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Revision as of 03:22, 3 April 2011
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| Industry: | TLD |
| Founded: | 2001 |
| Headquarters: | Dublin |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Website: | http://www.info.info |
| Key People | |
| Ram Mohan, VP of Business Operations & Chief Technical Officer | |
.info is a generic top level-domain name (gTLD) in the internet Domain Name System (DNS) managed and operated by Afilias. It is the first unrestricted TLD following .com. Its real time registration started on October 1, 2001.[1]
History
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.