| 1998 || || || || Domain deregulation; [[ICANN]] is formed to oversee Internet names and numbers
| 1998 || || || || Domain deregulation; [[ICANN]] is formed to oversee Internet names and numbers
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| May 2000 || [[.arpa]] || Limited; sponsored || All Internet infrastructure databases ||
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| May 2000 || [[.arpa]] || Limited; sponsored || All Internet infrastructure databases || one of the original TLDs, .arpa was re-designated at this time as an Address and Routing Parameter Area, critical to maintaining the [[SSR| stability of the Internet]]