List of Internet organizations

This is a list of Internet organisations, 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)

 * AfriNIC (African Network Information Centre)
 * ARIN   (American Registry for Internet Numbers)
 * APNIC  (Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre)
 * LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre)
 * RIPE   (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre)

United Nations bodies

 * Internet Governance Forum
 * World Summit on the Information Society
 * Working Group on Internet Governance

Research and education organizations

 * Merit (Merit Network, Inc.)
 * NLR (National LambdaRail)
 * Internet2 (aka University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development)

Accessibility and affordability initiatives

 * Internet.org
 * Alliance for Affordable Internet

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)
 * Cloudflare
 * eBay
 * Facebook
 * Flickr
 * Google
 * LinkedIn
 * Netflix
 * Network Solutions (NSI)
 * Paypal
 * Twitter
 * Yahoo!
 * YouTube
 * Instagram
 * SourceForge

Historical organizations
Organizations that played an important role in the development of the Internet in the past:


 * Advanced Network and Services (ANS)
 * DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
 * InterNIC
 * NSF (U.S. National Science Foundation)
 * PSINet
 * UUNet