• Buying negative domain names can protect corporate identity
  American Century Investments of Kansas City considered itself on top of the World Wide Web five years ago when it registered its domain name three ways: .com, .net and .org. Last year, it registered americancenturysucks.com, .org and .net.
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• Bill Would Require ICANN To Create '.Kids' Domain
  A pair of lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would force Internet addressing authorities to create a ".kids" domain that would be designed to serve as a safe online haven for children.
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06/28/2001

• What's in a Web Domain Name? For a System Under Strain, It Spells Trouble
  Several political headaches about Internet addresses have no clear solutions
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• Museum Domain Management Association The .museum Registry
  Starting at 7:00 (AM) GMT on 30 June 2001, the Museum Domain Management Association (MuseDoma) will accept preliminary requests for the reservation of subdomain names in the .museum top-level domain.
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• This is how Easy Group enforces its domain name 'rights'
  Following our recent coverage and conversations with top Easy Group staff regarding the company's approach to other domains featuring the word "easy", we have been sent a copy of the letter sent out by Easy Group's lawyers Denton Wilde Sapte.
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• Domain Battle Looms Between Korea and France
  An uphill legal battle between Korea and France surrounding Internet addresses is looming, as a Korean netizen has sought legal action against what he insists is an unfair order made by a French court.
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• Battles for ownership of domain names
  DOMAIN names are the newest form of intellectual property. Like all other forms of intellectual or normal property, disputes arise pertaining to use and/or ownership.
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06/27/2001

• EU proposes its own Internet domain
  European Union ministers gave their blessing Wednesday to the setting up of .eu, a new Internet top-level domain for Pan-European companies, associations and institutions
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• New Domains Get Down to Business
  .Biz and .info are now active, but won't be available for registration until September.
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06/26/2001

• ICANN Set To Christen .Biz, .Info Domains
  Dot-com will get some dot-company tonight when Internet addressing authorities officially add two new suffixes - .biz and .info - to the Internet's worldwide addressing system
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06/24/2001

• Bloomberg Not Domain Man In Fight for Site With Name
  Mayoral hopeful Michael Bloomberg may be a billionaire, but he is not a master of this domain: MichaelBloombergSucks.com.
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• Register a domain name, get swamped with marketing material
  Every time John Levine registers a new Internet address, he can count on somebody calling, mailing or faxing him a sales pitch for Web site hosting, high-speed access or the like.
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• Latest online domain names to hit market
  The Internet starts taking reservations tomorrow for an expansion that will increase the number of Web site names available online
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06/23/2001

• Firms back UK domains
  UK firms show loyalty to the .uk suffix
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06/22/2001

• Business Group Urges Members To Consider New Domains
  Fearing that many companies may still be unaware of the imminent launch of several new worldwide Internet domains, the nation's largest business group is hectoring its members to at least take note of how the new online "neighborhoods" may affect them.
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• New .Biz Domain Protection Scheme Provides Little Peace of Mind
  NeuLevel, the registry for the forthcoming .biz top-level domain (TLD), claims to offer a protection service for enterprise trademarks and brands. However, the service may be toothless and too costly for all but the most famous brands
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• Ukraine's Domain in Dot-Dispute
  Dot-ua is a domain in search of a master. The country code for Ukraine has been around since 1992, soon after the former Soviet republic gained its independence. But the company that registered it is defunct, its founders having fled Ukraine's ailing economy for the West.
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• .biz domain registration a complete shambles
  The registration process for the new .biz TLD is so convoluted that even professional registration companies have no idea what is going on. Not only that but it would appear the company behind the domain, NeuLevel, has completely failed to keep up with demand, making the entire process a shambles.
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• Is VeriSign trying to shaft the .biz domain?
  It looks as though VeriSign - owner of the .com and .net top-level domain names - is attempting to ruin the new challenger to its cute monopoly, .biz through subsidiary Network Solutions
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06/21/2001

• Competition heats up for .Biz Domains
  The new domain name--".biz"--is about to enter the lexicon of the Internet, joining the conventional ".com," ".net" and ".org," as businesses that seek to strengthen their Web identities can now begin to sign up for new addresses.
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• NeuLevel Quickens Pace On .Biz Domain
  it has signed on 77 international registrar partners to offer addresses in the top level domain (TLD) and an Intellectual Property (IP) Claim Service.
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• euro909.com Announces Private Placement and Sale of Corporate Domain Name Services Business to VeriSign
  euro909.com (Nasdaq ADS:ENON) today announced it has signed an agreement to sell its Corporate Domain Name Services business to VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRSN), the leading provider of Internet trust services.
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06/20/2001

• Internet registrars begin offering .biz domains
  The new domain name -- ".biz" -- is about to enter the lexicon of the Internet, joining the conventional ".com," ".net" and ".org," as businesses that seek to strengthen their Web identities can now begin to sign up for new addresses.
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• NeuStar looks to play key role in .biz domains
  Despite the growing number of next-generation service providers shutting down operations, one little-known company is making a killing from the deregulated telecommunications industry.
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• S.Africa hails U.S. decision on domain name row
  South Africa on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. court decision that could allow it to claim ownership of the southafrica.com domain name on the Internet.
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• Sucks.com owner wins domain-name case
  Trademark owners usually win disputes over 'sucks' sites, but a recent case shows that the trend could be shifting in favour of site owners
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06/19/2001

• Germany – 3.52 Million Domain Names And Counting
  Figures just released by the main German Internet registrar indicate that there were 3.52 million German domain names in active use at the end of last year, with an average of 200,000 new names coming into operation every month so far this year. (.de domains)
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• VeriSign Buys Registrars.com to Prop Up Domain Sales
  VeriSign Inc is buying the Registrars.com domain name registration business from Network Commerce Inc for an undisclosed amount, to boost its market share which has been dipping recently.
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• Novel net domains court controversy
  Rivals to the net's official system for naming websites are pressing for change to the old way of deciding who gets which name.
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• New.net introduces ten new domain name extensions
  a domain name registry created to meet the market demand for Web addresses with logical, easy-to-remember extensions, today expanded its offering to include ten new domain name extensions that are available for immediate purchase. The debut coincides with the launch of New.net's European operations.
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06/18/2001

• Companies keen for .uk domains
  There's been reams already written about alternative top level domain names such as .biz and .sex but a recent survey has revealed that the national domain name for the UK is very popular among internet-savvy businesses.
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• What Domain Holders Really Want
  Thinking of registering a snazzy website like sex.info or show.biz? Well, there may be more competition than you anticipated.
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• ACCC seeks halt to domain name piracy
  Australia's competition watchdog has called for a global crackdown on cybersquatting.
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06/17/2001

• GCC urged to join Internet domain group
  The GCC countries were urged yesterday to act quickly to become part of Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) meetings, and be involved in decision-making.
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• Domain names, e-mail to add foreign languages
  In what could be a major shift for the English-centric Web, Internet users soon will be able to send e-mail or search for Web addresses in more than 350 languages, from Arabic to Urdu.
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06/16/2001

• 3rd Circuit Zaps Intentionally Misspelled Domain Names
  Registering Internet domain names that are intentional misspellings of famous domain names is a violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, a federal appeals court has ruled in an issue of first impression
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06/15/2001

• ICANN Whois survey is biased - Froomkin
  Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the University of Miami, founder of ICANN Watch and leading authority on ICANN, has been in touch to disagree with our piece on the organisation's new Whois review.
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06/14/2001

• ICANN launches Whois review
  Everyone's favourite Internet Napoleon ICANN has launched a public review of the Whois system.
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• Country domain chiefs prefer jaw-jaw to war-war
  Breakway county code chief Willie Black, chief of the UK registrar Nominent, sounded a conciliatory note towards ICANN today. Having read the riot act to ICANN in Los Angeles, and with the ccTLDs unanimously voting to withdraw from the key DNSO support organisation, Black thinks ICANN is much more prepared to do business now.
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06/13/2001

• Icann criticised from all directions
  As domain name authority the Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) begins an investigation into privacy policies relating to the 'Whois' database, the company behind the new .biz domain said Icann's problems don't stop there.
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• ICANN CEO gets all headmasterish on Mueller-Maguhn and Auberach
  ICANN new CEO M. Stuart Lynn has hit back at claims by at-large board members Andy Mueller-Maguhn and Karl Auerbach that life at the Internet organisation was like "old East Germany".
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• ICANN Chief Strikes Back
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers fired back Tuesday at the harsh criticisms of ICANN leveled by two of its board members in a recent Wired News article.
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• German domain registry warns against .de billing scam
  German domain registry DENIC eG has issued a warning about "an attempt to extract money from customers for a senseless and dubious service." This, the second such scam to come to DENIC's notice this year, takes the form of a letter apparently designed to convince people they have to cough up DM270 in order to keep their .de domain for another year.
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06/12/2001

• Colombia's ".co" domain poised to challenge ".com"
  A South American nation could pose the greatest challenge yet to the supremacy of the ".com" Web address if a Colombian university successfully turns the country's Internet code, ".co," into a global domain.
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• Colombia makes bid for domain domination
  Colombia is planning to become the new sexy alternative to the top-ranking .com domain. Its owns the .co ccTLD and is looking to make the most of it.
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06/11/2001

• University throws .co into domain mix
  A South American nation could pose the greatest challenge yet to the .com Web address if a Colombian university successfully turns the country's Internet code, .co, into a global domain.
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• ICANN To Gauge Privacy Concerns Over 'Whois' Database
  The organization charged with managing the worldwide Domain Name System (DNS) has launched a study to gauge privacy concerns raised by the plethora of personal information contained in the "Whois" database, a publicly searchable resource used to determine the identity of domain name registrants.
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• EU Goes Against Flow in Quest for New Web Domains
  As the Internet's global standard-setting body met on Friday to push for the creation of seven new Web domain tags, Europe appeared to go against the flow with plans for a pan-EU geographic domain name.
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• Internet Name Debate Heats Up Over .Name Windfall
  With no major initiatives on the table, the upcoming meeting of the world's controversial Internet naming authority is likely to focus on new registries such as ''.name'' that are looking to upstage ``.com.''
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06/09/2001

• ICANN Cannot, Say Critics
  Last weekend's four-day quarterly meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was such a fiasco, it has strengthened the calls for major structural changes in the board.
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06/08/2001

• Greenpeace loses cybersquatting case
  Nuclear processing agency Cogema has won a cybersquatting case against Greenpeace International, having the environmentalists evicted from a site bearing its name.
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• Operators of regional Internet addresses make progress on fee agreements with ICANN
  Operators of country-specific domain names such as ".se" for Sweden aren't expecting the worldwide recognition that ".com" gets. But they wouldn't mind getting some respect.
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• Net Law Notebook: Multilingual Domain Names and the Law
  Although the creation of "unsanctioned" new top-level domains may have compelled ICANN to finally approve the addition of seven new "official" TLDs, it has now become clear that ICANN may not yet be ready to do the same for multilingual domain names.
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• Beatles' Domains 'Held Hostage' By Environmentalist - UDRP
  An environmentalist who has collected hundreds of Internet domains bearing the names of celebrities has been told that his effort to save the planet from an ecological disaster doesn't mean he's not a cybersquatter.
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06/07/2001

• ICANN more than doubles domain registrar fee
  The international body overseeing Internet domain name registration has more than doubled its registration fee for companies wanting to act as registrars for the most sought after Web site addresses.
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• Isle Of Man .im Domain Name Not Yet Officially Recognised
  The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is refusing to officially recognise the Isle of Man's domain suffix of .im and insists that it remains on the ISO's reserve list of domain suffixes along with Jersey and Guernsey. Consequently, companies that sell goods over the Internet can not use .im in e-mail addresses and although residents on the Island can buy online they have to foresake the .im for the .uk domain suffix.
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• Sex.com domain battle stays hardcore
  Thanks to a court decision in December, Kremen regained ownership of Sex.com, but he hasn't seen a penny of the $25 million the court ordered Stephen Cohen to pay for fraudulently taking control of the name.
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06/06/2001

• ICANN Watcher Warns Against Delay On Governance
  Concerned that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be dragging its feet in an effort to retool its governance structure, a longtime ICANN observer this week warned that the influential organization could be hamstringing its own ability to manage the world's Internet addressing system.
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06/05/2001

• Users call new domains too confusing, costly
  Big business is venturing cautiously into the newest frontiers of cyberspace: the .biz and .info top-level domains due to launch this summer.
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• Domain Naming Policies Under Increasingly Heavy Fire
  Despite continued criticism at its Stockholm meeting, ICANN and its partners argue that the organization is pursuing a reasonable timetable for offering more Internet suffixes.
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• Master of your domains?
  This may go without saying, but the whole reason for the existence of the new top-level domains is kind of bogus - unless the real reason is to enrich all those new registrars set up to administer them.
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• EU wants creation of new domain
  The European Commission said its plans for the new domain were proceeding according to schedule even though the .eu issue did not feature prominently at the Friday meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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• Explosive growth in personal domain names causes property boom in virtual real estate
  "In the future, many people will have what few have enjoyed in the past: a second address," says Robert Wiles CEO, Pdom. Wiles isn't talking about a cabin in the mountains or a house by the sea; but a place in cyberspace -- a personal domain name (PDN) based on a person's name
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• ICANN Kingdom Crumbling
  It’s been reported that a working group of the country-code top level domains (ccTLDs) voted unanimously last week Friday to withdraw from the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO). While the administrator of the .ZA domain, Mike Lawry, wasn’t involved, he says he “can understand the annoyance” felt by ccTLDs.
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06/04/2001

• ICANN members say Internet not ready for non-English domain names
  Some members of an Internet oversight organization are seeking to delay to deployment of non-English domain names, warning that the Internet isn't quite ready to accommodate them.
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• Domain group revolts against Icann
  Operators of country code domains - including .uk - say they want more say in Icann's decision making
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• Net Searchers Survey Takes Global Temperature on Online Protection Measures; Dramatic Increase Discovered in Online Domain Name and Brand Infringements
  Ninety percent of intellectual property (IP) specialists have experienced domain name infringement on the Internet and are reporting dramatic increases in all types of online abuse. This and other industry findings are the results from an in-depth survey commissioned by leading domain name management and brand protection services firm Net Searchers.
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• Naming rights not just big business' domain
  The topic of domain names is guaranteed to get a rise out of anyone with even a passing interest in things cyber. Locally, two especially touchy issues have been the eligibility and allocation policies regarding the .com.au domain and the resolution of disputes concerning domains.
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• ICANN, Meet Gobbledygook.org
  The Internet's top naming authority may broadcast its meetings on the Web, but that's not to say that everyone could have followed the discussions of the past few days.
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• ICANN Wraps Up Stockholm Meetings
  detractors continued to debate the organization's commitment to worldwide inclusion with policies directed at continued U.S. dominance in the Internet sector.
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06/03/2001

• ICANN faces criticism on domain policy
  The U.S.-based agency that oversees Internet names worldwide was criticized Sunday for not approving new addresses fast enough and facilitating the use of non-English domain names as demand grows among Web surfers from California to China
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• Web order or chaos at stake in ICANN meeting
  Order or chaos is at stake, and the Internet's top naming authority ICANN is set to defend its uncompromising stance on Sunday against those who question the U.S. organisation's self-imposed mandate.
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• New Domain Firms Sweet-Talk Web Naming Body
  The Web's top naming authority ICANN was courted on Sunday by maverick naming organizations, which think up new domain suffixes such as ".xxx," wanting to be included in the world's core Internet traffic system.
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06/01/2001

• Internet domain challenge: getting .god under control
  An Internet oversight body will take up a challenge to its authority over approving new domain names, trying to figure out what to do about such new addresses as .kids, .god, .wine and .xxx.
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• Domain group revolts against ICANN
  The operators of the Internet domain names designated for countries around the world voted Friday to withdraw from a key organization that helps set policies for the group that manages the Internet's Domain Name System.
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• EU goes against flow in quest for new Web domains
  As the Internet's global standard-setting body met Friday to push for the creation of seven new Web domain tags, Europe appeared to go against the flow with plans for a pan-EU geographic domain name.
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• 'God's Domains' Owner: We're On A Mission, Not Squatting
  The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) launched by Internet addressing authorities more than a year ago is supposed to streamline the process of identifying cybersquatters. But one target of a handful of recent complaints says he's not out to profit from his famous-sounding addresses.
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• 'Redattack' accused of hacking Belgium domain name registry
  A Belgian has been arrested on suspicion of hacking the country's domain name registry's website
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• Mystery surrounds .org.au domain delegation delays
  The sole person responsible for org.au secondlevel domain delegations cannot be contacted to find out why there is such a large backlog of applications, Australia's Internet industry represenative says.
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