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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (37059)	3/13/2001 1:41:27 AM
From: KevinMark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 49816

Mars, you touched on a post I stated many months ago on MDD thread about how the PC and Cell phone created the wealth effect over the past decade. "Now what" is exactly right! You look back to bull market runs and there was alway a technology revolution. In the early 1900's was the automobile, the 50's was the color TV, the 80's was IBM-mainframes, the 90's was the PC and the cell-phone, now what is right. Where do we go from here? The PC and cell phone industry must do something in order for consumers to have to buy a new system(like recording industry) in the years to come or else their growth going forward is in big trouble for years to come. I suspect they may be working on that now. The next big craze is supposed to be biotech due to all the baby-boomers, but who wants to risk holding these high-flyers when just one bad PR about a study gone bad cuts them down 60-70% in value in one day. They too are over-bloated pigs. So what's next? I have a feeling the investment bankers are in for a very rude awakening for years to come. They have virtually killed themselves by pushing so much garbage out the door during the past 2 years, that they may never shake the smell. Tired it's late, off to bed.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (37059)	3/13/2001 1:51:29 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 49816

ICANN decision moves new domain names step closer MELBOURNE, March 13 (Reuters) - New Internet Web addresses moved a step closer on Tuesday when ICANN, the Internet's top naming authority, gave its staff the ability to conclude contracts with four new registry operators. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chose seven companies to operate the master list of domain names known as a registry in November for new web address suffixes which range from ".biz" to ".museum." A meeting of the ICANN board at its quarterly meeting in Melbourne gave approval for staff to finalise contracts for four of the suffixes, which will then be open to comment from the board for seven days before the contracts are signed. The four are ".info," ".name," ".pro" and ".biz." The new web suffixes are meant to give Internet users more naming choices for their Web sites and e-mail addresses, as the existing ".com," ".net" and ".org" domain spaces become increasingly overcrowded. "Today's decision has moved RegistryPro, as well as the other registries, further along the path to bringing more choice and more competitive product offerings into the domain industry," Sloan Gaon, interim chief executive of RegistryPro, said in a statement. RegistryPro, a joint venture between Register.com Inc <RCOM.O> and Virtual Internet Plc <VET.L> to run ".pro," said it expects to be taking domain name registrations by the third quarter of 2001. Afilias, which is a consortium of eighteen domain name registrars, said it was likely to start a registration period for trademark holders as early as the second quarter, rolling out open registration for ".info" about 45 days later. "The startup period should be right around the begining of the third quarter," Afilias marketing task force leader John Kane told Reuters. The NeuLevel registry, a joint venture between Melbourne IT Ltd <MLB.AX> and NeuStar Inc, said it expected to be taking real time registrations for ".biz" by the fourth quarter. Global.Name, backed by Nameplanet.com said its ".names" would roll out its first products for consumers within three months of signing the agreement. ((Simone Deane, Melbourne newsroom 61 3 9286-1435, fax 61 3 9621 2994, simone.deane@reuters.com)) REUTERS * end of story * What ? No------>dot.bomb ?? ;-)