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7th November 1999

Network Solutions

Aw, heck, it’s Network Solutions. Here’s their Whois.

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7th November 1999

The World Domain Exchange

Pretty cool. Buy and sell domains here. Nice design, too.

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7th November 1999

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

“ICANN is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.”

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7th November 1999

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

“Dedicated to preserving the central coordinating functions of the global Internet for the public good.”

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7th November 1999

Much Fuss About the DNS (and IP)

“The Domain Name System (DNS) and the IP address assignments have become the focus of urgent public policy debate due to a perceived scarcity of available names. But the crisis is artificial born of misunderstanding the nature and role of the DNS and the nature of the Internet itself.”

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7th November 1999

Domain Names, Part I

History of the system and ICANN.

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7th November 1999

Domain Stats

Find out how many domains are registered. It’s up-to-the-minute! We think.

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7th November 1999

DNS Resources Directory

“DNSRD has been providing online information about the Domain Name System since 1994, to thousands of visitors daily. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service. DNS is used primarily to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and to control Internet email delivery.”

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7th November 1999

Domain Games

“Enter a complete or partial domain name. The allowed characters are alphanumerics and wildcards (* and ?). You must specify at least the first three letters before using any wildcards.”

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7th November 1999

An unscientific test of the dot-com theory

“Combining a topic, ‘www’ and ‘.com’ yields strange results.”

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7th November 1999

Available .com sites

“Don’t know how accurate this is, but this guys runs a script every so often that checks some online dictionary and compares the words to available .coms.”

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7th November 1999

internetlist.com

Lots of ISP and hosting resources.

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7th November 1999

IP Domain Translation

The country.cgi script will tell you what .au means (Australia), or .ca (Canada), etc…

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7th November 1999

Domain Name List Is Dwindling

“Wouldn’t it be great to own a domain name that’s also a popular word? Your site could be an instant classic like amazon.com or broadcast.com. Or sex.com or news.com… Well, forget it. You don’t stand a chance. Start-ups, squatters, and speculators already have bought up all the Internet’s prime real estate.”

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7th November 1999

www.isyourdomainnamehere.com?

“All the good ones are taken. Or are they? This is a list of remaining English language words that, as of 14 April 1999, do not yet have a .com attached to them.” …At least that what Wired says.

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