• ICANN Nominating Committee Issues Formal Call for Recommendations and Statements of Interest
  ICANN's Nominating Committee invites Recommendations and Statements of Interest from the Internet community as it seeks qualified candidates for the following positions to assist in its technical coordination role.
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04/21/2005

• Final countdown to .eu has begun
  The final countdown to the advent of Europe’s own “.eu” internet identity, by the end of 2005, has begun. In the coming days, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) will put the .eu top level domain in the Internet root, further to a 21 March agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the .eu Registry. As from the beginning of 2006, businesses and citizens who register “.eu” internet addresses will be able to benefit from higher visibility within the EU single market and a level playing field for electronic commerce
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04/20/2005

• Picking the Pope's Domain Name
  If the newly elected pope wants his own website, he'll have to talk to Rogers Cadenhead first.
  The Jacksonville, Florida-based writer purchased the rights to BenedictXVI.com on April 1 -- more than two-and-a-half weeks before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger announced that he would assume the papacy under the name of Benedict XVI
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• Hillary: 'It takes a Domain Name'
  Hillary Rodham Clinton has written a book titled "It Takes a Village." Now, she can say "It Takes A Domain Name," having just won the transfer of www.hillaryclinton.com
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04/19/2005

• Beware the latest domain name scam
  On the face of it, the Federal Bureau of Domain Names (FBODN) website looks like an ethical US governmental organization. But don’t be fooled; the FBODN is just a cloak for yet another e-business hoax
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• Some Say ICANN Too Heavy-Handed
  Domain approval has been an issue since at least 2002. Of the 191 domain names proposed that year -- when .com, .org and .net had been the only domain suffixes on the block -- ICANN approved a mere seven, rejecting bids for .mobile by Nokia, .health by the World Health Organization, and .travel by the International Air Transport Association
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• 'Popesquatting' Seen on Potential Papal Domains
  While Internet betting sites set odds on the identity of the next pope, domain speculators are buying up domains connected to names that might be adopted by the new Catholic leader
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04/18/2005

• Google Versus Froogles Redux
  Having been rebuffed by an ICANN panel, search giant Google (Quote, Chart) brought its battle against Froogles.com to U.S. court
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• Security Concerns Boosted VeriSign's Dot-Net Bid
  Experts who closely follow VeriSign and the Internet domain market say the Mountain View, Calif.-based company owes its latest coup to a savvy lobbying effort in which VeriSign worked through the press and with its industry allies to play up already heightened concerns about the stability and security of the Internet
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04/15/2005

• ICANN bosses slam VoIP regulation
  Legislators must not make the mistake of subjecting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offerings to the same rules as telephony services, the heads of the global Internet regulator said
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• ICANN moves to equip AfriNIC for its new mission
  AfriNIC, Africa's own Regional Internet number Registry (RIR) has just received its first allocation of numbering resources, including IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers for the Africa region
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04/14/2005

• TVDating.com Domain Name on the Bidding Block; URL ``Perfect Name for Reality Dating Show'' Now for Sale
  Sale Timed to Coincide with National Association of Broadcasters Show as Silicon Valley Serial Entrepreneur Believes Bids May Top $1 Million
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• New domains cause wrangles
  Two more top-level domain names - .travel and .jobs - have been approved by the oversight body for the internet's addressing system, but industry figures warned that many firms will find little business value in the new names, though they may have to register them defensively
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• ICANN powerless in net disputes
  THE internet's peak technical governance body has appealed to Australia's consumer watchdog for help to tackle a flood of consumer complaints over domain names
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• Cantabs see red over Wellington's black and white
  An amateur website designer and "fiercely proud" Wellingtonian is offering Cantabrians a chance to buy back their city after snapping up the christchurch.co.nz domain name for a song
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04/13/2005

• Top 10 tips for choosing a business domain name
   
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• ICANN lays down the law
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is calling a domain name registrar and a registry operator on the carpet in a dispute over the distribution of .pro domain names
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• Florida Spammers Slapped With Injunction
  Florida won an injunction against a pair of spammers based in the state, Attorney General Charlie Crist said Tuesday, forcing them to cease and desist their junk e-mail campaigns while the case goes forward.
  The injunction, the first under Florida's nine-month-old anti-spam law, bans Scott J. Filary, 25, and Donald E. Townsend, 34, both of Orlando, from, among other things, sending spoofed e-mail or registering domain names.
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• Domain Names & Hyphens, Lots of Hyphens
  Eight hyphens to be exact. A thread at SEO Chat named Finally, the secret to Google rankings revealed refers to a domain name that has eight hyphens in it and nine keywords
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04/12/2005

• AfriNIC now a regional Internet registry
  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the African Network Information Centre's (AfriNIC's) application to become the fifth regional Internet registry
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• Political Domain Name Games in UK
  Rival politicians in the UK are having fun and games with domain names. According to a local uk site, George Hollingbery, a conservative candidate in the general election, registered MarkOaten.co.uk to push his message forward. Mark Oaten, a lib dem, is not best pleased...
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• 'Nic off', auDA tells registrar
  Controversial domain name registrar TotalNIC has lost its accreditation after it failed to pay the costs ordered from its court loss to the .au Domain Administration (auDA)
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04/11/2005

• NBC Universal Locked in Domain Name Suit with S. Korean Man
  The U.S. media and entertainment network giant NBC Universal is locked in a legal dispute with a South Korean man who owns the domain name www.nbcuniversal.com
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• Nielsen wins domain dispute
  INTERNET analyst firm Nielsen//NetRatings is claiming victory in a tussle with a local internet analyst over a domain name
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04/10/2005

• Buy-out lets Demys stake claim on its own domain
  SCOTTISH domain name adviser Demys, has completed a buy-out from its parent, Henderson Boyd Jackson, for an undisclosed sum
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04/08/2005

• Will .jobs Domain Yank The Business Model Out From Online Job Boards?
  It already seems like the way ICANN is dribbling out new top level domains is somewhat pointless other than as a way to increase revenue for ICANN. We already were wondering what the possible reasoning was behind a .jobs TLD, as there was no indication anywhere that anyone was having any particular trouble finding where a company lists their job openings. Combined with some already questionable moves by ICANN in assigning who gets to control these new top level domain names, and the whole thing seems pretty sketchy. With today's official approval of both .jobs and .travel, though, some are wondering if .jobs will end up causing problems for online job boards.
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• Internet authority designates .jobs, .travel extensions
  The Internet's authority for Web addresses said it officially designated .jobs and .travel to be used the Internet, with discussions continuing on other extensions including .asia
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• ICANN Concludes 22nd Meeting with Major Announcements on AfriNIC, sTLDs & IPv4
  ICANN conducted a series of important workshops on DNS Security, Domain Name Hijacking, the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), and coordinated further discussions on Whois Policy development and Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) implementation
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04/07/2005

• Register.com on Nasdaq Watch List
  Domain name registrar Register.com faces Nasdaq de-listing for failing to register its annual financial statement on time, officials said Thursday
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• Loophole found in '.pro' Web names
  A company has found a loophole for selling Internet names ending in ".pro" without the usual credentialing requirements, prompting complaints from the Internet's key oversight agency
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• More criticism piled on .Net report
  The furore surrounding the report on .net ownership has intensified with another highly critical assessment by one of the bidders, and ICANN sticking to its guns
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04/06/2005

• VeriSign Adds Internet Servers To Boost Domain Support
  With Internet traffic doubling every 12 to 18 months, VeriSign Inc. said Wednesday that it is beefing-up its Web infrastructure services by installing additional servers over the next two years in growth areas such as Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Africa, Middle East, India and Eastern and Central Europe
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• DigitalMovie.com Starts eBay Auction at $1.5 Million
  The owner of DIGITALMOVIE.COM (http://www.digitalmovie.com) initiated his starting bid price of $1.5 million on eBay today in hopes of selling the domain name
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• ICANN Publishes Compliance Program
  Regulatory body the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org) said this week that it had published a compliance program to explain its approach to enforcement of compliance with its Registry Agreements and Registrar Accreditation Agreements
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• Ynet alleges domain name extortion
  The owner of the whynet.co.il domain threatened to sell it to a competitor unless he was paid NIS 100,000
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• Trade Marks and Domain Names - Legal Overiew
  Trade marks are marks that distinguish goods or services provided by the trade mark owner from those of others
  Historically the domain name system, with its current emphasis on the .com tld as the “international” domain, does not fit well, therefore, into the international trade mark system
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04/05/2005

• ICANN Avoids Questions About ".travel"
  I have received no response to this request, nothing further has appeared on the ICANN Web site about the press conference, and -- being 10,000 kilometers away -- I can't tell if the press conference was held, much less who was allowed to participate or what was said.....
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• ICANN Starts Meetings in Argentina
  ICANN says its agenda for open participatory meetings addresses issues concerning Internet stakeholders. Those issues include DNS Security, domain name hijacking, the World Summit on Information Society, regional at-large meetings with user groups from across Latin America, whois policy development and deployment of internationalised domain names
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• "Sucks" Sites Don't Violate US Trademark Law
  We hold today that the noncommercial use of a trademark as the domain name of a website - the subject of which is consumer commentary about the products and services represented by the mark - does not constitute infringement under the Lanham Act
  It's important to keep decisions like this in mind when dealing with WIPO's Borg-like attempts to route around US trademark law by trying to "restate" or "explain" the UDRP, the arbitration-like system which ICANN has imposed on domain name disputes.
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04/04/2005

• ICANN reveals ".travel" sponsor is a front
  key staff of the Internet's governing body, ICANN, cut a secret deal at least as early as 2001 with the international airline cartel IATA to create and hand over to IATA's control a new Internet top level domain (TLD), ".travel"
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• .Net report was fudged
  The controversial report over ownership of the .net registry was fudged and the evidence is contained within the report itself.
  The 58-page document by US tech company Telcordia has faced severe criticism since it was released last week. Now it has emerged the criterion on which Verisign was chosen was never specified by ICANN, which commissioned the report
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• Ansearch launches amid domain name dispute
  Local search engine Ansearch will begin commercial operations today despite being accused of domain name poaching
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04/02/2005

• Tommy Registrar and the Gatecrashers
  They say truth is stranger than fiction: in the case of the .Pro story this may be true. Read on...
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04/01/2005

• WIPO Loses Domain Name to Florida Company
  In a stunning UDRP decision, a three-person NAF panel transferred the domain wipo.int from the World Intellectual Property Organization to a Boca Raton, Florida manufacturer of baby wipes
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• ICANN in Hot Seat over .net Registry Report
  Germany-based Denic, one of the other four firms vying with VeriSign for the right to control the .net domain, slammed the report, saying it was "sloppy" work replete with "serious factual errors" that led to mistaken conclusions.
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• Appeals court upholds Sex.com ruling
  A federal appeals court last week may have written the final chapter to a sordid legal saga that helped establish Internet domain names as property.
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