At 04:00 01.06.01 -0600, you wrote: ------------------------- >Country Codes Chart The first group is called "global Top Level Domains" (gTLDs) >COM US Commercial actually not only US >EDU US Educational yes, very strictly US universities (3 years post K-12 I think) >GOV US Government strictly US >INT International only international treaty organizations >MIL US Military strictly US >NET Network >ORG Non-Profit Organization Both are the originally intended usage groups. Unfortunately not strict anymore. >ARPA Old style Arpanet still used for reverse-lookup, i.e. to find the domain to a given IP number. >NATO Nato field the following group is called "country code Top Level Domains" "ccTLDs": >AD Andorra >AE United Arab Emirates >AF Afghanistan ... >US United States Stefan