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Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr ruled this month that Internet domain name An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia.  distributor NeuLevel Inc. stop selling the dot-biz names in what could well be considered an illegal lottery system.

The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed against Virginia-based NeuLevel, nonprofit domain name manager Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers and the 60-some registrars of the dot-biz names.

Two L.A. law L.A. Law was an American television legal drama that ran from 1986 to 1994. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s. As with thirtysomething, L.A.  firms filed the lawsuit on behalf of more than 2 million companies and individuals who paid to get a dot-biz address.

If the dot-biz registry is found to be illegal, the system could cost L.A.-based ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number  and others more than $10 million.
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Title Annotation:Domain name sales stopped
Author:BRONSTAD, AMANDA
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 29, 2001
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