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list of Internet domains, This is a list of the most popular top-level domains (TLDs) in order of popularity.

The first TLD was .arpa, for sites connected to the ARPANET computer network. With the tremendous growth in Internet sites in the 1980s, .arpa was replaced by five TLDs: .gov for government sites, .edu for educational institutions, .com for companies, .mil for the U.S. military, and .org for other organizations. Since then, the number of TLDs has grown to about 1,500, ranging from .aaa, for the American Automobile Association, to .zw for Zimbabwe. This list contains the 20 most popular TLDs as of 2023, showing the percentage of their share of websites as determined by the Internet survey company W3Techs and what the domain designates.

  • .com (46.6 percent, companies)
  • .org (4.6 percent, organizations)
  • .ru (3.5 percent, country TLD for Russia)
  • .de (2.8 percent, country TLD for Germany)
  • .net (2.8 percent, networks)
  • .uk (2.2 percent, country TLD for the United Kingdom)
  • .br (2.2 percent, country TLD for Brazil)
  • .jp (1.8 percent, country TLD for Japan)
  • .fr (1.6 percent, country TLD for France)
  • .au (1.5 percent, country TLD for Australia)
  • .it (1.5 percent, country TLD for Italy)
  • .in (1.4 percent, country TLD for India)
  • .pl (1.3 percent, country TLD for Poland)
  • .nl (1.2 percent, country TLD for the Netherlands)
  • .ca (1.0 percent, country TLD for Canada)
  • .ua (0.8 percent, country TLD for Ukraine)
  • .ir (0.8 percent, country TLD for Iran)
  • .cz (0.8 percent, country TLD for Czech Republic)
  • .es (0.7 percent, country TLD for Spain)
  • .co (0.7 percent, country TLD for Colombia)
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Erik Gregersen.