Internet Revenues--Showing Up Just Isn't Enough

Web money-makers push the technological envelope.

BY ERIK CAGLE

Ask 100 non-computer-technology-related companies why they have a Web site, and 95 will probably respond, "To have a presence on the Internet."

Those respondents are in good company. At least 3 million Internet domain names have been registered under .com, .net and .org. Network Solutions, which has registered 75 percent of all domain names worldwide, reported a record 443,000 net new Internet domain names in the second quarter of 1998, up 91 percent from the second quarter 1997 total of 232,000 names and 30 percent from first quarter total of 340,000. Cumulative net registrations billowed from 1.04 million to 2.29 million between June 30, 1997, and June 30, 1998.