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FC: ICANN announces 10 new top level domain name finalists
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:00:09 -0500
[Wow. I think I started writing about this process back in 1996, and we're finally seeing it come close to a (temporary) end. Now let's see if the Clinton administration agrees to add 'em. :) --Declan]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40228,00.html ICANN: The Winners Are ... by Oscar S. Cisneros 2:00 p.m. Nov. 16, 2000 PST MARINA DEL REY, California -- The number of new top level domains that will be used on the World Wide Web was narrowed from 44 to 10 on Thursday. Among those still in the race to join dot-com, dot-org and dot-net are dot-biz, dot-i, dot-museum and dot-info. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet's managing authority, took the next step in what has been a years-long process to create new name spaces in the Domain Name System by picking the following 10 finalists and the names of the groups sponsoring the applications at its board meeting Thursday afternoon: * Dot-info by Afilias, LLC * Dot-biz by JVTeam, LLC, which is comprised of Neustar and Melbourn IT * Dot-i Sarnoff Corporation and JVTeam, LLC * Dot-name, dot-nom, dot-san, dot-xing by the Global Name Registry, Limited * Dot-pro by RegistryPro, Ltd, which is comprised of register.com, Virtual Internet and Baltimore Tech. * Dot-co-op by the Cooperative League of the USA * Dot-museum * Dot-Air by the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques * Dot-geo by SRI International * Dot-coop by Cooperative League of the USA. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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