The IAHC was one of the first organizations to concern itself with the allocation of Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 domain names.

Member organizations

• Internet Society
  Internet Society
  The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related standards, education, and policy...
  
   (ISOC)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System , media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers...
  
   (IANA)
• Internet Architecture Board
  Internet Architecture Board
  The Internet Architecture Board is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society ....
  
   (IAB)
• Federal Networking Council
  Federal Networking Council
  The Federal Networking Council was chartered by the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Computing, Information and Communications to act as a forum for networking collaborations among Federal agencies to meet their research, education, and operational mission goals and to...
  
   (FNC)
• Internationale Fernmeldeunion (ITU)
• International Trademark Association
  International Trademark Association
  The International Trademark Association is a worldwide not-for-profit association of member companies and firms that supports and advances trademarks and intellectual property as elements of fair and effective global commerce.- History :...
  
   (INTA)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  World Intellectual Property Organization
  The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
  
   (WIPO)

Results

The group's work culminated in a "Memorandum of Understanding". It describes a procedure of allocation and administration of domain names, specifically top-level domains. The "Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding" (gTLD-MoU) can be signed by any organization, and has been by around 226 groups so far.

The organization was dissolved on 1 May 1997. It has been replaced by other groups such as ICANN

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...

.

Proposed TLDs

The IAHC proposed seven new top-level domains:

.arts	culture and entertainment
.firm	businesses
.info	information services
.nom	personal nomenclature
.rec	recreation and entertainment
.store	businesses selling goods
.web	World Wide Web related

The gTLD-MoU interim Policy Oversight Committee replaced .store with .shop.

Nothing became of any of these proposals. (The .info

.info

The domain name info is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet, The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation.The info TLD was...

that now exists came from a later proposal under ICANN.)

External links

• Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (archive.org cache)