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1994 to January 1998, the number of domains grew at over 11% per month, shift population out of the central city to the suburbs in the 1950'

s, the computer, the information superhighway, and modems will help shift population from the suburbs to more remote areas.

4 doubling every six or seven months.2 This growth rate slowed from its peak rate of almost 16% per month in 1995, as internet domains became standard among larger companies in most sectors and among almost all companies in many sectors, including finance, publishing, entertainment, and, of course, computer hardware production and software services. In January 1998, there were over one million commercial domains registered in the United States. There were another 164,000 non-commercial domains registered, with the suffixes .edu (educational institutions), .org (non-profit organizations), and .net (network administration organizations). (See table 1.) While these internet domains are eve........