• ICANN Unanimously Approves Reform Plan
  The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted unanimously on Friday to approve a proposed blueprint for the reform and reorganization of the nonprofit group that oversees basic technical matters related to the Internet
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• 'Nokia' loses nokia.me.uk cybersquatting case
  Phone company Nokia has won the first case against a cybersquatter regarding .me.uk domains
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06/27/2002

• ICANN Board to Vote on Reform
  After months of debate, controversial proposal to overhaul the domain name overseer could be approved
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• New Net laws reach beyond borders
  For smaller nations such as Canada, it's getting harder to effectively create independent policy
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06/26/2002

• The Boots Company loses domain case
  The Boots Company, a household name in the UK particularly known for their country-wide chain of high street pharmacies and retail outlets, has lost their challenge to obtain the Boots.biz domain name
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• South African domain name tug-of-war
  South Africa has passed a controversial bill which would give control of the internet domain suffix, .za, to the government
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06/25/2002

• Protest site makes Easy domain crusade more difficult
  A furious domain owner has set up a protest site to publicise Easy Group's heavy-handed legal tactics in trying to take over his easibook.com site
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06/24/2002

• RIRs seek distance from ICANN
  The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers will meet in Bucharest, Romania this week for discussions that could ultimately decide whether the domain name system manager lives or dies. But even as a committee set up to address reform of the troubled organization published its first concrete recommendations, a key interest group looked to be distancing itself from ICANN
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06/21/2002

• VeriSign cleans up Web address auctions
  VeriSign said Friday that it will clean up its domain name auctions on eBay, some of which appear to have violated the Web address registry's stated corporate policies
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06/17/2002

• Future of ICANN remains uncertain
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has attracted a large body of critics at odds with its decisions and overall direction, and it may now be living on borrowed time
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• bomb.com for sale
  The owners of bomb.com are selling their domain to save their family from financial ruin
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06/14/2002

• "Icann can't" say US senators
  US senators have threatened to take control of internet domain name body Icann unless it cleans up its act
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• Privacy worries fuel domain name concerns
  Web users are worried that changes to a list of who owns which .co.uk web domain will put their personal privacy at risk
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06/13/2002

• Public's role in Net governance threatened
  As the Internet blossomed from a small community of users to a global phenomenon in the mid-1990s, the governance of the domain name system underwent a similarly dramatic change
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• VeriSign lays plans for foreign domains
  VeriSign Inc is on the verge of launching the next phase in the prolonged roll-out of so-called "internationalized domain names", addresses written in languages, such as Chinese, than use non-ASCII characters
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06/06/2002

• Icann: We won't surrender control
  Hopes for an accountable body to oversee the internet address system took another blow with the failure of proposals to reform Icann
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• Icann proposals canned
  Plan to give governments more control of the internet rejected
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• DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN
  UK Government is asking Internet businesses and users to submit their views on the future of the Internet's co-ordinating body, ICANN, by 14th June
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06/05/2002

• .ZA domain 'may collapse into vacuum' if new law is passed
  Reports are coming from South Africa that Mike Lawrie, the official administrative contact of .za and a Director of South Africa's Namespace ZA, will refuse to hand over the administration of .za if the South African Government passes a law which proposes to take control of the country code top level domain
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• Senate SubCommittee to Hold ICANN Hearing
  the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science and Technology will hold a hearing about ICANN on June 12 at 2:30
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• ICANN Publishes Blueprint For 2.0 Release
  The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers has been through countless point releases in its almost four years of existence, but over the weekend an ICANN committee published what it hopes will be the blueprint for "ICANN 2.0". While the blueprint addresses concerns about ICANN's structure, it fails to address many tricky subjects such as funding
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06/04/2002

• Dotcoza domain holders to be canvassed on e-bill
  Cape Town - UniForum SA, the firm managing dotcoza domain names, will today start canvassing dotcoza domain holders, which include about 30 000 companies, to assess whether they are happy with the last-minute and far-reaching changes made late on Monday night to the controversial Electronic Communications and Transactions Bill
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• Ngcaba defends state plans on domain names
  COMMUNICATIONS department director-general Andile Ngcaba has vigorously defended government's plan to set up a company to control domain names on the internet, saying all of SA's constituencies need to be represented
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06/03/2002

• State's plan on internet domain names raises alarm
  A proposal by the parliamentary communications committee to establish a section 21 company to manage domain names on the internet in South Africa has raised alarm bells about a looming crisis that could see all internet connections in the country cut off
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• Panel releases blueprint for Internet reform
  group that oversees the Internet's traffic system moved closer to a complete overhaul over the weekend when a committee recommended changes aimed at making the controversial body function more smoothly
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06/02/2002

• Australia debates addition of new domain names
  Whether Australians might soon be able to reserve local versions of dot-biz or dot-name Internet addresses could depend in part on proposals submitted by the local Net community during the next two weeks
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06/01/2002

• Feds to share dot-gov domains
  Now the federal government is finishing a plan to make it easier for state and local governments to get addresses ending in .gov - once the sole domain of the feds
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• ICANN overhaul looms
  The group that oversees the Internet's traffic system moved closer to a complete overhaul over the weekend when a committee recommended changes aimed at making the controversial body run more smoothly
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