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InterNIC to face competition.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 30, 1999 @12:43AM from the end-of-an-era dept.

Andrew Dvorak writes "This article on News.com states that five companies (both in the US and outside the US) will be designated to manage internet domains along with InterNIC. This will apparently end the InterNIC's oligopoly."

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Finally by Vic · 1999-01-30 01:46 · Score: 2

It seems like I've been hearing about new domain restries for years now. What ever happened to all of these .WEB, .ART, .XXX, .whatever top-level that have been talked about so many times before?