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ICANN Announces DNS Registrars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the todays-the-day dept.

As many of you know, today is the day that ICANN is supposed to announce the 5 companies that will be competing with NSI for registering domain names. You can see the announcements here... except that the server is bogged. Update: 04/21 04:16 by CT : Here is the List:America Online , CORE (Internet Council of Registrars), France Telecom/Oléane, Melbourne IT, and register.com. You can see more on ICANN if it wasn't so slow.

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  1. A word on cybersquatters and speculators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    One thing that REALLY has to change: registered domain names shouldn't go live until they are PAID FOR!

    This whole thing of squattters running scripts to re-register thousands of domain names every 90 days without ever paying for them, while still putting up a webpage with "this domain name for sale" has got to stop!

    As for the speculators who do pay the fee and still sit on the names, there needs to be a total ban on the private resale of domain names. This is a real problem and we need a measure like this to stop it.

  2. The five registrars are... by wenzi · · Score: 5

    America Online
    CORE (Internet Council of Registrars)
    France Telecom/Oléane
    Melbourne IT
    register.com

    Take a look at http://www.icann.org/icann-pr21apr99.htm

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  3. And after the Testbed phase is over: by Salgak1 · · Score: 3

    . . .we have 29 more registrars:

    9NetAvenue; A Technology Company; Active ISP;
    Alldomains.com; All West Communications;
    American Domain Name Registry; AT&T;
    Domain Direct; DomainRegistry.com; eNom, Inc.;
    InfoAvenue; InfoNetworks; InfoRamp;
    Interactive Telecom Network; Interdomain;
    Internet Domain Registrars; interQ Incorporated;
    MS Intergate; NameSecure.com; Name.Space Inc.;
    NetBenefit; NetNames; Nominalia;
    Port Information System AB; RCN;
    Telepartner AS; Verio; Virtual Internet; and WebTrends