The Consulting Association was closed down and a 66-year-old private investigator, Ian Kerr, was fined £5,000 for administering the database, although the construction firms escaped prosecution.
According to VeriSign Inc., which administers the database for.com,.net,.org and.edu domain names, more than 1,500 domain names of 63 characters exist.
NeuStar, based in Washington, administers the database that telephone companies used to route phone calls in North America; its subsidiary, NeuLevel Inc., operates the database of Internet addresses ending in.biz.
And though the company has been administering the database since the landline portability rules were enacted six years ago, the company has spent $20 million expanding its computer systems and adding staff to ensure the smooth flow of operations as wireless phone numbers become portable.
The database "will provide executive search firms, companies and investors and those looking to make board appointments with a list of board qualified women," said Lesley Stephenson, a member of the initiative and publisher of The Financial Times Non Executive Directors Clubb's Web site, which will administer the database on LinkedIn.
It will then administer the database of rights payouts down to which check goes where and for how much.
Database administrators have rights to administer the database and user accounts (and in principle, have access to all datasets stored on the system).
On Tuesday, Judge Robert N. Chatigny of Federal District Court ordered the state police, who administer the online database, to remove it permanently from the Internet by today.
The US Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service verifies records of deaths in the US and administers the SSA Death Master File database to prevent identity fraud.
SS administered the questionnaires, performed the densitometric (DXA) analysis, and prepared the database.
