Domain Bank to Offer .INFO and .BIZ Domain Name Registrations.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BETHLEHEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001 Domain Bank Inc. (www.domainbank.com) Tuesday announced that Afilias Limited, a multi-national consortium of which Domain Bank is a founding member, has been formally authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (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 operate the registry for the new .INFO Internet top-level domain (TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. ). Domain Bank, an ICANN-accredited registrar, will begin offering registration services in the .INFO registry in June, under the Sunrise Period reserved by Afilias exclusively for trademark and service mark owners. Domain Bank will offer registrations in .INFO to the general public later in the summer according to the schedule published by Afilias. .INFO marks the introduction of the first new global top-level domain since the mid-1980s when the current domain name system became operational. Registrations in .INFO are unrestricted, open to any business or person to register for any purpose. Domain Bank will also be offering domain name registration services in the new .BIZ registry, also recently approved by ICANN. Registrations in the .BIZ registry are restricted to commercial uses, rather than personal or other non-commercial uses. .BIZ domain names will be available for registration beginning this summer. The new .info and .biz registries will add to the already familiar registries such as .com, .net and .org. About Domain Bank Inc. Domain Bank Inc. is an ICANN accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. , Bethlehem-based domain name registrar An organization that manages Internet domain names. Any person or company that wants a presence on the Internet must register a unique name with one of the many registrars, such as Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) or Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com). . Founded in 1997 for the purpose of facilitating registrations in Internet top-level domains The following is a list of currently existing Internet Top-level domains (TLDs). See top-level domain for information on the concept. While the following list should be correct, there is a more definitive list on the IANA website. (The IANA list does not include . , Domain Bank was the first active post-test bed registrar and is a leader in .com, .net, & .org registrations. Domain Bank Inc. is a shareholder in Afilias Ltd., the operator of the .INFO registry, and has been a prominent industry leader from its inception. |
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