Hi all I'm having another day off from the news tomorrow... David False Web Registration Ban Targets Scam Artists (Newsbytes) Legislation that would criminalize the submission of false information when registering Web addresses is designed to target online criminals, not ordinary Internet users who make mistakes on their registration forms, supporters of the bill said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176407.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41467-2002May6.html Bill Would Criminalize False Domain Name Registrations (Newsbytes) Internet users who knowingly submit incorrect contact information when registering Web addresses could face up to five years in jail under legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this week. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176371.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28812-2002May3.html http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-900448.html http://news.com.com/2100-1023-900342.html http://www.lextext.com/coble.pdf Dot-Com Still the Main Domain (Wired) Last autumn, when registrars introduced the first new top-level domains in 15 years, no one expected suffixes like dot-biz and dot-info to prove any real match for the all-pervasive dot-com. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52274,00.html Dot-Com Death March Thinning Out - Report (Newsbytes) For the fifth month in a row the number of dot-com failures declined amid signs that the Internet sector shakeout is on the wane, a report said today. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176390.html Dispute over 'kr' Internet domains intensifying (Korea Herald) Korea's major Internet domain operators have been entangled in a dispute over the much-coveted "kr" domains, marring the country's image as a frontrunner in broadband and Internet businesses. http://www.koreaherald.com/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/05/04/200205040011.asp Internet Domain Dispute Escalating (Korea Herald) The general public is unhappy with the flurry of disputes surrounding the ``.kr'' domain. http://www.korealink.co.kr/kt_tech/200205/t2002050317404945110.htm Australian Domain Name Seller Makes Promises (Newsbytes) Australia-based domain name seller Internet Name Group today said it has made commitments regarding its marketing practices after the nation's consumer watchdog took the company to court alleging "false or misleading representations." http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176376.html http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265051,00.htm Porn sites take over domains (Australian IT) THE dotcom collapse has generated a new website protection racket, enabling online pornographers to re-register lapsed internet domains for publishing sexually explicit content. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4266545%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html Court Decision On Domain Name Dispute (from Baker & McKenzie E-Law Alert) The Superior Court of the State of Săo Paulo has issued a decision favorable to one of the largest Brazilian banks with respect to a domain name dispute. The case is the first one in Brazil that analyzes the legal basis applicable to domain name and trademark disputes. The Court has ruled that a Brazilian company, which had registered the disputed domain name, infringed the trademark rights of the plaintiff and must immediately cease any and all use of the domain name, being subject to a R$ 5,000 penalty per day in case of non-compliance with the judicial order. Welcome to Our Law School, Young Man. We'll See You in Court (New York Times) Louisiana law school is giving one of its students an unusually comprehensive legal education. In addition to offering him the standard classes and exams, it is suing him. The dispute centers on a Web site maintained by Douglas Dorhauer, a student at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The site is called lsulaw.com, and it includes a school calendar, law-related links and comments by Mr. Dorhauer, some of them critical of the law school. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/06/national/06LSU.html Courts to settle Web domain name disputes (Gulf News) Local courts will have a bigger role in settling Web domain name disputes following major changes brought to the existing framework, said a senior Etisalat official. The prime criteria will be that the domain name must have 'ae' in it. http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=49681 Though Network Solutions Apparently Likes DOT-BZ (from BNA Internet Law News) Thanks to an ILN reader for pointing out an interesting registration in the dot-bz domain (the Belize domain). Neulevel.bz, which looks very similar to the official neulevel.biz, is actually registered to competitor Network Solutions, which points the domain to Afilias, the dot-info registrar. Belize has adopted the ICANN UDRP -- no word on whether NSI will find itself subject to a claim for what looks like a bad faith registration. Whois record at: http://www.belizenic.bz/cgi-bin/Registrar?action=whois&action2=whois&domain=neulevel.bz WWF Admits Defeat In Fight For Logo, Net Domain (Newsbytes) New monikers may be old hat for the World Wrestling Federation. The wrestler Tugboat became Typhoon. Stunning Steve Austin became Stone Cold Steve Austin. The federation itself was officially known as Titan Sports Inc. at the same time that wrestlers like Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea) were beginning to make the initials WWF - with the first W standing for "Worldwide" then - a household fixture. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176425.html http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_1038611,00.html http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3209774.htm www.goinglikehotcakes.us (IT World) Over 250,000 .us domain names have been snapped up since their launch last week but registrars have been criticised for their poor control over allocation. http://www.itworld.com/Man/3827/020503domain/ La OMPI da la razón a France Telecom en la disputa del dominio 'www.francetelecom.com' (delitosinformaticos.com) El Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de Dominios de la Organización Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) ha dado la razón a la empresa France Telecom en la demanda interpuesta contra un grupo de usuarios denominado "Grupo de Usuarios de France Telecom" possedor del dominio 'www.francetelecom.com'. http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102053458185383.shtml An Assessment of ICANN's Mandatory Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy in Resolving Disputes Over Domain Names (Journal of Information, Law and Technology) The UDRP constitutes a major step forward in Internet governance. Although not without its shortcomings, analyzed within the ambit of its objectives, the Policy has succeeded in most respects. It has allowed trademark holders to recover domain names held by cybersquatters in a cost and time effective manner. At the same time, the UDRP has provided a relatively level playing field for combatants, as many disputes involve contests between 'Davids' and 'Goliaths', but without the certainty that Goliath will prevail. Suspect UDRP decisions are primarily anomalies, although forum shopping remains a legitimate concern. With time and a little fine-tuning, the UDRP will undoubtedly serve as a model for future initiatives to regulate conduct on the Internet. (This may have been in the news a few months ago). http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/01-3/hancock.html For ICANN§Large members... The newly elected panel for icannatlarge.com has set up a mailing list for general discussion about the At Large issues, open not just to its members but to anyone interested. That mailing list aims to be a prompt replacement of the current ALSC Forum list, which will close in a few weeks from now, and to host the same kind of fruitful discussion that has been characterizing it in the last two years. We encourage you to subscribe now to the new list by sending an empty message to atlarge-discuss-subscribe§lists.fitug.de. Archives may be found at: http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss. At the same time, the panel has set up two other lists: - an announcement list for internal communication to all icannatlarge com members who opted in at registration; - a panel list for internal discussion and voting among panel members. Both lists are publicly archived on the web at: http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-announce/ http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-panel/ See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the news, along with an archive. ===== David Goldstein post: 82 Kingston Road, Coventry CV5 6LR, UK email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +44 24 7667 7226 (home) +44 7786 704 887 (mobile) http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - A great way to communicate long-distance for FREE!Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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