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At its national conference in San Francisco this week, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) announced that it will now offer a list of 280 million existing and prospective U.S. telephone numbers that have been designated for wireless service.

Since 1997, nine European countries have introduced new regulations aimed at creating a fully competitive directory assistance, directory enquiry/inquiry (DA/DQ) market. Seven countries have already implemented them and two more are in the process of doing so this year.

Go Daddy Software Inc. announced the introduction of Domains By Proxy Inc., a service that will allow individuals to shield their personal contact information from the "WhoIs" database. ICANN requires registrars to maintain a publicly accessible "WhoIs" database that displays the contact information for all domain names registered.