au: Domain renewals 'misled'
Letters dressed up to look like invoices for the
registration of internet domain names were misleading, a
Federal Court judge has found.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081838725711.html

http://thewest.com.au/20040414/business/tw-business-home-sto123178.html

http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/04/12/1081621893693.html
(sub req'd)

auDA wins claim against domain name vendor
The administrator of the .au domain space has won a claim
against Domain Names Australia and its owner Chesley
Rafferty, filed under the Trade Practices Act.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081621941046.html

auDA applauds court decision
.au Domain Administration (auDA) has welcomed a Federal
Court's decision in its favour against Domain Names
Australia.

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12&Art_ID=19145

.au Domain Administration Ltd v Domain Names Australia Pty
Ltd (decision)

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2004/424.html

auDA wins TPA action against DNA (auDA news release)
.au Domain Administration (auDA) has won its Trade
Practices Act claim against Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd
(DNA) and Chesley Rafferty.
 http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=11

nz: Net closes on web domain name scam
Business partners Chesley Rafferty and Bradley Norrish see
themselves as free-market crusaders, but they have made
their names across the world for scooping up millions of
dollars from unsuspecting businesses.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2873947a28,00.html

nz: Watchdog rescues Kiwis from domain name scam
The Commerce Commission seized mail and intercepted credit
card payments to stop more than $500,000 going into the
Swiss bank accounts of two Australian domain name scammers.
 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3560128

nz: Domain name rip-off blocked by watchdog
Over $433,350 New Zealanders paid an Australian-based
domain name company in the mistaken belief they were paying
an invoice has been blocked by the NZ Commerce Commission.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081621945134.html
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621895777.html

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/13/1081621942626.html

http://thewest.com.au/20040413/business/tw-business-home-sto123120.html

ie: Daily fines for misuse of Ireland domain name
Communications watchdog Comreg will have the power to levy
fines of up to €2,000 a day for regulatory breaches of
Ireland's domain name .ie when it takes control of the
registry under new legislation.

http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/3007175?view=Eircomnet

ie: Comreg take over control of domain name 
Communications Minister Dermot Ahern today announced that
regulation and control of Ireland's domain name (.ie) is to
be transferred to the Commission for Communications
Regulation (Comreg).

http://irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/04/13/story142644.html

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=88867212&p=88867835&n=88867900

http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/3010757?view=Eircomnet

Libya disappears from the Internet
Libya has disappeared from the Internet and no one seems to
be able to explain why. Late on Friday, all .ly domains
stopped working and they're still not up now. The
administrative and technical contact for the country's
Internet presence have not answered phone calls or emails
at their Tripoli office.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/13/libya_falls_off_net

au: Internet domain game
The internet may be a globe-spanning monolith, but it is
populated very much by individuals. That point has been
driven home with the release of statistics showing the
number of Australians securing their own internet domain
name is soaring.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9259734%255E11869,00.html

P2P Network Confirms Sex.com Hijacker a Consultant
West Bank-based peer-to-peer software developer
Earthstation 5 has formally confirmed that they have hired
former Sex.com hijacker Stephen M. Cohen as a consultant.

http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200404/newsarchive/news_041204_9.shtml

Regulatory Watch: FCC to Probe Overseas Wireless
Termination Fees
On March 11, after years of complaints from U.S.
long-distance carriers, the FCC launched an inquiry into
overseas wireless operators and the allegedly excessive
termination fees they bill American carriers. 
...
In a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), thecommission
wants comments on these issues:
• Should there be a list of, or a naming convention for,
domain names or registry that helps users determine quickly
that a message is spam.

http://www.billingworld.com/archive-detail.cfm?archiveId=7469&hl

New TLD Public Comments: Jumping-to-Conclusions?
Having been involved in the whole TLD issue since its
inception, back in the ancient history of the mid-1990's,
one would think that nothing would surprise me anymore. As
it turns out, however, watching the comments on ICANN's
public comment list with respect to the new sTLD proposals,
I find that I'm taken-back by some of the kinds of comments
I'm seeing.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/565_0_1_0_C

ICANN's 9th Status Report: The Goals Are Good
ICANN has made great strides in implementing steps to
improve the organization's transparency, accountability,
openness - according to their most recent Status Report
[PDF]. The report describes the requirements of their MOU
with the Department of Commerce and what the organization
has done to toward achieving these goals. However, even
though the Report makes it sound as if ICANN is on the
right track, some troubling issues lay underneath the
surface of the Report.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/564_0_1_0_C

Dot-com domain sales booming
A Netcraft survey shows phenomenal growth in the sales of
top level domain names (including dot com, dot-net and
dot-org extensions) during March, with deep discount
registrars extending their commanding lead.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=8744&cid=3&cname=Technology
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/dom041304.cfm

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=8744&cid=3&cname=Technology

Power of the internet
Seinfeld and Superman are trying to become masters of their
domain names. The two are being followed and filmed by
director Barry Levinson for a series of Webisode
documentaries that show us all, when two such high profile
men get together -- not that there's anything wrong with
that -- just how exciting their lives can be.

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/living/tech_beat/?ArID=68425&SecID=30

New New .MUSIC Domain Names Released to the World Wide Web
Building on the growing success of their Internet
Communities dotWORLDS is now giving away all their
"Personality" domain names - including the new and
extremely popular ".music" - completely free, to encourage
more users to come aboard. Other totally free domain names
available are ".cool", ".sexy", .genius and many more. To
get yours, simply visit www.dotworlds.net and select the
"Personality" Radio Button for the complete list.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=2034
 http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/4/emw117545.htm

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