Greed Dot Com

[Fiona Shnapple]

FAST FORWARD; Greed Dot Com

By JAMES GLEICK
Published: December 27, 1998

He, too, compares domain names to real estate and says the ''dot
coms'' are like Fifth Avenue addresses in New York. (Besides .com,
there are also .edu, .org, .net, .gov, .mil and more than 200
two-letter country codes.) Reserving these names is partly a matter of
American patriotism, he says. Do we really want foreign businesses to
have them?


http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/magazine/fast-forward-greed-dot-com.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm
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