- Below is
a non-exhaustive list of links to 1999 news reports about
the domain name system, in reverse chronological
order. A few links
may no longer be available, while
others may require a password or fee to access their
archives.
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12.30.99
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- Ricochet
wireless service gets bounced, by Paul
Kaputska (Red Herring)
- http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/1230/news-metricom.html
Wireless Internet service provider Metricom
had its RICOCHET.NET hijacked early December
28 an attack that rerouted an undetermined
amount of inbound email messages to an
unknown destination, while also directing
traffic to a pornographic site.
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12.29.99
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- Microsoft's
Debt to a Linux Fan, by Reuters
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33337,00.html
- When
Microsoft forgot to pay its $35
reregistration fee for the domain name
PASSPORT.COM, a Linux programmer wrote out a
check so that the free Hotmail service could
be restored. See also The
Passport
Payment,
by Michael Chaney, the rescuer.
- Microsoft
e-mail service crippled over missed
billing
(Infobeat)
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12.27.99
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- Good
Samaritan squashes Hotmail lapse?
(C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1507208.html
A Linux user took credit for restoring
service to Microsoft's Hotmail free email
service, saying he paid a delinquent domain
name registration fee for PASSPORT.COM when
access was blocked over the Christmas
weekend.
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12.22.99
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- In
Celebration of Christmas, Register.com
Introduces .CX Christmas Island
Domains,
by Businesswire (CNNfn)
- The
ICANN-accredited registrar is among the first
to offer direct search and registration
services in the .CX country code
domain.
- Network
Solutions Files for Offering, by Reuters
(Yahoo News)
- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991222/bs/tech_networksolutions_2.html
NSI announced a secondary offering of
7+million shares and approved a 2-for-1 stock
split.
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12.21.99
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- Master
of Domains, but not AOL's, by Ariana Eunjung
Cha (Washington Post)
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/21/113l-122199-idx.html
Due to a "glitch" at register.com., a domain
name speculator thought he had successfully
registered AOL.COM.
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12.20.99
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- New
Domain May Unite Europe, by Joanna Glaser
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33156,00.html
- The
European Union has proposed adding a new top
level domain to the root: .EU
- More
Net name choices, but glitches abound, by
Patricia Jacobus (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1501719.html
The new shared registry system that created
competition among .COM, NET and ORG
registrars has raised some customer
complaints.
- Oregon
town adopts .COM identity, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1501391.html
HALF.COM, based in Philadelphia, has
persuaded the City Council in Halfway, Ore.,
to rename the 360-person town after the
e-commerce site, which will officially launch
next year.
- Registrars
race to profit from longer domain names, by
Patricia Jacobus (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1500987.html
Most domain name registrars are now equipped
to handle 61-character domain names, causing
a crush for new name
registrations
- Corporates
fight to regain domain names (Economic
Times)
- http://www.economictimes.com/211299/21tech09.htm
Major Indian corporate entities have
initiated a legal battle to regain their
domain names registered by other individuals
on the Internet.
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12.18.99
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- Names
to make you a
fortune.com
(CNNfn/Birmingham Post)
- Investors
get lucky with website titles.
- Name
your price -- a Net god says nought, by Kate
Crawford (Sydney Morning Herald)
- http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/18/business/business3.html
Although Melbourne IT is now worth millions,
Robert Elz, the man who registered every
.COM.AU name between 1989-1996 walked away
from a fortune.
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12.17.99
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- Korea
Leverages its Homepages, by Elisabeth
Witchel
- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/19991217/bs/19991217082.html
The government-owned Industrial Bank of Korea
will offer loans to small companies and take
their registered dot-com domain names as
collateral.
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12.09.99
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- Litigants
Use Law to Stake Their Claim in Cyberspace,
by Jeri Clausing (NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/09net.html
- Trademark
holders have begun filing lawsuits under the
new US Anticyberpiracy Prevention
Act.
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12.06.99
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- Finally,
a Palestinian Homeland (Wired)
- http://wired.lycos.com/news/politics/0,1283,32908,00.html
ICANN is expected to grant the Palestinian
National Authority its own top level
domain,.PS.
- Internet
Domain to be Assigned for Palestinian
Territory, by Jeri Clausing
(NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/06pale.html
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12.03.99
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- Net
Name dispute body gets first case, by Reuters
(C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1478300.html
- The
first complaint seeking international
arbitration to resolve an Internet domain
name dispute under ICANN's UDRP has been
filed at the World Intellectual Property
Organization.
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12.01.99
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- Firm
pays $US7.5M for BUSINESS.COM domain name, by
AP (AGE News)
- http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/9912/01/A10209-1999Dec1.shtml
A Houston entrepreneur sold the Internet
domain name business.for a record $US7.5
million in a deal that highlights the
skyrocketing pricetags of prime Web real
estate.
- Domain
Name Real Estate Soars Higher Than Ever
(Industry Standard)
- http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,7953,00.html
- What's
in a Cyber Name? $7.5 Million for the Right
Address, by Andrew Pollack
(NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/01website-name-purchase.html
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11.30.99
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- eCompanies
plans business-to-business Net service, by
Jeff Peliline (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1474285.html
eCompanies paid $7.5 million to acquire
BUSINESS.COM from the man who bought the
domain name three years ago for
$150,000.
- eCompanies
Pays $7.5 million for BUSINESS.COM Domain
Name (eCompanies PR)
- http://www.ecompanies.com/pr_991130.html
Jake Winebaum, co-founder of the Internet
incubator, plans to develop
business-to-business service
- Domain
name sold for $7.5 million, by
Reuters
- http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/11/30/deals/wires/ecompanies_wg/
- BUSINESS.COM
sold for $7.5 million, by Frank Barnako
(MarketWatch.com )
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11.29.99
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- Internet
Labels Lose Meaning in Rush for Popular
Addresses, by David F. Gallagher
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/29name.html
As competition for prime Internet addresses
intensifies, .COM, .NET and .ORG are losing
their original meanings in a free-for-all,
the registration of the popular top level
domains.
- What's
in a Domain? (NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/29name.1.GIF.html
The New York Times charts the change in
meaning of six gTLDs between the original
intent and the current practice.
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11.24.99
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- Congress
passes slew of high-tech bills, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1463637.html
New Congressional legislation will make life
easier for big business while setting aside
many consumer and civil rights
concerns.
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11.23.99
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- Senate
Oks Spending Bill With Satellite TV,
Internet, and Anti-Cybersquatting Provisions,
by Dugie Standeford (E-Commerce Law Weekly)
- http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A10127-1999Nov22.html
The U.S. Senate approved (74-24) the
Intellectual Property and Communications
Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 (S. 1948), that,
among other things, protects trademark
holders from online cyberpiracy.
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11.18.99
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- Web-Address
Legislation Called Flawed: Corporations could
dominate small-firm sites, experts say. by
Carolyn Lochhead (SF Chronicle)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/18/MN20800.DTL
Congress is about to expand corporate rights
to Internet domain names, at the expense, say
many legal scholars, of small businesses and
individuals.
- Senate
Mulls Patent, Net Name Reform (Law News
Network)
- http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A9866-1999Nov17.html
A patent reform bill and anticybersquatting
legislation have been attached to the Senate
Satellite Home Viewers Improvements Act which
was adopted by the U.S. House on November
9.
- PFIR,
People for Internet Responsibility,
founded
- http://www.pfir.org/
PFIR is a global, grassroots, ad hoc network
of individuals who are concerned about the
current and future operations, development,
management, and regulation of the Internet in
responsible manners.
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11.16.99
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- Approaching
a federated .AU, by Jenny Sinclair (Fairfax
IT)
- http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/19991116/A41269-1999Nov12.html
The .AU domain took a major step toward
reform when Robert Elz, generally recognized
as the owner of the .AU domain, signed over
policy matters to the new .AU Domain
Administration.
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11.15.99
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- Cybersquatting:
Get off my
URL
(BBC News)
- It's
hard to underestimate the value of a
bite-sized, self-explanatory domain name.
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11.14.99
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- Education:
School net names
wrangle
(BBC News)
- More
than 70% of schools in England failed to
respond to the allocation of new internet
domain names by the November 5 deadline
and 14% of those who responded challenged
the names they were given,.
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11.11.99
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- Cybersquatting
Measure Attached to Satellite-TV Bill, by
Jeri Clausing (NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/biztech/articles/11web.html
The move is aimed at fending off a threatened
veto of a controversial bill to outlaw
speculating in Internet addresses
- Domain
Bill Surfaces Again (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32494,00.html
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11.08.99
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- When
Your Name Isn't Yours, by Adam Cohen
(Time)
- http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,33476,00.html
Regulators want to crack down on
cybersquatters but may be going too
far.
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11.04.99
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- Agreement
to End registrar's Monopoly Meets Resistance,
by Jeri Clausing (NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/cyber/articles/04icann.html
Potential competitors of NSI urged ICANN to
either force changes in the DOC/ICANN/NSI
Agreement or throw it out.
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11.03.99
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- Net
name registrars view for fairer competitive
landscape, by Courtney Macavinta
(C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-1428939.html
Accredited registrars aired a firestorm of
complaints at ICANN's annual meeting to alter
or quash the DOC/ICANN/NSI
agreement.
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11.02.99
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- Foundation
allots $1 million for Net governance, by
Courtney Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1425922.html
The nonprofit, philanthropic Markle
Foundation announced that it will commit more
than $1 million to improve Internet
governance and to help make ICANN, the body
in charge of the Net's critical address
system, more accountable to Net
users.
- CDT
Joins Partnership to Improve Public
Representation in Internet Domain Name
Governance (CDT)
- http://www.cdt.org/press/991102press.shtml
The Center for Democracy and Technology has
joined the campaign to educate\policymakers,
public interest groups and the public at
large about issues raised involving the
management of the DNS.
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11.01.99
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- Internet
Pioneer and Former IETF Chair Dr. Paul
Mockapetris Joins .NU Domain
(.NU)
- http://www.nunames.nu/Press/advisors.cfm
NU Domain Ltd, a ccTLD, announced that Dr.
Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the
Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), has
joined .NU Domain as Technical Advisor.
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10.26.99
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- House
Passes Cybersquatting Bill, by Jeri Clausing
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/cyber/articles/27cybersquatting.html
- House
Passes Domain Bill over White House
Objections (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32140,00.html
- The
U.S. House of Representatives passed
HR
3028,
the controversial Trademark Cyberpiracy
Prevention Act.
- House
Joins Senate Attack on Cybersquatters, by
Elizabeth Wasserman (Industry
Standard)
- http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,7227,00.html
- Cannon
Takes Lead on Cybersquatting Bill
(P.R.)
- http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ut03_cannon/cyber.html
Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah, 3rd
District) supported the Trademark Cyberpiracy
Prevention Act)
- Congress
Clamping Down on Hollywood Name Shakedown in
Cyberspace, by
- Faye
Fiore (SFChronicle/Los Angeles Times
)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/10/26/
BU107615.DTL&type=tech_article
Congress may rescue Hollywood from
speculators who register famous names as
domains and hold them for ransom in
cyberspace.
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10.25.99
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- Crooner
Brian Evans Relinquishes Domain Names to
Sinatra Family
- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/991025/nv_rfc_mus_1.html
- Brian
Evans, a singer/songwriter, has
voluntarily given the domain names
THERATPACKISBACK.COM and RATPACKISBACK.COM
to the Sinatra
- family.
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10.13.99
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- Web
site holders surrender privacy, by Brock
Meeks
- http://www.msnbc.com/news/322926.asp
Domain name registration information publicly
available in the online database is being
exploited and abused.
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10.12.99
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- Anti
Cybersquatting on the Move, by Jeri Clausing
(NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/cyber/capital/12capital.html
- On
October 20, the House Judiciary Committee
will vote on H.R.
3028,
a bill that would prohibit people from buying
Internet domain names containing trademarks
for the purpose of reselling them at a
profit.
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10.11.99
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- Telecom
groups want more say in Net governance, by
Peter Clarke (EE Times)
- http://www.eet.com/story/OEG19991011S0024
The International Telecommunications Union
has pledged to have a greater role the
governance of the Internet.
- We're
Running Out of
Dot.Coms,
by Steven Levy (Newsweek)
- Good
domain names have become so scarce tht the
technies need to create a new
approach,
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10.07.99
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- What's
in a Web name? Maybe as much as $1 million,
by Katharine Biele (Christian Science
Monitor)
- http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/10/07/fp2s2-csm.shtml
Pressure is building to stop cybersquatters
who buy sites and sell them for
prof
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09.30.99
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- Cox
May Propose Net Domain for "Adult Material"
by David McGuire (CNNfn)
- http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/137085.html
- Representative
Christopher Cox, R-Calif., is planning to
introduce legislation that would create a new
top level domain for websites containing
pornographic materials,
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09.29.99
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- Griping
Begins Over Domain Deal, by Brian McWilliams
(Internet News)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_209631,00.html
Several
interested parties have already registered
complaints about the new agreement inked
between the U.S. Department of Commerce,
Network Solutions and ICANN.
- NSI
Keeps Keys to Internet Domain, by John
Schwartz (Washington Post)
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a57146-1999sep29.htm
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced an
agreement in which Network Solutions, Inc.
will retain control over the WHOIS database
for the next four years.
- U.S.
Brokers Internet Agreement, by Ted Bridis
(Associated Press)
- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990929/tc/internet_management_2.html
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09.28.99
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- Domain
name door opens: U.S., Network Solutions
reach deal, paving way for more competition,
by Reuters (CNNfn)
- http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/09/28/technology/wires/network_wg/
- After
almost a year of negotiations, Network
Solutions Inc., agreed on terms to let
competing firms register domain names in
.COM, .NET and .ORG
- U.S.
Reaches Deal on Internet Addresses, by Jeri
Clausing (NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/articles/29domain.html
- NSI
reaches Net name agreement with groups, by
Evan Hansen (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-351900.html
- NSI,
Commerce Dept. reach pact (USA
Today)
- http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg259.htm
- Domain
Name Agreement Finally Reached, By Elizabeth
Clampet (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_208871,00.html
- Network
Solutions to give rivals access to domain
names database, by Reuters
(SJMercury)
- http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/001932.htm
Network Solutions Inc. and the Commerce
Department reached an agreement to allow
competitors long-term access to the company's
domain name database
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09.24.99
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- IDirections
promises free .COM registration, by James
Niccolai (IDG.net)
- http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/24/IDirectionsPromisesFreecomRegistration.shtml
- IDirections
will allow users to register Internet .COM,
NET and ORG addresses at no charge and build
a personal Web portal.
- Domain
names want to be free
- http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/0924/news-domain.html?id=yahoo
- Iperdome
Blames ICANN for its Demise, by Brian
McWilliams (Internet News)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_207481,00.html
Iperdome Inc., which has been registering
domains since 1997 under the .PER top-level
domain as part of the Enhanced Domain Name
System (eDNS) has suspended
operations.
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09.20.99
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- Domain
dispute proposal counters NSI policy, by Dan
Goodin
- http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-121277.html
Under an alternative policy introduced by
NameSecure, one of seven registrars that now
competes withNSI, the challenger to the
domain name must go to court, rather than
thedomain holder.
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09.16.99
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- NSI
Mass E-mailing raises security fears, by
Brian McWilliams (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_202671,00.html
A mass e-mail solicitation about a new
payment policy and new email features by
Network Solutions generated a stormy reaction
from some customers.
- URLs
R Us, by Janelle Brown (Salon)
- http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/16/knight_ridder/index.html
Kight-Ridder maintans 45 separate
websites.
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09.15.99
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- Sony
seeks musician domain names for life, by Beth
Lipton (C/Net)
- http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-120262.html
A controversial provision in Sony Music
contracts effectively asks artists to sign
away for life control of their official
websites and registration of their names as a
domain.
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09.12.99
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- U.S.
Extends Internet Names Test Period a 4th
Time, by Reuters
- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990912/wr/internet_names_3.html
The U.S. Commerce Department Friday extended
for a fourth time the testbed phase of the
shared registration system to run until
September 30, 1999.
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09.06.99
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- What's
in a Name.COM? Plenty, by Mike France
(Business Week)
- http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_36/b3645101.htm
- After
less than a year, the White House's bold
experiment in Internet governance is in
jeopardy.
- Government
Control Worries Higgins, by Tom
Pullar-Strecker (NZInfoTech)
- http://www.infotech.co.nz/september_6/nthigg.html
ISOCNZ chairman Jim Higgins is worried about
an international move to make ccTLDs subject
to the authority of national
governments.
- ETSI
clashes with Net architects over numbering,
by Kenneth Cukier
- http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?Target=top&ArticleID=23722&Pub=cwi
A proposal by the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute that telephone numbers
and IP addresses be harmonized is being
studied by ICANN.
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09.02.99
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- Cybersquatting:
]nterview by Brian McWilliams (Internet
News Radio)
- http://stream.internet.com/Content/cybersquat.ram
Gregory D. Phillips, counsel for Porsche
A.G., and Mikki Barry, President of DNRC,
discuss whether trademark owners are unfairly
beating up domain registrants.
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09.01.99
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- When
Dot Com Isn't Enough, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21507.html
SuperRoot is one of the new root server
systems being developed as an alternative to
the legacy root administered by
ICANN.
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08.31.99
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- $1.50
Web "tax" a step closer, by Simon Hayes (The
Australian)
- http://technology.news.com.au/news/4266211.htm
- ICANN
plans to re-introduce its controversial $US1
($1.50) domain-name fee in November, taking
advantage of a cooler political climate in
Washington.
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08.26.99
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- Staking
Your Domain, by Dan Fost (S.F.
Chronicle)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/26/BU51714.DTL
A reporter looks at the choices and process
of a domain name registration.
- Domain
name dispute policy approved, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-40983,00.html
ICANN approved a uniform policy for settling
disputes concerning the ownership of domain
names.
- Internet
governing body crafting guidelines on
cybersquatting (CNN)
- http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/26/chile.internet.ap/
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08.25.99
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- Vying
for control of country-specific domains, by
Courtney Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,40928,00.html
Representatives from 30 nations in the
ICANN-baced Government Advisory Commjittee
seek adoption of a policy that would would
make the management of country code TLDs
subject to the authority of the relevant
government
- Laying
down the law on domain names, by Dav id
Pescovitz (cnn)
- http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/25/domain.myth.idg/
Attorney Mark Radcliffe debunks some domain
name registration/trademark
myths.
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08.24.99
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- Network
Solutions Announces New Organizational
Structure (NSI)
- http://www.netsol.com/news/1999/pr_19990824.html
- Network
Solutions, Inc. announced a new
organizational structure which formalizes the
separation of its registry and registrar
functions into two discrete business
units.
- Cluing
Congress into Net ABCs, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/21411.html
A panel of current and ex-Congressmen and
those who work in the Beltway concluded that
the government is trying to tame a beast it
does not understand.
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08.23.99
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- Unreal
Estate, by John Cook (NYTimes
Magazine)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990822mag-web-addresses.html
Million dollar sales of domain names are
evidence that the supposedly limitless World
Wide Web is running short on real estate.
- Behave--or
Lose Your Domain Name, by Mike France
(Business Week0
- http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/ebiz/ebiz_frame.pl?url=/ebiz/9908/ep0823.htm
Domain names could be the most powerful form
of back-door Internet regulation without any
enforcement or jurisdictional
problems.\
- 'Dot
com' dying? Nahh, by Todd Spengler
(Inter@ctive Week)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2319079,00.html
.COM remains the 800-pound gorilla of top
level domains.
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08.20.99
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- Hijacking
of Hate Site a Warning to Domain Holders, by
Brian McWilliams (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_187051,00.html
Ownership of a notorious anti-gay site was
surreptitiously transferred to a gay friendly
site by unauthorized third
parties.
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|
08.19.99
|
- Group
wants to assume control of .EDU domains, by
Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_edu990819.html
- Hackers
reverse message on anti-gay web site, by
Robin Lloyd (CNN)
- http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/19/site.hacked/
A two=year old site, godhatesfags.com ,was
hacked to re-route visitors to
godlovesfags.com, featuring pro-gay
material.
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|
08.18.99
|
- Network
Solutions, Interliant team on services, by
Reuters
- http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,40639,00.html
- Network
Solutions will team with Web site manager
Interliant to share customers and offer a
range of services to small and midsized
businesses.
- Network
Solutions Expands Internationally with
ORIENTATION.COM
- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990818/va_network_1.html
- The
portal site will feature NSI's registration
services on 22 country and regional
portals.
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08.17.99
|
- Tough
Luck -- Web Address Already Taken--
`Cybersquatters' sell names of companies , by
Charlie Goodyear and David Lazarus (SF
Chronicle)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/17/MN18927.DTL
- On
the Internet, your name is not necessarily
yours to own.
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08.16.99
|
- Drug
Domain Purchased for $823,456, by Clint
Boulton (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_183101,00.html
A co-founder of LinkExchange submitted the
winning bid for DRUGS.COM, which fetched
$823,456 at an online auction.
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08.13.99
|
- A
Domain Name is Fair Game 'Till its
Trademarked, by Jeremy Quittner (BusinessWeek
Online)
- http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/briefcase/1999/ib990813.htm
"The small-business person is lulled into a
sense of false security that they own the
domain name.
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08.12.99
|
- Domain
Price War Begins, by Brian McWilliams
(InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_181351,00.html
A German accrfedited registrar, CSL GmbH, is
offering two year registrations in .com, .net
and .org at nearly 40% off of NSI's
fee.
- Academics
Propose Takeover of .EDU Domain, by Cyrus
Afzali (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print/0,1089,3_181221,00.html
The
academic-technology consortium EDUCAUSE is
proposing to take over administration of
Internet addresses ending in .EDU, used by
colleges and universities.
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|
08.11.99
|
- Technology
Consortium Pursues Takeover of '.EDU Domain,
by Jeffrey R. Young (CHE)
- http://chronicle.com/free/99/08/99081101t.htm
- Support
for simplified domain names has been very
limited, by Andrew Zajac (Sun
Herald)
- http://vh1459.infi.net/business/docs/domains080899.htm
An entrepreneur of Dave's World has developed
a new scheme for domain name
resolution.
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08.10.99
|
- Domain
Fight Causes Brown Out, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/21201.html
Domain names with obvious utility to San
Francisco's three leading mayoral candidates
were snapped up by a local web design firm
now working for one of the
campaigns.
- AOL
does domains--finally! by Dan
Goodin
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40343,00.html
America
Online, one of the five accredited testbed
reqistrars, quietly began selling domain name
registrations to its CompuServe
subscribers.
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|
08.08.99
|
- Who's
behind that dot-com? by Brock N. Meeks
(MSNBC)
- http://www.msnbc.com/news/296852.asp
- Domain
name registrations can reveal future
corporate strategy.
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|
08.07.99
|
- Steep
price paid for DRUGS.COM, by Brock N. Meeks
(MSNBC)
- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2310835,00.html
DRUGS.COM sold at auction for
$823,456.
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|
08.06.99
|
- Million-dollar
domain name? by Brock N. Meeks
(MSNBC)
- http://www.msnbc.com/news/298028.asp
Auction for DRUGS.COM highlights
cybersquatting issue as Senate passes a bill
to prohibit the practice.
- Post
Office Barred from .US? by Declan McCullagh
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21106.html
Representative
Christopher Cox (R-CA) plans to block the
U.S. Post Office from taking control of the
.US domain.
|
|
08.05.99
|
- Senate
OKs Cybersquatting Bill (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21146.html
The U.S. Senate passed the
Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
(S1255) sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch
(R-Utah), which now goes to the
House.
- 'Hey
Orrin, Dot Com This', by James Glave (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21122.html
Senator
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who co-authored the
Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
(S1255), has been offered the domain
SENATORORRINHATCH.COM for $45,000.
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07.30.99
|
- Bliley
targets all domain name players, by David
McGuire (Newsbytes)
- http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/134174.html
House Commerce Committee Chair Thomas
Bliley (R-Va) launched an expanded
investigation into the practices of the
DOC, DOJ, ICANN and NSI.
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|
07.28.99
|
- Domain
name divorce? by Brock N. Meeks
(MSNBC)
- http://www.msnbc.com/news/294854.asp
- A
Congressional hearing attempted to unravel
conflicting claims of owernship to the global
domain name database.
- Commerce
Dept. Eyes Replacing NSI, by Randy Barrett
(Inter@ctive Week)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2303100,00.html
In testimony before the House Oversight and
Investigations Commitee, the Department of
Commerce raised the spectre of opening NSI's
Cooperative Agreement to competitive
bid.
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|
07.26.99
|
- NetSol
Irks Admins, Again, by Leander Kahney
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/slashdot/technology/story/20947.html
Website administrators complained of being
unable to transfer hosts or change other
critical administrative functions at the NSI
site.
- Commerce
to NSI:Give it Up (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20950.html
- Commerce
Dept. Eyes Replacing NSI, by Randy Barrett
(Inter@ctive Week)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2303100,00.html
- US
Tells Network Solutions to Open Database
(Reuters)
- http://www.excite.com/news/r/990726/17/net-tech-networksolutions
The U.S. Department of Commerce warned NSI
that NSI has no right to restrict access to
information in the domain registration
database.
- NSI
to launch domain name directory, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39696,00.html
- A
Planned Internet Yellow Pages Draws Federal
Scrutiny, by Jeri Clausing
(NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/26ican.html
NSI announced dotcomdirectory.com, a
servicesimilar to yellow page business
listings.
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07.23.99
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- ICANN
Nixed Deal To Bolster NSI Control Of
Registry, by David McGuire,
(Newsbytes)
- http://www.newsbescm/pubNews/99/133801.html
In March, ICANN and the Department of
Commerce rejected an offer from NSI that
would have legitimized the registrar's
control over .COM. See also ICANN
on this website.
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07.22.99
|
- House
subcommittee gives NSI a grilling, by Joe
Wilcox (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39613,00.html
The House Commerce Subcommitee on Oversight
and Investigations convened to address
allegations against ICANN and NSI.
- Domain
name registrar slammed, by Brock N.
Meeks
- http://www.msnbc.com/news/292839.asp
- House
Committee rips NSI; threatens to revoke
company's charter. See also Congressional
hearings
on this website.
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07.21.99
|
- NSI
makes timely change to domain payment policy,
by Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39578,00.html
NSI is implementing payment by credit card at
time of registration to curb
cybersquatting.
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07.19.99
|
- House
subcommittee to hear criticism of ICANN, NSI,
by Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39409,00.html
A variety of powerful players are expected to
testify on July 22, 1999 before the House
Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations.
- Domain
Deadline Extended for Second Time, by Cyrus
Afzali (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_164041.html
The U.S. Department of Commerce pushed back
the deadline to open domain name registration
competition to August 6, 1999.
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- 07.16.99
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- Sailor
Talk in Net Addresses, by Ted Bridis
(AP)
- http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/sweardotcom990716.html
Smutty domain names rejected by NSI, are
being accepted for registration by a new
testbed registrar.
- Dot
what? The Name
Game,
by Penelope Patsuris (Forbes)
- Register.com
is going up against NSI, which has registered
5 million domain names.
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- 07.15.99
|
- $$$.COM,
by David Streitfeld (Washington
Post)
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a63807-1999july15.htm
The path to marketing success on the Internet
may be a generic domain name.
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- 07.14.99
|
- Prankster
gives away Excite's domain
(Salon)
- http://www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/07/14/excite/
Network Solutions transferred two domain
names to an unsuspecting network
administrator
- Domain
registrar cleans up names, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0.4,39153,00.html
One CORE registrar has curbed the practice of
registering obscene names after it was
reported by the press.
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- 07.13.99
|
- Domain
names get dirty, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39098,00.html
CORE, a testbed registrar, is allowing
regisration of obscene domain names which
have been heretofore prevented by NSI.
- NSI
rivals open Washington lobbying effort, by
Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,39113,00.html
Approximately 20 U.S. registrars have hired a
Washington firm to lobby Congress before it
opens a new round of hearings on Internet
administration.
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- 07.12.99
|
- Network
Solutions Put on Alert, by Brian McWilliams
(Internet News )
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_160301.00.html
The U.S. Department of Commerce was critical
of NSI in a letter submitted to Rep. Thomas
Bliley.
|
- 07.08.99
|
- Third
trial domain registrar goes online, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net )
- http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,38900,00.html
CORE (Internet Council of Registrars) became
the third testbed registrar to plug into
NSI's new shared registry system.
|
- 07.06.99
|
- More
Network Solutions rivals named, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://news.com/News/Item/0,4,38801,00.html
ICANN accredited 15 additional registrars to
compete with NSI.
- Cybersquatters
Battle Back, by Brian McWilliams
(InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_156711,00.html
Domain holders are testing various defense
tactics when challenged by trademark
owners.
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- 07.02.99
|
- NSI's
Web site hacked, by Courtney Macavinta
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-38721,00.html
- Hackers
Redirect Network Solutions Sites, by Jeri
Clausing (NYTimes)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/cyber/articles/03icann.html
- Hackers
hit Net address system web site, by Will
Rodger (USA Today)
- http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf529.htm
- Network
Solutions Cracked, by Oscar Cisneros
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/technology/story/20567.html
- NSI
Falls Prey to Hackers
(InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_155511,00.html
Hackers redirected NSI's visitors to ICANN
and to CORE, one of its future competitors
for .COM registrations. The FBI is
investigating the hack.
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- 06.30.99
|
- Playing
domain name hide-and-seek, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38576,00.html
With the establishment of the new Shared
Registry System for .COM, .NET and .ORG,
NSI's WHOIS is no longer the authoritative
place to find out whether a domain name
already has been registered.
- Second
"test bed" domain registrar goes to work, by
Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,84-38606,00.html
Internet
Names WorldWide, a division of MelbourneIT,
because the second testbed registrar to begin
selling domain names in .COM, .NET and
.ORG.
- EU
probes NSI for antitrust violations, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,38546,00.html
The European Union isinvestigating whether
NSI's new registrar agreement violates
Continental antitrust laws.
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- 06.28.99
|
- RealNames
To Appear On Internet Explorer, by Malcolm
Maclachlan (NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/techweb/TW_RealNames_To_Appear_On_Internet_Explorer.html
Microsoft signed a two-year deal to use
Centraal's RealNames system on both Internet
Explorer and the Microsoft Network portal
properties.
|
- 06.25.99
|
- Domain
battle comes to a head (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,38421,00.html
Months of painful wrangling over the control
of the DNS have led to a painful
stalemate.
- Domain
registry trial period extended, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38409,00.html
- New
Internet address registration system delayed
(SunWorld) http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-if.html?0628a#0
- Domain
Name Game Goes into Extra Innings
(InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_145821,00.html
- The
Department of Commerce announced a three week
extension of the Shared Registry System trial
period to provide more time for the five
testbed registrars to assure that the new
system is stabile, reliable and
robust.
- Who
will police domain names on the Internet? by
Howard Mintz (San Jose Mercury)
- http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/docs/domain25.htm
Legitimate, competing claims to trademarks
are a thorny issue.
|
- 06.22.99
|
- Senator
Proposes Ban on Cybersquatting, by Elizabeth
Clampet (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_142451,00.html
Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) proposed the
Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
on June 18, 1999.
|
- 06.17.99
|
- Players
Jockey for New Top-Level Domains, by Brian
McMillian (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_140121,00.html
A new landgrab for TLD space is on the
horizon.
|
- 06.14.99
|
- Company
Offers Personalized Addresses for NYC
Residents in Rarely Used Domain, by Elizabeth
Gardner (InternetWorld)
- http://www.internetworld.com/print/1999/06/14/news/19990614-nyc.html
New
York City residents are being offerred an
e-mail account with @nyc.ny.us, for $5 a
month, courtesy of American Convergent
Technologies, of Norwalk, Conn.
|
- 06.07.99
|
- Competition
in the Name Game, by Jeri Clausing
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/07name.html
- Internet
Registration Competitor Goes Online, by
Reuters (TechWeb)
- http://www.techweb.com/news/story/reuters/REU19990607S0010
http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW19990607S0006
Register.com,
is the first ICANN-accredited reistrar to
begin accepting registrations for.COM, .NET
and .ORG.
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- 06.04.99
|
- Network
Solutions Registers Five Millionth Address
(Reuters)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_33702_Ext,00.html
NSI took four years to register the first
million domain names, 15 months for the
second, 6 months for the third, 4 months to
reach four million mark, and less than 3
months later to hit five million.
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- 05.27.99
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- Run
on Domain Names Foiled, by Lindsey Arent
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19913.html
Members of a London computer club registered
75,000 domain names before being caught and
reprimanded by Network Solutions
officials.
|
- 05.14.99
|
- Domain
Name Registrars Can't Compete 'Til June, by
Mary Mosquera (TechWeb)
- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990514S0016
It
may be mid-June before interoperatability
issues are worked out in the shared registry
system.
- All
URLs lead to georgewbush.com, by Alan Eisner
(ZDNet )
- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2259350,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014
- Not
for Sale: Bushsucks.com, by Reuters
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19703.html
Presidential candidate is snapping up domains
-- from georgebush.com to bushsucks.com.
See also GWBUSH.COM
dispute on Domain
Diaries.
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- 05.13.99
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- Cone
of Silence: ICANN or Internet democracy is
failing, by John Horvath
(Telepolis)
- http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/2837/1.html
The process to hand over government control
of the Internet to a private body has been
rife with problems that various sides are
continually struggling to deal with.
|
- 05.12.99
|
- Net
number system at a crossroads, by Courtney
Macavinta and Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,0-36425,00.html
The critical resource of the Internet's
underlying structure are numerical addresses,
the Internet protocol numbers.
|
- 05.10.99
|
- What
Do You Name a Net Firm? The Choices Are
Dwindling, by Andrew Marlatt
(InternetWorld)
- http://www.iw.com/print/current/news/19990510-what.html
At least 100 Internet-related companies have
announced name changes in 1999.
|
- 05.06.99
|
- Who
owns WHOIS database? by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19539.html
The Justice Department renewed its
investigation to determine if NSI violated US
antitrust law by claiming sole ownership of a
database of Internet names and addresses. See
also: http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/practice/iplaw/news/A2010-1999Jun3.html
|
- 05.04.99
|
- "Dirty"
domains turned over to court, by Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/o,4,36083,00.html
NSI agreed to turn over more than a dozen
obscene domain names to a federal court
pending litigation.
- Justice
Department expands NSI antitrust probe, by
Courtney Macavinta and Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36116,00.html
The U.S. Justice Department is expanding a
two-year antitrust investigation of Network
Solutions and looking into the whois
database.
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- 05.03.99
|
- Domain
restrictions target Cybersquatters, by
Courtney Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35983,00.html
The World Intellectual Property Organization
released its recommendations for curbing
"cybersquatting," which would require domain
name registrants to provide accurate contact
information and pay for names up
front.
- NSI's
ban on "dirty" domains challenged, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36003,00.html
Los Angeles-based Seven Words filed suit
against ICANN and NSI in March 1999, claiming
that NSI's policy not to register the
so-called seven dirty words violated First
Amendment guarantees of free
speech.
- Lawsuits:
Free the Domain-Name 7, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19439.html
|
- 05.01.99
|
- World
Body Proposes Outlawing Cybersquatting on
Internet Addresses, by Jeri Clausing
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/01domain.html
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-
- 04.30.99
|
- Who's
been registering MyName.com? by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35932,00.html
Dave
Davidson is trying to attractventure capital
and press for his upcoming service,
DailyOnline.com, by registering the names of
online industry heavyweights and tech
reporters and relinquishing the names after
they hear his pitch.
- New
Names in Registrar Race, by Will Rodger
(Inter@ctiveWeek)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,401208,00.html
A group of telecom and Internet interests
will offer Internet address registration
services in competition with NSI beginning in
June.
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- 04.29.99
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- NSI
keeps Centraal within reach, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35871,00.html
Two-year-old Centraal provides a popular
alternative to a .com domain
name.
|
- 04.27.99
|
- Domain
name glitch plagues users, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19342.html
The first day of the new shared registry
system began with technical problems for
customers making changes to their domain name
records.
|
- 04.23.99
|
- NSI
may still dominate domains, by Sandeep
Junnarkar (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-35605,00.html
Network Solutions has the marketing muscle,
infrastructure, and experience to survive
and
thrive in the new shared registry
system.
- Making
a Mint on WALLSTREET.COM, by Craig Bicknell
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,19285,00.html
Players Sportsbook and Casino, based on tiny
Margarita Island off the coast of Venezuela,
paid $1.03-million in an auction for the
rights to WALLSTREET.COM
|
- 04.22.99
|
- Killings
Spark Rush On Domain Names, by Malcolm
Maclachlan (TechWeb)
- ttp://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990422S0014
In the wake of the mass killings at a
Colorado high school, some Internet users
have registered domain names and keywords
related to the event.
|
- 04.21.99
|
- Who's
King of the Domains Now? by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19246.html
NSI's stock rebounded when Wall Street
learned who the new registrars were and how
much they had paid to work the
registry.
- Five
Domain Name Registrars Chosen, by Saroja
Girishankar (InternetWeek)
- http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW19990421S0007
- AOL
among new domain registrars, by Dan Goodin
and and Sandeep Junnarkar (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-35420,00.html
The five companies that were named as
"testbed" competitors to Network Solutions
are AOL, CORE, France Telecom/Oleane,
Melbourne IT, and Register.com.
- NSI
skyrockets on fee collection decision
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35457,oo.html
NSI stock soared 52% on news it reached an
interim agreement today with the Dept. of
Commerce that allows it to charge a one-time
$10,000 connection fee for rivals and an $18
fee to list an address in the registry of
domain names for two years.
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- 04.20.99
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- Will
NSI rivals have a fair chance? by Dan Goodin
(C/Net )
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,35420,00.html
Critics of the plan to establish a shared
domain registration system for .COM, .NET and
.ORG say it will fail to put the new
competitors on equal footing with
NSI.
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- 04.16.99
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- New
top-level domains on horizon, by Paul Festa
(C/Net )
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,35221,00.html
The Internet Engineering Task Force proposes
to create four new TLDs strictly for the use
of testing DNS-related code.
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- 04.15.99
|
- NSI
readies company profile service, by Tim Clark
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/Textonly/0,25,35228,00.html
Network Solutions announced that it will
launch a service in June which publishes
additional information about companies that
have registered for URLs.
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- 04.14.99
|
- Domain
Name List Is Dwindling, by Declan McCullagh
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/
story/19117.html
A Wired News investigation found that the
.COM versions of nearly all the standard
dictionary words have been
registered.
- www.isyourdomainnamehere.com?,
by DeclanMcCullagh (Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19116.html
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- 04.13.99
|
- Analysts
Rip Network Solutions, by Craig Bicknell
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19083.html
The Aberdeen Group published a
critical
report*
detailing "unacceptable flaws" in Network
Solution's domain-termination practices and
administration.
- *
Aberdeen Bites Back (April 6,
1999)
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- 04.11.99
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- Master
of your domain? by John Berger
(SFExaminer)
- The
battle for stylish and strategic Internet
addresses heats up.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/04/11/BUSINESS847.dtl
- An
unscientific test of the dot-com theory, by
John Berger (SFExaminer)
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/04/11/BUSINESS662.dtl
Combining a topic with .com sometimes yields
strange results.
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- 04.09.99
|
- NSI
alters InterNIC domain site, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34909,00.html
|
- 04.08.99
|
- NSol
Faces $2 Registry Fee Bid (Asensio &
Co)
- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990408/ny_asensio_1.html
NSI
seeks authorization to charge ICANN's
accredited registrars $16 per year per domain
name registration to operate a shared
registry service.
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- 04.07.99
|
- NSI
may blink in domain page dispute, by Courtney
Macavinta and Dan Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34794,00.html
NSI met with Commerce Department to discuss
the registry's heavily criticized move to
fold the InterNIC website into its own online
corporate operation.
|
- 04.05.99
|
- NSI,
Commerce discuss domains, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34643,00.html
- Cybersquatters'
face domain eviction, by Associated Press
(ZDNet)
- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2236772,00.html
- Network
Solutions purged 18,000 registrations that it
suspected were held by
speculators.
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-
- 03.31.99
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- UN
Domain Name Proposal Rankles, by Will Rodger
(Inter@ctive Week)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2234668,00.htm
The World Intellectual Property Organization
has developed a a controversial proposal to
arbitrate domain name disputes.
|
- 03.30.99
|
- NetSol
Spams Name Holders, by Leander Kahney
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18837.html
Network Solutions irked scores of web
administrators by sending unsolicited email
to domain-name holders to describe changes in
the NSI website.
|
- 03.27.99
|
- Network
Solutions Registers Dissent, by Michael
Martinez (ABCNews)
- http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/netsol990326.html
A vocal outcry greeted NSI's launch of a new
site on March 20, which replaced the InterNIC
WHOIS access with a host of new services
available through its own
NETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM
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- 03.26.99
|
- Domain
names are property, court rules, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34329,00.html
Domain names are property and can be
garnished to pay off a debt, a Virginia court
ruled in the UMBRO.COM
case.
|
- 03.24.99
|
- NTIA,
ICANN Frown Over NSI's InterNIC Takeover, by
Michele Masterson (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_85721,00.html
- TALK.COM
isn't cheap, by James Ledbetter
(CNN)
- http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=155142
The new magazine, Talk, will have to negiate
with Wired if it wants to host its web site
at TALK.COM.
|
- 03.23.99
|
- Domain
Lookup Site "Vanishes", by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18649.html
- Web
Management Company Raises Feds' Ire, by Ted
Bridis (SJMercury)
- http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/breaking/ap/docs/268159l.htm
|
- 03.22.99
|
- Competitors
Cry Foul Over New NSI Site
(TechWeb)
- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990322S0023
- Network
Solutions Unveils Controversial Site, by
Michele Masterson (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,archive_3_83921,00.html
- Rivals
criticize merged NSI, InterNIC site, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,34090,00.html
- Network
Solutions Hijacks the InterNIC, by Elizabeth
Wasserman (Industry Standard)
- http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,3933,00.html
|
- 03.18.99
|
- Network
Solutions wins legal victory, by Larry
Neumeister (ZDNet)
- http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?
article=zdnews1.inp
U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson of
Manhattan ruled that Network Solutions is
protected from anti trust claims, filed by PG
Media, because it is acting at the behest of
a federal agency.
- Name.Space
to appeal NSI dismissal (Bloomberg
News)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33962,00.html
See also links
to court
documents
on this website.
|
- 03.17.99
|
- Network
Solutions case dismissed (Bloomberg
News)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33915,00.html
|
- 03.15.99
|
- A
Domain by Any Other Name, by Melissa
Kozlowski (Law News Network)
- http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/mar/e031599q.html
Domain name registration is about to change
dramatically as a variety of new registrars
enter a new competitive system.
|
- 03.12.99
|
- Long-awaited
domain application released, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33715,00.html
ICANN has released the application for
companies that wish to compete with Network
Solutions and provide registration services
for .COM, .NET and .ORG.
- Israeli
Court Freezes Sex Domain, by Tania Hershman
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/
story/18403.html
The Israeli Supreme Court has frozen the use
of the SEX.CO.IL domain names while it weighs
the complaint of a taxi driver whose
registration was rejected.
|
- 03.10.99
|
- The
Postal Service Wants .US, by Declan McCullagh
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/18371.html
The US Postal Service told the U.S.
Department of Commerce that it is prepared to
manage the nation's .US top-level domain
names.
|
- 03.06.99
|
- Not
Necessarily InterNIC, by Heidi Kriz
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18312.html
Some domain name brokers bury disclaimers
while other sites materially misrepresent
InterNIC services.
|
- 03.04.99
|
- Domain
evolution moving forward, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,33324,00.html
ICANN adopted guidelines to spur competition
in .COM.
|
- 03.03.99
|
- NSI
Confirms Domains Mistakenly Shut Down, by
Brian McWilliams (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_75671,00.html
NSI mistakenly deactivated some domains in
its monthly review of unpaid
registrations.
|
- 03.02.99
|
- Network
Solutions Angers Domain Holders, by Brian
McWilliams (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_75171,00.html
Some Network Solutions' customers complained
after their domain names disappeared from
root servers, reportedly for non-payment of
registration fees.
|
- 03.01.99
|
- Move
Puts NSI on Defensive, by Saroja Girishankar
(InternetWeek)
- http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?INW19990301S0014
NSI's decision to restrict access to its zone
file database sparked criticism.
|
-
- 02.24.99
|
- NSI
antitrust woes not over yet, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32865,00.html
The anti-trust lawsuit filed against NSI in
March 1997PGMedia accused NSI has stalled
over legal and procedural issues raised by
the U.S. effort to privatize Internet
administration.
|
- 02.23.99
|
- The
Master of Domain Names, by Michael Surkan
(PCWeek)
- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,285837,00.html?chkpt=zdnnsmsa
PC Labs conducted an onsite evaluation of
NSI's infrastructure.
|
- 02.19.99
|
- Proposal
on Internet Names Favors Corporate Interests,
by Jeri Clausing (NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/02/cyber/articles/19wipo.html
A Miami law professor released a 55-page
critique of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) RFC-3 recommendations for
domain names.
- NSI
Database Restriction Raises Alarms, by Randy
Barrett (Inter@ctive Week)
- http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2213166,00.html
Network Solutions' decision to restrict
access to the top level domain zone files is
causing protest among other domain name
services who describe the action as
anti-competitive.
|
- 02.18.99
|
- Govt.
Considers Commercial Use of .US Domain, by
Brian McWilliams (InternetNews)
- http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_69971,00.html
The U.S. Department of Commerce has called a
public meeting for March 9 in Washington,
D.C. to discuss the future administration and
management of the .US domain name space.
- Companies
Decry NetSol Policy, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17973.html
- Domain
speculation crackdown draws fire, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32591,00.html
|
- 02.17.99
|
- How
".com" became .$$$, by Courtney Macavinta
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,32326,00.html
An interview with Dr. Donald Telage, Senior
Vice-President of Network Solutions,
Inc.
- Domain
Name Registry Up fo Bids, by Saroja
Grishankar (TechWeb)
- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990217S0014
ICANN released a set of guidelines that would
qualify new registrars for .COM, NET and
ORG.
|
- 02.14.99
|
- Williamsburg
woman is ruler of hundreds of Web sites, by
Peter Dujardin (Daily Press)
- http://dailypress.com/archives/4/a1/stories/88949sy0.htm
Virginia woman who has registered 667 domain
names at $70 each admits she has "made a
killing on the Internet."
|
- 02.08.99
|
- Database
bill raises constitutional flags, by Courtney
Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32085,00.html
Congress will decide whether database owners
should get copyright protection for the
public facts they compile, catalog and
resell, e.g., court rulings, phone
directories,stock quotes, and possibly the
.COM/NET/ORG database.
- Requirements
for Internet Registrars Announced
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/02/cyber/articles/09domain.html
ICANN announced its criteria for companies
who wish to be among the five selected to
participate in the test phase of NSI's new
shared domain name registration
system.
|
- 02.03.99
|
- Surge
in .NU Domain Registrations Funds a Tiny
Nation's Free Internet Services
(Yahoo)
- http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990203/ma_nu_doma_1.html
.NU, the fastest growing domain name registry
in the world and its parent organization, the
Internet Users Society, have announced an
agreement to provide free Internet services
to all residents of the Polynesian
island-nation of Niue.
|
-
- 01.26.99
|
- Domain
name glitch hits 10,000 names, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31507,00.html
A Canadian man temporarily gained
unauthorized control of more than 10,000
Internet addresses following a glitch that
struck a database maintained by
InterNIC.
- Speculators
Inundate InterNIC, by Chris Oakes
(Wired)
- http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17522.html
Network Solutions announced that groups
spamming InterNIC with fraudulent name
registrations are tying up the
service.
|
- 01.22.99
|
- Lottery
May Decide Competition in Internet Name
System, by Jeri Clausing (NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/cyber/articles/22domain.html
ICANN may use an international lottery to
pick the five companies that will get the
first shot at registering domain names when
NSI's sole franchise for .COM, .NET and .ORG
opens to competition.
|
- 01.21.99
|
- NSI
confirms database revisions (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31273,00.html
NSI announced its decision to exclude some
information from its WHOIS database to
improve recent performance
problems.
|
- 01.20.99
|
- Domain
name "little guys" fight back, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31189,00.html
A nonprofit Web site that successfully
rebuffed demands by Colgate Palmolive to
relinquish its AJAX.ORG domain name, is
organizing an alliance to help other
registrants of modest means stand up to
trademark owners.
|
- 01.19.99
|
- NSI
domain slowdown persists, by Dan Goodin
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31091,00.html
Network Solutions is experiencing problems
processing new orders, and customers have
complained that they are unable to register
new domain names.
|
- 01.14.99
|
- World
body aims to end "cybersquatting", by Reuters
(C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30939,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/231747.asp
- In
March, the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) will present to ICANN a
new proposal for new system aimed at ending
"cybersquatting" of domain names,
|
- 01.13.99
|
- Positive
response seen to new plan for Internet domain
names, by Robert Evans (Nando
Times)
- http://www.techserver.com/story/0,1643,7331-12664-89077-0,00.html
In March, the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) will present to ICANN a
new proposal for new system aimed at ending
"cybersquatting" of domain names
|
- 01.12.99
|
- Domain
conflicts spawn trademark service, by Dan
Goodin (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30851,00.html
NAMESTAKE.COM, owned by Thomson &
Thomson, has developed a service that enables
users to screen potential domain name
addresses for trademark
infringement.
|
- 01.11.99
|
- Former
Clinton officials address Net issues, by
Courtney Macavinta (C/Net)
- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,30780,00.html
Ira Magaziner and Christine Varney, both
former offcials of the Clinton
Administration, still remain proponents of
industry self-regulation for protection of
online privacy and other Internet
issues.
|
- 01.07.99
|
- Tuvalu's
Dream of Internet Millions from Domain Name
"TV" Not Delivering the Cash, by Michael
Field (Pacific Islands Report)
- http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/1999/January/01-07-01.html
The tiny island of Tuvalu has not received
the $50 million contracted by a Canadian
company to register domain names under .TV.
Negotiations on a restructured deal are
underway.
|
|
01.02.99
|
- Internet
Speculators Target Politcians, by R. F Rainey
(NYT)
- http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/02
domain-presidents.html
Speculators have scooped up more than three
dozen domain name variations of George W.
Bush, hoping to profit from the governor's
political future.
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