Winemakers are banding together to fight the introduction of new food-specific internet domain names that include .vin and .wine. The producers of high end wines believe that these new suffixes "could make it easier for unscrupulous companies to pass off inferior wines." European winemakers have even threatened to "boycott the new domain names" if they are issued. [WSJ][Photo]
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