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>ICANN NAMES FIFTEEN NEW POST-TESTBED REGISTRARS
>
>(July 6, 1999) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>(ICANN) announced today that fifteen additional applicant companies =
>have met
>its accreditation criteria and, upon completion of the ongoing testbed
>program, will be accredited to compete as registrars in the .com, .net, =
>and
>.org domains. Until the initial introduction of competitive =
>registration
>services last month, registration services in the .com, .net, and .org
>domains were provided solely by Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), which =
>has
>enjoyed an exclusive right to handle registrations under a 1992 =
>Cooperative
>Agreement with the U.S. Government.
>
>The fifteen companies named today will join the 5 already-accredited =
>testbed
>registrars and the 37 post-testbed registrars that have been announced =
>by
>ICANN since April, 1999. "These fifteen companies are a powerful =
>testament
>to the energy, commitment, and determination which have marked the =
>Internet
>community's ongoing efforts to bring the benefits of open competition =
>to the
>market for domain name registration services in the .com, .net, and =
>.org
>domains," said Mike Roberts, President and CEO of ICANN.
>
>The fifteen companies named today are:
>
> Affinity Hosting (United States)
> <http://www.affinity.net>
> Alabanza, Inc. (United States)
> <http://www.alabanza.com>
> Animus Communications, Inc. (United States)
> <http://www.animus.net>
> Computer Data Networks (Kuwait)
> <http://www.cdn.com>
> Concentric Network Corp. (United States)
> <http://www.concentric.com>
> Domain Registration Services (United States)
> <http://www.thewebsiteinc.com>
> EnetRegistry.com Corporation (United States)
> <http://www.enetregistry.com>
> EPAG Enter-Price Multimedia AG (Germany)
> < http://www.epag.de>
> InterAccess Company (United States)
> <http://www.interaccess.com>
> PSINet, Inc. (United States)
> <http://www.psi.com>
> Research Institute for Computer Science, Inc. (Japan)
> <http://www.rics.co.jp>
> SiteName (Israel)
> <http://www.sitename.com>
> TierraNet, Inc. (United States)
> <http://www.tierranet.com>
> TotalWeb Solutions (United Kingdom)
> <http://www.totalweb.co.uk>
> World-Net (France)
> <http://www.worldnet.net>
>
>Further information about these companies will be available shortly on =
>the
>ICANN website <http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation.html>.
>
>ABOUT REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION
>
>The 15 companies named today have qualified to be accredited upon the
>completion of the competitive registrar testbed program for the Shared
>Registry System in the .com, .net, and .org domains. Under the =
>Cooperative
>Agreement between NSI and the U.S. Government, the testbed program =
>began on
>April 26 and is scheduled to last until July 16, 1999. Following the
>conclusion of the testbed phase, the Shared Registry System for the =
>.com,
>.net, and .org domains will be opened on equal terms to all accredited
>registrars, meaning that any accredited company will be able to enter =
>the
>market as a registrar and offer customers competitive domain name
>registration services in the .com, .net, and .org domains. For further
>details, see <http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation.html>.
>
>The five companies accredited to participate in the testbed phase are:
>America Online; CORE (Internet Council of Registrars); France
>Telecom/Ol=E9ane; Melbourne IT; and register.com. For more on the =
>testbed
>registrars, see <http://www.icann.org/registrars/icann-pr21apr99.htm>
>
>The 37 other applicant companies that have met ICANN's accreditation
>criteria and that will be accredited to compete as registrars upon
>completion of the testbed phase are: 9NetAvenue; A Technology =
>Company;
>ABACUS America, Inc./A+Net; Active ISP; Advanced Systems Consulting, =
>Inc.;
>Alldomains.com; All West Communications; American Domain Name =
>Registry;
>AT&T; CASDNS, Inc.; Domain Bank, Inc.; Domain Direct; =
>DomainRegistry.com;
>eNom, Inc.; InfoAvenue; InfoNetworks; InfoRamp/Tech Dogs; =
>Interactive
>Telecom Network; Interdomain; Internet Domain Registrars; interQ
>Incorporated; Marvin Enterprises, Inc./Global Knowledge Group; MS
>Intergate; The Name-It Corporation/Advanced Internet Technologies, =
>Inc.;
>NameSecure.com; Name.Space Inc.; NetBenefit; NetNames; NetNation
>Communications; Nominalia; Port Information System AB; PSI-Japan, =
>Inc.;
>RCN; Telepartner AS; Verio; Virtual Internet; and WebTrends. For =
>more
>on these companies, see
><http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-qualified-list.html>
>
>ABOUT ICANN
>
>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a
>non-profit, international corporation formed in September 1998 to =
>oversee a
>select set of Internet technical management functions currently managed =
>by
>the U.S. Government, or by its contractors and volunteers. =
>Specifically,
>ICANN is taking over responsibility for coordinating the assignment of
>protocol parameters, the management of the domain name system (DNS), =
>the
>allocation of IP address space, and the management of the root server
>system.
>
>For more information, please contact:
>
>Pam Brewster
>Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
>415-923-1660=20
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>or=20
>Joe Sheffo
>Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
>415-923-1660=20
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Andrew McLaughlin
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>+1 (617) 495-4935
>
>
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