Cisco

the INTERNET

Most popular activities on the internet:
#1 e-mail
#2 web search
#3 reading news

The South Atlantic Telecommunications Cable No.3 (SAT-3) runs from Sesimbra, Portugal
to Melkbosstrand (Cape Town), South Africa. The 14,341 [km] (8,911 [mi]) long undersea cable
provides 120 [GB/sec], enough bandwidth to carry 5.8 million simultaneous phone calls.

SAT-3 uses only 2 pairs of fiber-optic cables, which pass through 191 submerged repeaters
every 80 [km] (50 [mi]) along the way. SAT-3 cost approximately $650 million to install.

SAT-3 connects to the South Africa-Far East cable (SAFE) in South Africa, which covers
an additional 13,104 [km] (8,142 [mi]), from Melkbosstrand to Cochin, India & Panang, Malaysia.

As of May 2004, there are 63 million registered domains.

the top-level domains:
.com and .biz for commercial organizations
.edu for United States educational organizations
.org for miscellaneous organizations

audreyhance.com
create date 7-1-2004
expire date 7-1-2005

audubonrentals.com
create date 7-1-2004
expire date 7-1-2005

billhance.com
create date 6-5-2001
expire date 6-5-2008

jeffreyhance.com
create date 7-1-2004
expire date 7-1-2005

melissahance.com
create date 7-1-2004
expire date 7-1-2010

ssnix.com
create date 7-1-2004
expire date 7-1-2005

Domains are registered using a registrar, such as dotster.
A cheaper alternative is GoDaddy.