• CBS Gets Black Eye in Battle Over Domain Name
  CBS and The Nashville Network, CBS’ country music cable channel, have lost a two-year legal battle in federal court to acquire the Web site address www.tnn.com from The Network Network, a small computer training and consulting organization
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02/16/2000

• Yahoo Mexico wins back Net name
  Yahoo Mexico, an affiliate of Internet portal Yahoo, has recovered its Internet address, which it had to stop using for a week because of a legal battle over who owns the address in Mexico.
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02/10/2000

• Coca-Cola caps Net name dispute with fan site
  A Net name dispute between soft drink giant Coca-Cola and a fan site started with a pop but has ended with a fizzle.
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• NSI profit rises on increase in Net name registrations
  Network Solutions, which runs the database that manages Internet addresses, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled because it registered more Web site names. Its shares rose more than 14 percent.
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02/07/2000

• Domain name speculator denies cyber-squatting
  A US Internet expert has set up a Web site selling companies generic and brand-specific URLs which apply to their businesses, but which they don't realise are available.
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• European Company Wins First Round in Domain Battle
  US assumptions of domain name supremacy have taken another knock, as a British court declined to grant a preliminary injunction against a UK e-commerce outfit with the same secondary domain as a US competitor.
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02/04/2000

• Domain Name Cybersquatters Evicted
  Two alleged cybersquatters, on opposite sides of the country, have been evicted from their Websites within the past two days. One eviction occurred voluntarily as part of the settlement of a lawsuit, while the other came pursuant to a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (N.Y. and Conn.).
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02/03/2000

• John Tesh Regains Domain Name
  Two weeks after filing a lawsuit under the Anti-Cybersquatting and Consumer Privacy Act of 1999, John Tesh has reached a settlement with Celebsites.com to regain his domain name, johntesh.com. The act prohibits sites from misappropriating and using domain names of a person's name for its own commercial benefit.
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02/01/2000

• $3m price tag for loans domain
  Web address, Loans.com, was sold for $3 million last week following an auction by brokers GreatDomains.com.
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• Domain-name probe ends
  DOJ drops investigation of Network Solutions; analysts play down impact
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• Harrods Buenos Aires to fight for Net rights
  Harrods Buenos Aires, which won South American rights to its name after a court battle with the famous London luxury store, is planning to start retailing throughout the continent on the Internet
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• Coca-Cola objects to fan site domain
  In the latest David vs. Goliath dispute over Net name ownership, soft drink giant Coca-Cola has taken a hard-line approach with a fan site called "Vintagecocacola.com" that was established as a favor to a group of senior citizens.
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