Web Hosting News - Decision in Domain Name Dispute Upholds Freedom of
Speech  
Freedom of speech on the Internet was upheld by a landmark decision
in a domain name dispute decision released today. According to the
decision, an individual can use a domain name containing the
name of a government agency for the purpose of criticizing the
government's activities.
 http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=361

Shares of VeriSign plunge 20 percent 
Shares in VeriSign Inc., which oversees the database of dot-com and
other Internet addresses, plunged nearly 20 percent Friday over
concerns about the company's outlook.
 http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/158283p-1497360c.html

Cybersquatter has Liffe in his sights (Mail on Sunday)
AS the chiefs of Europe's biggest stock markets fight to buy London's
Liffe financial exchange this weekend, the eventual winner may face
an altogether different tussle - with a so-called 'cybersquatter'.

American businessman Syed Hussain registered the internet address
euroliffe.com just one day after Liffe - the London International
Financial Futures and Options Exchange - confirmed it had received
takeover approaches. 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/business_story.html?in_review_id=469174&in_review_text_id=423086

Cops' Critic Can Keep Dorset Police Domain Names
The referee in a domain-name dispute between the police department
for Dorset County in the U.K. and one of its harsh critics has ruled
that gadfly Gerry Coulter has a right to use the Internet addresses
DorsetPolice.com and DorsetPolice.net as his soapbox.
 http://www.elcom.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=715

New Internet Domain Name Confusion
By Dana Greenlee, Co-Host WebTalkGuys Radio

What's in a name? When it comes to choosing and securing a top level
domain name (TLD), the part of a web address that comes after the
“dot”, gone are the days when you only had to worry about .com, .net
and .org. 

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
announced last year they will be rolling out the new extensions:
info, .biz, .name, .coop, .museum, .pro, .aero and .biz. The
non-profit ICCAN manages the Net's domain name system as well as the
Internet's root server system, IP address numbers, protocol
parameters and port numbers, and is chaired by none other than
inventor of the Internet, Vint Cerf.

The arrival of new TLDs only seems to have made the process more
difficult and confusing. The big question is whether or not to
register anything more than just “.com”. NetNames, a domain name
management specialist, reports that 80% of the world's top brands
have already registered their '.info' domain name.

To debate whether there is a need for new top-level Internet domain
names, we convened three Internet leaders.

Joey Caisse is CEO of Web-X.com. The Washington State University
graduate launched Web-X in 1995 with then-college roommate Scott
Anderson, who is CTO. 

Ron Ehli is CEO of PayByCheck.com. The Washington-native started
Paybycheck seven years ago and it is one of the early dot com’s that
is surviving and thriving.

Rob Greenlee is host of technology talk show WebTalkGuys Radio on
KLAY 1180 AM and Marketing Director for PDConcepts.com.

Together they pondered if new domain names are about the almighty
dollar, whether they make it easier for users to navigate the
Internet, and whether the expanded number of top-level domains give
businesses a better chance at getting desirable URLs or complicate
the process of protecting their corporate trademarks?
 http://www.webtalkguys.com/article-domain.shtml

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