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INTERNIC
Internet Network Information Center
InterNIC is a project supported by the NSF (National Science Foundation). Its original purpose was to be an international information and registration centre for the entire Internet community. InterNIC began operations in April 1993 with several associates:
- General Atomics provided information services on the network acting as a NIC.
- AT&T provided its expertise in databases and directories.
- Networks Solutions, Inc. (NSI) provided registration services as well as IP addresses and generic domain names (".com", ".net", ".org").
At present, InterNIC only provides information on the registration of generic domain names. The registration service was entrusted to NSI (since acquired by Verisign), which continues to provide this service independent of InterNIC.
