| a background of domain registrars, not the type you | | | | web Protocol or IP addressing system became the |
| find at a college. What is most interesting about | | | | standard by which all networked computers could be |
| domain registrars is the fact that there was once a | | | | located. The new Internet continued to grow all |
| government mandated monopoly. | | | | through the 70's using the creation of electronic mail |
| Registrars History | | | | and newsgroups. |
| In 1998 following pressure from the growing domain | | | | Foreign Domain History |
| name registration company and other interested | | | | When the European Academic Research Network |
| parties, Network Options agreement using the United | | | | (Earn) was functioning in Europe in the 1980's the |
| States Department of Commerce was amended. | | | | Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in |
| This amendment required the creation of a shared | | | | Belgrade proposed that Yugoslav Universities join the |
| registration system that supported multiple registrars. | | | | Earn. The University of Belgrade became a node of |
| This officially opened on November 30, 1999 under | | | | the Gain in 1989, when the first international |
| the supervision of ICANN. There had been several | | | | connection of the academic network between |
| testbed registrars using the system. Because then, | | | | Belgrade and Linz became active. Because the TCP |
| over 500 registrars have entered the marketplace | | | | IP protocol family caused sudden development of |
| for domain name registration providers. | | | | ARPANET there was soon a require for establishing a |
| From the registrars who initially entered the | | | | connection for exchanging electronic mail and data |
| marketplace, many have continued to grow and | | | | between the Yugoslav Academic Network. In order |
| outpace rivals. GoDaddy may be the largest registrar | | | | to establish this connection, SFR Yugoslavia got its |
| and offers a codes promo for discounts. Other | | | | Web top-level domain. The task of developing the |
| successful registrars consist of eNom, Tucows and | | | | academic network for SFRY functioned within the |
| Melbourne IT and others. Registrars who initially led | | | | task of developing the program of |
| the market but later had been surpassed by rivals | | | | scientific-technological information. Besides the |
| consist of Network Options and Dotster. | | | | University of Maribor, the task was also managed by |
| History Pre-Monopoly | | | | an institute of Ljubljana, so these institutions took |
| In 1972 the U.S. Defence Info Systems Agency | | | | more than the responsibility of organising the very |
| created the web Assigned Numbers Authority. IANA | | | | first .yu domain register in between 1990 and 1991. |
| was responsible for assigning unique addresses to | | | | So began international domain registration. |
| each computer connected to the web. By 1973, the | | | | |