The event may have been a watershed moment in the history of the commercialization of the Internet, but it's not going to do much to quell the anxiety levels of the domain-name deficient, many of whom already feel out of the Interloop. The pressure is on. Today, Network Solutions registers an average of 3,000 names daily.
Names are intellectual property.
Unfortunately, when DNS was developed, this problem wasn't even imagined. What's driving the need to administer the Internet in this fashion is the persistent rearing of intellectual property's ugly head. On 28 July 1995, NSI formally acknowledged the need to address the increasing number of legal disputes involving domain names and trademarks by announcing a domain-name policy, which was then amended on 23 November 1995. No domain name registrant will be challenged unless and until a third party complains to NSI and supplies appropriate evidence of ownership of a trademark that is identical to the challenged domain name. Much of the debate on the subject focuses on resolving disputes that arise over the ownership of domain names.