Someday, with its current rate of growth, Facebook will likely become the equivalent of a global real-name directory.

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He agreed to talk with FORBES after our poking around Twitter, Facebook and the Brown directory led to his name.

FORBES: Focus

Core to that tale of two hackers is a layer of the Web that acts as a digital directory assistance, the Domain Name System.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Your mail-handling software would scan each message to see if either the sender's name could be found in your personal directory or a magic word could be found in the subject field.

FORBES: Side Lines

In my haste to respond to you during an onslaught of media inquiries, I should have responded to you that we have never had anyone by that name as a patient in our admissions directory.

FORBES: News Clarification

Born in Hangzhou in 1964, Ma first made a name for himself with his idea to start an online directory called "China Pages, " widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company.

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Features include name-and-password log-in support, file and directory caching for quick access, firewall and proxy-server support, and UNIX file attribute support.

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On another occasion, a man contacted BT, giving Miss Dando's ex-directory telephone number and address and asking for her line to be changed to his name.

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The idea: As soon as a phishing site's domain name is identified by an accredited anti-phishing group, disconnect it from the directory--effectively sending it into cyberspace exile.

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For this reason, we are building an online NGO directory and a validation process with the NGO community to ensure that only NGOs qualify to own the domain name.

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