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Feb. 12, 2013

Lawyers help clients navigate new net domains

Law firms are helpings clients sort through the ICANN's gTLD process.


By Andrew McIntyre


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Years before the advent of the World Wide Web, companies saw the value of virtual real estate. In 1985, computer manufacturer Symbolics Inc. bought the world's first-ever dot-com domain, symbolics.com, and the following year, companies the likes of Xerox Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., the Boeing Co. and Adobe Systems Inc. staked their claims to dot-com space, according to data from PCWorld maga...

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