Web firms joining the initiative include search giant Google, domain registration firm Network Solutions, hosting companies as well as payment processors Paypal, Visa and Mastercard.
The U.S. companies approved Tuesday include Affinity Hosting, Alabanza, Animus Communications, Concentric Network, Domain Registration Services, EnetRegistry.com, InterAccess, PSINet and TierraNet.
The only group Icann has elated are the registrars such as GoDaddy and Network Solutions that sell domain names to the public.
Second is a vendor neutrality that can deftly neutralize any reluctant (or recalcitrant) healthcare IT vendor, and third is a rich history of domain expertise specifically around industrial-strength network security, identity management and authentication (at scale).
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
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As a pioneer in the car-sharing domain, Zipcar has established a wide ranging network, with penetration into 19 major metropolitan areas in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
The Bellevue, Washington company plans to sell domain names wholesale to registrars such as GoDaddy, Network Solutions and the like.
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Yet, every social network company wants you to think that their domain of users will cover all you will ever need.
Until last fall, Network Solutions had been the exclusive provider of domain-name registration services under a contract it had with the U.S. Commerce Department.
While the domain name business was opened for competition last November, Network Solutions still controls the lion's share of that business and derives most of its revenue from it.
Data from 3, 780 weather stations had been released earlier this year via the UK Met Office, while US portals such as the Global Historical Climatological Network also put raw readings into the public domain.
Ken Silva, the security chief at VeriSign, which runs big chunks of the internet's domain-name system, advocates defences at the core of the network to tackle malicious data-packets before they reach their target.
"Social network sites like Twitter must be regarded as being in the public domain, " said chairman Roger Burden.
He proposed that the Federal Government bring the sections together with a network of highways and canals, and that it develop and conserve the public domain, using funds from the sale of public lands.
Rather than having your entire chip be in the same security domain, he says, the most critical things like the management of cryptographic keys or the management of network connections or DRM systems can be isolated in separate transistors on the same chip.
Recently one network provider suffered what appeared to be just such an attack that employed 140, 000 machines from the Domain Name Service.
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