"What we want from AOL is that for a period of time - say two years - the browser that they give out to their customers and the one they mention and put on their pages and the one they exploit is ours and not Netscape's." - A January 1996 memo from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates produced by the US government to show that Microsoft worked to stymie Netscape's distribution channels through a pact it signed with AOL to make Internet Explorer its exclusive browser.
"One of the major reasons for the creation of ICANN was to foster fair and open ground rules in the domain-name system, and we are now approaching a major milestone in achieving that goal." - Esther Dyson, interim chairwoman of the ICANN board, in a statement after the release of the draft proposal for accrediting potential domain name registrars. (see ICANN DO IT above).