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.
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)
- NRO (Number Resource Organization)
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
- OTF (Open Technology Fund)
- EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)
United Nations bodies
Research and education organizations
- Merit (Merit Network, Inc.)
- NLR (National LambdaRail)
- Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development)
Accessibility and affordability initiatives
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
- Flickr
- Network Solutions (NSI)
- Yahoo!
- YouTube
- SourceForge
Historical organizations
Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past:
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