Geelong Grammar wins domain name tussle
Geelong Grammar School, a well-known Australian boarding
school whose alumni include Prince Charles, has won control
of the domain name www.geelonggrammarschool.com in a ruling
by a UN panel.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783252833.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/10/1057783252833.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6729365%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Pool.com sues ICANN
Ottawa-based domain name registrar claims Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' practices are
monopolistic.

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030711.gtpooljuly11/BNStory/Technology/
 http://www.circleid.com/article/160_0_1_0_C/
 http://www.pool.com/Press/07102003.aspx (news release)

http://www.pool.com/Press/Statement%20of%20Claim%20-%20Pool.com%20Inc.%20v.%20ICANN1.pdf

Comienzo de la primera fase del periodo transitorio para
los dominios de tercer nivel.
Los beneficiarios de un dominio “.es” (“midominio.es”)
pueden pedir su nombre de dominio bajo ".com.es"
(“midominio.com.es”), ".nom.es" y ".org.es".
 https://www.nic.es/avisos/7_07_03_fase1.html

Don't sidetrack ICANN is business plea
The International Chamber of Commerce is opposing imminent
moves to create a new intergovernmental organization to
manage the Internet domain name system.

http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives/2003/stories/icann.asp

ICANN rules in favour of HK co over thenerds.com
In the 1980s, being called a 'nerd' was infra dig. Though
this may still be the same in a classroom scenario, it is
not so in the real world today as is evidenced by a recent
tussle over the domain name ‘thenerds.com’. Recently, the
National Arbitration Forum, an Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)-approved internet domain
name dispute resolution provider, decided in favour of
Ultimate Search, a Hong Kong-based company, accused of
registering the domain name in bad faith.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=69935

ICANN Announcement
At the 26 June 2003 ICANN Board adopted the amendments to
the bylaws under resolution 03.106, as shown in Appendix A
to the Board Minutes.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-09jul03.htm

UPS Sends Legal Message to Spammers
United Parcel Service of America is tackling computer spam
with a federal suit that seeks more than $1 million in
damages from unnamed spammers. Accusing spammers of using
UPS' domain name and its employee and customer lists to
market sexual products, lawyers for UPS have secured from
U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp an emergency order.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1056139961199

Planned Parenthood Sues Over Typo-Piracy
Planned Parenthood sued four abortion foes for
"typo-piracy" on Thursday, alleging they divert Internet
users who misspell Planned Parenthood's domain names to
grisly anti-abortion Web sites.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3071783
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31721.html

The Domain Admin. Contact - A criminal offender?
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has produced
a Report on the request of the Cayman Islands Government
for the redelegation of the .ky country code top level
domain. The upshot of the Report is that the administration
of the name is to be transferred from a private individual
to a new government-sponsored body in the Cayman Islands.
Thereby hangs a tale.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/07/10_criminal.htm

Moving Target: Spammer Using Over 1000 Home Computers as
DNS
Some individual appears to have hijacked more than a 1,000
home computers starting in late June or early July and has
been installing a new Trojan Horse program on them. The
Trojan allows this person to run a number of small websites
on the hijacked home computers. These websites consists of
only a few web pages and apparently produce income by
directing sign-ups to for-pay porn websites through
affiliate programs. Spam emails messages get visitors to
come to the small websites.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/162_0_1_0_C/

ICANN Approves At-Large Framework for Latin America
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) recently launched organizing of the individual
Internet user community (At-Large) for increasing global
participation and representation in ICANN. Under a
framework approved by ICANN's Board of Directors, local and
regional groups may now form in Latin America to involve
their members in critical issues that effect their use of
the Internet's domain name system.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/161_0_1_0_C/

FOX News Wins UDRP Case For Greta Van Susteren - from
http://www.udrplaw.net UDRPlaw.net
FOX News won a UDRP decision through WIPO on behalf of one
of its popular news reporters, Greta Van Susteren.  WIPO
Panelist Dennis Foster agreed with FOX that Van Susteren
had common law trademark rights in her name, and that the
domain name GretaVanSustern.com was confusingly similar to
her common law mark.

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2003/d2003-0335.html

RP government to oversee '.ph' domain name registry
The information Technology and E-commerce Council (ITECC)
will be drafting next week the implementing rules and
regulations for the National Telecommunications Commission
(NTC) to oversee the domain registration of the '.ph'
domain name, ITECC executive director Virgilio Peņa told
INQ7.net.
 http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/jul/05/inf_1-1.htm

Cybersquatter turns pink
A woman obsessed by pink has set up a website to raise cash
to pay for her car to be painted in a glittery shade of her
favourite colour.
 http://www.web-user.co.uk/news/33577.html


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