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== History == Eugene Kashpureff and Diane Boling created AlterNIC in 1995, defining it as a privately developed and operated [[Internet]] network information center and [[domain name registry]] service, with the purpose of enhancing the Internet with new information services.<ref name="anicws">{{cite web|url=http://www.alternic.net/TLDS.html |title=AlterNIC website |accessdate=2017-04-11 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19970125144823/http://www.alternic.net/TLDS.html |archivedate=January 25, 1997 }}</ref> In the mid-1990s, the Internet was in a governance transition phase. Until then, the [[organizational structure]] of the network was still heavily influenced by its [[military]], [[Academia|academic]] and [[government]]al origins. At the same time, there was a rapidly increasing interest of [[Privately held company|private]] [[companies]], followed by the general public, to gain access to the Internet. [[Domain name]]s began to play a crucial role in [[business]] [[visibility]], and the number of registrations grew [[Exponential growth|exponentially]]. Initially, registration of new domain names and their maintenance involved no direct costs for the registrant. In 1995, the [[National Science Foundation]] authorized [[Network Solutions]] (NSI), the private company that they had mandated to maintain and operate the registries, to begin charging registrants an annual fee. Some perceived this move as unfair, given that the market was closed to [[competition|competitors]]. Eugene Kashpureff and company were among them and they decided to create an alternative registry to challenge the [[monopoly]] of NSI.
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