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A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois.
A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to conduct further studies on the databases containing names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners, deferring long-simmering questions over whether such details should remain public.
Just last week, Microsoft settled with a few individuals and companies who were squatting on names which were infringing on trademarks owned by the software behemoth. Microsoft picked up some pocket change while sticking it to the little guys and for once I cheered them on.
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