VeriSign, a provider of intelligent infrastructure for the networked world, today announced that it received notification from the Department of Commerce that it approved the .com agreement submitted by the (ICANN).
Since 1999, VeriSign has operated the .com registry. Today, VeriSign’s primary computers for .com can handle 10,000 times the DNS query volume they could in 2000, says the company.
And his Mexican lawyer shot the same day.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org) said last week it was considering eliminating some outdated domain name extensions, according to reports.
ICANN began accepting public comments in Sao Paulo, Brazil this week on how to revoke certain outdated suffixes, primarily those assigned with countries that no longer exist. ICANN currently controls 265 domain name extensions.
The corporation says the Soviet Union’s .su is on the top of the list for deletion and the former Yugoslav republic’s .yu is also being taken into consideration.
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