• Net addresses at center of deals, suits
  Underscoring the high value of compelling Net addresses, a start-up pays $7.5 million for a domain name, as other companies--and media mogul Barry Diller--duke it out in court for Net names of their own.
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• eCompanies plans business-to-business Net service
  eCompanies today said it paid a hefty $7.5 million for the domain name Business.com to launch a business-to-business Internet service
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11/29/99

• Small company wins VW domain battle
  In the latest court decision favoring small businesses in domain name disputes, a federal judge has ruled that Volkswagen of America cannot stop an Internet service provider from using the address VW.net.
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• Diller wins court ruling over no-show cybersquatters
  Barry Diller and his media company, USA Networks, won a default judgment against three men he claimed were trying to hawk his name as an Internet address.
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11/27/99

• Control Of Domain Policy
  Policy control for the .com.au domain space for registering the Internet names of Australian businesses has been transferred from delegate Robert Elz to the .au Domain Administration (auDA).
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11/23/99

• 'Mortgages' for domain names
  A South Korean bank is now offering "mortgages" on internet domain names, blurring the distinction between actual and virtual real estate.
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11/13/99

• Landmark ICANN Deals
  With a few strokes of the pen Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President Mike Roberts officially ended months of toil and acrimony over the governance of the Internet's vital domain name system (DNS).
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11/11/99

• Domain Bill Surfaces Again
  Legislation to ban domain-name speculation on the Internet is alive again, attached as a rider to a satellite television bill by congressional leaders hoping to force it past a reluctant White House, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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• Law Firm Accused of Cyberattack in Domain Dispute
  Steptoe and Johnson, a leading Washington, D.C., law firm, is accused of trying to settle a domain dispute by launching a cyberwar against a cybersquatter that registered its name.
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• Windows2000.com owner sells domain to Microsoft
  Windows 2000 was an unexpected name for NT 5, as is seen from Microsoft's failure to check whether the trademark Windows2000 and the domain Windows2000.com might just have been previously claimed before it barged in.
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• New Top Level Domain
  Bahnhof InfoWerk, a Swedish Internet services group, has launched a new top level Web domain with the ".st" suffix. The aim of the new domain is to offer an extra option for the problem of the ".com" domain names which are fast running out.
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11/8/99

• Domain Database Plan Affirmed
  The three parties charged with overseeing the Internet's domain name system have ratified an agreement over the control of the key registration database.
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11/6/99

• ICANN Shocker
  There were smiles all around today as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) unanimously approved solutions to two of its biggest problems, and took a big step toward resolving a third.
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11/4/99

• Players Finally Strike Domain Deal
  Network Solutions Inc. and The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers Thursday struck a deal with The Department of Commerce that will govern the future administration of the domain name system.
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• Controversial Domain Name Deal Approved
  The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted today to ratify a controversial deal between itself, the Commerce Department and Network Solutions Inc., following secret talks between the three sides at the board's annual meeting here.
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• ICANN OKs Domain Name Deal
  A group set up to help oversee Internet addresses on Thursday approved a deal with Network Solutions Inc. that formally opens the business of registering domain names on the Internet to other companies.
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11/3/99

• ICANN Under Attack
  A group of Internet domain registrars plans to attack today a compromise measure that would transfer control of domain name registration away from Networks Solutions Inc. As part of the campaign, the registrars plan to submit a legal analysis of the proposed three-way deal between NSI, the Commerce department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, contesting the arrangement's timetable and validity.
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• NSI Rival Threatens to Sue ICANN
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is likely to be slapped with a lawsuit if it votes Thursday to approve a controversial three-way deal between itself, the Commerce Department and Network Solutions, Inc.
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• barnesandnoble.com Snags Books.com Domain
  barnesandnoble.com made a move in the online bookseller space Wednesday by purchasing the coveted www.books.com domain and trademark.
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11/2/99

• Non-Profits, ICANN Team to Improve Accountability
  The Markle Foundation and several other non-profit organizations teamed up Tuesday with The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers to promote several initiatives designed to improve ICANN's accountability and its response to various Internet constituencies.
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• Nonprofit to Fund ICANN Election
  The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers is expected to announce later Tuesday that the Markle Foundation has agreed to fund the general election which will fill half of the slots on the group's board of directors
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• ICANN Mulls Domain Handover
  Network Solutions Inc. will still have an unfair advantage over other domain name registrars once it hands over control of its central registry, say some competitors.
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