Domain Name news
Professionals To Get Elite Internet Status (Newsbytes)
Lawyers, physicians and accountants soon will be able to register Web
addresses in a worldwide Internet domain reserved exclusively for
certified professionals, but they will have to pay nearly 10 times
the cost of ordinary domain names.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176454.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49573-2002May7.html

Register.com to Offer '.Pro' Web Addresses (Reuters)
Doctors, lawyers and accountants will be able to get specialized
".pro" Web addresses later this year or early next year, RegistryPro,
a unit of Web address provider Register.com RCOM.O , said on
Wednesday. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=935494
 http://www.iht.com/articles/57201.html

VeriSign to Auction '.bz' Names on eBay (Reuters)
Security and Web address provider VeriSign Inc., which has seen
layoffs and missed its sales target partly as a result of
lower-than-expected Web address sales, on Wednesday announced it will
auction domain names on eBay Inc. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=932754
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50147-2002May8.html
 http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/2002/05/08/verisign-auction.htm

Verisign To ID New Ebay Sellers, Auction Domain Names (Newsbytes)
Individuals signing up to sell merchandise on Ebay will soon have to
prove to e-commerce security company Verisign [NASDAQ:VRSN] that they
really are who they say they are.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176465.html

Gorilla lovers beat chests in domain clash (CNET)
Supporters of Steuart Dewar have a message for those who've crossed
his path: Don't mess with the gorilla man. 
The millionaire and retired software executive has been donating the
proceeds from his DateBk scheduling application to build a private
gorilla sanctuary near his home in the North Georgia mountains.
DateBk is one of the most popular handheld applications, partly
because Dewar licensed it to Handspring for use in its Visor devices.

 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-903161.html


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