The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
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In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the internet. The first was pornography.
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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The domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005.
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The ‘@’ sign is centuries old, and was used in Europe to denote a unit of weight (the “arroba”) equivalent to 25 lbs.
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Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
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