The US government is reacting to calls to dismantle the monopoly that the
company Network Solutions Incorporated (http://www.internic.net/) has over
registering the .com, .net, and .org domain names. The website registry operated
by Network Solutions assigns to each name one of the numbers (known as Internet
protocol addresses) that the Internet uses to identify a particular computer.
The .com domain is by far the most popular and NSI is making a mint from it.
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