Internet Intelligence.
NameProtect.com has launched NameGuard, an Internet intelligence service that gives subscribers periodic Web-based reports focused on the management and protection of the company's domain names, trademarks, and other brands. The service tracks new domain names being registered worldwide, as well as domains being sold in the secondary...

Masters of Their Domains.
American Web addresses invariably end with one of five suffixes: .com, .org, .net, .gov, or .edu. This summer, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers--the global body that distributes domain names--may lengthen that list. Along with the predictable demands for .biz, .shop, .web, and the like, there have...

YAHOO TO LINK TO NSI's DOMAIN NAME SERVICES.
Network Solutions domain name registration services will now be featured on most of Yahoo Inc's portal sites, including yahoo.com. NSI had been advertising its registration service on Yahoo and other portals for some time, but now NSI is getting exclusive positioning on many relevant areas of Yahoo for domain...

Playing the name game: a glimpse at the future of the Internet domain name system.
What's in a name! that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.(1) -- William Shakespeare I. INTRODUCTION While a rose may smell as sweet regardless of its taxonomy, when it comes to twentieth century communications, the Internet...

EMINENT DOMAIN.
JAMES SUROWIECKI ON ETOYS VS. ETOY IF THE GREAT ECONOMIC STORY OF THE PAST decade has been the transformation of the Internet from a public space of unbounded democratic possibility into an increasingly privatized realm that is fundamentally reshaping global commerce, then the recent victory of the...

VIRTUAL INTERNET PROMISES GROWTH TO JUSTIFY IPO.
Virtual Internet, a three year-old reseller of domain name registration and other internet services has gone public in London via the reverse takeover of a shell company, Charriol Plc. The deal is for 15m pounds for all the Virtual stock plus a placement of 1m pounds. Jason Drummond, Virtual's...

REALNAMES FIRM WINS NSI DEAL & COMPAQ FUNDING.
By Nick Patience The domain name system that ensures that every time you type in ibm.com you get to Big Blue is slowly morphing into a more intuitive system. That process took a step forward yesterday with a strategic agreement between Network Solutions Inc, the current monopoly controller of...

NETWORK SOLUTIONS CAN EXPECT MORE SOLID GROWTH.
Network Solutions Inc, having recently had part of its monopoly in the domain name business extended by the government through September 2000, can expect quite a few more quarters of solid growth like the one it reported yesterday. Under an agreement signed with the US government on October 6,...

NSI & ICANN DIFFER OVER DNS TRANSITION TIMETABLE SLIP.
By Nick Patience The timetable set by the US government for Network Solutions Inc, the current monopoly provide of registry services in the .com, .net and .org domain name spaces, to supply strategic documents and technology to enable the opening of the market to competition is proving unworkably tight....

NSI LOSES ITS CEO TO TEL-SAVE AT A CRUCIAL TIME.
Network Solutions Inc (NSI), the exclusive domain name registry for the moST popular domain name extensions, including .com, lost its chief executive Gabe Battista to Tel-Save Holdings Inc yesterday in a surprise move, taking Battista back to his telecommunications roots. Battista will move over at the start of next...