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Dec, 1999 : ICANN Accredits Ten New Domain Name Registrars

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(December 21, 1999) The Internet Corporationfor Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that tenadditional 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 ten companies named today join the 88companies that were previously announced by ICANN, starting inApril, 1999. Until the initial introduction of competitive registrationservices in June, registration services in the .com, .net, and.org domains were provided solely by Network Solutions, Inc.,under a 1992 Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Government.

The 10 companies named today are:

1. 7WAYS (France)
<http://www.tldnames.com>

2. CADVision d/b/a GetDomain.com (Canada)
<http://www.GetDomain.com>

3. Cydian Technologies (USA)
<http://www.cydian.com>

4. DomainZoo, Inc. (USA)
<http://DomainZoo.com>

5. Go Daddy Software (USA)
<http://www.godaddy.com>

6. pair Networks, Inc, d/b/a pairNIC(USA, United Kingdom, and Germany)
<http://www.pair.com>

7. Parava Networks, Inc. (USA)
<http://www.nAAme.com>

8. Talk.Com, Inc. (USA)
<http://www.talk.com>

9. Xin Net Corporation (China)
<http://www.chinadns.com>

10. YesNIC (Republic of Korea)
<http://www.yesnic.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, theten registrars named today join the five original testbed registrars,as well as the 83 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 88 applicant companies previously announcedas meeting ICANN's accreditation criteria are: 9 Net Avenue, Inc.(United States); A+Net (United States); A Technology Company (Canada);Active ISP (Norway); Advanced Systems Consulting, Inc. (UnitedStates); Affinity Hosting, LLC (United States); Alabanza, Inc.(United States); All West Communications (United States); Alldomains.com(United States); America Online, Inc. (United States); AmericanDomain Name Registry (United States); Animus Communications, Inc.(United States); AT&T (United States); CASDNS, Inc. (UnitedStates); Columbia Analytical Services, Inc. (United States); CommuniTech.Net,Inc. (United States); Computer Data Networks (Kuwait); ConcentricNetwork Corp. (United States); Council of Internet Registrars(CORE) (Global); DADA Sarl (Italy); Domain Bank, Inc. (UnitedStates); Domain Direct (Canada); Domain Registration Services(United States); DomainRegistry.com (United States); Eastern CommunicationsCo., Ltd. (China); Easyspace Ltd. (United Kingdom); EnetRegistry.comCorporation (United States); eNom, Inc. (United States); EPAGEnter-Price Multimedia AG (Germany); ExtremeNames.com (UnitedStates); France Telecom / Oléane (France); FreeYellow.Com(United States); GANDI (France); HANGANG Systems Inc. (Korea);iDirections, Inc. (United States); Info Avenue Internet Services(United States); InfoNetworks (USA & United Kingdom); infoUSA.com,Inc. (United States); InterAccess Company (United States); InteractiveTelecom Network, Inc. (United States); Interdomain, S.A. (Spain);Internet Domain Registrars (Canada); Internet Domain Registry(Israel); Internet Fr SA (France); InterNeXt (France); interQIncorporated (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); Port Information System (Sweden); ProBoard Technologies(United States); PSINet, Inc. (United States); PSI-Japan (Japan);PSI-USA (United States); RCN Corporation (United States); REACTO.comLtd. (United Kingdom); register.com (United States); ResearchInstitute for Computer Science, Inc. (Japan); Schlund + PartnerAG (Germany); Secura Company (Germany); Signature Domains, Inc.(United States); SiteName (Israel); Speednames, Inc. (United States,Denmark, Singapore, Sweden); Stargate Communications, Inc. (UnitedStates); Techdogs (United States); TelePartner AS (Denmark); TheDirect 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).

ABOUT ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Namesand Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit, international corporationformed in September 1998 to oversee a select set of Internet technicalmanagement functions currently managed by the U.S. Government,or by its contractors and volunteers. Specifically, ICANN is assumingresponsibility for coordinating the management of the domain namesystem (DNS), the allocation of IP address space, the assignmentof protocol parameters, and the management of the root serversystem.

For more information, please contact Andrew McLaughlin.

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