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Industry Standard

15 new firms approved to sell Net addresses

July 8, 1999
Web posted at: 9:15 a.m. EDT (1315 GMT)

by James Niccolai domain names

(IDG) -- Fifteen more companies from around the world have been approved to compete as registrars for the .com, .net and .org Internet domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said Tuesday.

The businesses will be accredited when ongoing tests of the new Internet address system have been completed, which is scheduled for July 16. The new companies join the five accredited registrars that are carrying out the tests and another 37 companies that ICANN has said it will accredit when the tests are finished.

Nine of the companies named are from the United States, two are from the Middle East, and four are from Europe. Until competition was introduced last month, registration for the three most popular top-level domains was handled exclusively by Network Solutions of Herndon, Va., under a 1992 contract with the U.S. government. Register.com of the United States, one of the five test-bed registrars, became the first company to compete with NSI.
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The new system is being introduced in part to provide more global representation among the companies that manage one of the Internet's most important resources – Internet addresses.

The U.S. companies approved Tuesday include Affinity Hosting, Alabanza, Animus Communications, Concentric Network, Domain Registration Services, EnetRegistry.com, InterAccess, PSINet and TierraNet. ICANN also gave a thumbs-up to Computer Data Networks of Kuwait, SiteName of Israel, EPAG Enter-Price Multimedia AG of Germany, Research Institute for Computer Science of Japan, TotalWeb Solutions of the United Kingdom and World-Net of France.

Further information about these companies will be available shortly on ICANN's Web site.

The nonprofit ICANN formed in September 1998 to sort out who would manage a set of Internet management functions currently handled by the U.S. government and its contractors. Specifically, ICANN is responsible for coordinating the assignment of protocol parameters, overseeing the domain name system, allocating IP-address space and managing the root-server system.

James Niccolai writes for the IDG News Service.


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