Educause, the higher-education technology consortium, will continue to administer the .edu Internet domain through at least 2011. The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced today that it has extended its contract with the group — which was set to expire at the end of September — for an additional five years.
The new deal will allow Educause to levy a $40 annual fee to the owner of each .edu address — a charge, the consortium says, that will help recoup some of the costs required to manage the domain.
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