TLD is short for top-level domain. Every domain name consists of a label (i.e., Hosting24) and a TLD (i.e., .com). Historically, each TLD had a designated purpose. For example:
| .gov | Used by governmental agencies and entities |
| .edu | Mostly for educational use by colleges and universities |
| .org | Meant for organizations, but currently unrestricted |
| .com | Mainly for commercial use, but currently unrestricted |
| .net | Used for network infrastructures, but now unrestricted. |
However, nowadays most of the extensions are unrestricted and can be used for whatever purpose you want. TLDs also branch out into two categories: country-code top-level domains (ccTLD) and generic top-level domains (gTLD).
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