Word: com
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IANA administrates top-level domains (TLDs), the right-most portion of an Internet domain name. Each TLD, such as .com, .us and .edu, is assigned to a unique organization, which can subsequently assign lower-level domain names...
...largest TLD, and therefore the most highly-disputed, is the .com domain administered by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) along with .edu, .net and several other international TLDs...
Today, this volume has soared to 125,000 registrations per month, primarily in the .com domain. And with this growth on the Internet, NSI faces a host of legal quandaries which have precipitated Congressional hearings...
...Because the Internet is an international resource, it's not clear that any government has any authority to [register domain names in the .com domain]," Bradner says. "I was in Beijing [recently], and all of the domain names I found were .com...
...issue which gets a lot of people upset is the fact that there's only one place you can go to get a .com registration," Bradner says. "They would like to have competition. You would go to the one that best fits your needs...