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Internet Domain Name Registry to be Left to Market.(Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 1997 by Wasserman, Elizabeth
Apr. 24--A National Science Foundation official said Wednesday the agency has no plans to continue the exclusive contract with a Virginia company that's been issuing Internet "domain" names, the strongest signal to date that the question of how to issue cyberspace addresses is being tossed into the air.
The NSF contract with Network Solutions Inc., under which the company has earned millions of dollars charging a $100 fee to register many of the 1.2 million names it maintains worldwide, is scheduled to end in March 1998.
Joseph Bordogna, the agency's acting deputy director, said the agency's move was prompted, in part, by efforts under way in the Internet community -- and out of government reach -- to develop a consensus on the future...
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