ones (.com, .org and .net) and new ones (.biz, .info and .name).

References

^ "Root Zone Database". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
^ "Check Website's Whois Information". Retrieved 27 August 2023.

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