• ICANN re-enacts domain battles
  Lawmakers are calling for hearings, consumer groups are up in arms, and directors are attacking each other in increasingly nasty ways.
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03/28/2002

• 'Generic' Domains Collector Bests Trademark Claims Again
  Web content developer Reflex Publishing - whose best-known property might be Humor.com - has fended off yet another attempt by a company intent on plucking a prized Internet address from its extensive collection of generic-sounding domain names.
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03/27/2002

• Canadian Singer Reclaims Domain Lost In Registrar Snafu
  Canadian pop star Lara Fabian has reclaimed an Internet address her lawyers say was lost when domain-name registrar Network Solutions bungled its transfer.
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03/26/2002

• ICANN Has Final Say On Dot-EU Internet Domain - Update
  Although European Union officials have approved legislation authorizing the creation of a "dot-eu" Internet domain, that law won't have any effect until the union obtains clearance from international addressing authorities to operate the new addressing space.
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03/25/2002

• EU Takes New Domain Name
  European Union ministers signed off Monday on a plan to establish "dot-eu" as an Internet domain name, hoping a pan-European address will spur electronic commerce in Europe.
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03/22/2002

• AOL Still Master Of Its Domains Despite Expirations
  If you trust AOL's own domain name look-up system, the registrations for most of the crown jewels in AOL Time Warner's Internet address portfolio have expired.
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• Toys `R' Us Prevails in Dispute Over Internet Domain Names
  Toys ``R'' Us Inc., the second-largest U.S. toy seller, received rights to 32 Internet domain names after challenging another company's right to use the ``R Us'' designation in the titles of its Web sites.
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03/20/2002

• Business protected in .US domain name scramble
  BUSINESSES ARE HURRIEDLY preparing to register all manner of permutations of their trademarked names, with the new internet domain suffix .us tacked on the end.
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03/19/2002

• AGA Foodservice to buy Domain Home Fashions of US for 25 mln usd cash
  AGA Foodservice Group PLC said it plans to buy US Boston-based East Coast home furnishings retailer Domain Home Fashions for 25 mln usd in cash.
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03/18/2002

• New .us domain names to be available next month
  Trademark holders have until April 9 to register their company names and slogans under the new .us domain-naming system, but the general public won't have a crack at registering names until April 24.
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03/14/2002

• Internet domain-name body agrees on need for reform
  The group that oversees the Internet's domain-name system said Thursday that individual users should have a voice in the organization, but stopped short of opening itself up to global elections
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• New Zealanders Vote For Addition Of New Net Domain
  New Zealand Internet users have given the thumbs up to the addition a new Net neighborhood - dot-maori-dot-nz - within the dot-nz domain name space.
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03/12/2002

• Domainz report released
  Domainz, New Zealand's non-profit Internet registry, has released a report into the controversial computer system it uses to manage New Zealand's 100,000-plus ".nz" Internet addresses.
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03/11/2002

• More domain names will make your site much easier to find
  Register every variation and misspelling of your name you can think of and direct all of those domain names to your website. (Just because someone didn't do well in the third-grade spelling bee doesn't mean they don't have money to buy your products or services online.)
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• Court, trade officials move to stop sale of .brit, .usa domain names
  A federal court has issued a temporary order to shut down three British companies that the Federal Trade Commission and the U.K. Office of Fair Trading say are involved in marketing and selling $1 million worth of bogus Internet domain names.
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• Spammers Sell Bogus 'Dot-USA' Domains - FTC
  A federal court has shut down a Web site that took advantage of consumers' post-Sept. 11 patriotism to peddle nonexistent "dot-usa" Internet addresses, the Federal Trade Commission said today.
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• THE END USER Domain power
  Differing visions of fairest and best way to run Internet
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03/09/2002

• WHO calls for a health domain name to help consumers
  The California based body that oversees the creation of "top level" internet domains such as .com and .org is coming under renewed pressure to agree a new domain that would signal legitimate health information websites.
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03/08/2002

• Porn Sites Hijack Expired Domain Names
  Forget to renew? Your site might find a new role--and those who link to it may not be pleased.
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03/07/2002

• House approves child-friendly domains
  A congressional panel gave the nod Thursday to a bill to set up a child-friendly zone on the Internet that would be free of violence, pornography or other material deemed inappropriate for children.
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• Net law expert slams domain dispute process
  The process for deciding ownership of Internet domains is flawed, biased and in drastic need of reform, an expert in Internet and e-commerce law has concluded in a study released today.
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03/05/2002

• Congressional Panel To Tackle 'Dot-Kids' Domain Proposal
  A congressional subcommittee on Wednesday will try to take the first legislative step toward mandating the creation of a kid-friendly Internet domain for the United States.
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03/02/2002

• Drain of domain-name pool slows in January - report
  Rapid evaporation of the pool of Internet domain names at the end of 2001 appears to have abated in January, according to a report this week from the domain-registration watchers at SnapNames
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03/01/2002

• New domain name scam
  Firms use dirty tricks to sell off .biz addresses
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• ICANN Stepping Up Hunt For New 'Dot-Org' Operator
  Internet addressing authorities next month will kick off the search to find a new home for the dot-org Internet domain
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• ICANN's ccTLD Quandary
  U.S.-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced Thursday afternoon it's the new operator of the .jp top-level domain (TLD), providing technical and coordination functions for the domain extension
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• Navigating the ICANN way
  LET'S SAY YOU WERE TRYING to convince your boss that you should have more money and more responsibility. How would you go about it? One way - the way someone might adopt if they didn't mind being called a "swot" in Britain - might be to do a really good job at the work you were assigned to do, however limited and boring it might be. Then you have something to show your boss as evidence that you're worth paying to move on to something more interesting and complicated. The other way is to partially complete a few tangential tasks and then explain that the job description is all wrong.
  It's this latter path that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN seems to have adopted. This week, current ICANN president Stuart Lynn released a report in which he proposes to completely reform the organization, saying the concept behind it is "impractical", its mission "incredibly ambitious", and its private model "unworkable". Of course, he also describes its policy process as "remarkably open", and the introduction of competition between registrars, the uniform dispute resolution policy, and the creation of seven new top-level domains as "real accomplishments."
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