Now, on the Internet, it can also be headache and diarrhea.
Online analysts are annoyed.
InterNIC, the government-funded agency that assigns such names, is scrambling. To prevent misrouted E-mail or repeat Web addresses, InterNIC assigns every computer network on the Internet a unique numerical address with a character equivalent. These character names, called domains, allow you to send E-mail without having to memorize a long numerical address. Few companies use more than one domain name. No organization needs 150.