All the latest domain name news from January 2000 through to June 2000.

MAY 2000

May 30 Domains.ca to offer Internet Domain registration for $14 fee [PR Newswire]
May 30 RegSelect offers independent advice about Dotcom domain deals [PR Newswire]
May 30 Ronaldo game players try to get his name back [Reuters]
May 30 Prank puts @Home page on DSL rival's domain [News.com]
May 26 Author wins back "Kidnapped" domain name [The Register]
May 26 Business.com's launch set for June [News.com]
May 25 Namezero.com hits milestone of 400,000 registered members [Business Wire]
May 25 WErDomainNames.com launches new family of high visibility Internet Web addresses [Business Wire]
May 24 Anderson Computers/Tidalwave Corp. announce Domain Registration at half of the cost [Business Wire]
May 24 DotTV adds Anthony Bishop and Phillip Reese to senior management team [Business Wire]
May 24 BulkRegister reigns in senior sales and marketing expertise [PR Newswire]
May 23 Garage.com in domain name rights fight [News.com]
May 22 Well done, Baby Blair cybersquatter [The Register]
May 15 Media firms log on to ".tv" domain [News.com]
May 15 NSI offers domain services on Yahoo! [News.com]
May 11 Sex.com saga still sizzling [Wired News]
May 10 Most expensive .org yet goes under the hammer [The Register]
May 10 The Reel.com Deal [The Standard]
May 9 Artist to paint the town red after sale of easel.com [The Register]
May 9 Real cybersquatting really sucks [Wired News]
May 8 AOL to promote Network Solutions [The Standard]
May 8 Name Calling [Business 2.0]
May 1 In Whose Best Interests? [The Standard]
May 1 For Sale by Owner [The Standard]
May 1 eToy: They'll take Manhattan [Wired News]

APRIL 2000

Apr 28 Invasion of the Body Shop domain snatchers [The Register]
Apr 26 Hell.com for sale [The Register]
Apr 24 YourNameHere.com [The Standard]
Apr 19 Group proposes policy for creating Net name suffixes [News.com]
Apr 19 Network Solutions wants 2 more top-level domains [The Standard]
Apr 19 Domain war motive a guess [Wired News]
Apr 18 Scottish site suffers eternal damnation for auction of popesfuneral.com [The Register]
Apr 15 Network Solutions: Pay up, deadbeats! [The Standard]
Apr 15 Balkan war in domain attack? [Wired News]
Apr 14 NSI Serbian "hack" is simple email spoof [The Register]
Apr 13 NSI registers more than 10 million Net names [News.com]
Apr 13 Italy prepares crackdown on cybersquatters [The Standard]
Apr 12 NSI cracks down on domain name payments [Upside]
Apr 12 Where is WhoAmI.com? [Wired News]
Apr 11 Porn site confusion forces gadget site relaunch [The Register]
Apr 11 EU pushes for greater Net influence [The Standard]
Apr 10 Net names get linked to toll-free numbers [News.com]
Apr 10 Net regulators close in on rogue domains [The Register]
Apr 10 Nomenclature: Sweden squelches dot-com craze [The Standard]
Apr 7 NSI to track Net name trends [News.com]
Apr 6 Ticketmaster of its domain [The Standard]
Apr 4 Freedom phone fighters tussle over domain name [The Register]
Apr 3 UK Online slams Govt trademark trampling [The Register]
Apr 3 Government plays cybersquatter [The Register]

MARCH 2000

Mar 31 Watford Electronics turns cybersquatter on rivals for "a joke" [The Register]
Mar 31 Jeanette Winterson demands return of kidnapped name [The Register]
Mar 30 Cybersquatter? Not me, says owner of Greatdomainrobbery [The Register]
Mar 29 RIBA pays $190,000 for Architecture.com [The Register]
Mar 28 Kahn battles Agfa to keep e-words free [The Register]
Mar 28 Dot-com satire blown out [Wired News]
Mar 28 Big talk, small hopes from dotcom summit [The Register]
Mar 27 Throwing rocks at ICANN [The Standard]
Mar 27 Queuing and Suing: Ye Olde Domain Turf Wars [The Standard]
Mar 27 Cosmopolitan wins 4,000 damages from porn-threat cybersquatter [The Register]
Mar 24 California woman dreaming of bricks for clicks [The Register]
Mar 23 BAA attempts to shaft sheep site [The Register]
Mar 22 Palestine Net names gain independence [News.com]
Mar 22 ICANN gives Palestinians a home on the Web [The Standard]
Mar 22 Judge sides with Volkswagen in Net name lawsuit [News.com]
Mar 22 Mr Oxford University accuses Oxford University of murder [The Register]
Mar 21 First come, first served [Business 2.0]
Mar 21 Domain complaint targets NSI [Wired News]
Mar 20 Yankee legislators, stay home [The Register]
Mar 17 Al Fayed wins rights to "dodialfayed.com" [News.com]
Mar 16 NetSol: Been there, done that [Wired News]
Mar 15 What do Rolex, Brad Pitt and Llanwrthwl have in common? [The Register]
Mar 14 Microsoft, RealNames to develop Net keyword standard [News.com]
Mar 13 VeriSign's $20 billion solution [The Standard]
Mar 13 ICANN: Slow as the Nile [The Standard]
Mar 13 ICANN trips on itself [The Standard]
Mar 10 Nearlylastminute.com consults lawyers over Sun article [The Register]
Mar 10 ICANN gives power to the people [Wired News]
Mar 8 Idealab prepping new search engine [News.com]
Mar 8 VeriSign plays name game [Upside]
Mar 8 VeriSign grabs Network Solutions for $21 billion [The Register]
Mar 7 Analysts divided over VeriSign's purchase of Network Solutions [News.com]
Mar 7 VeriSign buys Network Solutions in $21 billion deal [News.com]
Mar 7 ICANN meetings in De Nile [Wired News]
Mar 6 London police in URL ownership row [The Register]
Mar 6 Man banned from flogging BBC domain names [The Register]
Mar 6 Dell in ding dong over cybersquatting [The Register]
Mar 3 Register.com enjoys its IP-Whoa! [The Standard]
Mar 3 Net name registrar's stock soars [News.com]
Mar 2 .com, .org.and - .sucks? [The Standard]

FEBRUARY 2000

Feb 25 Sending out an SOS.com [The Register]
Feb 24 Honda not fond of Honda.net [Wired News]
Feb 22 Diamond MM threatens to sue SuperRio over trademark [The Register]
Feb 21 IF a picture paints a thousand words, a sketch would do for you [The Register]
Feb 21 Offshore: let them eat .cc [The Standard]
Feb 18 Playboy pays $700K for Cinema.com [The Register]
Feb 16 Yahoo Mexico wins back Net name [News.com]
Feb 15 Swatting at cybersquatters [Upside]
Feb 14 eToy finally back in business [Wired News]
Feb 14 Domain dispute hits a dot [Wired News]
Feb 11 Network Solutions: Thank you, ICANN, may I have another? [The Standard]
Feb 10 Coca-Cola caps Net name dispute with fan site [News.com]
Feb 9 Warner threatens Harry Potter fans [The Register]
Feb 8 Bank of America buys Loans.com for $3 million [News.com]
Feb 8 BofA is master of new domain [The Standard]
Feb 8 BofA paid big bucks for domain [Wired News]
Feb 7 Efax.com fights efax.co.uk [The Register]
Feb 7 What's the difference between Jobworld.com and Jobworld.co.uk? [The Register]
Feb 7 Is there a hex on Sex.com? [Red Herring]
Feb 2 European officials push new Net domain [News.com]
Feb 1 Harrods Buenos Aires to fight for Net rights [News.com]
Feb 1 Coca-Cola objects to fan site domain [News.com]
Feb 1 DOJ drops NSI antitrust investigation [News.com]
Feb 1 $3m pricetag for loans.com [The Register]

JANUARY 2000

Jan 31 Solving the dot-com glut [The Standard]
Jan 27 Oregon company makes top bid for Microsoft check [News.com]
Jan 26 #2 million Bill Gates domain sale is off [The Register]
Jan 26 eToys, eToy stop name-calling [The Standard]
Jan 24 Bids roll in for domain hype auctions [The Register]
Jan 25 eToys settles Net name dispute with etoy [News.com]
Jan 21 BargainBid.com in domain battle with uBid [News.com]
Jan 20 Domain customers chagrined by registration glitches [News.com]
Jan 19 Bulk confusion at BulkRegister.com [Wired News]
Jan 18 Network Solutions offers 10-year registrations [News.com]
Jan 18 Domain registrations extended [Wired News]
Jan 18 Hotmail Good Samaritan auctions check from Microsoft [News.com]
Jan 14 Lucasfilm fights for the rights to Tatooine.com [News.com]
Jan 14 Domain name hopes falsely raised [News.com]
Jan 14 Over the Amazon domain - not [Wired News]
Jan 14 U.N. agency sides with WWF in domain name dispute [News.com]
Jan 11 Widespread domain hack hits Emory University, others [News.com]
Jan 11 Evicting cybersquatters [Upside]
Jan 11 Domains hijacked from NSI [Wired News]
Jan 10 AOL grabs Net names before merger [News.com]
Jan 8 Year 2000 bids were bogus [Wired News]
Jan 7 Teen Magazine clashes with porn site [News.com]
Jan 7 Domain names get with .it [The Register]
Jan 6 Registrars may have to revoke Net names [News.com]
Jan 5 Strike one against cybersquatting [Wired News]
Jan 5 Year2000.com domain goes up for sale - again [News.com]
Jan 5 Register.com to offer 10-year Net name registrations [News.com]
Jan 5 Lucent sues porn site Lucentsucks.com [News.com]
Jan 4 Bidding farewell to Year 2000 [Wired News]
Jan 4 Year2000.com auction on eBay found a hoax [News.com]
Jan 2 Year2000.com domain name draws $10 million bid [News.com]

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