Icann argues it needs to have access to the databases to make sure that the net's entire addressing scheme is reliable and stable.

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Both want to expand an existing government loan-guarantee scheme and to set tougher net lending targets for the nationalised banks.

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The new net suffix application process has been thrown into disarray after the body in charge of the scheme was forced to take its computers offline.

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