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Announcement
6 March 2001
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New Accredited Registrars
Announced
(March 6, 2001) The Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that eighteen
(18) additional companies have qualified to be accredited as
domain name registrars in the .com, .net and .org domains. They
are:
- Alice's Registry,
Inc. (United States)
- British Telecommunications
plc (BT plc) (United Kingdom)
- DomainPro,
Inc. (United States)
- DevelopersNetwork.com,
Inc. d/b/a DomainInvestigator.com
(Canada)
- Direct
Information Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a Directi.com
(India)
- Domain
Intellect Pty Ltd (Australia)
- eMarkmonitor
Inc. d/b/a Markmonitor (United
States)
- Intercosmos
Media Group, Inc., d/b/a directNIC
(United States)
- Internet
Plaza City Co., Ltd. (Korea)
- Jiva
Online Pty Ltd. (Australia)
- Mobilcom
City Line d/b/a topnet AG (Germany)
- Netblue
Communications Co., Ltd. (Korea)
- Philippine
Registry.Com, Inc. (Philippines)
- R&K,
Inc. d/b/a 000Domains (United States)
- Tech
Electro Industries, Inc. (United
States)
- Triara.com (Mexico)
- Wooho
T&C Co., Ltd. (Korea)
- Yellowiz
Corp. d/b/a Yellowname.com (Korea)
These new 18 bring the total number of
companies that have met the criteria for accreditation as .com,
.net and .org registrars to 179. Stability of the Internet and
continuity for consumers are protected by the requirement that
every business desiring to become a registrar in top-level domains
must first become accredited by ICANN.
For more information on ICANN accreditation
and a list of all accredited registrars, see http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation.htm.
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