“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.”

“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.”

“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

“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.”

“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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All the dot.whatevers there are.

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“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.”

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

A very nice domain name search engine.

Another domain name search engine.

See what’s available in the .ca world.