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| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Headquarters: | 21345 Ridgetop Circle Dulles Virginia 20166 |
| Website: | www.verisigninc.com |
| Key People | |
| D. James Bidzos,Executive Chairman Mark D. McLaughlin, Pres. & CEO | |
.name is a generic top level domain name in the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the internet. It is designed to provide a name space for individuals who uses their names, nicknames, or screen names to promote their blogs, websites, profession or business using their personal and unique identity as a brand. Verisign is the registry operator of .name.[1]
Background[edit | edit source]
In 1985, Dr. Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds issued RFC 920 [2] which described the deployment the original top level domains (TLDs) which include .com, .gov, .edu, .mi., .org and the .arpa which was intended for the transition of the ARPA-interne$t. The two-letter (alpha-2) country codes were also delegated under the the ISO-3166-1 list.[3]