Domains dispute heads to ACCC
Domain name company Domain Names Australia has launched a
counteroffensive in its battle with the Australian domain
name authority, auDA.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/08/1062901983187.html

New Kids' Domain Open for Business
A new Web domain geared toward children went live this
week, just as the U.S. government announced the arrest of
an alleged cyber squatter accused of pointing children to
explicit material online.
 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1255341,00.asp
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1256861,00.asp

ICANN Announcement: Details on October 2003 ICANN Meeting
to be Held in Carthage, Tunisia
ICANN's next round of meetings will be held 27-31 October
2003 in Carthage, Tunisia. The meetings are free to attend
and open to any interested person. ICANN encourages broad
participation in its bottom-up consensus-development
process.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19aug03.htm

ICANN urged to solve language problem (reg req'd)
Confusion over intellectual property ownership of domain
names could increase unless the internet's governing body
resolves language issues, according to a new report.

http://www.legalmediagroup.com/default.asp?Page=1&SID=13005&CH=5&CN=&CountryName=&Type=News

PIR: .org Domains Now Modify in Five Minutes
The Public Interest Registry (PIR) (pir.org) announced
today that .org users will now be able to register and
modify existing domain name registrations via their Web
browsers in less than five minutes.
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/pir090803.cfm

New Domain Name Resource Site Launched
DevStart, a leading provider of web development resources,
announced today that they have successfully launched their
new website DomainInformer.com (www.domaininformer.com).

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=1582

VeriSign Mulls Way to Make Money from Typos
VeriSign Inc is testing changes to its domain name system
services, which could generate tens of millions in revenue
a year for itself and partners, and which would impact the
way almost every internet user surfs the web.

http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/d04afc52ae9da2ee80256d9c0018be8b

EarthLink Sues to Stop Alabama, Vancouver Spammers
Internet provider EarthLink Inc. said it sued seeking to
break two e-mail "spam" rings Wednesday, charging that
operators in Alabama and British Columbia flooded its
network with some 250 million unwanted commercial messages.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20030827/wr_nm/tech_earthlink_dc
 http://www.earthlink.net/about/press/pr_spammerarrest/

Letter from Center for Democracy and Technology
to subcommittee considering Whois accuracy to consider
privacy issues for those registering domain names.
 http://www.cdt.org/dns/Whoisletter.pdf

.br – Indemnification For Damages On Inappropriate Use Of
Domain Name
A judge from the State of São Paulo instructed a company,
which registered two domain names containing trademarks
owned by the largest Brazilian bank, to pay an
indemnification for moral damages of R$1 million
(approximately US$ 340 thousand) to the bank.

http://www.bmck.com/elaw/DisplayAlertbyID.asp?AlertID=34201

.br – Decision on Typosquatting
The Superior Court of the State of São Paulo issued the
first Brazilian decision that recognize the illegality of
"typosquatting," where domain names are registered with
small typing errors for the purpose of directing the
original website's audience to the typosquatter’s site.

http://www.bmck.com/elaw/DisplayAlertbyID.asp?AlertID=34202

.ca - Change of rules for CIRA
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) revises
its policies, rules, and procedures on a quarterly basis to
respond to the demands of registrants and potential
registrants, to better meet the needs of CIRA Certified
Registrars, and to implement operational improvements.
 http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/20030825.html#topic01

.au - Ancient domain
When Marrickville's Aboriginal community requested an
official historical website, the council took some special
steps. It called in community representatives, cultural
advisors, historians and an indigenous web company to help
with the construction.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/05/1062549014427.html

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