IP: Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:35:43 +0200
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain

Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain

By JOHN MARKOFF
The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14 — An intense, largely behind-the-scenes competition
is under way for the right to manage the global database that keeps track of
Internet addresses of noncommercial organizations.

Although the business of registering Internet names has begun to shrink this
year, as many as eight or nine bids are expected at a meeting this month in
Bucharest, Romania, when the group that oversees Internet addresses will
decide who should manage the list of names that end in .org.

The decision will shift the .org domain from VeriSign Inc., which currently
manages the list of 2.7 million organizations. The company struck a deal
with the oversight organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers, or Icann, last year that extended VeriSign's control over .com
and .net addresses in exchange for giving up the .org designation. VeriSign,
based in Mountain View, Calif., also promised to contribute $5 million to
assist in the transition.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/15/technology/15NET.html

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