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26th January 2000

etoy-victory.txt

“THE LAWSUIT AGAINST etoy IS DROPPED! according to the etoy.LAWYERS chris truax in san diego and peter e. wild in zurich eToys Inc. gave up its naive fight against the famous international art group etoy this tuesday after a long and exhausting dispute about the terms and conditions of this settlement.”

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20th January 2000

The Right Name Is Critical For Upstart Dot-Coms

“Andrew Busey felt like he had a hot idea for a business: a Web site that sold bookshelves, beds and other furniture. But the name Mr. Busey was using for the company, he knew, was an unequivocal dud. ‘ForMyHome.com didn’t roll off one’s tongue,’ he says. So like dozens of budding Internet entrepreneurs, the 28-year-old Mr. Busey embarked on the increasingly tricky chore of finding a better company name.”

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6th January 2000

Register.com to Allow 10-Year Domain Registration

“http://www.register.com/ Register.com Inc. Wednesday announced plans to offer single and multiple-year domain registration services, providing flexibility and savings for those who register domain names. Starting in mid-January, customers will be able to buy .com, .net and .org d

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6th January 2000

Register.com, NSI Broaden Domain Name Offerings

“Domain name registration giant Network Solutions Inc. and one of its largest competitors, Register.com, both moved to expand their product lines [yesterday], marking a continuing wave of competition in what a year ago was a monopoly field. Network Solutions, which is already by far the largest retailer of names in the most popular ‘.com’ and ‘.net’ Internet domains, today announced it would soon begin selling names in many of the more than 200 country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) maintained by sovereign nations.”

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20th December 1999

Uptime

“Uptime periodically requests a page from your server. If the site is unreachable, Uptime sends you email. Uptime will continue checking your site. When it becomes reachable again, Uptime will send you one more message.”

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19th December 1999

The Public DNS Service

“This is a public service provided by Granite Canyon Group, LLC. The Service offers both primary and secondary DNS free of charge to anyone who asks. The Service maintains UPS protected FreeBSD servers that satisfy DNS queries. The Public DNS is useful if you: Can’t get free service from an ISP and don’t want to do it yourself, Need secondary DNS servers, Need MX records for a virtual domain, Want control over your DNS records: change DNS frequently, changing ISPs soon, Are inside of a firewall and need publicly-accessible name servers outside of your firewall, Need name servers that are closer to the North American Internet backbones.”

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14th December 1999

Domain name registries around the world

All the dot.whatevers there are.

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30th November 1999

yourname.tekky.com

Get your own subdomain address: ‘yourname.tekky.com.’ They say there are no pop-ups, banners, frames…

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24th November 1999

Sam Spade Tools

Whoo-eee… Neat tools and lookups page.

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11th November 1999

uSucK!

Get a redirecting domain from WHATEVERYOUWANT.usuck.com. It’s free.

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8th November 1999

Anywhere.? Country Top-Level Domain Codes

“A guide to the two-letter codes at the end of domain names. For example: .nl is Netherlands and .ws is Samoa. Alphabetized. Includes many links to domain registration sites, too. Very nice.”

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7th November 1999

Netnames

Global domain searches. Nice. Search way more than just .com, .net and .org. Oooh, yeah.

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7th November 1999

Domainsurfer

A very nice domain name search engine.

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7th November 1999

MakeAName

Another domain name search engine.

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7th November 1999

Canadian domain Search

See what’s available in the .ca world.

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