At: http://www.mercurycenter.com/asia/center/japan080198.htm
In this same story is this amazing piece of news, which I had not heard.
Has anyone else read this? Did I just miss it?
Barry
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Net domains doled out by Japan `cartel'
BY MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER Mercury News Tokyo Bureau
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Maruyama said JPNIC's strict rules were created to prevent individual
``cyber scammers'' from buying up the domain names of famous companies so
they could later sell them back to the companies. (A case such as this
occurred in America this week, when a Silicon Valley man was paid some $3.3
million by Compaq Computer to relinquish the ``altavista.com'' domain name.
AltaVista is an Internet search service acquired by Compaq when it bought
Digital Equipment Corp.)
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Whoa! $3.3 million for a domain mame? Yikes.
Barry
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