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Friday August 1 5:07 PM PST
Net Domain Groups Stop Name-CallingBy Will Rodger A compromise on a plan to add seven new top-level domains to the Internet seems all but certain in the wake of a conference held this week in Washington. Striking a conciliatory tone after months of saber rattling, Network Solutions Inc. Chief Executive Officer Gabe Battista said NSI "wants to work within a broad consensus of the Internet community" and "supports whatever is in the best interest of the Internet." Battista's comments came in an address before a gathering sponsored by the Information Technology Association of America, the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Information Services Association. Last fall, a group of international Internet standards groups and U.N.-affiliated intellectual property organizations agreed to add the domains. NSI - which holds a monopoly over registration of Internet addresses ending in .com, .net and .org - is due to lose its exclusive license to oversee the registration of Internet names on March 31, when a government contract expires. NSI had opposed the plan to add top-level domains on the grounds that it would create dozens of copycat registries, all of which would infringe on |
intellectual property that NSI earlier this year claimed as its own. Dozens
of registrars for the seven new top-level domains will likely emerge this
fall under a schedule adopted earlier this month by the Policy Oversight
Committee, the organization charged with adding the domains Battista's
willingness to acquiesce to the consensus of others marked a change in NSI's
often combative style. NSI cited a July 2 executive order from President
Clinton directing the Commerce Department to foster a private-sector answer
to the controversy in order to foster worldwide acceptance of the Internet.
Officials of the Policy Oversight Committee likewise took a conciliatory
tone during the session, saying they remain open to new suggestions.
Network Solutions can be reached at www.netsol.com The Information Technology Association of America can be reached at www.itaa.org The Center for Democracy and Technology can be reached at www.cdt.org The Information Services Association can be reached at www.isa.net |
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