It was accessed through the domain name internic.net, with email, FTP and World Wide Web services run at various times by SRI, Network Solutions, Inc., and AT&T.
This website is still active today, operated by ICANN, and currently provides reference documents and information related to domain registration.
The NIC provided the first links to online documents using the NLS Journal system developed at SRI's Augmentation Research Center.
DDN-NIC also performed root nameserver administration and Internet number assignments under a United States Department of Defense contract starting in 1984.
On October 1, 1991, the NIC services were moved from a DECSYSTEM-20 machine at SRI to a Sun Microsystems SPARCserver running SunOS 4.1 at GSI in Chantilly, Virginia.
Beginning in 1996, Network Solutions rejected domain names containing English language words on a "restricted list" through an automated filter.
At that time, responsibility for these tasks was transferred by the National Science Foundation from the InterNIC project to ARIN via modification of the cooperative agreement with Network Solutions.
[14] The InterNIC Directory and Database services provided by AT&T were discontinued on March 31, 1998, after their cooperative agreement with NSF expired.
[16] The role of operating the DNS was privatized, and opened up to competition, while the central management of name allocations would be awarded on a contract tender basis.