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To: Jaime Leiderman who wrote (1210)	4/20/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 4337

The competition arrives tomorrow: dailynews.yahoo.com Monday April 19 9:26 AM ET Five To Compete in Domain Name Game NEW YORK (AP) - Five companies will be chosen this week to compete with Network Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq:NSOL - news) in the business of registering Internet addresses. But complicating the situation is the matter that Network Solutions and the federal government have yet to reach an agreement on how the company's rivals will get their hands on the domain-name database, The New York Times reported today. Sticking points include how much data and software Network Solutions must share, and how much the new registrars must pay Network Solutions. Herndon, Va.-based Network Solutions has had an exclusive contract with the federal government for registering World Wide Web addresses, such as those ending in with .com, .net and .org, since 1993. With the explosive growth of the Internet, the company moved from obscurity to Fortune 500 status. The government moved to end that monopoly last year by creating the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a nonprofit group established to take over administration of the Internet. That group on Wednesday will name the five applicants to begin the first test round of competition with Network Solutions. It hopes to open the competition to an unlimited number of companies worldwide by summer.