Reading this article I was quite puzzled about the way the author capitalized or not the abbreviations.
When writing in full:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
All words are capitalized, but when abbreviating only the first letter is capitalized:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (Icann)
Following the article, there is an opposite situation:
generic top level domain.
Here, on the contrary the first letter is not capitalized while the rest are:
generic top level domain (gTLD).
Could you please explain if there are some rules on how to capitalize the abbreviations or it’s up to the author’s want?
Best Answer
This is, at least in part, a question of style. Or the style guides of, say, news organizations.