6th
January
2000
Register.com, NSI Broaden Domain Name Offerings
“Domain name registration giant Network Solutions Inc. and one of its largest competitors, Register.com, both moved to expand their product lines [yesterday], marking a continuing wave of competition in what a year ago was a monopoly field. Network Solutions, which is already by far the largest retailer of names in the most popular ‘.com’ and ‘.net’ Internet domains, today announced it would soon begin selling names in many of the more than 200 country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) maintained by sovereign nations.”