• UK to get new personal domain name
  This Friday members of Nominet, the national registry for all domain names ending .uk, will vote on whether to introduce a new domain for personal use (.me.uk).
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• VeriSign Takes Over Dot-TV Internet Domain
  Internet addressing giant VeriSign Inc. [NASDAQ:VRSN] on Monday announced that it had purchased the company that operates the niche .tv Internet domain.
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• US body 'taxing' European domains
  Europe's domain name registries have once again locked horns with internet governing body ICANN in their long running battle over charges.
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01/07/2002

• Domain registrar or used-car salesman?
  It was disturbing, when, a few weeks ago, a friend whose domain name is registered with VeriSign received the following message in the mail, sent in a form that looked more like a bill than a letter, from a domain name registrar with the official sounding name Domain Registry of America:
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01/04/2002

• Last Stand of Oz Domain Fight
  It might be described as the last stand of an Internet volunteer against the advance of 21st century technocrats -- the swan song of a beard against the suits.
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01/03/2002

• Verisign To Launch 'Recycled' Domain Name Business
  With the market for Internet addresses continuing to shrink, powerful domain-name registry Verisign [NASDAQ:VRSN] is planning to launch a service that would effectively allow it to collect multiple fees for some of the most-attractive monikers.
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01/02/2002

• Internet naming regulators tackle domain names with non-Latin characters
  The International Telecommunication Union (UIT) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have agreed to cooperate on the problems posed by the growing number of multilingual domain names.
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• Lone voice cries "Unicom is mine"
  Austin guy takes on corporate lawyers
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