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 Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object th ...

, and technology; deploying infrastructure and services; and addressing other major issues.

Standards development and broad-based advocacy and educational organizations

*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 The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. It runs ...

) *NRO (

Number Resource Organization A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers. ...

) *W3C ( World Wide Web Consortium) *OTF ( Open Technology Fund) *EFF (

Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet ci ...

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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 LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre; , ) is the regional Internet registry for the Latin American and Caribbean regions. LACNIC provides number resource allocation and registration services that support the global oper ...

) *RIPE (

Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre RIPE NCC (''Réseaux IP Européens'' Network Coordination Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Its headquarters are in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a branch office in Dubai, UAE. ...

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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 National LambdaRail (NLR) was a , high-speed national computer network owned and operated by the U.S. research and education community. In November 2011, the control of NLR was purchased from its university membership by a billionaire Patrick Soon ...

) *Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development)

Accessibility and affordability initiatives

Internet.org Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Meta Platforms and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to l ...

Alliance for Affordable Internet The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is an initiative to make the Internet more affordable to people around the world. The World Wide Web Foundation serves as the Secretariat, and major members of coalition include Google, the Omidyar Netwo ...

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 AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo (2017� ...

(America Online) * Cloudflare * eBay * Facebook * Flickr * GitHub * Google * LinkedIn * Netflix *

Network Solutions Network Solutions, LLC is an American-based technology company and a subsidiary of Web.com, the 4th largest .com domain name registrar with over 6.7 million registrations as of August 2018. In addition to being a domain name registrar, Network S ...

(NSI) * Paypal * Twitter * Yahoo! * YouTube *

Instagram Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can ...

* SourceForge

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 The Network Information Center (NIC), also known as InterNIC from 1993 until 1998, was the organization primarily responsible for Domain Name System (DNS) domain name allocations and X.500 directory services. From its inception in 1972 until O ...

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party *National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...

(U.S. National Science Foundation) * PSINet * UUNet {{DEFAULTSORT:Internet organizations Internet Internet org Internet org