.com.cn domain name at center of legal spat between
MadeForChina.com and MPC Trust
MadeForChina.com has brought a legal action against New
York registered MPC Trust before China's Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Center in Beijing alleging the abusive
use of the domain name www.madeforchina.com.cn. An official
at the Dispute Center surnamed Chen confirmed that the case
was ongoing. 
http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=5657991&req= 

The Neverending ccTLD Story - Addressing the world:
national identity and internet country code domains
Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are the two-letter
suffixes used by countries to denote their Internet
addresses. Examples include .fr (for France), .tv (for
Tuvalu) and .uk (for the United Kingdom). When ccTLDs were
first developed, ccTLD policymaking was not high on the
international lawmaking agenda. However, as the Internet
explodes and as countries begin to realize the potential of
this key information infrastructure, ccTLDs have received
significant attention from the international community. 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=388980 

Berkman Center Releases UDRP Treatise
The UDRP Opinion Guide has just been published on the
Berkman Center website. The Guide was prepared by Amy
Bender HLS '03 and Berkman Fellow Megan Kirk, and edited by
Clinical Program Director Diane Cabell. The UDRP Opinion
Guide summarizes results of UDRP domain name disputes into
the various issues and types of arguments raised by the
parties. Because it is difficult to adequately search the
UDRP databases using keywords, the Opinion Guide was
created to help counsel and users see how the panels react
to various arguments posed by the parties. The Opinion
Guide is a companion to the earlier work "Using ICANN's
UDRP" which walks users through the dispute resolution
procedures. The UDRP References page continues to top
search engine results as a popular domain name dispute
resource. 
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=78

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/udrp/opinion/ 

VeriSign Eyes Valuable 'Junk' Traffic
Your typos could soon reap a small fortune for VeriSign
Inc., under a new program being tested by the Mountain
View, Calif.-based Internet giant. Every second, somewhere
in the world, someone types an incorrect address into their
Internet browser and gets bounced to a Web page he or she
didn't want. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A996-2003Sep12.html


Exposed: The domain name shame of failing firms
Businesses making the move online are falling at the very
first hurdle, as too many fail to register an appropriate
or memorable domain name. 
http://www.silicon.com/news/500022-500001/1/5991.html 

ICANN Announces the Appointment of Two Senior Managers
After an extensive international search, ICANN has a new
General Counsel, John Jeffrey, and a new Vice President of
Business Operations, Kurt Pritz. These are the first senior
management appointments following ICANN's corporate
restructuring announcement in May of 2003. "I am thrilled
to have these two outstanding executives join ICANN," said
ICANN's CEO/President Paul Twomey. "The caliber of their
experience and skills will bring a terrific value to our
business from day one. I believe they will make a great
contribution to ICANN in reaching its goals". 
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10sep03.htm


ccNSO Launching Group -- Call for ccNSO Membership
Applications

http://ccnso.icann.org/applications 

ICANN Preliminary Report - Special Meeting of the Board
ICANN's Board of Directors held a meeting by teleconference
on 19 August 2003. Directors Vint Cerf (Chair), Ivan Moura
Campos, Lyman Chapin, Mouhamet Diop, Tricia Drakes,
Masanobu Katoh, Thomas Niles, Michael D. Palage, Alejandro
Pisanty, Njeri Rionge and Paul Twomey (joining late) were
present. Board Liaisons Steve Crocker, Roberto Gaetano,
John Klensin and Francisco A. Jesus Silva also
participated. Dan Halloran, Acting Secretary was present
for the commencement of the call; Esme Smith with Jones
Day, counsel to ICANN and acting as secretary for the
meeting, was also in attendance. The Board adopted the
following resolutions: 
http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-19aug03.htm 

Locke departs Domainz after buy out
Derek Locke, CEO of Domainz, has resigned following the
company's purchase by Australian registrar Melbourne IT. 
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/9DB8C9512E269280CC256D9E00180329


Workshop to develop a Recommendation to clarify the
management of ".int"
A workshop to develop a Recommendation on the management of
".int" will take place at the ITU Headquarters in Geneva
from September 15-16. Resolution 102 which was revised at
the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Marrakesh (2002)
instructed the Director of the Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau "to work with Member States and
Sector Members, recognizing the activities of other
appropriate entities, to develop a recommendation to
clarify the management of the domain '.int'." The Workshop
is open and free of charge to all international
organizations and to any interested party from a country
that is a member of ITU. 
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2003/09/12.html#a191 



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