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.edu
Educause
Introduced 1985
TLD type Generic top-level domain
Status Active
Registry Educause
Sponsoring organization Not technically sponsored, but Educause is a nonprofit organization
Intended use Educational institutions
Actual use Accredited post-secondary institutions, almost entirely within the United States of America
Registration restrictions Must be accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of Nationally recognized accrediting agencies. Some older registrations are grandfathered.
Structure Registrations at second level permitted
Documents RFC 920; RFC 1591; US Department of Commerce agreement
Dispute policies Educause may revoke registrations if policy provisions are violated.
Web site .edu Home Page

.edu (education) is the generic top-level domain for educational institutions, primarily those in the United States. Image File history File links Educause. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is a top-level domain used (at least in theory) by a particular class of organization. ... EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. ... The United States Department of Education was created in 1979 (by PL 96-88) as a Cabinet-level department of the United States government, and began operating in 1980. ... The U.S. Department of Education does not directly accredit educational institutions and/or programs. ... A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is a top-level domain used (at least in theory) by a particular class of organization. ...


History

Created in January 1985 as one of the first top-level domains, .edu was originally intended for educational institutions anywhere in the world. With few exceptions, however, only those in the United States registered such domains, while educational institutions in other countries usually used domain names under the appropriate country code TLD. In some countries a second-level domain is used to indicate an educational institutions (e.g. .edu.mx in Mexico, .edu.au in Australia, .ac.uk and .sch.uk in the United Kingdom) and in others only the country code is used (e.g. in Canada and Germany). In Germany, the second-level domain has a prefix indicating the kind of institution (uni for Universität, fh for Fachhochschule, for instance www.uni-erfurt.de and www.fh-erfurt.de) or, if there several institutions of the same type, the abbreviation of the institutions name (for instance www.fu-berlin.de, www.tu-berlin.de and www.hu-berlin.de for the three Berlin universities). 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. ... .sch. ... .sch. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...


Examples of non-US .edu domain is the French polytechnique.edu, the Belgian solvay.edu, the Swedish korteboskolan.edu or the Indian nist.edu.


Accreditation

Under the present system, only post-secondary institutions that are accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies are eligible to apply for a .edu domain. Most such agencies accredit only US institutions, so very few non-US institutions qualify, and .edu remains almost exclusively a top-level domain of the United States. Generally, accreditation is the process by which a facility becomes officially certified as providing services of a reasonably good quality, so that the public can trust in the quality of its services. ... The United States Department of Education was created in 1979 (by PL 96-88) as a Cabinet-level department of the United States government, and began operating in 1980. ... The U.S. Department of Education does not directly accredit educational institutions and/or programs. ...


Note that the current eligibility requirements apply only to new applicants. Several non-qualifying institutions retain their .edu domains obtained before the current rules came into force. Examples of these include Montgomery Blair High School, a public secondary school at mbhs.edu, and the University of the West Indies, an international university, at uwi.edu. Other non-post-secondary institutions with .edu domains include Phillips Exeter Academy, a private secondary school at www.exeter.edu; Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school at www.andover.edu; the Brookings Institution, a research and policy institute at www.brook.edu; the Smithsonian Institution, a national museum ("America's national educational facility") at www.si.edu; the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic organization in Los Angeles, California at www.getty.edu; Educause, "a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology" at www.educause.edu; the Franklin Institute Science Museum, a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at www.fi.edu; the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco, California, at www.exploratorium.edu; the Institutes of Medicine, an academy associated with the National Academy of Sciences, at www.iom.edu; the Art Institute of Chicago, an art museum at www.artic.edu; the Folger Shakespeare Library, a library in Washington, D.C., at www.folger.edu; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, the organization that selects the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope, at www.stsci.edu; Psiimond Network Services, a private web design company at www.pns.edu. Montgomery Blair High School (most often simply known as Blair) is a public high school located in Silver Spring in unincorporated Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. The school serves several areas considered to be Silver Spring and the city of Takoma Park. ... The University of the West Indies, also known as UWI, is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries and territories in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ... Phillips Exeter Academy (also called Exeter, Phillips Exeter, or PEA) is a co-educational independent boarding school for grades 9-12, located on 619 acres in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, fifty miles north of Boston. ... The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the United States. ... The Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle on the National Mall serves as the Institutions headquarters. ... The J. Paul Getty Trust is the United States wealthiest art institution with an estimated endowment of $5. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. ... Note:This article is about the science museum in Philadelphia. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D... Official language(s) None Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 160 miles (255 km)  - Length 280 miles (455 km)  - % water 2. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the premier fine art institutions in the United States. ... The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. History Standard Oil president, then chairman of the board, Henry Clay Folger was an avid collector of Shakespeareana. ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is an organization founded by NASA to manage and direct research done with the Hubble Space Telescope. ... The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble for his discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way and his creation of Hubbles Law, which calculates the rate at which the universe is expanding. ...


The restriction to post-secondary institutions does not apply to the corresponding domains in some other countries. For example, the British .ac.uk second-level domain is also used by Further Education colleges, museums, learned societies and UCAS. Further education is education in addition to that received at secondary school. ... A learned society is a society that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. ... New UCAS logo, as of 2006 UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service, pronounced YOU-kass, IPA: ) is a clearing house for applications to almost all undergraduate degree programmes at British universities and colleges. ...


External links

Generic top-level domains
Unsponsored  .biz  .com  .edu  .gov  .info  .int  .mil  .name  .net  .org
Sponsored  .aero  .cat  .coop  .jobs  .mobi  .museum  .pro  .travel
Infrastructure  .arpa  .root
Startup phase  .asia  .tel
Proposed  .cym  .geo  .kid  .kids  .mail  .post  .sco  .web  .xxx
Deleted/retired  .nato
Reserved  .example  .invalid  .localhost  .test
Pseudo-domains  .bitnet  .csnet  .local  .onion  .uucp
Unofficial  see Alternative DNS roots

See also: Country code top-level domains

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