All the latest domain name news from July 1997 through to December 1997.

DECEMBER 1997

Dec 26 Jews for Jesus to sue over domain name [News.com]
Dec 24 Report Takes Aim at Cyber Patrol's Blacklist [Wired News]
Dec 23 ARIN opens doors, charges for new IP addresses [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 22 Domain Name Hot Potato -- Commerce Dept., industry continue dialog  [TechWeb]
Dec 22 Still Waiting For Word On Domain System Transition Plan [TechWeb]
Dec 19 New domain names should make for easier surfing [PC Week]
Dec 19 White House in eye of Net storm [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 19 Academy drops Oscar domain suit [News.com]
Dec 18 AlterNIC Founder Headed For Extradition And U.S. Courts [TechWeb]
Dec 18 Domain Guerrilla to Be Extradited [Wired News]
Dec 17 AlterNIC founder to be extradited [News.com]
Dec 16 Domain Name Group Broadens Membership [TechWeb]
Dec 16 Net Address Board To Be Revamped [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 16 Guns, Hard Time and… Domain Names? Kashpureff 'Prank' Sullies the Web [Web.Scoop]
Dec 16 Network Solutions Rolls Out New Billing System for Internet Domain Name Registrants [PRNewsWire]
Dec 16 Registrar readies for competition [News.com]
Dec 15 U.S. Government Calls Net Names Meeting [TechWeb]
Dec 15 Future of domain names not certain [TechWeb]
Dec 15 Net address group to open up [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 15 Domain Group Opens Membership [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 15 Domain name registration co. ready for rivals [Advertising Age]
Dec 10 Pulling the Plug on the Domain Name Monopoly [Web.Scoop]
Dec 10 An URL Named Sue, Su and Soo: Multiple Personalities Will Rule the Web [Clickz.com]
Dec 8 Race For Internet Registries Is On [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 8 Administration Fears Domain Name Monopoly [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 5 Kashpureff: Jailed Hacker or Corporate Scapegoat? [ZDTV]
Dec 4 Net Authority May Need Outside Supervision [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Dec 2 Court upholds ruling on Net jurisdiction [News.com]
Dec 1 NSI Ruled Not Liable In Trademark Case [TechWeb]
Dec 1 UK "Cybersquatters" Lose Big In Court [TechWeb]
Dec 1 Epoch endorses CORE -- ISP signs on to register domain names [TechWeb]
Dec 1 Eword: ignorance@congress.gov [Wired News]

NOVEMBER 1997

Nov 28 The Smart Marketer's Strategy for Reserving Domain Names [Clickz.com]
Nov 24 Network Solutions Looks To Retain Federal Contract [TechWeb]
Nov 24 Secure Domain Name System [Web Week]
Nov 24 Preparing for 100M Domain Names [Web Week]
Nov 17 Trademark ruling shields NSI [News.com]
Nov 17 E-Commerce Heads To Court -- Many corporations gear up for legal battles that loom over electronic business [TechWeb]
Nov 17 Name game continues -- VARs concerned about power struggle as agencies spar over Internet naming authority [TechWeb]
Nov 13 AlterNIC founder faces extradition [News.com]
Nov 13 Council of Registrars holds its first meeting [News.com]
Nov 13 Hearing After Hearing for Kashpureff [Wired News]
Nov 12 A Domain Registry Is Born [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Nov 11 U.S. Asks To Extradite AlterNIC Founder Kashpureff [TechWeb]
Nov 11 A ".nu" player on domain scene [News.com]
Nov 11 Canadian Cops Keep Kashpureff Caged [Wired News]
Nov 10 Name Of The Game: Delays For Domains --Government seeks more input from industry [TechWeb]
Nov 10 Microsoft in trademark dispute [News.com]
Nov 10 New Internet domains are proposed -- But confusion reigns as to who has final naming authority [TechWeb]
Nov 8 Domains: More than a Name and a Number [Clickz.com]
Nov 6 Trademark fight continues [News.com]
Nov 5 Canada Expected To Deport AlterNIC's Kashpureff [TechWeb]
Nov 5 Summits Set On Domain Name Issues [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Nov 5 AlterNIC's Kashpureff Still Behind Bars [Wired News]
Nov 5 Trademarks haunt domains [News.com]
Nov 5 Domain Name Group Proceeds Despite Government Halt [TechWeb]
Nov 4 AlterNIC Activist Going to Court [Wired News]
Nov 4 New domain names afoot [News.com]
Nov 4 New Net domain registry takes another step [News.com]
Nov 3 Kashpureff to face federal charges  [News.com]
Nov 3 AlterNIC founder arrested [News.com]
Nov 1 WWW.YourNameHere.Com -- Opening a full, honest-to-Pete, branded Web presence has never been easier-or cheaper! [TechWeb]

OCTOBER 1997

Oct 31 The Top Ten Cyber-Commandments of Web Site Domain Names [Web Review]
Oct 31 Master of Your Own Domain (Name) [Web Review]
Oct 31 Earning from Others' Mistakes [Wired News]
Oct 31 Net start-ups bank on errors [News.com]
Oct 29 Registration House Lands In Court [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Oct 28 Blocking Rays and Assigning Domains [Wired News]
Oct 28 Who will master domain names? [News.com]
Oct 27 New Domain System Starts To Take Shape [Web Week]
Oct 22 Legal Action On Domain Name Collapses [TechWeb]
Oct 21 NSI hit with domain class action [News.com]
Oct 20 Transfer Of DNS To Private Control Irks Industry Execs [TechWeb]
Oct 20 Trademark dispute [TechWeb]
Oct 20 RSA software foils would-be Net hackers [TechWeb]
Oct 17 Internet Domain Group Names 70 Registrars [TechWeb]
Oct 15 British "Cybersquatters" Tread On Virgin Ground [Net Insider]
Oct 15 The Grass Roots of Global Internet Rebellion [TechWeb]
Oct 14 Attorneys weigh online jurisdiction [News.com]
Oct 14 Domain fund marked for next Net [News.com]
Oct 13 .Com Into The DNS Fray -- Congress, White House weigh competing interests over domain name registry's future [TechWeb]
Oct 9 Domain suit shows no mercy [News.com]
Oct 8 Domain Snobs: An AOL Address Enhances Accessibility [Clickz.com]
Oct 6 Crypto donated for domain system [News.com]
Oct 3 Congress May Legislate Domain Names [Wired News]
Oct 2 Congress Continues To Ponder Domain Name Issues [TechWeb]
Oct 1 The Name Change Game : You don't need Washington to hamstring the Net [Yahoo Internet Life]

SEPTEMBER 1997

Sep 30 Domain Registration in Geneva Assailed [Wired News]
Sep 30 Domain transition said to lack plan [News.com]
Sep 29 Industry Group Prepares Domain Name Privatization Plan [TechWeb]
Sep 29 Imminent Domain: The Impending Invasion of Domain Names Better Than Yours [Clickz.com]
Sep 26 Clinton Administration won't stop domain name registry plan [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Sep 26 Privatization Of Domain Name Registration Slow In Coming [TechWeb]
Sep 26 Network Solutions nets strong trade [News.com]
Sep 25 Congress studies domain future [News.com]
Sep 25 Network Solutions to Keep Hold on Names, for a While [Wired News]
Sep 25 House subcommittee to hold hearings on domain names [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Sep 25 Your Name Goes Here@dinosaur_rock.com [TechWeb]
Sep 22 NT Threat? Microsoft Thinks So [TechWeb]
Sep 19 Cyber-lawsuit picks out new target [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Sep 18 Spree.com, Sprint in domain squabble [News.com]
Sep 18 Domain name suit to include NSF [News.com]
Sep 15 Internet Names Group Issues Database Plan [TechWeb]
Sep 15 Red-light domain sought for porn [News.com]
Sep 12 MS claims trademark on "NT" [News.com]
Sep 9 NSI IPO Draws Near, Business Booms [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Sep 9 Timing Is Crucial To Domain-Name Plan [TechWeb]
Sep 9 Domain plan takes database bids [News.com]
Sep 5 Whitehouse.com goes to porn [News.com]
Sep 3 Global domain registrars planned [News.com]
Sep 3 Network Solutions IPO on track [News.com]
Sep 2 Internet Plan Risks Collapse [TechWeb]

AUGUST 1997

Aug 29 NSI readies for public domain [News.com]
Aug 27 Network Solutions signs premium partners [News.com]
Aug 26 Nasdaq Latest Site Knocked Off Net By InterNIC [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 26 TechNet spoof called good fun [News.com]
Aug 26 InterNIC To Distribute Whois Servers [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 25 Keeping TABs [TechWeb]
Aug 25 A Question of Competency [TechWeb]
Aug 22 U.S., Australia Crack Down On InterNIC Impostor [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 22 In defense of the InterNIC, from a dissatisfied customer [ZDNN]
Aug 22 Word's Out: Time to Change Domain-Name System [Wired News]
Aug 22 Commerce Dept. Starts Weighing Domain Name Issue [TechWire]
Aug 22 Lukewarm response on domains [News.com]
Aug 21 InterNIC: Bad management or bad luck? [ZDNN
Aug 21 FTC warning: Aussie registry not 'real' InterNIC [ZDNN]
Aug 21 Got an Idea? They've Still Got the Dough [Wired News]
Aug 21 He Wants to Be a Founding Father [Wired News]
Aug 21 Domain name strategy outlined [News.com]
Aug 21 FTC goes after domain broker [News.com]
Aug 20 Domain Name Plan Stumbles [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 19 Letter put on InterNIC's site, apologizing to WebCom customers [ZDNN]
Aug 18 Web host's domain nixed again [News.com]
Aug 15 Sites vulnerable to redirects [News.com]
Aug 6 Domain Organization Likely To Get ISP Rep [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 5 Net Domain Groups Cease Name-Calling [Inter@ctive Week Online]
Aug 4 AlterNIC founder sorry, won't quit [News.com]
Aug 1 Middleware Should Play The Name Game [TechWeb]
Aug 1 Domain name debate remains Tower of Babel [ZDNN]
Aug 1 Domain enemies battle out of court [News.com]
Aug 1 Name Truce in the Offing? [Wired News]

JULY 1997

Jul 31 The Domain Name Currently Called Prince [TechWire]
Jul 31 Wanted: More addresses [Philadelphia Online]
Jul 30 Domain players sit down [News.com]
Jul 29 Internet groups seek consensus on domain name flap [CNN.com]
Jul 28 Dot Dumbfounding [Web Week]
Jul 28 GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY.COM [Business Week]
Jul 25 Forum Slated To Calm Domain Debate [TechWire]
Jul 23 Judge Defers AlterNIC Action [Wired News]
Jul 23 Network Solutions Takes AlterNIC to Court [Wired News]
Jul 23 Temporary order issued against AlterNIC [News.com]
Jul 23 Experts say existing laws work on Net [News.com]
Jul 22 Domain name group accepts applications for registries [Infoworld Electric]
Jul 22 Committee seeks new domain registrars [News.com]
Jul 18 Nasa.com Back in Orbit [Wired News]
Jul 18 Internot: The Day That [Part of] of the Net Died [Media Daily]
Jul 18 Glitch causes major Internet disruption [Infoworld Electric]
Jul 18 Fast-acting Webmasters limit impact of InterNIC snafu [PC Week]
Jul 18 Snafu sets off chaos on Net [San Jose Mercury News]
Jul 18 Net snag sparks changes and questions [MSNBC.com]
Jul 16 InterNIC Who? [Wired News]
Jul 16 InterNIC turns off NASA site [Aardvark News]
Jul 14 There's value in a near-miss! [Aardvark News]
Jul 14 Dot Dumbfounding [Web Week]
Jul 14 GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY.COM [Business Week]
Jul 2 Tonga Exporting Internet Names [Washington Post]
Jul 1 How to protect your brand this year -- Proposed new domains set to start up in October [NetMarketing]
Jul 1 Internet Domain Name Plan Falters [TechWire]
Jul 1 Tiny Tonga Expands Its Domain [Washington Post]
Jul 1 Domain Name War Brings Anarchy [TechWeb]

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