• ICANN drops directly elected board seats
  The group that oversees Internet addresses finalized changes Thursday that end direct elections to its board of directors a move critics complain could make the group indifferent to ordinary users and hurt innovation
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• ICANN ends Shanghai meetings by passing reforms
  Reforms and changes are coming to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit group that runs the Internet's Domain Name System
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• Country bodies threaten ICANN walkout
  Spokespeople for the organizations that run country-code top-level internet domains (ccTLDs) threatened this week that they could take their leave of ICANN, the international body that has been trying to woo them for four years
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• Web Domain Body Approves Controversial Reform Plan
  Directors of a key Internet oversight body voted on Thursday to abandon the online elections that were originally supposed to seat half of its board, opting instead to select leadership through an appointment process
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• Country domain rebellion - storm in teacup?
  While the newswires have been buzzing with stories from Shanghai reporting a potential challenge to ICANN's position by a consortium of ccTLD operators (see: A new threat to ICANN authority? - 30th October, 2002), Demys' latest information indicates that the supposed threat is merely a storm in a teacup
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• National domain names challenge ICANN
  Frustrated by their lack of clout, international Internet administrators are weighing whether to mount a challenge to the controversial body that oversees the Internet’s traffic system
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10/30/2002

• China opens up .cn domain
  The .cn domain will be available to businesses outside China for the first time this winter, as part of a liberal new policy
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• Domain authority to change hands
  A new agency will take over the administration and registration of Thai Internet domains, the ``.th'' addresses used for Thailand
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• Some Say ICANN Loses Legitimacy
  The board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) certainly created a contentious air at its semi-annual meeting, deciding to phase out five of its publicly-elected director spots Wednesday
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• A new threat to ICANN authority?
  The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is facing a potential challenge to its position as the body that runs the Internet's Domain Name System
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10/29/2002

• Who will run the .eu domain names?
  EU searching for nonprofit company to register its web addresses
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• Critics Craft a Plan to Challenge ICANN's Authority
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit group that runs the Internet's Domain Name System, might be challenged next year for some of its administrative power by a group of dissatisfied top-level domain holders who feel ICANN holds too much sway
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10/28/2002

• ICANN dumps critic
  The Internet’s governing body, ICANN, has responded dramatically to criticisms from one of its board members Karl Auerbach. Fellow board members on Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers sacked him – and followed up by abolishing his seat and those of four other publicly elected officials
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• ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
  In the wake of last week's unprecedented DDoS attack against all 13 of the Internet's root-name servers, the government and ICANN, one of the Internet's main governing bodies, are considering changes to help protect the DNS system against future attacks
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10/27/2002

• ICANN's contrarian gets the boot
  Karl Auerbach joined the Internet's key oversight body as a voice of the online public, pledging to transform an organization he considers beholden to vested commercial interests.
  Auerbach got his change all right.
  Fellow board members on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers responded to Auerbach's caustic challenges by eliminating his seat and those of the four other publicly elected directors
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10/25/2002

• Cyber-Federalists' Noble Effort to Preserve End-User Voices in ICANN
  Cyber-federalist 15 is hot off the press from Hans Klein. His thoughts are distributed by the Civil Society Democracy Project (CivSoc) and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) joint Internet Democracy Project. No. 15 concerns the Project's (highly optimistic?) attempt to preserve the users' voice in ICANN deliberations via ICANNatlarge.org
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• Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic To Defend Domain Name Owners
  Stanford University Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic is expanding its docket to include defending domain name holders in UDRP actions. Certified Stanford Law School students will represent owners whose domain names have been challenged by filing responses before the Administrative Panel appointed to hear the dispute between the parties
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• Domain companies look offshore
  WHILE Melbourne IT is facing revenue erosion and rising costs in Australia's deregulated domain name industry, relative newcomer AusRegistry is talking up aggressive international expansion plans
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10/24/2002

• Icann's failings
  "The Internet is a global resource of incalculable value, and nothing is of greater importance to its future than the way in which Icann performs its role as manager of the domain name system." These are not the words of Computer Weekly, or of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) itself, but of Icann Watch, an organisation that exists to monitor the activities of our guardian of Internet naming. Sadly, Icann's performance continues to have more in common with amateur dramatics than Broadway.
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• ASA slams 'intimidating' Domain Registry of Europe mailshots
  The advertising watchdog has ordered the Domain Registry of Europe (DROE) to stop issuing mail shots that 'look like bills'
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• Domain name scams hit the NHS
  Scare tactics warn of 'mystery shoppers'
  Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital Trust has become the latest target of domain name resellers using high-pressure sales tactics to dupe organisations into buying extra online addresses at premium prices
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10/23/2002

• AT&T lose domain battle
  Telecommunications giant AT&T has lost a domain name dispute complaint which it brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization
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• Attack on domain name servers fails
  An attempt to cripple the computers that serve as the address books for the Internet failed on Monday
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10/22/2002

• ICANN Intrigues - The Jonathan Cohen Interview - part 2
  In the second of our three part interview with ICANN Director Jonathan Cohen, Mr Cohen deals with issues of trust between ICANN and the country code operators. He also reveals the guarantees sought from China regarding freedom of delegates at the forthcoming ICANN meeting in Shanghai and comments on the thorny problem of At Large representation
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10/21/2002

• FTC forces spammer to refund domain fees
  The United States' Federal Trade Commission has forced a British entrepreneur who sold domain names that did not work to repay his proceeds to his victims
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10/18/2002

• Inside ICANN - The Jonathan Cohen Interview - part 1
  In the first of this three part interview with Jonathan Cohen, Director of ICANN and leading IP lawyer, Mr Cohen reveals what it's like to be a board member of the not-for-profit organisation that co-ordinates policy for the Internet domain name and addressing system
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• ACCC warning to domain name resellers
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned domain name resellers against misleading and deceptive conduct
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10/17/2002

• Preparing for the introduction of the new .EU domain name
  2003 will potentially see the largest new domain name registration process to date, with the launch of the .eu suffix
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10/15/2002

• Internet Society chosen to run .org domain registry
  THE BOARD OF directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Monday tapped the Internet Society (ISoc) to operate the .org domain registry beginning Jan. 1
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10/14/2002

• Lawscot.co.uk domain dispute continues
  The controversy over lawscot.co.uk shows no signs of ending soon, with owner Tommy Butler sacking his legal advisers
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10/11/2002

• UK Domain - .net.uk - Doomed?
  A subcommittee of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board (PAB) has concluded that the .net.uk domain should be scrapped, possibly even before Christmas
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10/08/2002

• HM The Queen wins domain name dispute
  In an important WIPO domain decision released today, Her Majesty the Queen has been awarded the domain name newzealand.biz
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• Court cracks down on URL copycat
  An anti-abortion activist will face contempt of court charges Wednesday for registering domain names similar to those owned by the Washington Post Co
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10/07/2002

• Beanies bargain site wins domain dispute
  In the battle over a Beanie Babies domain, the bargain sellers have come out on top
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• Gold rush days are over for generic domain names
  The auction of 1,600 generic Australian domain names which concluded last week netted an average price of just $1,625 each, a far cry from the hundreds of thousands of dollars shelled out for Australian domain names a few years ago
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• OFT eyes domain name bullies
  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is pushing forward its investigations into the selling tactics of domain name reseller Anet
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10/04/2002

• `.ko’ Domain Suggested for Unified Korea
  Rep. Lee Jong-kul, a lawmaker of the New Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), yesterday proposed the creation of ``.ko’’ as a single Internet domain suffix for a united Korea in the future
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10/02/2002

• Irish domain registry suspends CEO
  Tensions between the board of Ireland's .ie domain registry and its chief executive came to a head on Wednesday, culminating in the suspension of CEO Mike Fagan
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10/01/2002

• First .uk reverse domain name hijacking decision
  In a decision released today (Cardpoint plc -v- Riga Industries), the UK domain name authority Nominet has upheld a claim of reverse domain name hijacking under its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) - the UK equivalent of the UDRP - for the first time
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• Domain Name Theft, Fraud And Regulations
  Prof. Rod Dixon, author of Cyberlaw and Internet, has an article at CircleID discussing Domain Name Theft, Fraud And Regulations
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