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28. Conflicts between domain names and registered trademarks have caused Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), the agent for registration of domain names in the United States, to require that registrants "represent and warrant" that they have the right to a requested domain name and promise to "defend, indemnify and hold harmless" NSI for any claims stemming from use or registration of the requested name. See Network Solution Inc., NSI Domain Name Dispute Policy Statement (Revision 01, effective November 23, 1995), available at ftp://rs.internic.net/policy/internic/internic-domain-4.txt. For a usefuloverview of the domain name registration system and of the tensions between trademark rights and domain names, see Gary W. Hamilton, Trademarks on the Internet: Confusion, Collusion or Dilution?, 4 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 1 (1995). See also Proceedings of the NSF/DNCEI & Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Internet Names, Numbers, and Beyond: Issues in the Coordination, Privatization, and Internationalization of the Internet, Nov. 20, 1995, available at http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/nsfmin1.html (discussing protection of the"trademark community" on the Net).