Who can speak for the Internet? More voices would help (International
Herald Tribune)
Alongside the economic boom times for the tech sector in recent years
grew an increasing recognition of the need for new ways to govern the
borderless new world brought forth by the Internet.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/56121.html

latinoamerICANN
latinoamerICANN nació como iniciativa de los miembros
latinoamericanos en el ICANN, para poder difundir y discutir en
nuestro idioma y desde nuestra realidad los temas concernientes al
sistema de nombres de dominio, así como las implicancias en nuestra
Sociedad.
 http://latinoamericann.derecho.org.ar/

Renewals Plunge a 'Veri' Bad Sign (Wired)
After spending the late 1990s gobbling up dot-com addresses
containing nearly every word in the dictionary, domain-name
speculators are now finding themselves fully gorged.  
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52151,00.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54829-2002Apr26.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-893064.html

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VKK22I0D

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=889321

Maryland Lt. Governor Denied In Cybersquatting Tiff (Newsbytes)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the frontrunner in the race for the
governor's chair in Maryland, has been denied trademark-like rights
to a handful of Internet addresses containing her name.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176189.html

ING ordered to change practices (Australian IT)
DOMAIN reseller Internet Domain Group has been ordered to cease some
of its marketing practices after allegations of misleading conduct
from the ACCC. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4221232%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

WIPO UDRP Panel Scales Back Personal Names Claims (from BNA Internet
Law News)
A WIPO ICANN UDRP panel has issued an interesting decision involving
several domains sporting the name of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the
Lieutenant Governor of the State of Maryland and the eldest daughter
of the late Robert F. Kennedy. The panel declined to transfer the
domains to Kennedy, noting that the second WIPO report on the domain
name process issued last fall indicated that the UDRP should be
limited to personal names that had been commercially exploited.
Kennedy had sought to rely on the Anne McLellan case, in which the
then Canadian justice minister obtained several domains featuring her
name. 
 http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0030.html

UDRP Panelist Orders More German Ministry Domains Transferred (from
BNA Internet Law News)
A WIPO panelist has ordered a series of German government domains
transferred to the government after finding that some of the domains
were being used to redirect users to a Nazi site. Although some of
the domains were not in use, the panelist took the view that the
registrant intended to use the domains to redirect users sometime in
the future.
 http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0110.html

Viacom loses claim over MTV domain name (Straits Times)
Viacom International Inc, a global entertainment company which runs
the Music Television or MTV, claimed that a Taiwanese firm used the
domain name, mtv.com.sg, in 'bad faith' and profitted from it.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,116232,00.html

http://www.disputemanager.com.sg/decisions/SDRP%202002-0001(F)%20Decision.pdf


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