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Congress Gets Real Over Virtual Kiddie Porn
Congress voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support
legislation banning the distribution of virtual, or
"morphed," child pornography and to give jail time to
online pornographers who attempt to mask their sites behind
misleading domain names.
 http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2189541

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4830-2003Apr10.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:3:./temp/~c108hZlJp1::

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c108:3:./temp/~c108hZlJp1:e15620:

Insurance Giant Fails In Porn Site Domain Challenge
Insurance giant The Prudential Insurance Company of America
has lost a domain dispute under the UDRP after they failed
to show that prudentialmotors.com - which diverted web
users to a pornographic site - was confusingly similar to
their Prudential trade marks.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/04/10_pr.htm

Sixth Status Report Under ICANN/US Government Memorandum of
Understanding
Report by ICANN to United States Department of Commerce Re:
Progress Toward Objectives of Memorandum of Understanding.
 http://www.icann.org/general/status-report-31mar03.htm

ICANN Nominating Committee Posts Its Operating Procedures
The ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) has posted the
procedures it will be using in its work to select eight
ICANN Directors, three GNSO Council Members, and five
Interim ALAC members. See also the ICANN Nominating
Committee web page, where this document and other
information about this new Nominating Committee process are
presented.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-12apr03.htm

GAC Communiqué - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 23, 24, and 25 March 2003.The
participating GAC Members, included representatives from 30
national governments, distinct economies as recognised in
international fora, and multilateral governmental and
treaty organisations. They had useful discussions
concerning ICANN and related Internet naming and addressing
issues.

http://www.gac.icann.org/RioMeeting/CommuniqueRioDeJaneiro.htm

GNSO Council Teleconference on 17 April 2003 - agenda

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030417.GNSOteleconf-agenda.html

More domain names registered in Ukraine
The total amount of registered third level domain names
increased in Ukraine by 5.5 per cent during first quarter
of 2003. National domain name administrator Hostmaster said
that Ukraine has 94,500 third level domain names now, e.g.,
‘.kiev’, ‘.ua’.
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=15849

DNS inventor calls for security overhaul
Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID
theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns.
Waiting in the wings is a better security standard for the
Internet's Domain Name System. It's called DNSSec, and it
uses digital signatures to guard against impersonation. But
political wrangles are holding up adoption, Mockapetris
claims.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/30224.html

NAF Faster Than WIPO in Resolving Domain Name Disputes
According to a review of cases resolved in 2002, including
cases filed under the UDRP and STOP, the cases that were
filed with the National Arbitration Forum were resolved
faster than the cases filed with the World Intellectual
Property Organization.
 http://www.udrplaw.net

IQ Test for Rebuilding Iraqi Net
Even before Saddam Hussein's regime started losing its
grip, a London ISP began rallying momentum for a plan to
bring pervasive and unfettered Internet access to post-war
Iraq.
 http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58406,00.html

New .es domain name plan

http://www.bmck.com/elaw/DisplayAlertbyID.asp?AlertID=23129

http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2003-03-26/pdfs/A11917-11924.pdf

Court takes 3 years to evict cyber squatter using HC's
domain name
A person hijacked the domain name of the Delhi High Court
and the lower courts and it took the court more than three
years to evict the squatter.
 http://www.kaumudi.com/news/040703/india.stm#16

PIR .Org Advisory Council Members by Region
 http://www.pir.org/about/council.html

Notice of Change to CIRA Fees Policy and Rules 
The fee charged by CIRA to Registrars for all requests to
register or renew a domain name registration, change
registrars or change (transfer) registrants initiated on or
after May 1, 2003 will be $12.50.
 http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/96.html


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