Index_N

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Name exclusions from DNS database, 192, 194, 232-233, 239-240, 250, 259, 298-299

of famous trademarks, 174, 191, 192, 232, 234

Namedroppers email list, 78, 81

Name.space (Paul Garrin), 55, 152-153, 154, 158, 201

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 84, 92, 99, 156, 162

National Science Foundation, 2, 84, 92, 95, 99

acceptable use policy, 86, 87, 103, 106

decision to authorize fees for domain names, 102, 105, 110-111, 128

InterNIC cooperative agreement, 100-102, 110, 111, 153-155

NSFNET backbone, 85-87, 106, 170

role in privatization of DNS, 137, 138, 140, 143, 154-156

Network externalities (network effects), 52-53

critical mass, 53, 83, 86, 182

and DNS root, 52-53, 216, 220

Network Solutions, Inc. (Verisign), 2, 50, 69, 173, 194-196, 203, 204, 225, 258, 262

antitrust challenge to, 152-153

claim to ownership of .com, .net, .org, 148, 155, 182, 195-196, 260

domain name dispute resolution policy, 116, 120-122, 123-124, 127

and the gTLD-MoU, 143, 146, 147-148, 160

host of A root server, 2, 161, 182, 196

regulation of, 168, 183, 185, 186-190, 196

Neustar, 203, 204

New top-level domains, 43, 68, 127-130, 173, 193, 201-205, 257, 262

artificial scarcity of, 63, 185, 202, 234, 255-259, 267

draft-postel, 128-130, 131, 136, 138-140, 141, 144, 258

newdom email list, 127-128, 131, 134, 144, 201, 205

trademark protection and, 193-194, 233

.web TLD, 132, 133, 148-149, 260, 261, 262

New.net, 54, 55

New Zealand, 123, 283

Nominet UK, 111

North, Douglass C., 64, 255, 256, 257, 259

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