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Domain Name Games.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)

By ISENBERG, DOUG
Publication: Internet World
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2001

DISCORDANT POLICIES AND POLITICKING LEAVE TLDs UP FOR GRABS

THE BRIEF HISTORY OF DOMAIN NAMES AND TRADEMARKS IS one of the sorriest chapters in the annals of Internet law and policy, and the ongoing online soap opera shows no signs of wrapping up. The plot revolves around separate but connected issues: the scarcity of "good" domain names in the popular .com space, and the prevalence of disputes between trademark owners and domain name registrants, some of them cybersquatters.

About four years ago, the International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC), a group of leading

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