The U.S. companies approved Tuesday include Affinity Hosting, Alabanza, Animus Communications, Concentric Network, Domain Registration Services, EnetRegistry.com, InterAccess, PSINet and TierraNet.

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The future looked bleak for PSINet , an American Internet service provider.

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The Ravens will look for a more stable firm than PSINet, which was one of the first telecommunications upstarts to go belly up.

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In Baltimore, the Ravens have deleted that embarrassing PSINet name from their home field, which will be called Ravens Stadium until a new sponsor can be found.

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Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access-devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI Worldcom, before most people had heard of the Web.

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Kapor was one of the earliest investors in two Internet Access firms, Performance Systems International (now PSINet) and UUNet Technologies, which merged with MFS Communications, which in turn was sold to WorldCom.

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Acting in the same roles at Ascend, they supplied Internet access devices to data carriers such as PSINet and Uunet, now part of MCI WorldCom, before most people had heard of the web.

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PSINet is fighting for its life.

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