Contains posts or articles which are known as news. Network News Transfer Protocol is used to transfer news from one network to another. It is designed specifically to transfer news/articles. An NNTP client communicates with a server using commands like “ARTICLE” to retrieve an article or “NEWS” to retrieve a whole newsgroup etc. NNTP servers manage the global network of newsgroups. NNTP is similar to SMTP, in that it allows servers and clients to exchange information. Network bulletins were exchanged using this protocol.