HOUSE TO VOTE ON BILL TO BAN WEB SITE NAMES THAT RESEMBLE THOSE US AGENCIES
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: David Clay Johnston]
Today, the House is scheduled to vote on legislation that clarifies the law
barring for-profit companies from using names that sound like official
government agencies. Twice in the last three weeks, the Internal Revenue
Service commissioner, Mark W. Everson, has warned about confusion over the
official Web site of his agency and commercial firms playing off that
confusion. A Web industry trade group, the Computer and Communications Industry
Association, issued a statement last week warning consumers that Web sites like
irs.com, irs.org and irs.net make money by offering services that, in many
cases, taxpayers could get for free through the I.R.S.s official Web site,
irs.gov. Intersearch.com, the firm that owns the irs.com Web site, says that
it is fully complying with the law and that it sees no reason to inform
shareholders of the pending legislation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/technology/17web.html?ex=1334462400&en=70951ee0bff352cc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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