CZ domain registry, from scratch as an authoritative name server.

Several other top-level domain registries started accepting registrations in 2004 and 2005.

Afilias, a consortium of 19 current domain registries, including Register.com, that proposed .

The official domain registry of the .

In practice, some domain registries may have shorter limits.

As with many long-standing domain registries the registry was maintained informally for some time.

But some entrepreneurs, hoping to build a business by creating domain registries, are calling for a more open and competitive system sooner rather than later.

Some entrepreneurs who have already laid claim to new domain registries were also enthusiastic about the Administration's proposal.

On Wednesday, someone from the Chilean domain registry .

In recent months, domain registries have been marketing little pieces of Bhutan (.