Domain Registration Related News
ICANN Accepting .net Proposals
November 2004
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (icann.org) is expected to formally
request proposals for the management of the .net
domain framework Friday. Currently overseen by
VeriSign Inc., which also controls the .com
framework, the contract for .net management will
expire on June 30 and several companies are
rushing to compete for future contracts.
"Thirty-seven of the top 100 Web sites rely on
.net, and about 37 percent of all e-commerce
relies on .net to get to its destination," says
Tom Galvin, VP of government relations for
VeriSign. "It's vitally important that a year from
now .net runs at least as well as, or better than,
it's running now."
Galvin says that the .net TLD is flooded with an
estimated 150 billion emails every day. Expected
VeriSign competitors for the .net contract include
German-based Deutches Network Information Center,
which currently maintains the registry for the .de
domain; NeuLevel Inc., which manages the .biz
registry; and Afilias Ltd., which handles the
.info and .org registries.
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