... as trade marks. It is now possible for the owners of both registered and unregistered trade marks to bring an action against 'domain name squatters', i.e. those who register a domain name so as to sell it to the owner of the trade mark. A Domain Name system is a method of administering names by giving different groups responsibility for subsets of the names. Each level in this system is called a domain. In the name http://elearning.northumbria.ac.uk is the name of a host, a real computer with an IP address. The name for that computer is created and maintained by the elearning group which happens to be the department where the computer resides. Northumbria is a portion of the national group of educational institution. So the domain ac contains all computers in all UK educational institutions. When the Internet started to be of wide commercial use around the world, additional top-level domains ...

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