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==The fall of IAHC==   

==The fall of IAHC==   

The IAHC managed to garner support, yet its report was criticized on several grounds. The technical community viewed the report as too condensed and strict, as it scheduled a 100-day timeline for the technological development and implementation of the new TLDs. Others thought that the report gave no importance to important business issues, and that it was failing to solve the problems that it was created to solve. One major point was that there was a lack of unity among the suggestions given by the IAHC; for instance, the introduction of the .store and .firm domains alongside the already established .com. Many of the IAHC's recommendations were later successful proposals, however; one such being [[.info]], which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]) introduced later, after the dissolution of the committee<ref name="link2">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc2.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref> in May 1997.

The IAHC managed to garner support, yet its report was criticized on several grounds. The technical community viewed the report as too condensed and strict, as it scheduled a 100-day timeline for the technological development and implementation of the new TLDs. Others thought that the report gave no importance to important business issues, and that it was failing to solve the problems that it was created to solve. One major point was that there was a lack of unity among the suggestions given by the IAHC; for instance, the introduction of the .store and .firm domains alongside the already established .com. Many of the IAHC's recommendations were later successful proposals, including [[.info]], which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]) introduced later, after the dissolution of the committee<ref name="link2">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc2.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref> in May 1997.

==IAHC and ICANN==   

==IAHC and ICANN==   

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]), a not-for-profit private sector corporation took over the functioning of the IAHC. In the year 2000, ICANN approved seven new TLDs for use: .info, [[.museum]], [[.name]], [[.aero]], [[.biz]], [[.coop]], and [[.pro]].<ref name="link2">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc2.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref>

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ([[ICANN]]), a not-for-profit private sector corporation took over the functioning of the IAHC. In the year 2000, ICANN approved seven new TLDs for use: .info, [[.museum]], [[.name]], [[.aero]], [[.biz]], [[.coop]], and [[.pro]].<ref name="link2">[http://computer.howstuffworks.com/iahc2.htm howstuffworks.com]</ref>

== References ==

== References ==

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