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An abbreviation for Not Sufficient Funds.

An abbreviation for National Science Foundation. The entity to which Congress initially gave the responsibility of soliciting proposals for Internet infrastructure services. Pursuant to authority granted to it by the 1991 High-Performance Computing Act, Pub.L. No. 102-194, 105 Stat. 1594 (December 9, 1991) (codified at15 U.S.C. § 5501 et seq.); see15 U.S.C. § 5521, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) “assumed responsibility for coordinating and funding the management of the non-military portion of the Internet infrastructure,” including responsibility for the registration of domain names in 1991. White Paper, 63 Fed.Reg. at 31742; see, e.g., Rony & Rony, The ...