This is a list of Internet organisations, 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 edit
- IAB (Internet Architecture Board)
- ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
- IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
- 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)
- OTF (Open Technology Fund)
- EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) edit
United Nations bodies edit
Research and education organizations edit
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- Merit (Merit Network, Inc.)
- NLR (National LambdaRail)
- Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development)
Accessibility and affordability initiatives edit
Commercial organizations edit
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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
- Flickr
- Network Solutions (NSI)
- Yahoo!
- YouTube
- SourceForge
Historical organizations edit
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Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past: