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Verizon Mistakenly Loses Internet Domain Name.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2001
By Martha McKay, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 23--Verizon has spent a lot of time and money eliminating its old name, Bell Atlantic, on trucks and phone booths.
But one "Bell Atlantic" it did not want to eliminate, disappeared Thursday.
An administrative foul-up caused the company's domain name, bellatlantic.net, to expire Thursday, halting incoming e-mail to tens of thousands of Verizon customers.
A domain name is the registered address suffix that helps locate a Web site on the Internet.
Verizon Communications has about 150,000 Internet customers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states whose e-mail addresses end in bellatlantic.net. Of those, it estimated about 50,000 were...
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