The nonprofit agency charged with administering Internet domain names and technical functions said yesterday that online balloting for its board members would be handled by Election.com.
Separately, NeuLevel Inc., the company responsible for administering the.biz domain, said it would reimburse VeriSign and other registrars for the $2 fees NeuLevel collected with each application, if the registrars provide written documentation for each refund.
Currently in the crossfire is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), now being considered by the Commerce Department to take over the jobs of assigning numerical Internet addresses and administering Internet domain names.
For people administering multiple domains, it may be easier to keep each domain's list in a separate file, then write a short script to concatenate all such files together into a master virtual user table.
Adding to dotTV's hurdles, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international group charged with administering the domain-name system, plans to release a set of new domains, which might include suffixes like.web,.store and.sex, early next year.
The landowning class, made up of wealthy barons and less-propertied squires, claimed freedom in administering its domains and a more active role in public affairs.
The daimyo used his band of retainers (kashindan) to administer his domain.
In 2001 Mr. Metnick beat out The Tribune Company and bought chicago.com for $500,000 from Karl Swartz, a California man who had acquired it for nothing from the nonprofit group that administers the domain system.
The web-based office suite company, which also provides customer relationship and invoicing services to small businesses, tweeted that the site was "blocked" earlier in the day by TierraNet, which administers its domain name.
Andrew McLaughlin, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international nonprofit group that administers the domain-name system, which is also known as Icann, defended the arbitration process, which started last December as a way of giving trademark holders an easy way to resolve the growing number of battles over names.
