Hi all

This is the penultimate domain name news. As a few of you know, I am off
home back to Australia for 6 months to work on an Internet project as my job
here compiling the news has finished. So life goes on and I hope to return
to Austria sometime around August/September, so if anyone feels somewhat
interested in getting in touch in regards to work that I can do in Europe,
preferably in the area of Salzburg, Munich or Vienna but it is not necessary
that I be based here, please feel free to email me. I will forward you a
copy of my CV if you are interested. I am not a technical person, more a
policy based person.

Yes, you can say this is a shameless plug... but if you don't ask you don't
get! I can be contacted at goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au should anyone wish
to contact me in regards to this or anything else.

The nic.at domain news is likely to continue in a somewhat condensed format
in the new year, but undoubtedly it won't be as good! And it will only be
posted on their web site, where I also post it now (www.nic.at). All the
news I have collected over the past 6 months is stored in a somewhat simple
but cumbersome archive here.

And no-one at Domain Notes or Internet.com has ever contacted me!

All the best
David Goldstein

Kritik am BGH-Urteil gegen Holocaust-Leugner (Heise) 21Dec
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/fr-21.12.00-001/
Der Versuch des Bundesgerichtshofs, im Fall des Holocaust-Leugners Fredrick
Töben deutsches Recht weltweit auszudehnen, stößt international nicht auf
besondere Gegenliebe und verstärkt vor allem die kulturelle und politische
Kluft zu den USA.

Multilingual domain-name registrations reach 700,000 mark in test program
(Computer World) 20Dec
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88-93_STO55451,0
0.html
The company that maintains the master database of Internet domain names said
more than 700,000 Web addresses with non-English characters have been
registered since testing of the concept began last month.

The Other Dots Are Still Prized (Wired) 20Dec
http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,40738,00.html
When Network Solutions announced it was accepting requests for the new
dot-info and dot-biz top-level domains last week, its site was deluged with
visitors. There was so much interest, a representative said, that some
people were shut out. Consequently, customers were sent an e-mail asking
them to try again if they'd encountered problems.

ICANN losers ask for reconsideration (ZDNet) 20Dec
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2667231,00.html
Companies behind eight of the 37 proposed new top level domains (TLDs)
rejected by ICANN in November are asking that their proposals be
reconsidered.

Domain-Namen: Gerichte unterstützen meist Marken (Wirtschafts Woche) 20Dec
http://wiwo.de/WirtschaftsWoche/Wiwo_CDA/0,1702,10692_53352,00.html
Wenn ein Privatmann sich die Internet-Adresse "weideglueck.de" registrieren
lässt, führt er nach einem Richterspruch Sittenwidriges im Schilde.
"Weideglück" ist auch der Markenname einer schwäbischen Molkerei. Immer
öfter müssen sich die Gerichte auch mit der Vergabe von Internet-Adressen
beschäftigen.

Domainrechte: Rechtsprechung ohne klare Linie (Der Spiegel) 20Dec
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/ebusiness/0,1518,108828,00.html
Die WWWelt beschäftigt zunehmend auch die deutschen Gerichte. Häufig
streiten sich zwei Parteien um einen Domainnamen - die Urteile reichen vom
Schuss vor den Bug bis zur vollen Breitseite.

Domain-Grabbing - Immer mehr Verfahren um Internet-Adressen (n-tv) 20Dec
http://www.n-tv.de/?1700411
Deutsche Gerichte sind immer öfter mit Domain-Rechtsstreiten beschäftigt.
Bei privaten Internet-Adressen, die einen Markennamen enthalten, wittern die
Richter oft böse Absichten.

Procter & Gamble sells flu.com Internet domain name (Nando Times) 19Dec
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500291548-500462355-503079
472-0,00.html
Procter & Gamble Co. has sold the Internet domain name flu.com, one of
nearly 100 commercial names the consumer products company has put up for
sale because it does not plan to use them for Web sites.

nic.at versendet .at-Domain-Zertifikate (Der Standard) 19Dec
http://www.derstandard.at/dyn/aktuell/article.asp?channel=WEBSTANDARD&ressor
t=NETZPOLITIK&ID=423700
nic.at, die Registrierungs- und Verwaltungsstelle für .at-Domains, startet
heute mit dem Versand von Domain-Zertifikaten an Domain-Inhaber.