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Mailing lists

The following lists moved to Jiscmail on 27 November 2000

Electronic journals

Books with Web site support

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Domain names

  • ICANN - overall authority

  • NIC - registration authority for .com, .net and .org names

  • NOMINET - registration of names in the .uk top level domain

ICANN announced new top level domains 

  • .aero

  • .biz

  • .coop

  • .info

  • .museum

  • .name

  • .pro

in a press release, on 16 November 2000, which stated that  registry agreements would be in place for the new domains by the end of 2000.

By March 2001 these domains had not appeared.  A further paper was posted to the Web at the end of February following a meeting in Melbourne.  In March, ICANN announced that it would make a decision on 2 April 2001 whether to adopt these agreements to manage the new  gTLDs.

Meanwhile on 6 March 2001, the California-based company New.net announced that it was making a preliminary batch of twenty "TLDs" available :

.CHAT .GMBH .LTD .SPORT
.CLUB .HOLA .MED .TECH
.FAMILY .INC .MP3 .TRAVEL
.FREE .KIDS .SHOP .VIDEO
.GAME .LAW .SOC .XXX

 In fact, these are not true TLDs but sub-domains of .new.net.   Users are passed to New.net transparently, either by their ISP's server or by downloading a small plug-in for their browser that recognises these extensions.  (A pop-up window offers the plug-in on the first visit by a browser without it).

Articles

An item in IT Week for 13 November 2000 describes ICANN's new domain name arbitration procedure.

Miller, Rachel.  'The new name rush'.  e-business, April 2001, 72-5.  (Issues around the new top level domains]

The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service has a Web site that gives details of domain disputes and their settlement.  The National Arbitration Forum site includes model complaint forms for registering disputes, and gives information about the Forum's arbitration services.

Young, Ken.  'Domain name management'.  IT week, 4 (10), 12 March 2001, 36  ["Early investment in a more professional approach to buying and maintaining domain names can save a lot of time and money later"]

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Managing your Internet and intranet services, by Peter Griffiths

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Page last amended 08 Jul 2001