• Cool.com: Most valuable domain name?
  Entrepreneur Tim Lee registered 'Cool.com' for nothing five years ago -- but recently got an offer for the domain name worth up to $38 million.
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• A man, a domain name and a plan
  Tim Lee got cool.com for nothing; now it’s worth millions
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• Thrunet's 5 million dollar domain name fraudulently put up for sale
  South Korea's leading Internet service provider, Thrunet Co. Ltd, said Friday that its domain name, purchased at five million dollars just a month ago, has been put up for sale by a cyber-swindler.
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03/29/2000

• GreatDomains Auctions Off Domain Name for $190,000
  GreatDomains.com, Universal City, CA, said yesterday it auctioned the domain name "architecture.com" to the Royal Institute of British Architecture for $190,000. The domain name was owned by MediaOne.
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• The Standard: Throwing Rocks at ICANN
  Esther Dyson and the board of ICANN can't seem to manage the business of administering Net domain names without creating controversy at every turn.
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03/28/2000

• For sale: the domain name networks.com
  A Raleigh businessman hopes to make up to $8 million by the end of this week - just by selling a domain name.
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• More domain names now!
  The need for more top-level domains (such as .com, .org, and .edu) has never been more urgent, but nothing is being done about it. I'd like to propose more than the simple addition of a few new domain levels.
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• ThinkNatural denies 'amicable' domain agreement with ClickMango
  Natural health website, ThinkNatural, has denied claims by its rival, ClickMango, that the two companies have reached an amicable agreement for the latter to sell ThinkNatural the domain names, ThinkNatural.net and ThinkNatural.org.
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• Health website gives up domain names
  A UK-based health website that registered domain names using a competitor's brand has surrendered the names for a nominal fee.
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03/27/2000

• Queuing and Suing: Ye Olde Domain Turf Wars
  As Tony Blair's cool Britannia catches Internet fever, it's discovering domain-name headaches.
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• NBC attacks critical domain name
  2600.org no longer points to the Peacock's site, but hacker newsletter says it's another case of cyber bullying and an attack on free Web speech.
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03/24/2000

• Expedia Goes Global with Domain Name Dispute
  Swedish company Spray Market this week became the first known firm to register a domain name which resulted in a dispute of a country code top level domain
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• Can You Swap Web Domain for Real One?
  California woman tries last resort in search for house.
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03/22/2000

• Judge sides with Volkswagen in Net name lawsuit
  A little-known Net access company using the address VW.net lost its legal battle today against the giant German carmaker Volkswagen, a sign that judges are again picking Goliath over David in Net name disputes.
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• Palestine Net names gain independence
  Palestine may still be battling for international recognition as an independent state, but today it acquired autonomy in cyberspace.
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03/21/2000

• Domain Complaint Targets NSI
  If you own whois.com, does that entitle you to wwwhois.com?
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03/20/2000

• Who’s first in line for new domains
  A grass-roots movement to get the U.S. government to consider the validity of bestowing preferential treatment on alternative Internet domain-name registries that would compete with the current monopoly registry would bring about “peculiar rulemaking,” a Department of Commerce official told MSNBC. Such a move would be “inconsistent” with the department’s efforts to hand off such tasks to the non-profit organization now overseeing the policies regarding domain names, the official said.
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• NSI seeks more solutions in court
  Domain name registrar Network Solutions (NSI) faces a fresh court battle this week, less than a month after the US Department of Justice (DoJ) dropped its anti-trust investigation into the company.
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03/17/2000

• Domains Present Business Opportunities
  Most people have heard the old cliche that asks what's in a name, which implies that something should be recognized for what it is -- not for what it is called
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• Al Fayed wins rights to "dodialfayed.com"
  Mohamed Al Fayed, whose son Dodi died in a 1997 Paris car crash with Britain's Princess Diana, won control of the Internet domain name "dodialfayed.com" today. The U.N. trademark body ruled that Robert Boyd of Dayton, Ohio, who registered it first and offered it for sale for $400,000 had "no legitimate interest."
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03/16/2000

• Icann unable to find domain name solution
  The internet body that oversees web domain names failed to agree on a final policy for adding new net suffixes at last week's emergency conference in Cairo.
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• Court's domain name threat
  Companies worldwide that operate in cyberspace may be forced into court in Virginia to defend valuable internet domain names, after a federal court in the state ruled it has jurisdiction over most of the domain names now in existence.
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03/15/2000

• Desirable domains go under the hammer
  Hot property domain names, including stockexchange.com, are expected to fetch more than $2m when sold on a new domain name auction site launching in the US next month.
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03/12/2000

• New top-level domains on the way?
  ICANN agrees to study proposals for adding up to 10 new domain names. Could .sucks or.itsnotfair be one of them?
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03/10/2000

• ICANN Group Tries to Bridge Gap Between IP Rights, Free Speech
  Some say effort is foundering, but others see common ground
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03/09/2000

• Planners address web domain name crisis
  Radical ways of increasing the supply of website names are being put forward at a high-level meeting of internet planners this week in Egypt.
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• Check out domain names
  Investigate domain name copyrights thoroughly before your own site launch
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• Want a top-level domain? Be patient
  It may take awhile. At its meeting in Egypt, ICANN agreed more domains like .com and .org are sorely needed, but wasn't in any great hurry to take action.
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• Can ICANN Make a Global Net?
  The dominance of English on the Internet may hinder the creation of new top-level domains, said participants meeting here Wednesday at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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03/07/2000

• VeriSign buys domain firm
  Proposed $21B deal will link Network Solutions with Internet security leader
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• VeriSign deal means little to small domain owners
  IS VeriSign Inc.'s acquisition of Network Solutions worth getting worked up about?
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03/06/2000

• Dell sues 23 over domain names
  The lawsuit is unusually large for Dell, which has sued a handful of companies over the past few years regarding trademark use. All the defendants named in the current case are accused by Dell of being cybersquatters, companies and individuals who register for a domain name without an intent to use it.
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• Music retailer gets Internet domain through new arbitration process
  MusicWeb of Albany, an online seller of tapes and compact discs, has won the rights to a domain name through a conflict-management program established for Internet-related disputes.
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• BBC MOVES TO DEFEND ITS CYBER DOMAIN
  The BBC has won a High Court injunction against a British man who was attempting to sell the domain names bbc1.com and bbc2.com.
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• 'Dot-(Your Cause Here)' Domains
  Consumer advocacy groups founded by Ralph Nader are pushing to add several new Internet domains, including ".sucks" and ".union" to the legacy root server in order to provide more online firepower for consumers and advocacy groups.
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03/02/2000

• A Ralph Nader [Domain Name] Plan That 'Sucks'
  Critics, malcontents, and disgruntled employees would be able to register domain names like microsoft.sucks and mcdonalds.sucks, according to a proposal from two organizations that Nader heads.
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