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...profit and other online intellectual-property tangles. But true to form, the distinguished boys and girls who spent most of last year arguing about oral sex couldn?t keep their minds out of the gutter, and most of the day was spent debating a new web phenomenon: dirty domain names...
Imagine how valuable it would be to own the principal directory of Internet domain names. Network Solutions, the Herndon, Va., company that's had the exclusive right to sign up dot-com names for the last five years, is worth more than $2 billion in today's stock market. But who really owns the "whois" directory...
...Last week the U.S. Commerce Department sent Network Solutions a letter, released yesterday, saying the directory is public property. "We strongly object to NSI's restrictive policy." Citing the 1993 agreement with the government that effectively created the Network Solutions monopoly on dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domain names, the Commerce Department letter continued, "nothing in the cooperative agreement, nor in existing law gives, NSI the right to restrict access to this information." MORE...
...whatever reason, there are fewer graduates who are around clubs during everyday times that may not have anything to do with undergraduates," he says. "Clubs have become more of the domain of the undergraduates and their friends...
Supposedly, they are collaborating on their efforts to set up international outposts, but Harvard's only office abroad--located in Hong Kong--remains exclusively the domain of the Harvard Business School. And while HLS is ready to push ahead with another campaign, Knowles is dragging his feet, insisting Harvard settle into a noncampaign mode...