Commerce Department Urges ICANN To Add More New Domains
Commerce Secretary Donald Evans today urged the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to step up the creation of new
Internet domains to complement the increasingly crowded .com, .net and
.org.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166139.html
 http://www.icann.org/correspondence/doc-to-icann-25may01.htm

'.Name' Operators Hope For Summer Registry Approval
The Global Name Registry (GNR), which last year won the right to operate
the new ".name" Internet domain, expects to ink final contracts for the
domain and begin registering addresses before the end of summer, Chief
Executive Officer Andrew Tsai said today.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166148.html

DB Wins Cyber Battle
Dominion Breweries has won its legal battle with a "cybersquatter" who
laid claim to its initials for an Internet domain name.
 http://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/47295-99999.html

AIT Domains Profile
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 http://isp-planet.com/services/registrars/nameit.html

LOOKING AHEAD TO THE STOCKHOLM ICANN MEETING
With the ICANN Stockholm meeting slated to begin later this week,
attention has turned to major topics of discussion. Early reports
suggest that the focus will be on new gTLDs -- the group of seven
approved last year as well as the push for approving more.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/030832.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/030534.htm

Domain debate heats up over .name windfall
With no major initiatives on the table, the upcoming meeting of the
world's controversial Internet naming authority is likely to focus on
new registries such as ".name" that are looking to upstage ".com".
 http://technology.scmp.com/internet/ZZZD2L7W5NC.html