August 4, 2000

Plan for Domain Suffixes Has Colleges Girding for Trademark Fights

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Entrepreneurs may be salivating over plans by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to add new Internet-domain suffixes, but officials at colleges and universities foresee only anxiety from cybersquatters.

Already, Stanford and Yale Universities, to name two, complain about the time and resources they spend fighting cybersquatters -- those who seek to profit from an institution or business with name recognition by incorporating that name into

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