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Article: Cuba-NIC controls who can be a dot.com in Cuba.(Brief Article)
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- Cuba News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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HAVANA -- It may not be Network Solution, the multi-billion dollar US corporation that dominates the awarding of Internet domain names, but Cuba's equivalent, Centro Cubano de Informacion de Red (Cuba-NIC) has seen very rapid growth in the amount of business and number of domain names it administers.
Cuba-NIC has control over all domain names that end in .cu, the suffix for all web and email addresses based in Cuba. As of mid June, there were 449 URLs, or universal resource locators, the address for all web sites, registered in Cuba, the vast majority of which were registered by Cuban state-controlled businesses. An unscientific sampling of Cuban web sites seems ...