• ICANN and ccTLDs in technical dispute
  The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (Centr) has issued fresh comments on ICANN's Zone Access Policy
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09/27/2002

• Washington Post battles domain claim
  The Washington Post Co. threatened an anti-abortion activist with legal action on Friday for registering a similar domain name and snatching e-mail messages intended for reporters
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09/26/2002

• Register.com renewal strategy responsible for loss?
  Register.com Inc may have shot itself in the foot to an extent when it introduced a controversial customer retention system in January 2001. The company reported yesterday that it will make a loss for the first time in over a year, and its SafeRenew system seems at least partly to blame
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• auDA case against domain name re-seller goes to mediation
  The case between Australian domain administrator auDA and domain name re-seller Internet Registry over a mailout to domain name registrants which auDA said was misleading, has been referred to mediation
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09/25/2002

• Register To Close Domain Reseller Afternic
  Two years after it acquired domain re-seller Afternic for $48 million, domain name registrar Register.com (Quote, Company Info, News) said it would close the unit
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• Icann gets a yellow card
  In power for another year, but under close scrutiny
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09/24/2002

• Legal wrangle over domain name privacy
  A legal row has broken out between internet service provider Demon and the UK domain registrar Nominet over its controversial plans to publish the contact details of website owners
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• ICANN says ISOC for .org
  The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers yesterday said it still thinks the Internet Society and Afilias Ltd is the best choice to run the .org top-level internet domain, when VeriSign Inc's contract expires December 31
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09/23/2002

• US tightens ICANN leash
  Saying its progress over the four years since its inception has been "disappointing", the US Department of Commerce nevertheless has renewed the powers of the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates the internet's addressing systems
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• VeriSign tidies records after ICANN rebuke
  VeriSign said that it has corrected database inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this month, after the regulatory body threatened to strip domain name registrar of its ability to sell .com domain names unless it cleaned up its act
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09/22/2002

• Domain fraudsters in .eu con
  Domain name registrar Internetters is warning people not be fooled into pre-registering for .eu domain names
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09/21/2002

• ICANN extended--with more controls
  As expected, the U.S. Commerce Department has extended for one more year its contract with the organization that governs the Internet's infrastructure
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09/20/2002

• US .gov info restricted over attacker fears
  VeriSign Inc has stopped providing access to information about the .gov internet domain, which is restricted to US government bodies, over concerns the data could be used in planning internet attacks
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• Netherlands Domain Authority to de-restrict .nl
  Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN), the Netherlands Foundation for Internet Domain Name Registration, has reported that the formerly restricted .nl country code top level domain name will be opened to applicants from all over the world
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• ICANN put on notice
  The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday said it would allow a controversial Internet body to continue to oversee the on-line traffic system, but set a one-year deadline for the group to shape up its act
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09/19/2002

• Domain Name Goldrush Part 7 - WLS Gets ICANN Approval
  As predicted in Part 6 of the Domain Name Goldrush Series, the WLS has been given the go-ahead! After a long delay, ICANN recently approved the introduction of VeriSign's "Wait Listing Service" (WLS).
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• ACCC acts against domain name reseller
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted Federal Court proceedings against domain name reseller Internet Registrations Australia
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• The strangest domain-name squabble ever
  Girl Scouts, domestic violence awareness, charges of racism and censorship -- this Web site fight is a train wreck
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09/17/2002

• Domain-name anger flares again
  A domain-name reseller trading on the implosion of a competitor to use scare tactics is causing confusion and grief for Australia's webmasters and domain-name holders
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09/16/2002

• UAEnic extends 'ae' domain name registration period
  Companies wishing to register trade names under ‘ae’ domain have been given a two week extension, following the UAE Network Information Center’s (UAEnic) decision to extend the registration deadline to October 1st 2002
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• Stelios faces challenger in easy domain name crusade
  The ongoing crusade against any domains that feature the word "easy" by Easy Group and its head Stelios Haji-Ioannou may finally have come unstuck with art print site Easyart.com
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09/13/2002

• Massive domain dispute quietly launched
  The National Arbitration Forum (NAF), one of the four organisations contracted to provide domain name dispute resolution services under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) have quietly posted up an intimation of a pending dispute which is set to be one of the largest ever in UDRP history
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• U.S. Will Renew ICANN's Authority
  The U.S. government will renew a California nonprofit's authority to manage the Internet's global addressing system, a top Commerce Department official said today
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• Dot-Org Selection Process Criticized
  The process to determine which group will manage one of the Internet's largest domains is turning into a three-way dispute between a Virginia nonprofit that likely will win the prize, a handful competing groups and the Internet addressing authorities charged with making a final decision
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• Register.com v. Domain Registry of Canada
  Register.com Inc is suing a competitor for allegedly using deceptive tactics to lure away its domain name registration customers. But defendant Domain Registry of Canada Inc seems to think Register.com is using very similar tactics itself
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• Senate Toys With Kid-Safe Domain
  Critics contend that law would limit free speech and be ineffective in protecting kids online
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• ICANN delays naming .org successor
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) won't announce the new official operator of the .org domain until at least next week, further delaying the process of picking a successor to domain name registrar VeriSign. VeriSign is slated to relinquish the domain as part of a deal that allows it to keep operating the lucrative .com addresses
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09/12/2002

• Senate toys with kids.us domain
  On Thursday began formal consideration of a bill to create kids.us, a second-level Internet domain that would be designed to give parents some peace of mind about their kids' use of the Web by serving up only material deemed appropriate for children
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• Dot-Kid Tussle in Congress
  The manager of the United States' Internet domain asked Congress Thursday not to interfere with its efforts to set up a kid-friendly zone free of violence, pornography and other adult material
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• It's All About the Domain Name
  One of the promises of Internet-based e-commerce is that small businesses can set up Web site shops on equal footing with large, multinational corporations
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09/11/2002

• Hanna Barbara wins Scooby Doo domain name appeal
  In a twist in the tail that Scooby himself would have been proud of, a panel of Nominet experts reversed the decision of the original expert, ordering transfer of scoobydoo.co.uk from the operator of a Scooby Doo fan site to Hanna Barbara
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09/10/2002

• China Hijacks Google's Domain Name
  Chinese government is not allowing some Web surfers to access the popular search site
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• Buy the Ultimate Domain Name
  Buying a domain name is not as simple as it sounds. If you buy the right name, Web users will be able to find your site with ease. If you buy the wrong one, they'll be confused, and you'll lose (sometimes, quite a lot of) traffic, which can of course stunt your site's growth and/or revenue potential
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• Falwell parody site preaches free speech
  Rev. Jerry Falwell's attempt to seize control of JerryFalwell.com should be rejected, lawyers for the parody Web site told a court in Virginia
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09/09/2002

• What's OK for Dot-Kids Domain?
  Sex, violence and the "seven dirty words" prohibited by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission would be banned from a children's Internet domain, according to preliminary guidelines released on Monday by the domain manager
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• Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act
  Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) and Ranking Republican John McCain (R-Ariz.) have scheduled a subcommittee hearing for Thursday on two bills that create a separate child-friendly Internet sub-domain inside the dot-us domain
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09/06/2002

• ICANN Delays .org Operator Selection
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) delayed its decision in the selection of a new operator for the .org domain registry
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• David & Goliath domain battle: reluctant David wins
  In a slightly bizarre WIPO decision over the domain goliath.biz, a battle of hardly-Biblical proportions has been resolved with the little guy winning - even though he wasn't up for a fight...
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• Forgot to renew your domain? Never mind, it did it itself
  This morning (and indeed yesterday morning) The Register received a nice email from our doppelgangers at Register.com, telling us our registration of theregister.ws is about to expire (on October 16th, something of a loose definition of 'about') and that it'd be renewed via the automatic renewal program on September 27th. The what?
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09/05/2002

• Domain names bounce back
  After a long decline, with VeriSign losing more than 4 million names since the beginning of this year alone, the number of domain names is on the rise once more
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09/04/2002

• EU seeks bidders for European domain
  The European Commission is looking for an organization to run .eu, the top-level internet domain name the Commission hopes to create for companies and individuals in European Union member states
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• I'll see your domain name in (US) Court!
  Two little-noticed and otherwise unremarkable decisions from the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, decided on 23 August 2002, now affirm a principle that is perhaps worrying for those 20 million or so .com domain name registrants who live outside the USA. The cases deal with the question of the geographical location of a domain name and which court can exercise jurisdiction over it
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09/03/2002

• Judgment against Sex.com thief stands
  A federal appeals panel has refused to drop at $65 million judgment against the man who hijacked domain name Sex.com
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• VeriSign may lose dibs on domain sales
  The Internet's governing body has threatened to pull VeriSign's contract to sell Web addresses unless the domain name company maintains more accurate records of its customers
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• .MAORI.NZ domain names to launch
  InternetNZ will launch the new second level domain, ".maori.nz", on September 5
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09/02/2002

• Spurned bidders slam ICANN .org redelegation
  Ten organizations that were overlooked in an evaluation to decide the next manager of the $15m-a-year .org internet domain on Friday criticized the selection process, calling it inconsistent, opaque and unfair, Kevin Murphy writes. One bidder even hinted at a legal challenge the process, which was orchestrated by the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers
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