Dukes of URLs
8/23/99, David Pescovitz, The Industry Standard. Having the coolest domain name means you'll get the most traffic – and the most targeted audience, right? That's what purveyors of domain-name services want you to believe.
www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,6015,00.html

Playing the Name Game
8/23/99, David Pescovitz, The Industry Standard. What's in a name? A quarter of a million dollars, if you're Mall.com. A half-million if you're Blackjack.com or Computer.com. A cool million if you're Wallstreet.com. And a staggering $3 million if you're Altavista.com.
www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,5996,00.html

Master of Your Domain
7/2/99, Greg Sherwin and Emily Avila, ClickZ. Once the sophomoric prank of registering your competitors' domain names started to wear thinner than the plot of Phantom Menace, we figured that Internet business' love-hate relationship with domain names was finally nearing an end.
www.searchz.com/Articles/0702992.shtml

Excite.com Goes to Illinois
7/14/99, Chris Oakes, Wired News. When Jim Reardon woke up Wednesday morning, he found himself the unexpected new owner of the Web domain excite.com.
www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20734.html

ICANN of Worms
7/12/99, Emarketer. ICANN, which was created to solve online address, name and domain disputes, ran into more problems of its own. This attempt to impose standards on the internet may be doomed to failure.
www.emarketer.com/enews/071299_worms.html

Domain Name Acquisition
3/18/99, Glen Sobel, DomainNameAdvisor.com. "Sorry, but that domain name is already taken." These words, and similar phrases, are popping up more and more often as businesses attempt to register the new domain name of their choice.
www.domainnameadvisor.com/acquisition.htm