InterNIC
Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope
The Internet Network Information Center, or InterNIC, was officially established in 1993 by the US National Science Foundation. InterNIC was responsible for domain name and IP address allocation. Later in 1998, InterNIC, with IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), were put under the control of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN was contracted by the US Department of Commerce to undertake the role of managing various Internet-related tasks.
InterNIC was accessible at internic.net and contracted out the various tasks of registration, directory, and database services to three companies: Network Solutions, AT&T, and General Atomics.