Wide Web Construction New areas of intellectual property concern are facing the construction and design of websites. These concerns include the increasing competition over domain names, the copyright infringement of HTML structures, and the debate over the use of hyperlinks. Domain Names Increase in the commercial use of the WWW is making the domain name one of the most sought after components of a web site.
Domain names are unique electronic addresses that are used to identify e-mail users and websites.
The domain name is part of the URL, or uniform resource locator, which is used to tag websites. The necessity of domain names on the WWW has sparked competition for these names and this has resulted in the need for domain name protection. HTML Structure Web pages are complex digital works that are constructed through the use of HTML or hypertext markup language. Potential copyright infringement comes into play due to the ease of replication that is facilitated by web browsers such as Netscape which can show the HTML structure of a virtual document. These structures can be downloaded and manipulated to create another potentially similar web site.