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To: DMaA who wrote (16846)	7/29/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Islands hope to shift from fish exports to Net Posted at 6:54 a.m. PDT Wednesday, July 29, 1998 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two tiny islands off the African coast are hoping to boost their local economies, which rely mostly on the export of frozen tuna, by selling one-of-a-kind Internet addresses. Ascension Island and St. Helena, which together are just over twice the size of the District of Columbia, are selling World Wide Web addresses using the unique two-letter suffixes assigned to the islands, ''ac'' and ''sh.'' Their offers mean a company that failed to seize popular generic Web site names, such as ''diapers.com'' or ''computer.com,'' can rush to buy ''diapers.ac'' or ''computer.sh.'' Each address costs roughly $60 to $100. sjmercury.com See? And people laughed when I said trading on the 'Net was a lot like fishing. o~~~ O