Well said, kazimmerman. .EDU

pinkypainter — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:12:14 +0000

Well said, kazimmerman. .EDU means for Educational institute, therefore only the registered institutes are able to register the domain extension.

A customer used to ask me whether he can register his personal tuition centre with .EDU and sorry to say that, NO. Unless your tuition centre is registered under institute.

Thanks! - Roy

rtroxel — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:50:48 +0000

Thanks!

- Roy

As far as I know, only

kazimmerman — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:56:13 +0000

As far as I know, only accredited institutions can use a .edu domain. I believe it actually requires an application process (rather than just purchasing an available domain), and there is just one source for purchasing some domains. Their eligibility requirements are listed here:

http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp

And you can see that an organization like yours is more suited to a .org domain. This is the same reason why even high schools or other local schools cannot even receive a .edu domain, as far as I know.