• Invasion of the Body Shop domain snatchers
  A warm, sweet scented aromatherapy massage for those clever people at the Body Shop for deciding to flog their lotions and potions on the Net; painful colonic irrigation for the person responsible for not registering the e-outfit's new domain name in time.
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04/27/2000

• Network Solutions beats Street
  Tech firm sees revenue rise 157 percent
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• New WS domain names now available
  You may not be able to get "YourName.com" but you can get"YourName.ws"
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04/26/2000

• One Hot Domain For Sale
  The Internet domain, Hell.com, is for sale and expects to bring in millions..
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04/25/2000

• Domain expansion faces cyber-squatting criticism
  A move to expand the number of top-level domain names by including suffixes such as ‘.shop’ and ‘.bank’ has hit criticism from the industry over worries it will exacerbate problems of so-called cyber-squatters.
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04/20/2000

• ICANN Looks to Expand Its Domain
  ‘.Shop’ and ‘.banc’ domains could be added to ease overcrowding in cyberspace.
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• IBM servers to power Network Solutions database
  IBM said its powerful server computers will replace Sun Microsystems machines at Network Solutions, the company that manages a database of most Web site addresses.
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04/19/2000

• Domain War Motive a Guess
  Was the recent rash of domain-name hijackings really part of a Balkan info-war?
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• ICANN Inches Toward New Domains
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took a small step forward toward creating more space in cyberspace by adding new domains to the ones connoted by the ubiquitous ".com," ".net," and ".org" suffixes.
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• ICANN supports domain expansion
  Experts say cybersquatting might be curtailed with adoption of .shop, .banc and similar top-level domains.
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• Group proposes policy for creating Net name suffixes
  ICANN is the nonprofit responsible for maintaining the infrastructure for Internet addresses. An ICANN committee issued a recommendation to the group's board of directors that a policy governing the creation of such categories, called "generic top-level domain names," be created in an effort to better categorize Web sites and make them easier to find.
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04/17/2000

• Expanding the Internet's Domain
  Some companies want to restrict new addresses to protect their trademarks but others say that may violate antitrust laws
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04/15/2000

• Balkan War in Domain Attacks?
  Domain-name hijackers are taking over hundreds of websites in a campaign that may be rooted in tensions among Balkan states, site owners and monitors say.
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• Domain Notes: New TLD's at Any Price
  ICANN is reviewing position papers on the issues of (a) protecting trademarks in the domain name space, and (b) introducing new global top level domains. It's no accident that these seemingly unrelated issues are joined at the hip.
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04/14/2000

• Network Solutions Still Domain-Name Leader
  Although Network Solutions Inc.'s fledgling competitors have gained some ground in the past year, the former domain-name registration monopolist is still by far the biggest player in its booming market, according to numbers released today.
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• United Airlines nets 2 more domain names
  What's in a name? Plenty if you're United Airlines, and you want to corral traffic on the Internet.
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04/13/2000

• NSI Taps AOL for Crucial New Domain Hosting Service
  Network Solutions Inc. Thursday selected America Online Inc. to host the first two new top-level domain name servers for leading Internet registrar.
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• Lloyds TSB sues over lending domain name
  LLOYDS TSB took legal action against a dot-com firm yesterday, accusing it of infringing an on-line trademark
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04/12/2000

• NSI cracks down on domain name payments
  Beth Bailey opened her email on Monday and was immediately brought to tears. A collection agency working for Network Solutions Inc. (NSOL) was demanding she pay $2,030 immediately for a series of Web domain names they say she registered last October.
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• www.cashingin.com - Internet names to sell for millions
  Dozens of the simplest Internet names -- ones that anyone could have purchased a few years ago for $100 each -- are expected to sell this month for millions of dollars.
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• Domain Name Issues for eBay Canada
  EBay on Monday opened a Toronto office to dig deeper into the growing Canadian online auctions action, but Tuesday the company was in a domain name squabble with a Canadian software company.
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04/11/2000

• Tiny Tuvalu cashes in on '.tv' domains
  The South Pacific scores more than three times its national budget by selling .tv domain to Idealab!
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• Protect Your Good Domain Name
  As the number of good Web addresses dwindles, companies duke it out with cybersquatters.
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04/10/2000

• Net regulators close in on rogue domains
  Cybersquatters are facing defeat as a result of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This was the conclusion to be drawn last week at the inaugural meeting of Cyberbe@t, a series of events for the intellectual property community arranged in London by Virtual Internet Net Searchers.
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04/08/2000

• Network Solutions to Release Domain Data
  Network Solutions, Inc. [NASDAQ:NSOL] is launching a new Web site, at http://www.NSOL.com/statistics, that will contain information about the direction of the new Internet economy based on domain name registration data.
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• Island nation cashes in on ".tv" country code
  The tiny, financially strapped Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu has cashed in on the alphabetic quirk that assigned it with the ubiquitous ".tv" Internet country code.
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• Surfers wanted: VW in domain- name dispute
  Car maker’s attempt to protect trademark steps on a few toes
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04/07/2000

• NSI to track Net name trends
  Network Solutions (NSI) has unveiled a statistical index designed to track trends in Web address registration.
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04/05/2000

• Is ICANN the Net's 'black hole'?
  At CFP 2000, panelists lambasted the Net's domain name administrator. 'It's going to implode like a black hole.'
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04/03/2000

• Freedom phone fighters tussle over domain
  A row has broken out between two rival UK phone companies claiming the rights to a domain name.
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• Government plays cybersquatter
  UK Online is irritated with the government for trampling over its trademark.
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04/01/2000

• SFE pays small price to secure domain
  SOUGHT-after web addresses sometimes change hands for hundreds of thousands of pounds but Ray Perman, the chief executive of Scottish Financial Enterprise, bought one for the princely sum of a pound.
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