Unraveling the Issues, Actors, & Alphabet Soup of the Great Domain Name Debates.

Koehler, Wallace

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ERIC Number: EJ588285

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Publication Date: 1999

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Unraveling the Issues, Actors, & Alphabet Soup of the Great Domain Name Debates.

Koehler, Wallace

Searcher, v7 n5 p16,18,20-26 May 1999

Examines the interconnected issues surrounding domain naming. Discusses "dot" ownership, top-level domain expansion, control of second-level domain names, and trademarks and copyright protections. Outlines the history extending from the development of the pre-Internet ARPANET to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and its Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO), inaugurated March 1999. (AEF)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Copyrights, Information Policy, Internet, Organizations (Groups), Ownership, Private Sector, Public Sector

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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