Digital defends its turf Digital Equipment (DEC) has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against the Campbell, California-based multimedia software company AltaVista Technology Incorporated, (ATI) over use of the AltaVista name, which is the trademark of DEC's popular search engine. [News.com] http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-314084.html

Compaq Says No Deal On AltaVista Domain Reports that Compaq's AltaVista site had bought the altavista.com domain are premature, the company says. [TechWeb] http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980728S0014

Compaq buys AltaVista domain It took a few years and a reported $3.3 million, but Compaq today said the news is official: it now owns the coveted domain name "www.altavista.com." [News.com] http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-332111.html

San Jose Man Hits Gold--$3.3 Million Web Name Compaq Computer Corp. has agreed to pay a San Jose man $3.35 million for the Web address www.altavista.com, which is believed to be a record amount paid for a domain name, according to a source close to the deal. [SF Chronicle] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/07/28/MN27524.DTL

Warner Bros. claims Harry Potter sites The movie studio is claiming that many of the fan Web sites violate its intellectual-property rights and is demanding the domain names be surrendered. By Stephanie Grunier and John Lippman. [Wall Street Journal] http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2667273,00.html