4 firms to service most new domain alternatives

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Four companies would provide the underlying technology for about 64 percent of the 1,930 proposed alternatives to .com under a domain expansion planned by the Internet's address-system manager.

VeriSignInc., Neustar Inc., Demand Media Inc. and Afilias Ltd. are each lined up to supply the back-end support for hundreds of extensions including .bank and .nyc, according to a list of applications released last week by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

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Courtesy of: Eric Engleman @ SFGate.com