ICANN Stepping Up Hunt For New 'Dot-Org' Operator (Newsbytes)
Internet addressing authorities next month will kick off the search
to find a new home for the dot-org Internet domain.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174870.html

Drain Of Domain-Name Pool Slows In January - Report (Newsbytes)
Rapid evaporation of the pool of Internet domain names at the end of
2001 appears to have abated in January, according to a report this
week from the domain-registration watchers at SnapNames.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174866.html

New.net Spreads Wings; Acquires Basic Fusion (atnewyork.com)
Looking to spread its wings in the competitive domain name market,
Idealab-owned registry New.net on Thursday announced the acquisition
of software firm Basic Fusion from KwikWeb.com, Inc. Financial terms
of the deal were not disclosed. 
 http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_982931,00.html

EU backs new .eu Internet tag (ZDNet)
The European Parliament has endorsed legislation to allow the
creation of an .eu domain 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2105288,00.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174871.html

Germany wins back its Internet name (Yahoo)
After a two-year fight with a German Internet consulting company, the
German government announced on Friday it had won the right to the web
address www.deutschland.de.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020301/wr_nm/germany_internet_dc_1&cid=582

From BNA Internet Law News
ICANN Completes Deal With Dot-JP
ICANN has announced that it has completed an agreement with the Japan
Registry Service Corporation over the dot-jp domain. The agreement is
the second ICANN ccTLD agreement, following a deal last year with the
dot-au domain.
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28feb02.htm


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