A monthly column on new technologies for Library and Information work. Domain Name List Is Dwindling.
Domain names are property, court rules.
However the domain names that form the core of URLs have developed beyond the relatively sheltered world inhabited by DDC and LCC into an arena of intellectual property disputes and national sovereignty issues. You ll recall that a domain name is the part of a URL that identifies a computer, or a set of computers, on the Internet. A recent court ruling has ruled that a domain name is property you can take out a mortgage on it. Bitter battles have erupted over the ownership of domain names. Fortunately prompt action by Steve Williams ensured that lianza.org.nz was registered soon after the change of name.