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<front>
<title>Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval</title>
<author initials='J.C.' surname='Klensin' fullname='John C. Klensin'>
<organization>MCI Internet Architecture</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>800 Boylston St, 7th floor</street>
<city>Boston</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02199</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 617 960 1011</phone>
<email>klensin@mci.net</email></address></author>
<author initials='T.W.' surname='Jr' fullname='Ted Wolf, Jr.'>
<organization>Electronic Commerce</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>Dun &amp; Bradstreet Information Services</street>
<street>3 Sylvan Way</street>
<city>Parsippany</city>
<region>NJ</region>
<code>07054</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 201 605 6308</phone>
<email>ted@usa.net</email></address></author>
<author initials='G.W.' surname='Oglesby' fullname='Gary W. Oglesby'>
<organization>MCI Internet Architecture</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>842 N. Ahoy Dr.</street>
<city>Gilbert</city>
<region>AZ</region>
<code>85234</code>
<country>USA</country></postal>
<phone>+1 415 538 1100</phone>
<email>gary@mci.net</email></address></author>
<date month='May' year='1998' />
<area>Applications</area>
<keyword>domain name</keyword>
<keyword>URL</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>

   Location of web information for particular companies based on their

   names has become an increasingly difficult problem as the Internet

   and the web grow.   The use of a naming convention and the domain

   name system (DNS) for that purpose has caused complications for the

   latter while not solving the problem.  While there have been several

   proposals to use contemporary, high-capability, directory service and

   search protocols to reduce the dependencies on DNS conventions, none

   of them have been significantly deployed.


</t>
<t>
   This document proposes a company name to URL mapping service based on

   the oldest and least complex of Internet directory protocols, whois,

   in order to explore whether an extremely simple and widely-deployed

   protocol can succeed where more complex and powerful options have

   failed or been excessively delayed.
</t></abstract></front>

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