>From the New YorkTimes - Friday Jan 22, page C4
>>The nonprofit board charged with opening the Internet domain-name
>>registration business to competition is leaning toward an international
>>lottery to pick the five companies that will get the first shot at ending
>>the Government-sancitioned monopoly held by NSI, the Board chairman said.
>>
>>Esther Dyson, interim chairman .... "said this week that she expected the
>>selection process to be complete and that the registry for the three most
>>popopular top-level domains ... would be open to competition by the end of
>>April.
Tony Rutkowski wrote:
>By what authority or process?
I should let ICANN answer but I presume the response to the authority
question is: Probably through a codicil to Cooperative Agreement Amendment
11 issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
to NSI on October 7, 1998:
http://rs.internic.net/nsf/agreement/amendment11.html
3.By March 31, 1999, NSI will establish a test bed supporting actual
registrations in .com, .net and .org by 5 registrars accredited by NewCo
(Accredited Registrars). (Phase 1)
4.By June 1, 1999, the Shared Registration System will be deployed by NSI and
available to support multiple licensed Accredited Registrars offering
registration services within the gTLDs for which NSI now acts as a
registry. (Phase 2)
Ellen Rony Co-author
The Domain Name Handbook http://www.domainhandbook.com
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