http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=34781 PCWorld: ICANN Staff Narrows New Domain Name Options Monday, November 13, 2000 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has zeroed in on ten new top-level domains, pending a vote of its board of directors that is scheduled for Thursday. ICANN's staff released on Friday its analysis of the 191 top-level domains interested parties have proposed in recent weeks. The report identifies ten top-level domains that are the strongest contenders, including .biz, .web, and .nom. Two others--.museum and .health--remain in the running, but the report outlines concerns with these proposals. <snip> The two strongest proposals appear to be from Afilias, a consortium of 19 domain name registrars, including VeriSign's Network Solutions subsidiary and KDD Internet Solutions, a Japanese telecommunications company that has teamed with Network Solutions. Network Solutions long held a monopoly for domain name registrations (see "NSI Faces Domain Name 'Hoarding' Suit") and currently is the sole registry for names in the .com, .net, and .org domains and the top registrar for names in these domains.
