DNA to test federal court judgement 19/04/2004 07:09:33
Domains Names Australia (DNA) is appealing against a
Federal Court judgement which branded its mail-outs as
misleading and deceptive.
 http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1924930834

Russian Cybersquatters Squashed by Google
Russian Internet culture developed later than the Western
Internet culture. Russian law also took longer to surface
online — as many international companies who came to Russia
to do business had a chance to find out the hard way. All
the way back at the dawn of the Internet Age in Russia,
some people were already thinking of profiting from Western
expansion. Coca-Cola, Nokia, Kodak, Audi, and most
recently, Google, have all had to battle cybersquatters who
had registered Western trademarks as domain names.
 http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/04/15/google.shtml

Make way for the new Internet domain - .ax
The tiny province of the Aland Islands - located between
old rivals Sweden and Finland - has become an official
country with no fanfare whatsoever and is now entitled to
its own, new, top-level Internet domain, .ax.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/18/ax_domain/

Unlikely Alliance Seeks .xxx Top-Level Domain
The extreme diversity of the individuals who have banded
together to seek a sponsored top-level Internet domain
(sTLD)--.xxx--for adult entertainment may be the strongest
asset of their application, said the business executive who
played a key role in getting them to work together.

http://www.internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18901730

The Launch of .pro Domain for Professionals
From 5 April to 14 May 2004 trade mark owners can apply in
the .pro domain for defensive registrations corresponding
to their marks. The .pro domain is only available to
doctors, lawyers and CPAs during this period, known as a
"sunrise period".
 http://www.circleid.com/article/568_0_1_0_C

New .Pro Internet Registry Now Accepting Defensive
Registrations for Trademarks and Brand Names (news release)
Trademark and service mark owners have six weeks, starting
today, to register domain names with the new .Pro top-level
Internet domain (TLD), during a special pre-launch
"sunrise" registration campaign announced by .Pro registry
operator RegistryPro.

http://www.registrypro.com/pressroom/newsdisplayc.php?release=2004-04-05

RIPE NCC Member Update
The latest edition, Issue 4, May 2004, of the RIPE NCC
Member Update is now available. It's part of our continued
effort to communicate relevant information more effectively
and to encourage the participation of our members in RIPE
and in formulating RIPE NCC activities.
 http://www.ripe.net/newsletter/index.html

CoComapprove EC draft Public Policy Rules for .eu
On 10 Mar 2004, the Communications Committee of the EU
member states approved the draft text of a Commission
Regulation laying down public policy rules concerning the
implementation and functions of the .eu Top Level Domain
and the principles governing registration (PPR).  Within
the next few weeks it is expected that the Commission will
adopt the Regulation and publish the content.
 http://www.eurid.org/documents/latestnewsCoCom100304.doc

de: Former Prime Minister Opposes Internet Domain
The German Federal High Court recently dismissed a claim
brought by Kurt Biedenkopf, the former prime minister of
the German state of Saxony, to protest the use of his name
as a web address (for reasons not yet published). The
politician demanded that DeNIC, the competent authority for
registering domain names with the ending ".de," completely
close the web address "www.kurt-biedenkopf.de." Biedenkopf
had not intended to register this address for his own
purposes.

http://www.thelink.lu/live/newsletters/The%20l.i.n.k.%20-%20Issue%2025.htm#1078

fr: The Relaxing of .fr Naming Policy
In a press release dated 7th January 2004, the French
Association for Internet Naming in Cooperation ("AFNIC," or
the "Association Française pour le nommage Internet en
Coopération") announced a relaxing of the ".fr" naming
policy. In particular, AFNIC aims to suppress the so-called
"right to name" ("droit au nom"), i.e., the rule under
which only entities having a legal existence or a
registered trademark on the French territory may register a
".fr" domain name.

http://www.thelink.lu/live/newsletters/The%20l.i.n.k.%20-%20Issue%2025.htm#1090

Ireland's .ie To Come Under Government Control
The Irish domain registry (IEDR) is to come under the
control of the Commission for Communications Regulation
ComReg. At present the registry is managed by a
"not-for-profit" company, however it has come under
increasing criticism with regard to both its management and
policies. Although there are approximately 40,000 IE
domains currently registered, it is still one of the
strictest and most expensive ccTLDs in the world.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/566_0_1_0_C

Internet governance debate heats up
The debate on future governance of the internet is heating
up, with a United Nations ICT taskforce convening a “global
forum” late last month on the subject and those prominent
in the IT and political worlds having plenty to say around
the edges.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/C8E3392E1C46CCB4CC256E7600778677

nz: InternetNZ widens net debate
InternetNZ will be asking the government for publicity
muscle in mounting at least two public seminars on the
developing international internet governance debate.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/80562EAC335DD3AACC256E76007781DA

Details on July 2004 ICANN Meeting to be Held in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
ICANN's next round of meetings will be held 19-23 July 2004
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 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-16apr04.htm

Dr Hosni Tayeb and the case of the disappearing Internet
At the weekend, Libya suddenly disappeared from the
Internet. For four days not a single .ly domain was
available. Even now, only a tiny percentage of the
estimated 12,500 domains, paid for at $500 a pop, are
accessible.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/why_libyanet_fell

Se restablece el .ly y aun no esta claro que ocurrio
La escueta nota que ha publicado el ICANN en su web no
aclara mucho de lo que paso con el .ly (Lybia).

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=565&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Update Concerning Recent Outage of the .ly TLD
In response to numerous inquiries from Internet users and
other interested parties, ICANN has issued the following
update on the recent outage of the .ly TLD.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14apr04.htm

Seinfeld and Superman
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

May 11 2004: France’s new Bastille Day? (reg req'd)
Over the last years, most of Europe’s ccTLDs
administrations have either cancelled or at least seriously
liberalized the restrictions to domain name registrations
in their zones.
 http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=25437&e=on

File Name & Domain Name Methodologies - Their Role And
Importance In Top Search Engine Rankings
Google pays importance to file names of the site while
giving ranking to that site. Your file name should always
contain important keywords or keywords which are relevant
to that particular page.

http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/seo/wpn-4-20040416FileNameDomainNameMethodologiesTheirRoleandImportanceinTopSearchEngineRankings.html

Why not brand for an entire century?
Now a new routine emerges as savvy marketers enjoy
cyber-branding using Network Solutions’ latest offer of
$1,000 to secure a domain name for an entire century.
 http://www.wistechnology.com/article.php?id=751	

Report from ICANN Rome Meeting
ICANN held its quarterly meeting last month in Rome.
Although the agenda was quite full, there were two major
issues in the air of interest to intellectual property
owners: VeriSign's proposed Wait Listing Service (WLS) and
the issuance of new Top-Level Domains.

http://www.verisign.com/services/cdns/news/columnist_200404.html

Me.com domain name sold for $460,000
The high profile two-letter domain name Me.com has been
sold for $460,000 US dollars. The sale was handled by
Moniker.com.
 http://www.multireg.com/article418.html

Vanessa.com: $14,000 isn't enough to buy my own name
Domain market: Squatters and landsharks run free

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/news/stories/20040418/localnews/204604.html

PW Registry Corporation Offers Tools to Accelerate the
Adoption of the PW Top-Level Domain for Online Communities
and Social Networking (news release)
Partnership With LogicBoxes, New Evaluation Site Reduces
the Complexity for Resellers, Eases Rollout of PW Addresses
to Individuals and Affinity Groups.
 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040414/phw013_1.html

WIPO Comes to Silicon Valley - High Tech IP Issues in a
Global Marketplace: Hosted by Stanford Law School, May 17
and 18, 2004
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the
Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology are joining
forces to bring to the fore issues relating to intellectual
property and its growing importance in today's technology
and knowledge driven economies.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/eventos/index.asp?id=2687

http://www.law.stanford.edu/programs/academic/lst/wipo/program.html

DotWORLDS: New Domain Names Launched, An Alternative To The
Trivial (news release)
With a variety of new Top Level Domain Names available,
Internet users can finally break free from the limitations
of a system crammed with over 26 million, mostly
forgettable .COMs.
 http://newsroom.eworldwire.com/view_release.php?id=10206

Invitacion a participar de Task force
Durante la reunión del Flip-6 se planteo la necesidad de
contar con un IPv6 Task Force en América Latina, por lo
cual se ha constituido un foro de trabajo para dicho fin.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=564&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

El costo de nombres de dominio en el ccTLD .GTse ha
reducido
Desde el día 1 de marzo del 2004, el costo de los nombres
de dominio en el .GT se ha reducido.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=563&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Recordatorio por consultas sobre algunas solicitudes
actualmente en trámite
NIC Chile ha recibido diversas consultas respecto de
algunas solicitudes de nombres de dominio actualmente en
trámite, correspondientes a los nombres y primeros
apellidos de algunos Senadores de la República, las cuales
han sido presentadas por un grupo de particulares.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=562&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


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