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Ellen Rony and Peter Rony, The Domain Name Handbook: High Stakes and Strategies in Cyberspace (R&D Books: Lawrence, Kansas) 1998. 645 pp. plus CD-ROM. ISBN 0879305150

The Domain Name Handbook provides a comprehensive and practical history of the policies, protocols, procedures, principles, controversies, and initiatives associated with the domain name system. See Press Release: "Internet Domain Names Are Focus of Hefty New Handbook."

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Table 2.1

Naming/Branding Companies On-Line

Table 2.2

InterNIC's Strategies for Name Selection. Permission to reproduce this table granted by Network Solutions, Inc. © Copyright 1997 Network Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

Table 2-5

World's Most Valuable Brands in 1995

Table 3.1

InterNIC Second Level Domain Registration Summary - Cumulative from August 1993 through November 1997

Table 3.2

Two-Letter and Numeric Internet Country Codes from ISO 3166

Table 3.3

Protocol Codes and Their Respective Meanings

Table 3.4

Results of downloading, decompressing, editing, and saving the *.zone.gz files available at the InterNIC rs.internic.net/domain FTP site.

Table 3.5

The first half page from the InterNIC root.zon file (June 1997). For the entire file, please consult the CD-ROM, Appendix E.

Table 4.1

Assigned Network Numbers (November 1977) - RFC 739

Table 4.2

Assigned Network Addresses (September 1981) - RFC 790

Table 4.3

Explanation of Resource Records in "Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia".

Table 4.4

The early administrators and agents for the ARPA-Internet according to RFC920.

Table 4.5

The Internet DNS Historical Timeline: Official Actions and Statistics presents a timeline-style chronology, official actions and statistics plus other meetings and events occurring between the DNS's inception in 1985 and today. Copyright Anthony M. Rutkowski. July 30, 1997. All rights reserved

Table 5.1

Forty-two international trademark classes of goods and services, described in more detail in Appendix H.

Table 5.2

Summary Quarterly Financial and Operating Information (in $1000s)

Table 5.3

Australian Subdomains for .AU Top Level Domain

Table 5.4

Conventions de nommage de la zone. FR. - NIC (France Domain Naming Conventions).

Table 5.5

United Kingdom subdomains for the .UK top level domain

Table 5.6

Comparative International Domain Name Registration Fees. Courtesy of Antony Van Couvering © Copyright 1997 by NetNames USA, Inc. All rights reserved.

Table 6.1

Summary of InterNIC documents associated with the domain name registration process.

Table 6.2

Blank version 3.5 of the Domain Name Registration Template

Table 6.3

Completed Version 3.5 of the Domain Name Registration Template for DOMAINHANDBOOK.COM.

Table 6.4

NSI's domain name registration agreement in the Version 3.5 registration template.

Table 6.5

Summary of six hits using for ISP+Virginia using the AltaVista search engine on July 10, 1997

Table 6.6

Three ISPs located in Virginia Area Code 540

Table 6.7

InterNIC FTP page at URL ftp://rs.internic.net/

Table 6.8

InterNIC FTP page at URL ftp://rs.internic.net/domain.

Table 6.9

InterNIC FTP page at URL ftp://rs.internic.net/internic/policy.

Table 7.1

Commercial Trademark Search Services

Table 7.2

Steps in the U.S. Trademark Registration Process

Table 7.3

Domestic Applications for Trademarks FY 1986-1996

Table 7.4

"Olympic" Domain Names

Table 7.5

International Trademark Treaties and Agreements

Table 8.1

MTV-Prefixed Domains and Registrants

Table 8.2

Better Business Bureaus Online

Table 8.3

Domains Registered to Success Motivation Healing Institute

Table 8.4

Similar JURIS Domain Names

Table 8.5

Trademarked Games and Toys Registered as Domain Names by Hasbro and Subsidiaries

Table 8.6

"Esquire" and "Esq." marks registered to the Hearst Corporation

Table 8.7

Zippo Lighters on the Internet

Table 8.8

Domain Registrants Currently Known as Prince

Table 9.1

Other Domain Names Sought by Warner Bros.

Table 9.2

Similar Warner Bros. Internet Addresses

Table 9.3

Selected DCI Derivatives as Domain Names

Table 9.4

International Trademark Registrations for "Clue"

Table 9.5

Selected DISC Names in the Domain Registry

Table 9.6

"Regis" in Cyberspace

Table 9.7

Registered Trademarks for "Juno"

Table 9.8

Tunisian Trademark Fees

Table 9.9

"Real World" Domain Names

Table 9.10

Registered Fry Domains

Table 9.11

FRY Domains added by October 10, 1996

Table 9.12

Registered Porsche Domains

Table 9.13

Similar "Empress Travel" domain names

Table 9.14

Domain Names - Skunks at Work

Table 10.1

Spamistration - A Sampling of Spam Domain Names on Hold

Table 10.2

Domain Names Incorporating "NASA"

Table 11.1

Virtual Real Estate Brokers

Table 11.2

BestDomains Commission Rate Schedule

Table 11.3

Pricey Internet Names For Sale at DomainMart

Table 11.4

Sampling of Domains For Sale from BestDomains

Table 11.5

Sample Domains Registered to "If you want this domain, please contact me"

Table 11.6

Domain Names Registered to Cyber Spaces

Table 11.7

Famous Domain Names Registered by Dennis Toeppen

Table 11.8

Domain Categories at M@ilBank

Table 11.9

Sample Domains in the M@ilBank "People" Category

Table 11.10

Religious Domains on the Block

Table 12.1

Generic Domain Names Registered by Procter & Gamble

Table 12.2

Domain Names Registered by Procter & Gamble

Table 12.3

Commercial Domain Names Registered by IBM Corporation

Table 13.1

AlterNIC's Experimental Top Level Domains

Table 13.2

Alternate TLDs available through AlterNIC's Root Service

Table 13.3

New Generic Top Level Domains Proposed by the IAHC

Table 13.4

The gRONY Plan for New Generic Top Level Domains

Table 13.5

Alternative Top Level Domains Registered by name.space

Table13.6

InterNIC zone file sizes, in gz-compressed format

Table 13.7

Results of downloading, decompressing, editing, and saving the *.zone.gz files available at the InterNIC rs.internic.net/domain FTP site.

Table 13.8

Alphabetical listing of AlterNIC top-level domains (TLDs). Copyright 1997 by ATC, Inc. All rights reserved

Table 13.9

The first ten lines from the AlterNIC db_root.bin file (June 1997)

Table 13.10

db_cache.bin file, provided by AlterNIC, that is needed to initialize the cache for Internet domain servers

Table 13.11

Udns.cache file, provided by uDNS, that is needed to initialize the cache for Internet domain servers

Table 13.12

The first ten lines from the uDNS root.zone file (June 1997)

 

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