Domain Name News
Domain seller settles FTC charges (CNET)
A Canadian company has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle charges that
it duped Internet domain-name holders into needlessly buying
similar-sounding names, federal regulators said Thursday.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-892385.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=882453

.US Domain Registration Goes Live (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW)
Registration for.US domain names will go live at 10:00 a.m. EDT
today.
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/us042402.cfm

Verisign, Register.com Bear Brunt Of Domain Drain - Report
(Newsbytes)
More than 372,000 dot-com, dot-net and dot-org (CNO) domain names
disappeared from the Internet in March, continuing a slide in the
number of addresses often used to locate Web sites and electronic
mailboxes.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176143.html

New Dot-Au Addresses May Be On The Way (Newsbytes)
Australians might one day find themselves able to reserve local
versions of dot-biz or dot-name domain names, depending on whether
the Net community supports their introduction.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176154.html

Poor results and job cuts hit VeriSign shares (Financial Times)
Shares of VeriSign fell as much as 31 per cent on Friday after the
manager of internet addresses cut second-quarter earnings forecasts
and said it would lay off about 10 per cent of its workforce. 

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VKK22I0D
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51062-2002Apr25.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176150.html
VeriSign Reports First Quarter 2002 Results (Verisign news release)
http://corporate.verisign.com/investor/releases/q12002.html


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