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Network Solutions' automated screening system blocked the registration "because it contains four letters they consider obscene", though the domain name '' had been successfully registered. This came to light when Jeff Gold attempted to register the domain name but was unable to. Network Solutions also implemented a policy of censoring domain names. This led to a reduction in the domain name registration fee to $70 (for two years). The 30% of the registration fee that went to the NSF was ruled by a court to be an illegal tax. 30% of this revenue went to the NSF to create an "Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund." In 1997, a lawsuit was filed charging Network Solutions with antitrust violations with regard to domain names. Network Solutions imposed a charge of $100 for two years registration. įollowing the acquisition by SAIC, the NSF gave Network Solutions authority to charge for domain name registrations. At that time, the company managed 60,000 domain names. In March 1995, the company was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for $4.7 million. In May 1993, the NSF privatized the domain name registry Network Solutions was the only bidder on the $5.9 million annual contract to administer it. mil TLD registry, and was also performed by NSI under subcontract. A contract was given to Boeing to operate the. NSI also maintained the central database of assigned names called WHOIS. org (organization) TLDs, a continuation of work NSI had already been doing. In 1993, NSI was granted an exclusive contract by the NSF to be the sole domain name registrar for. In 1992, NSI was the sole bidder on a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop the domain name registration service for the Internet. The Network Information Center at SRI International had performed the work under Elizabeth J.
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net Top Level Domains (TLDs) for free, along with free Internet Protocol (IP) address blocks.

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in September 1991. (NSI) first operated the domain name system (DNS) registry under a sub-contract with the U.S. Annual revenues passed $1 million in 1982, growing to $18.5 million in 1986. In its first few years, the company focused on systems programming services, primarily in the IBM environment. Network Solutions started as a technology consulting company incorporated by Emmit McHenry with Ty Grigsby, Gary Desler and Ed Peters in Washington, D.C., in 1979.
