Competition Is Heating Up for
Competition Is Heating Up for Control of .org Domain (NYT, registration required)
"An intense, largely behind-the-scenes competition is under way for the right to manage the global database that keeps track of Internet addresses of noncommercial organizations.
Although the business of registering Internet names has begun to shrink this year, as many as eight or nine bids are expected at a meeting this month in Bucharest, Romania, when the group that oversees Internet addresses will decide who should manage the list of names that end in .org."
# Jun 15, 2002