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) 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) eBay Facebook Flickr Google LinkedIn Network Solutions (NSI) 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