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My Domain?

Geoff Riley

27th June 2008

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The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports here on proposed changes to the internet domain registration system that are likely to swpan a new generation of popular internet addresses. This video clip could be a good resource when teaching students about the role of property rights in a market economy. If the reforms go through we might see another stampede of so-called cyber-squatters rushing to register some of the really popular domain names followed by a backlash as established online and bricks and mortar businesses look to protect their trademarked names by claiming that these domain names actually belong to them!

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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