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Software that is used to tie an application to a network, thus the "middle" terminology. Often the middleware is a type of network authentication or directory of network resources. When Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer into Windows IE began acting as middleware for many operations, and that was the crux of the Department of Justice's anti-trust case.
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Middleware - .Com and .Net Domain Name Changes Now Functional for Viewing on theWorld Wide Web Within Minutes of New Registration or ModificationsMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriSign,Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligentinfrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunicationsnetworks, today announced that it has implemented a major enhancement,called "rapid updates," to its .com and .net Domain Name System (DNS)servers. With rapid updates, it is now possible for domain registrantsto launch Web sites more quickly and to experience greater continuityin service when changing hosting providers or modifying their domainname registrations.Previously, VeriSign updated DNS servers for .com and .net twice eachday by generating a file from its .com and .net Registry database andglobally distributing it to all 13 of the .com and .net DNS servers.With new, rapid updates, VeriSign distributes updates every fewseconds accommodating all changes that affect any of the more than 35million domain names for .com or .net. With the new update process,domain registrants are now able to add a new domain name, change theirhosting provider or make other changes to their domain name, and seethose changes reflected in the .com and .net DNS servers within amatter of minutes.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=43582223
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