Domain Registration Related News
Boffins to decide future of .net domains
February 2005
ICANN has named the people that will decide who
gets to run all .net Internet domains from July.
Two weeks after the deadline ended for
applications to run all 5.1 million .net
addresses, revealing five contendors, telco
Telcordia has been revealed as the evaluator.
A team of ten from Telcordia, headed by
Internet veteran Dr David Sincoskie will now
review, analyse and visit the premises of each
bidder: Afilias, Core++, Denic, Santan and
VeriSign.
ICANN has gone to great lengths to make sure that
the already heated process is as independent as
possible. It stressed the team's credentials,
calling it an "international panel of DNS experts
[which] possesses 270 years of collective industry
experience, with particular emphasis in networks,
information databases, security and operations".
ICANN has been careful not to name each team
member individually - something that would
undoubtably have led to intense lobbying and
possibly even character assassination. But it has
revealed that the evaluation team "includes two
IEEE Fellows; a member of the National Academy of
Engineering; a multi-cultural/multi-national
composition, with nationals of Croatia, Greece,
Pakistan, Taiwan, the UK and the US. In addition,
60 per cent of the team possesses PhDs, spanning
CS, EE and Economics."
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