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Article: THE DOMAIN NAME GAME

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October 28, 1999
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Okay, so you've hemmed and hawed and hesitated, and now you're finally ready to register your own domain name. You know, as in mydomainname.com. What next?

Chances are, you're interested in a .com or .net domain name (or maybe a .org name for your nonprofit organization). Until a few months ago, a company called Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com) was the only game in town.

That's because they had an exclusive government contract to manage all the .com, .org and .net domain names in this country.

Then last Spring, five other companies were awarded the rights to register domain names, and many more others were expected to be in business by now.

This was all supposed to drive ...

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