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Please Read this Before Submitting Your Site

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are listed only in sub-categories of this main category. If your company that provides individuals and companies access to the Internet via dialup connections, leased lines, and so forth, please look below this category for the appropriate sub-category and submit your site there.

All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide access to the Internet, are listed in the By Region category and sub-categories.

This category and its sub-categories are for English language sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the most appropriate category in World

If your company's primary services are in web hosting and domain name registration, please submit instead to Web_Design_and_Development.

If your services are primarily web design, please submit instead to the most appropriate category in Web Designers.

Following these guidelines will help prevent delays in having your site listed.

This is not a category in which to be included. If you have a site which has to do with the internet, please look below this category for the appropriate one.

Submission Guidelines - The Open Directory Project editors are committed to building the most useful Directory on the Internet. We want to help your promotion efforts by listing your site in a timely manner. We want your website to be found easily. By choosing the most appropriate category, you assist us in both these efforts.

Sites which are incomplete, having Under Construction notices, or which contain broken graphics or links have a poor chance of being listed. Please wait to submit your web site until it is complete. Please double-check the URL, and, if possible, include an e-mail address so we may contact you if we have questions.


Abuse

Please only submit sites which contain concrete information about cyberstalking and online harassment. Sites that appear to exist solely to attack an individual or organization will not be included.

Junk mail and spam are not cyberstalking and sites about such activities may be found in Top: Computers: Internet: Abuse: Spam.

Disagreements are not harassment.

Do not submit In Computers:Internet:Abuse. Please look for the appropriate sub-category below.

Denial of Service Sites about hostile web applets which maliciously consume resources.

How To Report Sites which instruct how to report internet abuse.

How To Report Web Abuse Sites which instruct how to report abuse in specific web communities.

Sexual Harassment Sites about sexual harrassment on the internet.

Spam Sites which have to do with spam, anti-spam software and tactics, spam laws, and people accused of spamming.

Spam laws Sites about spam laws.

Access Providers

Please Read this Before Submitting Your Site

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are listed only in sub-categories of this main category. If your company that provides individuals and companies access to the Internet via dialup connections, leased lines, and so forth, please look below this category for the appropriate sub-category and submit your site there.

All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that provide access to the Internet, are listed in the By Region category and sub-categories.

This category and its sub-categories are for English language sites. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the most appropriate category in World

If your company's primary services are in web hosting and domain name registration, please submit instead to Web_Design_and_Development.

If your services are primarily web design, please submit instead to the most appropriate category in Web Designers.

Following these guidelines will help prevent delays in having your site listed.

Resources about and for Internet Service Providers (ISPs)... companies which provide access to the Internet, via dialup connections, leased lines, etc.

NOTE that entries for actual ISPs should be added under the REGIONAL category for the parts of the world they serve (for instance, National ISPs in the U.S.A. would go under Regional/USA). Sites that do not offer Internet access, such as companies that specialize in web hosting and domain name registration, don't belong under here since they have their own Open Directory category elsewhere.

If you find another good worldwide list of ISPs, you can add that under Regional. ISP lists that only deal with some portion of the world should be added under the category for the parts of the world they cover. You may want to add "[ISPLIST]" to the beginning of the title of the site, to set it apart from the normal listings.

Broadcasting

This category will include the web sites with broadcasting information and resources. These sites can be in-depth content-descriptive how-to tutorials, articles, or portals.

Any web sites that deal with adult content will not be included in this category.

Broadcasting of Audio/Video using the Internet, specifically, Internet only broadcasters or broadcasting. Please submit to the appropriate subcategory.

Chat

This category is for sites which feature resources or information on live chat or related topics.

Suitable sites may include online communities or other such venues which have a large participation.

Please submit smaller web chat rooms (Java or HTML based), IRC, The Palace and instant messaging related sites to the appropriate sub categories.

Note that this category and sub categories are not suitable for the submission of forum sites.

This category lists larger sites which relate to general web based chat. Other types of online chat are included in appropriate sub categories.

If you cannot decide which site to visit, why not try our chat guides category here, it recommends easy-to-use chat sites, and lists many help files for new chatters.

Commercial Services

"Commercial Services" is not a category in which we list links. It is strictly to serve as a referral category to sites which were listed here when it was a functional subcategory.

For the most part, the subcategories which used to be housed here can now be found at http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet

Consultants

Freelance consulting services covering internet strategy, equipment and networking, etc. NOT to be confused with freelance web designing services which has its own category at Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Designers: Freelance

Sites about consulting services offered to businesses on the Internet.

Cybercafes

Please submit your site to one of the appropriate "country subcategory" below. This will help speed the editing of your submission.

Please additionally submit your site to the appropriate "locality" category in the ODP Regional branch.

Example: Kifissia Internet Cafe - Internet Café located in Athens. should be add to Computers/Internet/Cybercafes/Greece/ and submitted to Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Attica/Athens/

A cybercafe (also referred to as Internet Cafe) is a place offering computers for rent with the ability to check email, surf the Internet, make connections with others via chat, upload digital photos, play games, utilize word processing and other software products. Many cafes also offer other business services and refreshments.

Establishments with the primary purpose of interactive gaming should be sent to Computers/Internet/Cybercafes/Gaming

All other general purpose cybercafes should be submitted to the appropriate regional sub-category.

Businesses which are primarily a restaurant, that happens to also offer a couple of internet terminals should be sent to the appropriate Regional locality.

Cyberspace

This category is in the process of being disbanded, and so is no longer accepting new URL suggestions.

more information (editors only)

This category is in the process of being disbanded, and so is no longer accepting new URL suggestions.

Domain Names

Very few sites will be listed at this level, so please check whether there is an appropriate sub-category for your site before suggesting it here. In particular:
  • Companies who's primary business is offering domain registrations to consumers are listed under the Registrars sub-catetgory.
  • Sites concerned with the technical side of the DNS protocol, are listed under Computers: Internet: Protocols: DNS.
Domain_Names guides users to subcategories which contain all resources and services having to do with Domain Name Services.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database used by computer systems to map between hostnames and IP addresses, and to provide electronic mail routing information. Each site (university department, campus,company, or department within a company, for example) maintains its own database of information and runs a server program that other systems across the Internet can query. The DNS provides the protocol which allows clients and servers to communicate with each other.

This category and its sub-categories include the companies that provide the resources to make this system work, companies that provide the resources to end users for use or resell and sites that discuss issues in the system.

E-mail

Please submit all free email services to the Free category. All other email and related sites should be submitted to the categories in Email.

Establish a web-based email address you can access anywhere, anytime using your favorite browser. Most services are advertisement supported and require at times an extensive disclosure of personal information.

Keep in mind that your primary choice in usernames will probably be taken on the more popular email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. To avoid having to use obscure usernames, you may have to register with a smaller or newer email service such as PopMail or Postmark.

Education

This category is for sites that offer courses relating to the Internet and Internet techologies.

Sites offering primarily online courses should be submitted to the Computers/Education/Courses/Online category.

Sites offering classroom-based courses should be listed in the appropriate Regional section.

This category contains websites that pertain to computer education about the use of and development of the internet. Sites submitted should offer education or training in a range of internet related courses. Tutorials in specific web development areas like JavaScript or Flash, should be submitted to the appropriate specific category. General training and educational courses delivered via the internet should be submitted to Online Teaching and Learning . Computer software training delivered via the internet should be submitted to Online Training .

Etiquette

This category does not overlap with

Please also check the subcategories.

Please make sure your link is submitted to the most appropriate of these categories.

Internet etiquette, or "Netiquette", refers to practices of writing, contact, and behavior on the Internet. This includes normal terms of etiquette, as well as other conventions of behavior that have become established over years of electronic communication.

FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

Please submit sites to this category only if they provide helpful information or tutorials for those wishing to learn about the Internet.

Consulting, or other predominantly commercial sites, should NOT be submitted here. Instead they should be submitted to their respective industry or regional category.

This category contains sites with help articles and tutorials pertaining to the Internet.

File Sharing

Sites should be of significant interest to users of file-sharing software, with news, discussion, or reference features. Sites exclusively focused on a single network that has its own subcategory (e.g. Gnutella) should go to that subcategory.

Please note that if the site is offering storage on the web, it should be submitted in Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Storage or its subcategories and not here. Keep in mind that suggesting a site in a wrong category may considerably delay its review.

This category is for sites devoted to compiling news, reference information, or community discussion about file sharing software, activity and current events.

Gopher

If the site has valuable information about the Gopher protocol, this category is the right place, no matter if it is a Gopher or a Web site. However, the mere fact that a site be on Gopher is not a good reason to submit it here. Basically, a Gopher site with valuable information on a given topic should be submitted to the category covering this topic.

more information (editors only)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 Sep 00):

A popular distributed document retrieval system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at the University of Minnesota. Many hosts on the Internet now run Gopher servers which provide a menu of documents. A document may be a plain text file, sound, image, submenu or other Gopher object type. It may be stored on another host or may provide the ability to search through certain files for a given string.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 Jan 2000):

gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents, runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the net.

Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang `gofer' (from "go for", dialectal "go fer"), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally, observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers. Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to the project as it developed out of its concept stage.

History

Please submit any sites about the Trojan Room Coffee Machine.

Accounts of the origins and development of the Internet. Archived material from the Internet's past.

Internet Fax

Please only submit sites dealing with fax servers.

No category description found

News and Media

The News/Internet branch of the Open Directory contains sites publishing news about the Internet or Internet related issues. These sites may publish using the traditional web page, or may be published as newsletters.

This category is not for the "News" or "What's New" pages of non-news web sites. Those sites should be listed under their appropriate category. For example, the "News" page of the Department of Education should be listed wherever the Department of Education main page appears.

Please add only one URL for a news site. Do not add a URL for each issue of a news site or newsletter. The editor of this branch will include all relevant information about all pages of your site in the site review. If you feel the review of your site is incomplete, please direct your comments to the editor listed at the bottom of the branch page. Sites which do not fit this description will be relocated to an appropriate category.

Organizations

This category is for organizations that run Alternate Roots or create technology that allows them to operate.
The 42 member Digital Future Coalition (DFC) is committed to preserving the time-tested balance between the rights of owners of intellectual property and the traditional use privileges of the public.

Policy

Submissions to this section should bear in mind its location under the Top: Computers.

Anything related to the process of governance of the Internet as a network of computers is welcomed.

Sites relating to aspects of Internet Policy not connected to its nature as a network of computers (such as Internet Economy or Internet Society) should be submitted to:

"Top: Society: Issues: Science and Technology: Computers: Internet" or "Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Public Policy: Ecommerce Policy"

And outcomes of the process of governance, such as standards, protocols, domain names, should go in the appropriate category in Computers: Internet

Policy regarding Standards, Legislation, Regulations, Visions, Dreams and Plans about the Internet as a network of computers.

Particularly focused on the governance process of the Internet. (How plans become standards, Who makes the decisions and so on.)

Protocols

Submitted sites should be related to the Internet protocols, not the software or servers that use them.

Software that uses the protocols should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory in Computers/Software/Internet (ex. Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Chat/IRC).

These sites provide information on the various protocols which define how computers making up the Internet interact.

Proxying and Filtering

Please submit sites providing information on proxy caching technology and implementation to this category.

Sites offering proxy caching hardware or software should be submitted to Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Products_and_Tools/ or its most appropriate subcat.

No category description found

Publications

This category is for ezines that review websites. General internet ezines should go to Computers:Internet Publications:Ezines. Marketing ezines should be listed in the marketing subcategory of the above

No category description found

RFCs

Request For Comments (RFC) documents are a series of notes about the Internet. Each RFC is assigned a unique number, and once published is not modified.

Resources

Searching/Directory websites should submit their sites to Computers: Internet: Searching
Sites that have information about the entire Internet, not just one aspect of it. For example, sites that only cover the World Wide Web should be listed in the appropriate subcategory of Computers/Internet/WWW

Sites appropriate for this category should be rare.

Routers and Routing

A few notes on submissions: Please check the page and sub-pages for a duplicate before submitting. Try to submit the least specific URL that matches the category eg: www.cisco.com not www.cisco.com/cat1/cat2/cat3/ If your primary roll is consulting please put you request under "computers:consultants:....."

Routable protocols and the equipment and software used to do the routing.

Searching

Sites which offer ways to search the Internet for information, or describe or discuss ways to search it.

Statistics and Demographics

Statistics and demographics sites are those that do research reports on the Internet in general. A pretty broad definition of these kind of sites will be accepted. However, please don't submit sites that have software for measuring web site traffic. Submit these to Business: Marketing and Advertising: Internet Marketing: Traffic Measurement.
Internet research reports and market analysis about Internet users, software, and technologies.

Telephony

(Computer telephony adds computer intelligence to the making, receiving, and mangaging of telephone calls.)

Companies and Products featuring Internet Telephony, New Age Telcos and the like.

Training

This category is for sites related to training on various aspects of the internet, by both online an more traditional means.

Sites that offer general online training do not belong here.Start looking for a more suitable category at Business: Education and Training or Computers: Education: courses: Online.

Sites that are related only to training specific to a particular aspect of the internet do not belong here. Instead, they should be suggested somewhere under the best topical category that covers that particular aspect of things. Start looking at Computers: Internet.

Suggesting inappropriate sites to this category will only delay their review an potential listing by editors.

Site submissions to this category should include Business sites offering Internet training services. Before submitting your site to this category, please check to see if it may be better placed in a specific Regional sub-category or in another related Computer category.

WWW

The World Wide Web (WWW) is composed of many, much smaller, Internets and Intranets all linked together to form a much larger whole. This category is truly global in that anyone, anywhere can look at and add to the contents. While this category is not the place, if you are interested in the history of the WWW one place to start might be:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/History/Lists_Of_Sources/

This category contains links to other categories only. Please do not submit here. If you do it will lengthen the time it takes for your site to be accepted because we must then try to decide where your site best fits. What we decide is not necessarily what you would decide. Please help us both and find the best fit for your site.

Submission Guidelines - The Open Directory Project editors are committed to building the most useful Directory on the Internet. We want to help your promotion efforts by listing your site in a timely manner. We want your website to be found easily. By choosing the most appropriate category, you assist us in both these efforts.

Sites which are incomplete, having Under Construction notices, or which contain broken graphics or links have a poor chance of being listed. Please wait to submit your web site until it is complete. Please double-check the URL, and, if possible, include an e-mail address so we may contact you if we have questions.

Web Design and Development

Sites which are incomplete, which have Under Construction notices, or which contain broken graphics or links have a poor chance of being listed. Please wait to submit your web site until it is complete. Please double-check the URL, and, if possible, include an e-mail address so we may contact you if we have questions. Duplicate submission (i.e. same site submitted repeatedly to single or multiple Web Design and Development categories) is not considered to be an acceptable practice by the Open Directory Project. If your site is submitted repeatedly, it may be removed from the Directory altogether.

All sites within Commercial Services are listed with the company name as the Title. Submissions to a Regional Web Design and Development category should include the business location in the description.

Designers and Developers:

We invite you to submit to the correct letter beneath the Designers subcategory beneath the Web Design and Development area alphabetically. Please submit to the appropriate subcategory, rather than to the main Web Design and Development category.

You may also submit the site to the appropriate category in the Regional tree.

If you provide more than one service (i.e. Hosting, Promotion, Marketing), be sure to mention each of the services in your description.

Web Design and Development guides users to subcategories which contain all resources and services having to do with designing, developing, maintaining, and promoting Web sites.

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