auDA terminates A1 Registrar's accreditation
The .au Domain Administration (auDA) has terminated the
accreditation of A1 Registrar Pty Ltd.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/21/1042911366130.html

http://www.audomainnews.info/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=217
 http://www.auda.org.au/about/news/2003012003.html

A media release from auDA said the directors of A1
Registrar had placed the company in administration in
December 2002 due to an ongoing shareholders' dispute that
could not be resolved. 
ccNSO Assistance Group - Preliminary Recommendation on
ccNSO Structure
Comments will be most useful if they are made by 11
February 2003. Consistent with the 29 October 2002 ccNSO
Assistance Group Communiqué, the Assistance Group has
prepared its preliminary recommendation on the ccNSO
Structure. The Assistance Group requests feedback within
the coming two weeks (until 11 February 2003) for comments
to be given utmost consideration. The preliminary
recommendation on ccNSO Structure can be found in Annex A.
The ccNSO Assistance Group will consider feedback received
on this preliminary recommendation and its effect on other
recommendations.

http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/ccnsoag-report-28jan03.htm

Needed: At-Large Delegates to ICANN's Nominating Committee
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) is convening a Nominating Committee to select a
majority of the voting members of ICANN's new Board of
Directors, as well as individuals to serve in other key
positions. ICANN is a private sector, non-profit
corporation with technical management responsibilities for
the Internet's domain name and address system.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28jan03.htm

ICANN Address Supporting Organization Address Council
Meeting
 http://aso.icann.org/meetings/AC/ac-20030108.html

ICANN Preliminary Report - Special Meeting of the Board
ICANN's Transition Board of Directors held a meeting by
teleconference on 23 January 2003. Directors Vint Cerf
(chairman), Amadeu Abril i Abril, Karl Auerbach, Ivan Moura
Campos, Lyman Chapin, Jonathan Cohen (joined the meeting
while in progress), Masanobu Katoh, Hans Kraaijenbrink,
Alejandro Pisanty, Nii Quaynor (joined the meeting while in
progress), Helmut Schink (participated only in the first
part of the meeting), Linda S. Wilson, Mouhamet Diop
(joined the meeting while in progress), and Francisco A.
Jesus Silva participated.
 http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan03.htm

Country Code Disputes Under The UDRP Drop To Lowest Level
Yet Jan. 28, 2003  
The number of UDRP cases filed against country code domains
has dropped to an all-time low, according to statistics
available from WIPO and the National Arbitration Forum. 
 http://www.udrplaw.net/

Nominet To Launch New Retagging Policy
Registrants of .uk domains who are having problems moving
their .uk domain name from one Nominet tag holder to
another can now ask the UK naming authority to do it for
them 
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/01/28_nom.htm

I Will Not Do It, WEBIAM!
In a World Intellectual Property Organization domain name
decision published today an attempt to claim the domain
name WebIAm.com failed because the complainants, WebIAm
Inc., failed to show common law trademark rights. But why
WebIAm?
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/01/29_web.htm

New .Org Registry Reports Smooth Transition
Public Interest Registry, the new manager of the .org
domain name registry, has reported the smooth transition of
the technical systems for .org from the previous incumbent,
Verisign Global Registry Services.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/01/29_pir.htm
 http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/1575341

Love Poems Not Evidence Of Good Faith Under UDRP
A Scottish respondent has lost lynnerussell.com in a domain
dispute to the ex-CNN anchor-woman of the same name, after
the panel held that using the associated web site to
publish a love poem to a "girl named Lynne Russell who [the
respondent] knew in his 'younger days'" was not sufficient
evidence that it had been registered in good faith. 
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/01/29_cnn.htm

New InternetNZ exec director starts recruitment drive
He's barely had time to get his shoes under the desk, but
already the newly appointed executive director of
InternetNZ is keen to get his feet wet with a recruitment
drive.

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/FEB87A32787FD777CC256CBD000496AE

Network Solutions blunders with 86,000 e-mail addresses
Businesses that have registered their websites with US firm
Network Solutions, were bracing themselves for an onslaught
of spam this week, after the internet specialist
accidentally e-mailed out a list of 86,000 of its
customers' e-mail addresses.

http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQSESS=cJ3077Q9&2149REQEVENT=&CARTI=119014&CARTT=1&CCAT=2&CCHAN=22&CFLAV=1

Register.com battle picks up steam
The takeover battle for Register.com picked up steam
Wednesday as the domain registry company announced it had
hired an investment bank and a law firm. Meanwhile, a group
whose bid had already been rejected by the company says it
will try to replace Register.com's board of directors, and
will ask shareholders to rescind the company's "poison
pill" against hostile takeovers.

http://www.crainsny.com/news.cms?postDate=2003-01-30&newsId=5031
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/reg012903.cfm

A punter's guide to keeping hold of your domain
Here is a quick guide that will hugely reduce the chances
that your domain will be snapped up by someone else:
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29087.html

Interview With Michael Froomkin: Watching ICANN Through
IETF – Part I
Michael Froomkin, a Professor of Law at the University of
Miami School of Law and one of the founding members of
ICANNWatch has recently written an article for the Harvard
Law Review called, "Habermas§discourse.net: Toward a
Critical Theory of Cyberspace". One of the areas covered in
this article is a comparison made between the ICANN model
and that of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Michael Froomkin has underlined several lessons that can be
learned from this contrast, including a suggestion "that
claiming kinship with the IETF model is a way of claiming
legitimacy, but that not every one who makes this claim is
entitled to do so".
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2563.asp

United Nations vs. ICANN: One ccTLD At A Time
Earlier this month Yoshio Utsumi, the secretary general of
the ITU, reiterated his call (originally made late last
year) for cyberspace regulation. "We need a common
framework or regulatory regime because [the information
society] is borderless, and we have to create this new
framework," he said, adding that issues such as taxation,
freedom of speech, intellectual property rights, security
and privacy could be ripe candidates for such regulation.
Shortly after the new year, IANA announced that management
of the ."af" ccTLD (for Afghanistan) had been handed over
to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Could
this signal a trend?
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2564.asp

Internet Governance: The Proof Is In The Pudding
In reference to a recent article published in Foreign
Affairs, Ronda Hauben offers her counter arguments
regarding some of the fundamental Internet issues: "It was
good to see magazines like Foreign Affairs acknowledge the
problems that ICANN represents for people around the world.
It would be even better to educate readers in the ways
Internet pioneers and netizens have solved such problems.
This requires a commitment to support the spread of
accurate knowledge about the Internet's development."
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2565.asp
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