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| ==History== | | ==History== |
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− | In 1990, the .com TLD already reached as many as 20 million registered domains therefore registrants are already starting to experience difficulties to find a short, simple and easy to remember domain name.In order to alleviate the situation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names ([[ICANN]])requested proposals for new TLD's from registry stake holders. | + | In 1990, the .com TLD already reached as many as 20 million registered domains therefore registrants are already starting to experience difficulties to find a short, simple and easy to remember domain name.In order to alleviate the situation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names ([[ICANN]]) requested proposals for new TLD's from registry stake holders on its website on August 5, 2000.<ref> |
| + | [http://www.iana.org/reports/2001/biz-info-report-25jun01.html IANA Report]</ref> |
| + | On October 2000, ICANN received 44 proposed domains and by November of the same year during the organizations annual meeting the Board of Directors approved 7 new TLDs which include: .aero, .biz, .coop, .info .museum, .name and .pro. |
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| + | <ref>[http://www.afilias.info/webfm_send/15 .info History]</ref> |
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| + | ICANN approved the application of Afilias as the registry operator of the .info TLD on May 11, 2001,<ref> |
| + | [http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/info/index-11may01.html .info Registry Agreement]</ref> subsequently the United States Department of Commerce entered .info into the internet Domain Name System (DNS) root zone on June 27. |
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| + | == Sunrise Period== |
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| + | The Sunrise Period started July 25, 2001 wherein trademark and service mark holders were able to reserve their brand names. |
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