Since 1996, the British Registry has been Nominet, a not-for-profit organization. The NIC-SE´s is the operating company of the foundationToday, there are more than 3 874 630 registered domain names under the Top Level Domain .uk, and the growth rate is of 95 682.58 new domain names per month (based on the 2004 monthly average newly registered names). The ccTLD .uk was established by the Internic on July the 24th 1985 and was originally used only by universities, the Ministry of Defense and Research Organizations to communicate with one another. By the early 1990s, the emerging Internet service providers such as Demon, Pipex and BT became involved with the network and started to provide domain names to customers on a commercial basis.