Jan, 2000 : ICANN Accredits Twelve New Domain Name Registrars
(January 25, 2000) The Internet Corporationfor Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that twelveadditional applicant companies have met the criteria to be accreditedas domain name registrars in the .com, .net, and .org domains.
As accredited registrars, these companieswill compete in the market for domain name registration servicesby participating in the Shared Registry System (SRS), which allowsmultiple ICANN-accredited registrars to register domain namesending in .com, .net, and .org.
The companies named today join the 98 companiesthat were previously announced by ICANN, starting in April, 1999.Until the initial introduction of competitive registration servicesin June, registration services in the .com, .net, and .org domainswere provided solely by Network Solutions, Inc., under a 1992Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Government.
The 12 companies named today are:
1. 1stDomain.Net, a division of G+D InternationalLLC (United States)
<http://www.firstdomain.net>2. ABC Telemedia AG (Germany)
<http://www.tmag.de>3. Capitol Networks Pty Ltd. (Australia)
<http://www.TotalNIC.net>4. Catalog.com Inc. (United States)
<http://www.catalog.com>5. CSL Computer Service Langenbach GmbH(Germany)
<http://www.joker.com>6. Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany)
<http://www.telekom.de>
<http://www.telekom.de/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/EKI-LR-Site/de_DE/-/EUR/ViewError-NotFound;sid=cXNptbm-MgJrte-jpfVkgcO7fUziJue51Uf0jBLlIY54atDI_jtrcIfGIY54atZRz9o=?HttpStatusCode=404>7. IBI Company Ltd. (Republic of Korea)
<http://www.topregistrar.com>8. iHoldings.com Inc. d/b/a DotRegistrar.com(United States)
<http://www.iholdings.com>9. NameEngine Inc. (United States)
<http://www.nameengine.com>10. NamesDirect.com (United States)
<http://www.NamesDirect.com>11. NETPLEX LLC (United States)
<http://www.ntplx.net>12. Shaver Communications Inc. (UnitedStates)
<http://www.web2010.com>
Further information about these companieswill be made available via the ICANN website's registrarpages.
ABOUT REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION
The Shared Registration System ("SRS")is a domain name registration system for competitive registrarsin the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains. The SRS was createdin the spring of 1999 through the initiative of the United StatesDepartment of Commerce under an amendment to its cooperative agreementwith Network Solutions, Inc. Under this domain name registrationsystem, competing ICANN-accredited registrars register domainnames utilizing one shared, central registry operated and maintainedby NSI. Although there is no limit on the number of registrarsthat may register names using the SRS, stability of the Internetand continuity for consumers is protected by the requirement thatevery business desiring to become a registrar in the .com, .net,and .org top-level domains must become accredited for this purposeby ICANN.
Under an October 6, 1998 amendment to theCooperative Agreement between Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) andthe U.S. Government, the process of opening the Internet domainname system's largest and most widely used domains to competitionwas launched with a testbed phase that began on April 26, 1999.Five companies were initially accredited to use the SRS in a testoperation designed to ensure that the introduction of competitionoccurs in a smooth, coordinated manner. By qualifying to be accreditedas registrars in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains, thetwelve registrars named today join the five original testbed registrars,as well as the 93 other companies that have already qualifiedfor ICANN accreditation.
On November 4, 1999, the ICANN Board approveda new five-year RegistrarAccreditation Agreement, which is now in effect for all accreditedregistrars. For further details, see ICANN'sregistrar accreditation pages.
The 98 applicant companies previously announcedas meeting ICANN's accreditation criteria are: 7WAYS (France);9 Net Avenue, Inc. (United States); A+Net (United States); A TechnologyCompany (Canada); Active ISP (Norway); Advanced Systems Consulting,Inc. (United States); Affinity Hosting, LLC (United States); Alabanza,Inc. (United States); All West Communications (United States);Alldomains.com (United States); America Online, Inc. (United States);American Domain Name Registry (United States); Animus Communications,Inc. (United States); AT&T (United States); CADVision d/b/aGetDomain.com (Canada); CASDNS, Inc. (United States); ColumbiaAnalytical Services, Inc. (United States); CommuniTech.Net, Inc.(United States); Computer Data Networks (Kuwait); Concentric NetworkCorp. (United States); Council of Internet Registrars (CORE) (Global);Cydian Technologies (USA); DADA Sarl (Italy); Domain Bank, Inc.(United States); Domain Direct (Canada); Domain Registration Services(United States); DomainRegistry.com (United States); DomainZoo,Inc. (USA); Eastern Communications Co., Ltd. (China); EasyspaceLtd. (United Kingdom); EnetRegistry.com Corporation (United States);eNom, Inc. (United States); EPAG Enter-Price Multimedia AG (Germany);ExtremeNames.com (United States); France Telecom / Oléane(France); FreeYellow.Com (United States); GANDI (France); Go DaddySoftware (USA); HANGANG Systems Inc. (Korea); iDirections, Inc.(United States); Info Avenue Internet Services (United States);InfoNetworks (USA & United Kingdom); infoUSA.com, Inc. (UnitedStates); InterAccess Company (United States); Interactive TelecomNetwork, Inc. (United States); Interdomain, S.A. (Spain); InternetDomain Registrars (Canada); Internet Domain Registry (Israel);Internet Fr SA (France); InterNeXt (France); interQ Incorporated(Japan); iTool.com (United States); Marvin Enterprises/GlobalKnowledge Group (United States); Melbourne IT (Australia); MSIntergate, Inc. (United States); The Name It Corporation (UnitedStates); NameSecure.com (United States); Name.Space (United States);NetBenefit (United Kingdom); NetNames (United Kingdom); NetNation(Canada); Network Solutions (United States); Nominalia (Spain);Nobel Networks (United States); NORDNET (France); OnlineNIC, Inc.(China); pair Networks, Inc, d/b/a pairNIC (USA, United Kingdom,and Germany); Parava Networks, Inc. (USA); Port Information System(Sweden); ProBoard Technologies (United States); PSINet, Inc.(United States); PSI-Japan (Japan); PSI-USA (United States); RCNCorporation (United States); REACTO.com Ltd. (United Kingdom);register.com (United States); Research Institute for ComputerScience, Inc. (Japan); Schlund + Partner AG (Germany); SecuraCompany (Germany); Signature Domains, Inc. (United States); SiteName(Israel); Speednames, Inc. (United States, Denmark, Singapore,Sweden); Stargate Communications, Inc. (United States); Talk.Com,Inc. (USA); Techdogs (United States); TelePartner AS (Denmark);The Direct Connection Ltd. (United Kingdom); TierraNet Inc. (UnitedStates); Total Web Solutions (United Kingdom); US Domain Registry(United States); Verio (United States); Virtual Internet (UnitedKingdom); Virtualis Systems, Inc. (United States); Web Express,Inc. (United States); WebTrends Corporation (United States); World-Net(France); Xin Net Corporation (China); YesNIC (Republic of Korea).
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