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lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%81" title=".এডু – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title=".এডু" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu" title=".edu – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title=".edu" data-language-autonym="Svenska" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">.edu</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:DotEDU_domain_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/DotEDU_domain_logo.svg/220px-DotEDU_domain_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/DotEDU_domain_logo.svg/330px-DotEDU_domain_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/DotEDU_domain_logo.svg/440px-DotEDU_domain_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="130" data-file-height="68" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Introduced</th><td class="infobox-data">January 1, 1985<span class="noprint">; 40 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1985-01-01</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Top-level_domain" title="Top-level domain">TLD</a> type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sponsored_top-level_domain" title="Sponsored top-level domain">Sponsored top-level domain</a><sup id="cite_ref-IANA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IANA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registry" title="Domain name registry">Registry</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Educause" title="Educause">Educause</a> (operated by <a href="/wiki/VeriSign" class="mw-redirect" title="VeriSign">VeriSign</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Intended use</th><td class="infobox-data">US Educational institutions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Structure</th><td class="infobox-data">Registrations at second level permitted</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Documents</th><td class="infobox-data">RFC 920; RFC 1591</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/DNSSEC" class="mw-redirect" title="DNSSEC">DNSSEC</a></th><td class="infobox-data">yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registry website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://net.educause.edu/">net<wbr />.educause<wbr />.edu</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>.edu</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Sponsored_top-level_domain" title="Sponsored top-level domain">sponsored top-level domain</a> (sTLD) in the <a href="/wiki/Domain_Name_System" title="Domain Name System">Domain Name System</a> of the Internet. The domain was implemented in 1985 to create a domain name hierarchy for organizations with a focus on education. At the time, it was open for registration for entities from any region. Since 2001, new registrants for second-level domain names have been required to be United States–affiliated <a href="/wiki/Higher_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher education">institutions of higher education</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.edu&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names#.edu" title="List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names">List of the oldest currently registered .edu domain names</a></div> <p>The domain <i>edu</i> was implemented in April 1985 as a <a href="/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain" title="Generic top-level domain">generic top-level domain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rooksby_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rooksby-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GenFAQ_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GenFAQ-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_registered_Internet_domain_names#.edu" title="List of the oldest currently registered Internet domain names">Six universities</a> were the initial registrants that month.<sup id="cite_ref-Rooksby_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rooksby-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a> was among this group of the first schools to have their domains registered. And while the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_University_of_California,_Los_Angeles#ARPANET_developed" title="History of the University of California, Los Angeles">first ARPAnet message</a> was sent from UCLA to <a href="/wiki/Stanford" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanford">Stanford</a>, Stanford did not have their domain registered until half a year after these first schools, becoming the 18th .edu site. </p><p>Until 2001, <a href="/wiki/Network_Solutions" title="Network Solutions">Network Solutions</a> served as registrar for <i>edu</i> under an arrangement with the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Commerce">U.S. Department of Commerce</a>. Domain registration was done at no cost to educational institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-Amarillo_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amarillo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001, the Commerce Department entered into a five-year agreement with <a href="/wiki/Educause" title="Educause">Educause</a> making that organization the registrar for the .edu domain.<sup id="cite_ref-eligexpands_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eligexpands-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The agreement with Educause was extended for an additional five-year period in 2006; at that time Educause was authorized to begin charging a yearly administrative fee to registrants.<sup id="cite_ref-2006continue_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2006continue-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The domain <i>edu</i> was originally intended for educational institutions anywhere in the world. However, most of the institutions that obtained edu registrations were in the United States, while non-U.S. educational institutions typically used country-level domains.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1993, a decision attributed to <a href="/wiki/Jon_Postel" title="Jon Postel">Jon Postel</a> limited new registrations in the edu domain to four-year postsecondary educational institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-Amarillo_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amarillo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This prevented new edu registrations by <a href="/wiki/Community_college" title="Community college">community colleges</a> and other institutions offering less than four years of postsecondary schooling.<sup id="cite_ref-Amarillo_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amarillo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Enforcement of the restrictions in the 1990s was not entirely effective. The webmaster for the <a href="/wiki/Exploratorium" title="Exploratorium">Exploratorium</a>, a San Francisco science museum, recalled in 2006 that the museum obtained its edu domain name at a time in the early 1990s "when there were about 600 websites and only one for a museum."<sup id="cite_ref-NTYExploratorium_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NTYExploratorium-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The museum's Internet registrar allowed it to sidestep the then-extant domain-naming rules by using <i>edu</i> despite not being an academic institution and by using a name with more than 12 characters.<sup id="cite_ref-NTYExploratorium_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NTYExploratorium-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some community colleges were reported to have registered edu second-level names after 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-Amarillo_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amarillo-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999 an article in <i><a href="/wiki/Mother_Earth_News" title="Mother Earth News">Mother Earth News</a></i> quoted an authority on <a href="/wiki/Distance_education" title="Distance education">distance education</a> as saying, "Anyone who has the necessary $70 can register an edu domain name and use it to archive any type of enterprise on the Internet."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2001, the domain was restricted to U.S.-accredited postsecondary educational institutions.<sup id="cite_ref-GenFAQ_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GenFAQ-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequent changes expanded its use beyond four-year institutions, allowing registrations by accredited community colleges as well as by university systems, community college districts, and similar entities.<sup id="cite_ref-eligexpands_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eligexpands-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 2004 and 2019, the number of registered names in domain edu remained relatively persistent, with more than 7,000 but fewer than 8,000 names registered at any given time.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eligibility">Eligibility</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.edu&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Eligibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since October 29, 2001, only postsecondary institutions and organizations that are <a href="/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation_in_the_United_States" title="Higher education accreditation in the United States">institutionally accredited</a> by an agency on the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education" title="United States Department of Education">U.S. Department of Education's</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_recognized_higher_education_accreditation_organizations#United_States" title="List of recognized higher education accreditation organizations">list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies</a> are eligible to apply for an <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">edu</span> domain.<sup id="cite_ref-EligibilityFAQ_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EligibilityFAQ-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To be eligible, an institution must be located in the U.S., legally organized in the U.S., or recognized by a U.S. state, territorial, or federal agency.<sup id="cite_ref-EligibilityFAQ_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EligibilityFAQ-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> University system offices, community college district offices, and other entities within the United States that are organized to manage and govern multiple accredited postsecondary institutions may also register .edu domain names.<sup id="cite_ref-EligibilityFAQ_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EligibilityFAQ-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each eligible institution is limited to registering one .edu domain name, but institutions may also use names in other top-level domains.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grandfathered_uses">Grandfathered uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.edu&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Grandfathered uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Domains that were already registered in <i>edu</i> as of October 29, 2001, were <a href="/wiki/Grandfather_clause" title="Grandfather clause">grandfathered</a> into the system. Holders of such domain names can retain their edu domain names without regard to the current eligibility criteria.<sup id="cite_ref-EligibilityFAQ_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EligibilityFAQ-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eligibility_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eligibility-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003, Educause undertook an initiative to clear the edu registry of domain names that were not accurately registered by removing names whose registrants did not respond to requests that they log into the registry and review their <a href="/wiki/Whois" class="mw-redirect" title="Whois">whois</a> entries.<sup id="cite_ref-circleid_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-circleid-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through this effort, Educause expected to eliminate a number of domains that did not appear to qualify for registration in the edu domain, such as <i>oracle.edu</i>, <i>geraldine.edu</i>, and <i>jedi.edu</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-circleid_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-circleid-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2006, Educause has been authorized to implement measures to prevent edu domain name owners from transferring their domain names to other entities. These measures, together with the imposition of registration fees, were intended to reduce the number of inactive or ineligible edu domain names.<sup id="cite_ref-2006continue_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2006continue-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Education">U.S. Department of Education</a> notes that some "suspect" or "illegitimate" educational institutions continue to use edu addresses that were registered before the stringent eligibility criteria were adopted in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Related_domains">Related domains</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.edu&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Related domains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many countries operate edu or <a href="/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)" title=".ac (second-level domain)">.ac</a> namespaces within their <a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">country code top-level domains</a> that serve the same purpose as the edu top-level domain. In the United States, community colleges and technical and vocational schools also have the option of registering fourth-level domains under the .cc.<i>state</i><a href="/wiki/.us" title=".us">.us</a> and .tec.<i>state</i>.us affinity namespaces, while elementary and secondary schools and school districts may register under the .k12.<i>state</i>.us namespace. </p><p>In September 2015, the <a href="/wiki/.college" title=".college">.college</a> top-level domain emerged as an option for organizations that do not meet edu's more stringent criteria, such as non-accredited institutions and institutions based outside the United States.<br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=.edu&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a 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