Under an agreement announced August 6 by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Network Solutions, Inc. (the developer of the Shared Registry System), new registrars that have signed an accreditation agreement with ICANN will be eligible to join the initial five testbed registrars as participants in the testbed operation.
By qualifying to be accredited as registrars in the.com, Net, and.org top-level domains, the seven registrars named today join the five original testbed registrars, as well as the 52 other companies that have already qualified for ICANN accreditation.
Under an agreement announced on August 6, 1999, the Shared Registry System testbed program has been expanded to extend to all accredited registrars that sign the standard testbed registrar agreements with NSI and meet technical certification requirements.
It seems possible that the August11, 1999 solar eclipse marks the beginning of such a collective initiation with all its crises and opportunities.
It is important to realize that August11 is not an just an event, but the beginning of a process that will go on for year or so in great intensity, with the effects playing out for a number of years.
Therefore, the August11 solar eclipse has a degree of resonance with these larger cycle shifts, especially since it contains a grand cross which activates all four of the arms of the fixed cross.