Fjkheudhxekjdia.com: Get it while you can
11/15/99, JARED KENDALL, CNEWS Tech News. The facts of life are simple, there aren't enough good names for every business to get the one they want online. There might be thousands of firms called "Acme Plumbing" across the continent, but only one of them can get the web address "acmeplumbing.com".
www.canoe.ca/TechNews9911/15_kendall.html

Domain Name Truce May Stall Suffixes
10/4/99, KAREN KAPLAN, Times Staff Writer. Internet: One law professor calls pact among Network Solutions, ICANN and U.S. 'a formula for paralysis.'
www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/CUTTING/t000089117.html

U.S., Network Solutions Have Deal On Internet Names
9/28/99, Reuters. Internet address registrar Network Solutions Inc. and the U.S. Commerce Department have finally reached agreement to allow competitors long-term access to the company's domain name database, a person familiar with the deal said Monday.
news.excite.com/news/r/990928/01/net-tech-networksolutions?printstory=1

Free Domain Registration Offered
9/24/99, James Niccolai, IDG News Service. PC World. Competition in market means deals for consumers seeking unusual domain schemes.
www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,12992,00.html

Battle intensifies over Net names
9/26/99, Jim Landers, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. But billions of dollars now change hands over the Internet, and the name game has turned serious. Trademark holders are losing patience with the fight among companies and regulators over assignment of Internet names.
www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/092699/yourmonydocs/26technames.htm

.au domain name board gets under way
9/21/99, DAVID ADAMS, Fairfax IT. The body sizing up to take over the administration of the Internet's top-level .au name space has released the names of 12 people nominated to the sit on its first board.
www.it.fairfax.com.au/industry/19990921/A9345-1999Sep17.html

Free domain names - a quick thrill?
9/27/99. IT-Director. Two significant changes are occurring in the world of domain names. The net result is that the cost of top level domain name registration will be next to nothing. Exciting news. Strange, though, that within a few years domain names will become a thing of the past.
www.it-director.com/99-09-27-3.html

Domain Name Agreement Finally Reached
9/28/99, Elizabeth Clampet, InternetNews. After months of debate over the fate of domain name registration, Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the U.S. Department of Commerce Tuesday resolved their differences over how to handle the registration of .com, .org and .net domain names.
www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print/0,1089,3_208871,00.html

Registrar Offers Free Personal Domains
9/24/99, Brian McWilliams, InternetNews.com. The bottom is about to fall out of Internet domain name pricing. While most domain registrars accredited by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers charge around $70 for a two-year registration, a California start-up says it's taking pre-registrations for .com, .net. and .org domains for the amazingly low price of zero.
www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_207471,00.html

Domain name dunces
9/21/99, Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com. Network Solutions is the Virginia firm that won a contract from the federal government in 1993, at the commercial Internet's infancy, to handle the registration of domain names in the ".com," ".net" and ".org" top-level domains.
www.salonmagazine.com/tech/col/rose/1999/09/21/network_solutions/print.html