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by Edward Piou Last year, Network Solutions, Incorporated's (NSI's) contract with the U.S. Government to handle domain name registration and the database of Internet domain names expired. As the expiration date approached, the U.S. declared its desire to see the Internet community maintain the domain name registration system - the process whereby organizations and individuals receive domain names - itself. This first in a series of two articles will talk about the history of the domain name system, the move to privatize it, and how a new organization - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - hopes to take the lead in privatization. The second article in the series will deal with how DNS works from a more technical perspective, and examine how some organizations, such as RealNames, Domain Host Services, and Netscape (through its "Internet Keywords" feature) are bypassing domain names or diminishing their importance. (More so than other articles on ahref.com, this article contains numerous links to outside resources - agreements between organizations, press releases, and news stories. The outside resources are not crucial to understanding this article, but provide much more detail on the topics covered here.) First, we'll examine the history of the Domain Name System. |
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