IP: Start-Up Will Sell Web Addresses [worth looking at]

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>  http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB98374387842509039.html

Start-Up Will Sell Web Addresses
To Bypass Internet Bureaucracy

By Don Clark

Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Investor Bill Gross is planning one of the most ambitious attempts to 
bypass the bureaucracy that assigns Internet names.
A Pasadena, Calif., start-up called New.net, funded by Mr. Gross's closely 
held company idealab!, this week plans to begin selling Internet domain 
names based on 20 new extensions that function like the familiar ".com" and 
".net." New.net's proposed extensions include ".family," ".tech," ".sport" 
and ".xxx," and the start-up plans to charge $25 for each name that uses 
one of the extensions.




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