Internet organizations

This is a list of Internet organizations, 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)
• IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
• ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
• 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)

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)
• eBay
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Google
• LinkedIn
• Network Solutions (NSI)
• Twitter
• Yahoo!
• YouTube
• Instagram

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