Registries are organisations that have been given the right to manage and distribute domain names within a designated top level domain.

.UK Registry operated by Nominet UK
.com Registry operated by VeriSign
.net Registry operated by VeriSign
.org Registry operated by Public Interest Registry
.biz Registry operated by Nothing Personal. Only Business
.info Registry operated by Afilias
.eu Registry operated by EURid

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