List of Usenet public managed hierarchies

If you know a hierarchy which is not listed in these pages or if you have more up-to-date information about an existing hierarchy, please send a mail to usenet-config@isc.org or post to news.admin.hierarchies so that these pages can be updated.

A public managed hierarchy is a publically available hierarchy for which someone maintains the canonical list of its newsgroups.

PGP-managed hierarchies

Other managed hierarchies

ADASS (Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems)
AHN (Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, USA)
AIOE (Aioe.org)
AKR (Akron, Ohio, USA)
ALABAMA (Huntsville, Alabama, USA)
ALT
AR (Argentina)
ARKANE (Arkane Systems, UK)
AT (Austria)
AUS (Australia)
AUSTIN (Austin, Texas, USA)
AZ (Arizona, USA)
BA (San Francisco Bay Area, USA)
BC (British Columbia, Canada)
BDA (German groups?)
BE (Belgique/Belgie/Belgien/Belgium)
BELWUE (Landeshochschulnetz Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany)
BERMUDA (Bermuda)
BIONET (Biology Network)
BIT (Gatewayed Mailing lists)
BIZ (Business Groups)
BLGTN (Bloomington, In, USA)
BLN (Berlin, Germany)
BNE (Brisbane, Australia)
CA (California, USA)
CALSTATE (California State University)
CANB (Canberra, Australia)
CAPDIST (Albany, The Capital District, New York, USA)
CARLETON (Carleton University, Canada)
CH (Switzerland)
CHI (Chicago, USA)
CHILE (Chile and Chilean affairs)
CHINESE (China and Chinese language groups)
CHRISTNET (Christian Discussion)
CN (China)
CN.BBS (China)
CO (Colorado, USA)
CODEWARRIOR (CodeWarrior discussion)
COMP (The Big Eight)
COMPUTER42 (Computer 42, Germany)
CONCORDIA (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
CPCUIIA (Chartered Prop. Casulty Underwriter/Insurance Institute of America)
CZ (Czech Republic)
DC (Washington, D.C., USA)
DE (German language)
DE.ALT (German language alternative hierarchy)
DEMON (Demon Internet, UK)
DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
DK (Denmark)
EE (Estonia)
EHIME-U (? University, Japan ?)
ENGLAND (England)
ES (Spain)
ESP (Spanish-language newsgroups)
ETERNAL-SEPTEMBER (Eternal-September Project)
EUNET (Europe)
EUROPA (Europe)
FA (Gated mailing lists)
FFM (Frankfurt/M., Germany)
FIDO (FidoNet)
FIDO.BELG (Belgian FidoNet)
FIDO.GER (German FIDO Net Echos)
FIDO7 (Russian FidoNet)
FINET (Finland and Finnish language alternative newsgroups)
FJ (Japan and Japanese language)
FL (Florida, USA)
FLORA (FLORA Community WEB, Canada)
FR (French language)
FRANCE (France)
FREE (Open Hierarchy where anyone can create a group)
FUDAI (Japanese ?)
GER (Hannover, Germany)
GIT (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
GNU (Free Software Foundation)
GRISBI (Grisbi Personal Finance Manager software)
GWU (George Washington University, Washington, DC)
HAMBURG (City of Hamburg, Germany)
HAMILTON (Canadian)
HAMSTER (Hamster, a Win32 news and mail proxy server)
HAN (Korean Hangul)
HANNET (Hannover, Germany)
HANNOVER (Hannover, Germany)
HAWAII (Hawaii, USA)
HFX (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
HILDESHEIM (Hannover, Germany)
HISS (Hannover, Germany)
HIV (HIVNET Foundation, for HIV+/AIDS information)
HK (Hong Kong)
HOUSTON (Houston, Texas, USA)
HR (Croatian language)
HSV (Huntsville, Alabama, USA)
HUMANITIES (The Big Eight)
HUN (Hungary)
IA (Iowa, USA)
IDOCTRA (Idoctra Translation Software, Translation Discussion)
IE (Ireland)
IL (Israel)
IS (Iceland)
ISC (Japanese ?)
ISRAEL (Israel)
ISU (I-Shou University, Taiwan)
IT (Italian)
IT-ALT (Alternate Italian)
ITALIA (Italy)
IU (Indiana University)
JAPAN (Japan)
JLUG (Japan Linux Users Group)
K12 (US Educational Network)
KANTO (?)
KASSEL (Kassel, Germany)
KC (Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri, USA)
KGK (Administered by KGK, Japan)
KIEL (Kiel, Germany)
LAW (?)
LINUX (Gated Linux mailing lists)
LUEBECK (Luebeck, Germany)
MALTA (Nation of Malta)
MAUS (MausNet, Germany)
ME (Maine, USA)
MEDLUX (All-Russia medical teleconferences)
MELB (Melbourne, Australia)
MENSA (The Mensa Organisation)
METOCEAN (ISP in Japan)
MI (Michigan, USA)
MICROSOFT (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
MILW (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
MISC (The Big Eight)
MUC (Munchen [Munich], Germany)
NAGASAKI-U (Nagasaki University, Japan ?)
NC (North Carolina, USA)
NCTU (Taiwan)
NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center)
NETSCAPE (Netscape Communications Corp)
NEWS (The Big Eight)
NF (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
NIAGARA (Niagara Peninsula, USA/Canada)
NIAS (Japanese ?)
NIGERIA (Nigeria)
NIHON (Japan)
NJ (New Jersey, USA)
NL (Netherlands)
NL-ALT (Alternative Netherlands groups)
NLO (Open Source / Free Software, hosted by nl.linux.org)
NM (New Mexico, USA)
NNTPWORLD (General discussion)
NO (Norway)
NO.ALT (Norway alternative hierarchy)
NORD (Northern Germany)
NRW (Northrine-Westfalia, Germany)
NV (Nevada)
NY (New York State, USA)
NYC (New York City)
NZ (New Zealand)
OC (Orange County, California, USA)
OESTERREICH (Free Austria)
OH (Ohio, USA)
OK (Oklahoma, USA)
OKINAWA (Okinawa, Japan)
ONT (Ontario, Canada)
OPENNEWS (Open News Network)
OPENWATCOM (Open Watcom compilers)
OPERA (Opera Software, Oslo, Norway)
OTT (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
OWL (Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany)
PA (Pennsylvania, USA)
PBINFO (Paderborn, Germany)
PERL (Perl Programming Language)
PGH (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
PGSQL (Gated PostgreSQL mailing lists)
PHL (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
PIN (Personal Internauts' NetNews)
PIPEX (UUNET WorldCom UK)
PITT (University of Pittsburgh, PA)
PL (Poland and Polish language)
PT (Portugal and Portuguese language)
REC (The Big Eight)
RELCOM (Commonwealth of Independent States)
ROCKSOLID (Rocksolid network - novabbs.com)
SAAR (Saarland Region, Germany)
SACHSNET (Sachsen [Saxony], Germany)
SAT (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
SBAY (South Bay/Silicon Valley, California)
SCHULE (?)
SCI (The Big Eight)
SCOT (Scotland)
SCOUT (Scouts and guides)
SE (Sweden)
SEATTLE (Seattle, Washington, USA)
SFNET (Finland)
SHAMASH (Jewish)
SI (The Republic of Slovenia)
SJ (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
SK (Slovakia)
SLO (San Luis Obispo, CA)
SOC (The Big Eight)
SOLENT (Solent region, England)
SPOKANE (Spokane, Washington, USA)
STAROFFICE (StarOffice business suite, Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
STGT (Stuttgart, Germany)
STL (Saint Louis, Missouri, USA)
SUNET (Swedish University Network)
SURFNET (Dutch Universities network)
SWNET (Sverige, Sweden)
SYD (Sydney, Australia)
TALK (The Big Eight)
TAMU (Texas A&M University)
TAOS (Taos, New Mexico, USA)
TCFN (Toronto Free Community Network, Canada)
THUR (Thuringia, Germany)
TRIANGLE (Research Triangle, Central North Carolina, USA)
TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
TW (Taiwan)
TW.K-12 (Taiwan K-12 Discussion)
TX (Texas, USA)
UCB (University of California Berkeley, USA)
UCD (University of California Davis, USA)
UFRA (Unterfranken, Deutschland)
UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
UKR (Ukraine)
UMICH (University of Michigan, USA)
UMN (University of Minnesota, USA)
UO (University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA)
US (United States of America)
UTA (Finnish)
UW (University of Waterloo, Canada)
UWO (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada)
VAN (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
VEGAS (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
VGC (Japan groups?)
VMSNET (VMS Operating System)
WA (Western Australia)
WADAI (Japanese ?)
WALES (Wales)
WASH (Washington State, USA)
WEST-VIRGINIA (West Virginia, USA)
WPG (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
WU (Washington University at St. Louis, MO)
X-PRIVAT (Italian)
XS4ALL (XS4ALL, Netherlands)
Z-NETZ (German non-Internet based network)
ZA (South Africa)

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You can display information about up to 30 hierarchies in the row by loading a web page of the form:
http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/index.py?see=COMP,HUMANITIES,MISC,NEWS,REC,SCI,SOC,TALK (example for the Big 8).

Information in these pages comes from INN's control.ctl, ftp.isc.org newsgroups file, the list of PGP public keys for newsgroup administration and the logs of control messages.
You might also want to read the Usenet hierarchy administration FAQ.