Hi all

Some more news for you all to peruse. It's a public holiday here in Austria
tomorrow, Friday, so don't stay up late waiting for it, it will return on
Monday!

Cheers
David

A battle for the heart and soul (Digital Mass) Dec
http://digitalmass.boston.com/columns/internet/1206.html
With parallels to the Bush-Gore smackdown, the battle for control of ICANN
is an increasingly partisan clash, featuring deep divisions around a central
question: Where does the Net go next?

Toilet sales firm ordered to drop domain name (Daily Yomiuri) 7Dec
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001207wo32.htm
The Toyama District Court on Wednesday ordered a portable toilet sales
company to stop using an Internet domain name that incorporates words
identical to the name of major consumer credit firm Jaccs Co.

A race to feed the web's voracious appetite (Financial Times) 6Dec
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3US3JCFGC
There are about 6bn people in the world. They own an estimated 350m
computers, 480m mobile telephones, 600m cars and as many as 1bn television
sets. Sooner rather than later, all these devices and more will want to be
on the internet.

'The domain that rocks': .mu (ZDNet) 6Dec
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2661859,00.html
Can sex sell domain names? The entrepreneur behind the .cc domain is using
bikinis, guitars, and race cars to sell .mu Web addresses.

A Case of Sex Appealed (Wired) 6Dec
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40544,00.html
A legal battle over the sex.com domain rages on. The porn site's former
operator files plans to appeal a ruling that returned the domain to its
original owner. Lawyers for the opposing side dismiss the move as a
desperate last-ditch effort.

Tucows Spreads Holiday Cheer to UNICEF (PR Newswire) 6Dec
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-06
-2000/0001381187
Tucows, the leading wholesale domain name registrar through its Tucows
OpenSRS registration service, announced their holiday promotion donating $1
to UNICEF for every 25 domain names registered, renewed or transferred in
December by their network of more than 4,000 Managed Service Providers.

WIPO domain dispute coup continues (Register) 6Dec
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15277.html
WIPO has continued its march toward control of the domain dispute market,
taking 68.5 per cent of all cases in November - up from 66 per cent in
October, 63 per cent in September and just 48 per cent back in January.

French Court Rules Against eBay in Domain Name Squabble (Standard) 5Dec
http://www.thestandardeurope.com/article/display/0,1151,12968,00.html
US auction giant eBay has received another blow in its court battle with
French startup iBazar over its ownership of eBay's French domain name, as
the courts again ruled in iBazar's favour

Domain Name Theft: When Someone Steals Sex, You Can Get It Back If It's In
Cyberspace (Domain Notes) 1Dec
http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,2160,3371_524111,00.html
Virtual sex is not the real thing, but is "theft" in Cyberspace different
than theft in real-space? What are the unique aspects of Cyberspace, and how
should an entity like ICANN (the Internet's domain name police) respond to
them? Although intellectual property - - resembling copyright or, perhaps,
Trademark - - and real property - - resembling a single family home or an
office building - - share many similar characteristics, one of the
significant distinctions between the two forms of "property" relates to how
or whether the use of the property by others may reduce the owner's ability
to enjoy or use the property.

Secret Meeting Shows ICANN - IBM Dependence (Cook Report) Jan2000
http://www.cookreport.com/icannoverall.shtml
ICANN Emerges as IBM - US Gov't Brokered Internet Equivalent of WTO - Lessig
Shows Internet as Potential Victim of Public Private Manipulation

ISOC's ICANN Coalition Widens Its Control (Cook Report) Sep1999
http://www.cookreport.com/isoccontrol.shtml
Attempts to Regulate DNS - Invites Trademark, IP, ITU, EC, E-Commerce
Interests to Expand ICANN Scope

At War For The Future Of The Internet (Cook Report) Jun1999
http://www.cookreport.com/icannregulate.shtml
ICANN Ignores Its By-Laws, Sweeps Opponents Aside, Claims Control Of All DNS
And Prepares For Showdown With NSI Under Guise Of Ending NSI Monopoly

The Mighty Five Install One of Their Own as Interim President and Ignore
Magaziner's Wishes (Cook Report) Oct1998
http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.shtml

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