A geographic top-level domain (often shortened as geographic TLD or geoTLD) is any of an unofficial group of top-level domains in the Domain Name System of the Internet using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.
As of 2014[update], several examples of geographic TLDs exist: .london,[1] enabling London businesses, organizations, and individuals to establish an online naming presence, .asia (for Asia), .rio (for Rio de Janeiro city), .quebec (for Québec province), .cat which is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture.
The GeoTLD Group AISBL is an international non-for-profit membership association resident in Belgium.
[10] Many of these are geographic, including: An internationalized country code is similar to a GeoTLD, with two differences: it is a domain used exclusively for a sovereign state.
The other difference is that an internationalized country code is considered a ccTLD and not a GeoTLD.