eCommerce and the Impending Online Land Rush

The Internet has become a fixture of international commerce. No business that is serious about its bottom line can afford to ignore the opportunities and challenges of doing business online.

From experience, the Internet’s foundations appear to be fairly stable. Like a road or bridge that we’re accustomed to crossing every day, we give little thought to the Internet’s familiar pattern of domain names. We’ve learned that .com points us to businesses, .edu to schools and colleges, .org to nonprofit organizations, and .gov to government offices.

That familiar pattern is about to change.

By R. Shawn Gunnarson, Shareholder, Kirton & McConkie.

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