>>Among other things, one of the points about the upcoming year was related to the fact that many domain-name holders will lose the rights to their names.
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>I'll bite; Why?

Because most of the domain names are not registered as official company name. So, whenever the new way of doing things be applied, at the beginning of 1997, many companies will be able to get their www.company.com instead of what they had to get because someone else already got their domain name. :)