Open Root Server Confederation
The Open Root Server Confederation, Inc. (ORSC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1998 that manages alternative root name servers in the domain name system .
The company was originally set up for a contract offer to coordinate the DNS root name servers, however, chose US Department of Commerce for this is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Web links
- ORSC website ( Memento of February 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )