• Lawmakers want review of ICANN-VeriSign deal
  Three congressmen asked the Bush Administration Friday to review a recent deal that would extend VeriSign's control of the lucrative .com Internet domain name suffix.
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• Vint Cerf explains why ICANN is messing with the Net
  Originator of TCP/IP, hero of the Internet and the bearded, Vint Cerf took time out from his bureaucratic job as chairman of ICANN to talk to Business 2.0.
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• Opinion: ICANN's deal with web registrar angers users
  An enormous row has broken out on the internet that is threatening to divide the digital world.
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• VeriSign domains under fire
  VeriSign came under increased fire over its controversial plans to keep its long-term stake in the lucrative business of selling and registering ".com" internet addresses.
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• First Asian-language domain dispute settled
  In the first dispute over Internet domain names in an Asian alphabet, a United Nations panel has ruled in favor of Japanese pharmaceutical company Sankyo.
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03/29/2001

• New domains won't help squatters: ICANN
  An official with the Net's top naming authority has told a U.S. Congressional subcommittee that new domains such as dot-biz wouldn't lead to a jump in cybersquatting.
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03/28/2001

• ICANN warns against new domain preregistrations
  With seven new Internet top-level domains due to officially become available later this year, some domain name registrars are getting an early start and offering preregistrations to companies. But that practice has risks for users, according to the organization that oversees the domain name system.
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• Senator Questions ICANN's Legality
  A U.S. senator has asked the U.S. Department of Commerce to stop giving more authority to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit overseer of Web addresses.
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• All you need to know about domain names
  Being creative about online marketing is very necessary in order to expand on efforts to reach regional or global audiences cost effectively.
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• Canadian Domain Authority Seeks Input On Board Elections
  The organization now managing Canada's Internet domain space is asking Canadians for help in drafting a slate of candidates its own nominating committee will put forward during its first public election of board members.
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03/26/2001

• Patent flap slows multilingual domain name plan
  Intellectual property claims have blindsided the Internet Engineering Task Force and could derail the group's efforts to develop a common scheme for supporting foreign-language domain names across the Internet.
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03/25/2001

• Celebrities, big business contest domain names
  If your company is called Volkswagen or your name is Madonna, do you know what your rights are on the Internet?
  Many major celebrities, big corporations and mere mortals have had a rude awakening in discovering that their names are not theirs alone on the Web.
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• Thai-language domain names up for grabs
  The Asia-Pacific managing director of the world's largest domain-name registrar talks to K I Woo about his company's strategies.
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03/23/2001

• Congressmen Urge ICANN to Protect Trademarks
  Members of Congress criticized the nonprofit overseer of Web addresses for failing to adopt baseline standards to prevent cybersquatting in new top-level domains during a hearing Thursday.
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03/22/2001

• Firms pledge to minimize cybersquatting
  An official with the Internet's top naming authority told a congressional subcommittee Thursday that the introduction of new domains such as .biz and .pro will not lead to an increase in cybersquatting.
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• Easily.co.uk Predicts Huge Take-Up Of Broadcast Domain Names As .tv Gets Plugged In
  Easily.co.uk are one of the first companies in the UK to take the domain name registration market by storm with the launch of the most widely recognised two-letter acronym across the globe. From today .tv , becomes an email and web address that will allow millions to create a truly global identity that is specific to the most popular medium on the planet
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• More Characters Added To Multilingual Domain System
  VeriSign Inc. [NASDAQ:VRSN], owners of Internet domain registry Network Solutions, says it is increasing again the number of non-English characters supported by its fledgling system for processing multilingual Net addresses.
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• ICANN Defends Intellectual Property Approach
  The powerful Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was on Capitol Hill again today, this time defending its stance on intellectual property protection and its decision to allow Internet addressing companies to set their own guidelines for safeguarding copyright and trademark holders.
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• ICANN: We've got cybersquatting squashed
  Louis Touton, vice president and general counsel for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), told the House Judiciary Committee's intellectual-property subcommittee that companies in charge of the seven new domains will take steps to ensure that new Internet addresses such as www.coke.biz would only be awarded to legitimate copyright holders.
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03/21/2001

• Playing the Domain Game: Power to the People
  If you believe that the Internet is a public resource, then one must also conclude that there should be a meaningful public role in domain name management.
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• Internet domain name registration policy being amended
  PKNIC, the registering authority for Pakistan's .pk domain name is in the process of revising its registration policy, which would make getting a domain name a lot easier for everyone.
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• VeriSign to allow Web site names in Arabic, Hebrew and Thai
  VeriSign Inc (VRSN). said on Wednesday that it will begin registering Internet domain names in a number of new languages including Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai early next month, as the company continues its push to add multilingual Web site and e-mail addresses.
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03/19/2001

• ICANN slips into town to chart the online future
  There were no baton-wielding police or S11-style anti-globalisation protesters outside Melbourne's Exhibition and Convention Centre last week, despite the venue hosting a self-governed corporation dedicated to making the processes of global communication and business possible.
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03/16/2001

• Warner Bros. backs off Harry Potter fight
  A teenage leader in the crusade to keep Warner Bros. from steamrolling over Harry Potter fan sites will get to keep her domain name.
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• Can Register.com Win Domain Name Game?
  One day after it broke the dot-com mold and actually declared a profit in the fourth quarter of 2000, Register.com saw its stock rating downgraded by Legg Mason, the investment bank that co-managed Register.com's IPO.
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• Domain Industry Nears Treacherous Waters
  The domain name industry is about to meet a shipwreck coast of its own. It doesn't take a genius to see that a treacherous shakeout is on its way.
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• Masters Of Their Own Voice Domains
  Just as businesses are trying to decide if they should be protecting their corporate monikers in an ever-increasing universe of "dot-something" Internet domains, AboutVoice is asking them to sign up for their own voice-powered addresses.
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• Motown Sues Over Rights To Jackson 5 Domain Name
  Motown Records has filed suit over the domain name jackson5.com, contending that its use by others constitutes infringement of the label's federally registered trademark of the group's name, Billboard Bulletin reports
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03/15/2001

• Confusion Is Domain Problem
  The chaos that Vint Cerf recently warned about from alternative top-level domain (TLD) providers is already happening.
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• Registrar finds a profitable domain
  Internet domain registrar Melbourne IT has eked out $1.4 million net profit for the 2000 calendar year.
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03/14/2001

• Domain-name chaos feared on Web
  A civil war is brewing in cyberspace as a California startup tries to overthrow the monopoly system that governs the creation of Web names.
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• Domain name expansion hits delays
  ICANN (the Internet Corpoartion for Assigned Names and Numbers) has confirmed it is still in negotiations with organisations for four of the seven new generic top-level domain names (GTLDs), despite having set a deadline of December 31 2000 for the discussions to be completed.
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• Habitat Domain Name Case
  On the continuing theme of domain name disputes trade mark owners are not just looking in the UK to obtain the .co.uk domain names, but at all the various country level domain names.
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• The ICANN meeting in a nutshell
  Well, this ICANN meeting in Melbourne will mostly be remembered for the attempt by ICANN's board to rewrite the entire DNS structure at very short notice and with zero consultation from other interested and affected parties.
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• An Open Letter to ICANN
  On the matter of considering attempting to enforce that .org domains shall only be used by government sanctioned non-profit organizations:
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03/13/2001

• ICANN: New Domains Click Closer To Readiness
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the powerful organization responsible for Internet addressing - has moved a step closer to making recently approved domains available to Internet users.
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• ICANN: We're ready - new domain operators
  The companies waiting to operate recently approved Internet domains jointly announced their readiness to sign agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Melbourne on Monday.
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• Domain name bonanza just a flash in the pan
  Prospectors who joined last week's goldrush to grab newly-released domains like dot-shop, dot-hola and dot-xxx are unlikely to make a killing from their investment as the new sites cannot be accessed by the vast majority of corporate users
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• Internet board promises decision on new domain names
  The managers for Internet domain names ended meetings Tuesday by requesting more public input and promising to decide in three weeks on the future of .com, .net and .org.
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• ICANN to finalize new top-level domains
  New top-level domains came a step closer to reality Tuesday when the agency that oversees Internet addresses authorized the completion of negotiations for the unsponsored top-level domains .name, .pro, .biz and .info.
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• PlanetRx.com Selects VeriSign's GreatDomains.com to List Its Portfolio Of Valuable Domain Names
  VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), today announced that PlanetRx.com will list 26 premium health-related domain names for sale at GreatDomains.com. GreatDomains.com is a service of VeriSign and the leading domain name secondary market.
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03/12/2001

• Call For Privacy To Be Automatic In Domain Name Process
  One of the largest registrars of Internet domain names, Tucows Inc., is leading a call for domain name holders to be protected against the sale of their information by unscrupulous registrars.
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• Alternative domain-name system is a bad idea
  It was almost enough to make a digital homesteader think the land-rush days of the Web had never ended: Twenty brand-new top-level Internet domains -- a vast frontier of alternatives to .com, from .kids to .xxx -- all going for $25 a year.
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• ICANN: We're Ready - New Domain Operators
  The companies waiting to operate recently approved Internet domains jointly announced their readiness to sign agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Melbourne on Monday.
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• Registrars attack domain name plans
  Internet registrars have sent a draft letter to ICANN saying that its planned overhaul of the domain name system will have no tangible benefit for the Internet community
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• Start-up makes domain waves
  Critics of the glacial pace of domain name creation are worried that the approach taken last week by start-up New.net Inc. will only make the situation worse.
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• ICANN: Ticking VeriSign Deal Explodes In Melbourne
  Criticism of a deal that could give VeriSign Inc. [NASDAQ:VRSN] almost permanent control over the valuable ".com" domain name registry came to a head at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Melbourne on Monday.
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• ICANN Readies for 'Land' Rush
  It's likely to be late summer at least before many of the Internet's newest general top-level domains go live and up for grabs.
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• ICANN to focus on Internet community needs
  ICANN will defend its controversial plans for the .com, .net and .org domain names in the face of increasing concern from industry
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03/09/2001

• BT becomes ninth UK ICANN-accredited registrar
  British Telecom - the Great Satan of Broadband - has just received the royal seal of approval from ICANN as a registrar. Now it can join the party, fill ICANN and Network Solutions' coffers and register .coms, .nets and .orgs
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• Domain Name for Children's Clothing Company Not Protected by Trademark Anti-Dilution Act
  A man who rushed to register dozens of Internet domain names after being ordered by a would-be competitor to stop using a single domain name has been given a second chance by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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• It’s checkmate in the chess site domain name dispute
  GLASGOW businessman, Irving Remocker, is not a devoted chess fan, but in the late summer of 1999, he spotted the opportunity to acquire and develop a website dedicated to the worldwide appreciation of chess, yourmove.com.
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• Critics worry about impact of New.net domain plans
  A start-up domain name registry operating outside the control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week launched 20 new Internet domains as alternatives to .com, .net and other officially sanctioned ones. But some users and critics said New.net Inc. could do more harm than good by striking out on its own.
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• New Domains Could Spur Internet Gridlock, Critics Say
  Proponents argue New.net's renegade system is better than waiting for ICANN.
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03/08/2001

• Domain-Name Registrar Eyes Dulles Complex
  VeriSign Inc. plans to add 400 to 500 new workers this year to its Washington area offices, most of which could be consolidated into a new complex in the Dulles corridor.
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• Domain Name Management Criticized
  The election held last year to select additional board members for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was a mess, and the organization that oversees the Internet's domain name system needs work.
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• Sex.com domain name battle heads back to court
  One of the most lucrative domain names on the Internet will take center stage in San Jose, Calif., this week as a bizarre battle over Sex.com returns to court.
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• Open Elections Coming For Canada's Domain-Name Authority
  Many holders of Canada's ".ca" Internet addresses will soon be able to send their own representatives to the newly minted organization in charge of Canada's domain space.
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• Network Solutions' lead in domain names challenged
  In a sign that its dominance of the domain name registration market may be on the wane, Network Solutions Inc. was beaten by two upstart registrars in one measure of the race to sign up consumers to new domain names, according to a report posted this week by the Web's premier naming authority.
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03/07/2001

• ICANN Should Learn from Mistakes
  This week, ICANN's reconsideration committee has begun posting responses to the nearly dozen requests for a second look that amount to "the process was fair, so there's no basis for reconsideration." Already, the committee has responded specifically to the requests from Group One Registry, seeking to run .one, and from Abacus America, seeking to run .biz, .cool, .inc, .fam, and .xxx.
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• Network Solutions To Establish Indian Subsidiary, Offer Indian Domain Names
  Internet domain name registrar Network Solutions Inc (NSI), which was recently acquired by VeriSign , has launched Internet domain name registration in nine Indian languages, enabling people to register the .com, .net and .org names in their local tongues.
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• For Them, It's Domain Event
  The Anaheim Grizzlies might never materialize, but that hasn't stopped an Anaheim ticket brokerage from reserving the Internet domain name, anaheimgrizzliestickets.com, and a Mississippi college student from reserving the name anaheimgrizzlies.com.
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• Branded Web Domain Can Help Your Firm's Name Register With Clients
  Many small businesses and professionals now have their own Internet identity. Instead of the owner of Acme Lumber Co. getting mail at acmelumber@aol.com, he can be steve@acmelumber.com. Having a domain makes your business look more professional. It's also nice to have your own Web site where customers can find information about your business.
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• Domain name showdown to kick off down under
  Sparks could fly at Icann's Melbourne conference this weekend as the domain name governing body comes face-to-face with Californian upstart New.net for the first time.
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• Domain names: Getting the right one
  Last year the Internet Corporation for Associated Names and Numbers (ICANN) allowed companies to propose new Top Level Domain names (TLDs). All that was needed was a completed application form and a non-refundable deposit of $50,000 and then you sat back and waited for ICANN to make their decision.
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• Access to Internet domain databases to be simplified
  EXPERTS HAVE RECOMMENDED that access to the Internet's Whois service that allows users to look up ownership information on Internet domain names in the .com, org, and .net TLDs (top-level domains) be made simpler.
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03/06/2001

• Vint Cerf Calls New.Net Domain Scheme A 'Cute Trick'
  A new online service offering consumers Web addresses in simulated top-level domains like .shop, .game and .xxx, is playing off of a growing consumer desire for new Internet "neighborhoods" and a general lack of understanding about how the Internet works, noted networking engineer Vinton Cerf said today.
  Left unclear in initial media accounts, however, is that what New.net offers aren't new top-level domains at all, but cleverly designed third-level domains dressed up to look like cousins of .com, .org and .net.
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• MP3.com Joins Domain Scheme
  MP3.com, ExciteAtHome and Kids Domains Inc. signed on to help New.net gain acceptance of a domain-name system that circumvents the Internet's established guidelines.
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• Domains Spelled in Russian Letters Available in Saint Petersburg Beginning March 5
  It will become possible to register domains spelled in Russian letters in Saint Petersburg beginning March 5.
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• XXX Domains May Be Hard Sell
  New.net announced Monday that it was offering 20 new top-level domains (TLDs) including dot-xxx, which could be intriguing for adult sites. But Domain Name Systems has been selling dot-xxx domains for several months.
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• New Zealanders To Vote Online To Decide New Domain
  While the addition of new global Internet domain name endings was decided by officials of a non-profit organization, all New Zealand Internet users will have the opportunity to vote for or against a new second-level domain name ending in the .nz domain name space.
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• Congress Has Its Eye On Domain Name Selection
  As the 107th Congress continues to get settled following the election and change in administrations, Internet domain name selection has emerged as the first hot issue on Capitol Hill.
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03/05/2001

• ICANN can't guarantee new domain delivery
  CAAN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has warned that the introduction of seven new top-level domain names could be delayed by the poor economic climate.
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• New.net Defies Domain System
  New.net, a spinoff of Idealab, is challenging the authority of the Internet's primary ruling body by preparing to sell 20 unsanctioned TLDs that it plans to administer on its own.
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• Domain Name Registration Gets 64 More Languages
  Three months after VeriSign Global Registry Services (GRS) began registering Web site addresses in four languages other than English as part of a test process, the company has added 64 new site registration languages to bring the Internet to a larger number of non-English speakers around the globe.
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03/04/2001

• Anti-abortion group 'steals' web domains
  THE militant anti-abortion group, Precious Life Scotland, has set up rogue websites which "steal" the domain names of family planning organisations.
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03/02/2001

• Fury at ICANN/ VeriSign over .org domains
  Furious .org domain name holders have swamped a public forum set up by ICANN yesterday, angry at proposals that will force them to hand back their domains unless they register as non-profit organisations. The proposals come in a suggested new deal with ICANN from domain monopolist VeriSign.
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• Businessman defeats insurance company over domain name row
  A Scottish businessman has won his legal battle to prove he did not steal an insurance company's internet name.
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• ICANN: New domains are behind schedule
  The new Web addresses that were to be open for registration by Internet users worldwide by July of this year, could be delayed by several months or more, due to protracted contract negotiations with the new list operators and the high-tech downturn on Wall Street, officials at the Internet's premier naming authority said on Friday.
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03/01/2001

• VeriSign Extends Agreement to Keep Dot-com Registry
  VeriSign Inc., which registers Web sites, said it extended an agreement that will let it continue to receive and file Internet domain names ending in .com until at least 2007.
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• Verisign outlines proposed terms for ICANN domain pact
  Verisign says would operate .com registry until 2007 under pact
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• Verisign and ICANN amend domain agreement
  VERISIGN AND ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) have reportedly amended the agreements reached two years regarding control of .com, .net, and .org Internet domains
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02/20/2001

• FTC slams domain name scam
  At the behest of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a federal judge has ordered an alleged Internet address scammer to stop pressuring consumers into buying unnecessary variants of their own domain names.
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