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To: Susan Saline who wrote (17135)	11/7/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Ron McKinnon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53068

Sue NSOL they appear to have a monopoly on domain registration if you wanted to go into business with say: subscribetomynewsletterbecauseIlieaboutmytradesonSI.com then you would have to pay NSOL a fee details of the company, fees, the exclusive deal etc are in the 10Q edgar-online.com Network Solutions currently acts as the exclusive registrar of Internet domain names within the .com, org,.net & .edu top-level domains (TLDs), persuant to agreements with the National Science Foundation. Also provides Intranet consulting and network design and implementation services to large cos WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government and Network Solutions Inc. (NSOL .O) reached a deal on Tuesday to phase out the company"s exclusive authority to register names in the most popular segment of the Internet, a top Commerce Department official said. The agreement, part of the Clinton administration"s plan to privatize the Internet"s name and address system, requires the Herndon, Va., company to allow competing firms to enter names in its registration database