Diritto ed Informatica: Diritto Internet
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| registrar |
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domain name registrar
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| Definition |
The domain name system was developed in the early 1980s at the University of Wisconsin. The Internic was created in response to a project solicitation for an Internet administrator by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1992. NSF eventually awarded a contract effective January 1, 1993 to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), a corporation headquartered in northern Virginia. The contract, called the "NSF Cooperative Agreement," provided NSF funds to NSI and authorised NSI, through Internic, to be the registrar of nongeographic domain names, and to assign IP network numbers and Autonomous System Numbers.
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(Jw)yee (Cf. also (L)6_5_98dns-US)
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Much discussed solutions include the creation of seven new generic top level domains to try and ease the pressure on the existing most popular top level domains, notably the .com domain; and the creation of 28 new registrars around the world to allocate these names in a competitive environment.
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(Jw)waelde
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| Subject field |
Internet Law
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domain name, DNS
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Cf. Naming Authority, Registration Authority
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