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A key decision determining who will run the Internet's domain name registry in the future could be made as early as Feb. 28, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board convenes its next meeting.
At the top of the ICANN agenda is a proposed settlement to end litigation with VeriSign, which operates .com, the largest Internet domain registry.
The litigation began in 2003 when ICANN ordered VeriSign to shut down its SiteFinder service (which routed mistyped Web site addresses to a VeriSign portal), but it evolved into questions of contractual agreements between the two parties.
To settle the matter, ICANN and VeriSign drafted an agreement last fall outlining the registry operator's future rights...
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