MelbIT future 'challenging' (Australian IT)
MELBOURNE IT has tipped 10 per cent growth in earnings for the first
half of 2002, but acknowledges that the future is "challenging" as it
is about to lose its monopoly on the .com.au wholesale business.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4367872%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882066569.html

House draws lines for kids online (CNET)
Hoping to create a safe playground for children on the Web, the House
of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would gather sites
designed for youth under a new Internet domain.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-919416.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51134-2002May21.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52694,00.html

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=990585
 http://www.msnbc.com/news/755410.asp

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036075may22.story
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176705.html

Dot-Kids Heads a Mess of Regs (Wired)
The U.S. Congress, racing to leave town before the Memorial Day
recess, is focusing on Internet regulation like never before. 
Politicians are scrambling to debate a raft of technology
regulations, ranging from domain names and privacy to broadband,
spam, and funding for security research. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52709,00.html

ICANN Director Seeks Court Order to Review Records (EFF news release)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a motion with
the Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of ICANN Director Karl
Auerbach requesting the court grant him immediate access to corporate
records that ICANN management has denied him for one-and-a-half
years.
 http://www.eff.org/Cases/Auerbach_v_ICANN/20020521_eff_icann_pr.html
 http://www.icann.org/legal/litigation.htm

Canada's '.Ca' Authority Holds Second Board Election (Newsbytes)
While the powerful Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) rethinks the concept of democratic control over
top-level domains like dot-com and dot-net, the Canadian agency in
charge of that country's domain-name space is launching its second
public election of board members.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176710.html
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52149-2002May21.html

La OMPI resuelve a favor de Telecinco por el dominio 'www.tele5.com'
(delitosinformaticos.com)
El Centro de Mediación y Arbitraje de Dominios de la Organización
Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) ha fallado a favor de
Telecinco por la utilización del dominio 'www.tele5.com'.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102201497616874.shtml

Kevin Spacey Loses Round Two Of Domain Name Case (from BNA Internet
Law News)
Actor Kevin Spacey has lost another attempt to obtain the
kevinspacey.com domain. A California court has ruled that it cannot
assert jurisdiction over the dispute since the domain name registrant
is located in Canada and did nothing to direct his activities to the
state of California.

6th Circuit Upholds Domain Decision; Reverses On Jurisdiction (from
BNA Internet Law News)
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeal yesterday issued an interesting
decision involving a suit against domain name registrar Dotster and
domain auction service Afternic. The court reversed a lower court
decision in finding that the Ohio court could assert jurisdiction
over Dotster since the company accepted business from thousands of
state residents on its site. The court then proceeded to uphold the
dismissal of trademark infringement, unfair competition, ACPA, and
copyright infringement claims arising from the listing of a purchased
domain on the Afternic site.
 http://laws.findlaw.com/6th/02a0177p.html



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