UN widens 'anti-cybersquat' program
Source: Associated Press
(July 10, 2000)
GENEVA (AP) — Pleased with initial success against
"cybersquatting", a U.N. agency announced
Monday it has agreed to expand its dispute-settlement
efforts for the Internet beyond protecting trademarks
and celebrity names.
But stopping bad-faith registration of terms like "Bordeaux"
and the antibiotics "ampicillin" and "tetracycline"
in Internet addresses could be more complicated than
curbing misuse of trademarks like Coca-Cola or Microsoft,
an official said.
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Escrow may be answer to domain name game
Source: bizjournals.com
(July 3, 2000)
Despite recent corrections in the stock market, e-commerce
remains hot. There's hardly a company worth its salt
that doesn't have its own Web site. And anyone who has
anything to buy or sell had better be able to buy or
sell it over the Net or risk falling behind the curve.
An entity's domain name is the key that unlocks the
door to e-commerce. Everyone wants a domain name that
incorporates the name of the business. Barring that,
domain names that use words advertising the product
or service being sold are highly desirable. Names and
words might be limited, however, and some of the best
ones already might be taken.
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Surfing for domain names...
Web.VU Inc. reaches agreement with island nation Vanuatu
to market its domain names
Source: bizjournals.com
(June 19, 2000)
The chances of finding an available domain name are
getting slim to none.
But one Austin startup offers a better view -- or, more
appropriately, a better VU. But it had to go all the
way to the South Pacific to get it.
Web.VU Inc., a startup Web hosting company, has the
exclusive license to sell domain names with the top
level domain of .vu thanks to a contract with Telecom
Vanuatu, the government-run telecommunications company
in the South Pacific country of Vanuatu.
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The Internet name game
New domain suffixes are gaining in popularity
Source: bizjournals.com
(June 19, 2000)
Just when you've mastered common Internet domains such
as .com and .org, the names start changing.
Certainly .com remains the first choice for companies
seeking a Web presence, but a breed of new and seldom-used
domains is entering the business consciousness, including
.cc, .md and .tv.
Major companies have already registered under the .cc
suffix, including Intel Corp, Amazon.com Inc., United
Parcel Service and Coca-Cola.
Although domains such as .md and .tv sound customized
for business, it was hardly intentional.
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Engineers seek to teach the Web new languages
Source: CNET
(June 22, 2000)
Responding to exploding use of the Internet in other
countries, programmers who devise online standards want
to reinvent the ABCs of the Web and email.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is working
on a project that will allow foreign characters to become
part of Internet domain names, which now only permit
letters geared toward modern, Western European languages.
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