.edu

.edu is a generic top-level domain (gTLD). It was introduced on January 1, 1985 , making it one of the oldest endings ever. The non-profit organization Educause , based in Boulder, Colorado, is responsible for the administration of .edu . Until 2001, the operation was carried out by the commercial company VeriSign .

The abbreviation .edu stands for educational , in German for education . This indicates that the top-level domain is intended exclusively for organizations in the education system. Nowadays, only institutions from the United States are allowed to order .edu domains; the ending is not open to interested parties from other countries. The first ever .edu domain was assigned to the University of California at Berkeley on April 24, 1985 .

In the initial phase, organizations outside the US could also order an .edu domain, which is no longer possible today. However, addresses that have already been assigned still exist, for example the following universities have .edu domains:

• Deggendorf University of Technology : dit.edu
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology : kit.edu
• Technical University of Dortmund : udo.edu
• Technical University of Munich : tum.edu
• University of Applied Sciences Munich : hm.edu
• EBS University of Economics and Law : ebs.edu
• Otto Beisheim School of Management : whu.edu
• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt - Faculty of Economics : wfi.edu
• Management Center Innsbruck : mci.edu
• European Academy Bolzano : eurac.edu

In addition, addresses that were assigned before 2001 (deadline October 29) were continued even if it was not a post-secondary educational institution (“ grandfathering ”). Well-known examples are z. B. the Exploratorium in San Francisco ( www.exploratorium.edu ), the research group TECO (www.teco.edu) or the commercial company Academia.edu . To date, there are some commercial .edu addresses, including some that the US Department of Education has classified as “ suspect ”.

Web links

• Registrar's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Florian Hitzelberger: Time travel - the oldest generic domains. In: domain-right. March 24, 2009, accessed January 8, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Delegation Record for .EDU. IANA , accessed January 7, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Jürgen Kuri: .edu domains in future under non-commercial supervision. In: Heise Online . April 12, 2001, accessed January 8, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Eligibility Requirements. (No longer available online.) Educause, archived from the original on April 20, 2013 ; accessed on January 8, 2013 . 
5. ↑ website of technichen Deggendorf University. Retrieved June 2, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Official website. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, accessed on February 15, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Official website. Technical University of Munich, accessed on January 7, 2016 . 
8. ↑ FAQs on Eligibility for the .edu Domain . Archived from the original on March 19, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2011. and .edu Policy Information . both EduCause.edu. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
9. ↑ Taking the Rough-and-Tumble Approach to Science . In: New York Times
10. ^ TECO - Technology for Pervasive Computing. Retrieved February 8, 2019 (American English). 
11. ^ The Convoluted Profits of Academic Publishing . The Atlantic
12. ^ Diploma Mills and Accreditation - Diploma Mills . US Department of Education . December 23, 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2011.