ADNS Appeals to ICANN: Respect Alternative Root Networks, Don't Fragment the Internet.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000 AGN AGN Again (Amateur Radio) AGN Active Galactic Nucleus AGN Acute Glomerulonephritis AGN Accountants Global Network AGN Air Gabon (ICAO code) Domain Name Service, Inc. (ADNS ADNS Animal Disease Notification System ADNS Automated Digital Network System ADNS Advanced Digital Network System ADNS Assistant Director of Nursing Services ADNS Automated Data Network System ADNS Asynchronous Dns - http://www.adns.net ) is appealing to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number to respect the hard work of alternative root server networks and to avoid instigating a fragmentation of the root DNS zone - a potentially disasterous event for the internet. John Palmer, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ADNS, in a letter to Louis Touton, Vice-President, Secretary, and General Counsel of ICANN, appealed to ICANN to respect the rights of alternative root networks and to avoid reassigning TLDs to others if they are already in use by other registrars under an alternative network. "In spite of Ms. Dyson's claim, alternative root networks take great care not to allow fragmentation by not allowing competing versions of top level domains into their root zones if they are already in existence in another root zone. We would expect ICANN to take the same care and consideration to avoid fragmentation. There is room for all of us on the internet. Please respect the right of us to operate our business and respect the rights of alternative root networks", Palmer said in the letter. The letter, sent by e-mail on October 29, has yet to be answered by Touton or anyone else at ICANN. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , ADNS's root server, a part of the Open Root Server Consortium, continues to grow in popularity, receiving 1,836,387 hits in October. ADNS owns the three top-level domains "EARTH", "USA" and "Z" and provides internet sites with the ability to register a domain under these top-level domains. ADNS has been providing internet related services since 1993. Each month, ADNS will offer free registration, web hosting service A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing and domain service for those registering a domain in a specific part of the EARTH, USA or Z hierarchy, provided that they promise to develop public content under that domain name. This month, anyone who registers a domain which ends in MALI.EARTH on November 11 between 3PM and 4PM Eastern Time will receive free registration, DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the and web hosting services for one year. ADNS is part of the Open Root Server Consortium (ORSC ORSC Open Root Server Confederation ORSC Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission ORSC Old Republic Surety Company - http://www.open-rsc.org ), a group of individuals and organizations who are all interested in an open, fair and technically sound global Domain Name System for the internet. ADNS is providing ASLAN free of charge for the use of the internet community. ADNS also operates the internet portal site called http://The.EARTH. This site is accessible to any computer that is pointing to the new DNS servers. |
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