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)
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)
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 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
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
