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... Internet domain one is faced with the choice of selecting from a
growing number of centralized databases - typically Web or Usenet
News "wanderers", or attempting to infer the existence of network
services from whatever DNS ...
... useful when the organization's domain name can be determined - e.g.
from some external database. A number of groups, including the IETF,
...