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History of the Internet in Costa Rica

Along with the UCR pioneer connections, the Red Nacional de Investigación de Costa Rica (CRNet), is created. This digital network operates through fiber optic links with the purpose of interconnecting the most important academic and research institutions in the country,thus granting these entities vast access to the information and computational resources of the world.

These significant achievements not only allowed instant connectivity of a considerable number of people with the rest of the world, but also introduced for the first time the inter-networking technology on a large scale to the country. 
 

History of the Top Level Domain .cr

As of September 10th 1990, the National Academy of Sciences is the entity in charge of registering and managing the Top Level Domain .cr a duty assigned by the IANA. NIC- Internet Costa Rica is the branch office of the Academia responsible for providing the registration and administration of the .cr domain name among the academic, industrial, governmental, financial, health, educational and organizational sectors. 

At the present time, the TLD administration abides by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) rules and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ) (RFC 1591) on matters of IP addresses. These policies guarantee that the assignation of the .cr domains is unbiased and equitable.

Top Level Domain .cr Contacts:

The authorized TLD .cr administrative and technical contacts on the International Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are: 

1. Administrative Contact:

Guy F. de Teramond
National Academy of Sciences
San José
Costa Rica
E-mail: gdt@ns.cr
Voice: +506 2283 4814
Fax: +506 2283 4101
2. Technical contact:

Abel Brenes
Unidad de Redes
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José
Costa Rica
E-mail: abrenes@ns.cr
Voice: +506 8381 4753
Fax: +506 2283 4101