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Congress, Courts Weigh In on Disputes over Internet Domain Names.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1999 by Mintz, Howard
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 25 -- A college student named John Abercrombie registers a Web address for Abercrombie.net and gets a letter from the legal department of upscale clothier Abercrombie & Fitch. A 12-year-old boy, "Pokey," sets up a Web site bearing his lifelong nickname and is warned off by the legal department of the makers of the rubbery animated figures Gumby and Pokey.
For Internet users and lawyers sorting through the muddled world of domain name disputes, such simple collisions in cyberspace's address book continue to be commonplace. While there are now some regulations governing "cybersquatters" -- who deliberately seek to cash in on a recognizable domain name -- the courts and policy-makers are a long way from solving...
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