• Domain Name Registrar - Register.com - Wins in Court Against Verio Again
  Verio Barred from Using Deceptive Marketing Tactics and from Abusing Register.com's Whois Database
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01/27/2004

• Network Solutions cuts short Google shortcut
  Domain name registrar Network Solutions has a message for Google: Don't mess with our Whois.
  The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when Google quietly launched a service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners from public databases--collectively known as Whois--run by registrars worldwide. Although largely unpromoted, the service generated enough traffic to surpass Network Solutions' (NSI's) daily Whois use limits, which aim to stop spammers and other undesirables from harvesting information about its customers
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01/23/2004

• Domain name scammers try to rip off wrong guy
  Buy these domains before someone else did, line
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01/22/2004

• Call for changes in allocating domain names
  Reforms were needed to ensure high-profile personalities' names were not misused for websites, Australia's domain administrator said yesterday
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01/19/2004

• News: Microsoft Goes After 17-Year Old's MikeRoweSoft Domain
  Mike Rowe thinks it's funny that his catchy name for a website design company sounds a lot like Microsoft. The software giant, however, is not amused
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01/16/2004

• Police warn on domain name letters
  Cambridgeshire Police has issued a warning about the sales tactics of another Cambridge-based domain name reseller
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01/15/2004

• Domain registrars sued over URL patent
  Two Internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions and Register.com for allegedly infringing on their e-mail and domain naming patent
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01/14/2004

• .name TLD expands
  As of today Global Name Registry - operators of the .name top level domain - are allowing web users to register second rather than third level domains. This will allow hundreds of thousands of new domains to become available in the .name space
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01/13/2004

• Lord of the domains
  The estate of JRR Tolkien - author of the hugely popular Lord of the Rings trilogy - has won a domain dispute against the infamous domain name speculator known as "Alberta Hot Rods", who registered jrrtolkien.com and used it to direct web users to his celebrity1000.com web site
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01/12/2004

• Network Solutions and Register.Com Sued for Infringement of Key Internet Naming Patent
  Nizza Group Claims That Registration of .Name Domain Names and E-mail Addresses Infringes Newly Issued Patent
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01/09/2004

• Canadian domain name firm rapped over marketing practices
  US authorities have accused an Ontario domain-name registration company of using questionable marketing tactics.
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01/07/2004

• .eu domain name goes live in November
  .eu Domainnames will be available from November 2004. In March preparation and translation of regulations will begin, followed in June by accreditation of .eu registrars. From September 2004 those holding prior rights to a name (trademarks) can register during a 'sunrise period'. General registration is planned for November on a first come first served basis for any name not taken during the sunrise period or otherwise blocked from registration
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• Hi Tech:- Dispute over .ng top level domain takes new turn
  JUST when Nigerians thought that the issue of the local hosting of the dot ng top level domain had been put to rest, the dispute by the two contenders for its hosting was taken to the international arena in the new year
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• RCN loses link, briefly, to domain name
  Hundreds of educators lost their Internet access through RCN Corp. last week after the "massed.net" domain name was not renewed on time
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01/06/2004

• Court bars Canadian domain slammer
  50.000 misled consumers can get their money back
  On December 23, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has requested that a federal district court instruct an Internet domain name reseller from making misrepresentations in the marketing of its domain name registration services. Domain Registry of America (DROA) told consumers that their domain registrations were expiring, leading many consumers to switch their domain name registrar
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01/05/2004

• Spanish bubbly celebrates turn of year domain decision
  The well known sparkling wines company Freixenet SA is toasting its win in a domain dispute against a German national
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• Why .biz is the Spam TLD
  Anyone with a passing interest in spam -- or its avoidance -- will have noted the massive preponderance of .biz URLs in those mails. Ever wondered why? Well, wonder no longer
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01/01/2004

• What the net did next
  The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and he should know what he is talking abou
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