Two weeks ago e-mail marketing firms Themutual.net and KeepAhead merged to exploit a combined database of 500, 000 subscribers.

BBC: Barclaycard ditches IndigoSquare

Since 1998 Icann, a policy-making group, has controlled domain registration on the Net, logging new sites in an open database called Whois, but the data isn't verified, and even gobbledygook triggers no alarms.

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Also, at my urging, the company recently cast a wider net to capture bloggers at mainstream news outlets to its already substantive database of independent bloggers.

FORBES: A Trio of Cool PR Tools

Under the test bed, the new registrars will hook into Network Solutions' database in order to sell a pool of names in the .com, .net and .org domains.

CNN: New domain name system creates confusion over ownership

The first of our three stock screens selected companies in the Worldscope database whose prices today are at historically low multiples of earnings, cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and book value.

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