Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
French intellectual property attorney in Australia Philippe
Rodhain explains reverse domain name hijacking in his
second guest article.
 http://www.udrplaw.net/Rodhain2.htm
Read Philippe's first article on Australia's .au Dispute
Resolution Policy here.
 http://www.udrplaw.net/Rodhain1.htm

Workshop on Member States' Experiences with ccTLDs
The purpose of this open workshop is to begin to work with
Member States and Sector Members, recognizing the
activities of other appropriate entities, to review Member
States' ccTLD and other related experiences, in accordance
with Resolution 102 as revised at the Plenipotentiary
Conference in Marrakesh (2002).
 http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/cctld/index.html

Internet community more constructive says Cerf
Vint Cerf, head of the board of Icann, the body that
oversees internet domain administration internationally,
says the effort to come up with a structure for such a body
was "in turmoil from day one".

http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/F6287310756F24F2CC256CD1000EE04A!opendocument

Thoughts On Creating a Sustainable Framework for
Administering the Deployment of New gTLDs - Part I – Where
We Are
At the Fourth Annual Meeting of the ICANN Board in
Amsterdam, the ICANN Board asked the DNSO Names Council
(who have since become “the GNSO Council”) to provide the
Board with advice and input on the issues that surround the
creation of new generic top-level domain names. Based on
the Council’s publicly documented conversations thus far,
it is becoming clear that Council is moving in directions
that do not seem to be consistent with the continued health
of the namespace or development of a competitive market for
registration and DNS services.

http://r.tucows.com/archives/2003/02/17/thoughts_on_new_gtlds_part_i.html

.uk.co domain wiped off face of Internet
The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet
this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid
individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline
- with no Web presence or email.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29359.html
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/02/18_co.htm
 http://www.uk.co

"Johnnie Walker" Loses Johnniewalker.ME.UK
John Walker, the registrant of johnniewalker.me.uk, has
lost the second ever .me.uk domain dispute to Guinness
United Distillers - distillers of Johnnie Walker whisky,
after the expert ruled - in the words of Nominet's dispute
policy - that the domain in the hands of the respondent was
"an abusive registration".
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/02/17_jw.htm

http://www.nominet.net/DisputeResolution/Decisions/GuinnessUnitedDistil...nersBv-v-JohnFWalker.html

Re-Registered Domains Not "Abusive Registrations"
Zara Holdings Limited - former registrants of a desirable
three letter .co.uk domain - have lost a domain name
dispute under Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service. The
action was brought after Zara did not renew their name
allowing it to be re-registered by a domain speculator.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/02/18_za.htm

VeriSign to Support Foreign Domain Standard
VeriSign Inc, which runs the .com and .net domain
registries, said this week it will support Punycode, a new
Internet Engineering Task Force standard for encoding
internationalized domain names (IDNs) into ASCII.

http://www.computerwire.info/brnews/B5AEB9D44CE5D88588256CD2000749AD

NASCAR Licensee Takes Checkered Flag in Case Against Ticket
Reseller - from UDRPlaw.net http://www.udrplaw.net
In a split three-member Panel WIPO decision, NASCAR
licensee HBP, Inc. succeeded in its case against Fort
Lauderdale ticket reseller Front & Center Tickets, Inc.
over the domain names Daytona500Tickets.net and
Daytona500Tickets.org. HBP, Inc. v. Front & Center Tickets,
Inc., WIPO Case D2002-0802 (Feb. 11, 2003).

http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0802.html

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