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Dirty domain spree no joke - It wasn't a prank and it wasn't a publicity stunt, says the 21-year-old college student who has been registering naughty domain names to the Microsoft Network. He says he's just casting his net as widely as possible to draw Web surfers to his site. [News.com]
 
Disney shows off D-mail - The Walt Disney Company (DIS) today gave a sneak preview of new features, including D-mail, D-phone, and a 3D virtual-reality meeting place, which will appear starting around December in its children's online service. [News.com]
 
Domain name fetches record price - The Internet equivalent of an uptown address just got a little bit pricier. [News.com]
 
Domain plan called power grab - Leaders of an Internet industry coalition want the International Ad Hoc Committee's domain-name plan stopped in its tracks. [News.com]
 
Domain planners dismiss critics - The president of the Internet Society today dismissed charges that a plan to expand Net domain names is a "power grab." [News.com]
 
E*Trade crashes as Dow soars - As the Dow Jones Industrial Average roared back with a rebound today, users of E*Trade's online investment service were locked out of online trading for the last hour of the market due to the failure of a recently installed backup system. [News.com]
 
E-Minds can't make e-money - Cash-strapped Electric Minds, the experiment in online community, may be just weeks away from closing shop. [News.com]
 
E-commerce policy ready July 1 - Who should collect taxes in cyberspace? Do children need special protections in electronic transactions? On July 1, The White House will formally unveil a policy framework for considering these and other explosive questions about the Information Age. [News.com]
 
EU urges caution with Net business - Big business is dreaming of burgeoning sales across the Internet, but the European Commission is saying "not so fast," delegates to a conference were told yesterday. [News.com]
 
EU, China in tech working group - The European Union and China signed a joint declaration Wednesday that creates a working group of officials and businessmen to discuss information and telecommunication technologies. [News.com]
 
EarthLink may change flat rates - Following a similar move by Netcom, another Internet service provider is planning to move beyond the $19.95 flat monthly charge that has become the industry standard. [News.com]
 
Email gets a bodyguard - Tumbleweed wants to cash in on consumers' frustration with receiving garbled or evaporated email attachments with the release of its document shipping system Posta. [News.com]
 
End of the road for CyberFreeway - Cheap Net access for life may sound like a sweet deal. The trouble is the party never seems to last. [News.com]
 
English-only Web case dismissed - The first test of whether France's disputed language law applies to the Internet ended in fiasco today when a court threw out the case on a technicality. [News.com]
 
Ethernet start-up signs NEC - Alteon Networks is moving fast out of the gigabit networking starting gate, lining up key partnerships in its bid to be among the few start-ups left standing when the Ethernet market shakes out. [News.com]
 
Eudora stays private with PGP - Qualcomm (QCOM) has bundled encryption software from Pretty Good Privacy with its popular email software Eudora Pro and freeware Eudora Lite. [News.com]
 
Exchange server gets service pack - Microsoft (MSFT) will next week post the first service pack for the Exchange 5.0 groupware server, which includes more than 150 fixes and enhancements, by the end of the week. [News.com]
 
Excite inks Ticketmaster deal - Excite (XCIT) announced today that it will provide direct online ticketing and live event information through an agreement with Ticketmaster (TKTM), the search engine's second big step this month to bolster its content offerings. [News.com]
 
Excite offers custom search tools - Excite (XCIT) said it will roll out custom search features today that make it easier for users to take advantage of the company's technology for finding information on the Web. [News.com]
 
Excite, IDG feud over ad - When Excite executive Joe Kraus saw a familiar-looking billboard teasing another company's new online service, he couldn't decide if he was tickled or perturbed. [News.com]
 
 

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