= AlterNIC
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AlterNIC, short for "Alternative Network Information Center," is an alternative domain name registry and an alternative to more conventional domain registration entities. Established in the mid-1990s, AlterNIC sought to provide an independent namespace for internet users and offered domain names under various top-level domains (TLDs) that were not controlled by the traditional Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). One of the notable features of AlterNIC was its use of TLDs such as .
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