IP: ICANN announces 10 new top level domain name finalists

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:00:09 -0500
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>[Wow. I think I started writing about this process back in 1996, and we're 
>finally seeing it come close to a (temporary) end. Now let's see if the 
>Clinton administration agrees to add 'em. :) --Declan]
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>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40228,00.html
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>    ICANN: The Winners Are ...
>    by Oscar S. Cisneros
>
>    2:00 p.m. Nov. 16, 2000 PST
>    MARINA DEL REY, California -- The number of new top level domains that
>    will be used on the World Wide Web was narrowed from 44 to 10 on
>    Thursday.
>
>    Among those still in the race to join dot-com, dot-org and dot-net are
>    dot-biz, dot-i, dot-museum and dot-info.
>
>    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the
>    Internet's managing authority, took the next step in what has been a
>    years-long process to create new name spaces in the Domain Name System
>    by picking the following 10 finalists and the names of the groups
>    sponsoring the applications at its board meeting Thursday afternoon:
>
>      * Dot-info by Afilias, LLC
>      * Dot-biz by JVTeam, LLC, which is comprised of Neustar and Melbourn
>        IT
>      * Dot-i Sarnoff Corporation and JVTeam, LLC
>      * Dot-name, dot-nom, dot-san, dot-xing by the Global Name Registry,
>        Limited
>      * Dot-pro by RegistryPro, Ltd, which is comprised of register.com,
>        Virtual Internet and Baltimore Tech.
>      * Dot-co-op by the Cooperative League of the USA
>      * Dot-museum
>      * Dot-Air by the Société Internationale de Télécommunications
>        Aéronautiques
>      * Dot-geo by SRI International
>      * Dot-coop by Cooperative League of the USA.
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