Hi all I received the email below from an attorney from internet.com following posting my Internet news I compile to the Domain Policy mailing list, which is rather amusing. They don't appear too happy with the free publicity I give them!!! Cheers David -----Original Message----- From: Iori, Max [mailto:miori§internet.com] Sent: Freitag, 08. Dezember 2000 22:57 To: David Goldstein; David Goldstein Subject: Violation of internet.com/domainnotes copyright internet.com Corporation 23 Old Kings Highway South Darien, CT 06820 December 8, 2000 David Goldstein VIA E-MAIL and FAX Sir: I have noticed that in the below newsletter, you are including headlines and copyrighted material of www.domainnotes.com, an internet.com new media property. I would like to remind you that this is in direct violation of our copyright to the material, and hereby request that you immediately cease in this behavior. Your failure to cease violating our copyright will lead me to contact your internet service provider, and commencing all other actions I deem necessary. Please guide yourself accordingly, Max Iori Attorney internet.com Corporation 23 Old Kings Highway South Darien CT 06820 USA Phone 203.662.2800 Fax 203.655.4686 miori§internet.com OUR MATERIAL >> Domain Name Theft: When Someone Steals Sex, You Can Get It Back If It's In >> Cyberspace (Domain Notes) 1Dec >> http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,2160,3371_524111,00.html >> Virtual sex is not the real thing, but is "theft" in Cyberspace different >> than theft in real-space? What are the unique aspects of Cyberspace, and >how >> should an entity like ICANN (the Internet's domain name police) respond to >> them? Although intellectual property - - resembling copyright or, perhaps, >> Trademark - - and real property - - resembling a single family home or an >> office building - - share many similar characteristics, one of the >> significant distinctions between the two forms of "property" relates to >how >> or whether the use of the property by others may reduce the owner's >ability >> to enjoy or use the property. YOUR NEWSLETTER >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David Goldstein" <david.goldstein§NIC.AT> >To: <DOMAIN-POLICY§LISTS.NETSOL.COM> >Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:43 AM >Subject: news - 7 December > > >> Hi all >> >> Some more news for you all to peruse. It's a public holiday here in >Austria >> tomorrow, Friday, so don't stay up late waiting for it, it will return on >> Monday! >> >> Cheers >> David >> >> A battle for the heart and soul (Digital Mass) Dec >> http://digitalmass.boston.com/columns/internet/1206.html >> With parallels to the Bush-Gore smackdown, the battle for control of ICANN >> is an increasingly partisan clash, featuring deep divisions around a >central >> question: Where does the Net go next? >> >> Toilet sales firm ordered to drop domain name (Daily Yomiuri) 7Dec >> http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001207wo32.htm >> The Toyama District Court on Wednesday ordered a portable toilet sales >> company to stop using an Internet domain name that incorporates words >> identical to the name of major consumer credit firm Jaccs Co. >> >> A race to feed the web's voracious appetite (Financial Times) 6Dec >> http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=Viewc=Article&cid=FT3US3JCFGC >> There are about 6bn people in the world. They own an estimated 350m >> computers, 480m mobile telephones, 600m cars and as many as 1bn television >> sets. Sooner rather than later, all these devices and more will want to be >> on the internet. >> >> 'The domain that rocks': .mu (ZDNet) 6Dec >> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2661859,00.html >> Can sex sell domain names? The entrepreneur behind the .cc domain is using >> bikinis, guitars, and race cars to sell .mu Web addresses. >> >> A Case of Sex Appealed (Wired) 6Dec >> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40544,00.html >> A legal battle over the sex.com domain rages on. The porn site's former >> operator files plans to appeal a ruling that returned the domain to its >> original owner. Lawyers for the opposing side dismiss the move as a >> desperate last-ditch effort. >> >> Tucows Spreads Holiday Cheer to UNICEF (PR Newswire) 6Dec >> >http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/12-06 >> -2000/0001381187 >> Tucows, the leading wholesale domain name registrar through its Tucows >> OpenSRS registration service, announced their holiday promotion donating >$1 >> to UNICEF for every 25 domain names registered, renewed or transferred in >> December by their network of more than 4,000 Managed Service Providers. >> >> WIPO domain dispute coup continues (Register) 6Dec >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15277.html >> WIPO has continued its march toward control of the domain dispute market, >> taking 68.5 per cent of all cases in November - up from 66 per cent in >> October, 63 per cent in September and just 48 per cent back in January. >> >> French Court Rules Against eBay in Domain Name Squabble (Standard) 5Dec >> http://www.thestandardeurope.com/article/display/0,1151,12968,00.html >> US auction giant eBay has received another blow in its court battle with >> French startup iBazar over its ownership of eBay's French domain name, as >> the courts again ruled in iBazar's favour >> >> Domain Name Theft: When Someone Steals Sex, You Can Get It Back If It's In >> Cyberspace (Domain Notes) 1Dec >> http://www.domainnotes.com/news/article/0,2160,3371_524111,00.html >> Virtual sex is not the real thing, but is "theft" in Cyberspace different >> than theft in real-space? What are the unique aspects of Cyberspace, and >how >> should an entity like ICANN (the Internet's domain name police) respond to >> them? Although intellectual property - - resembling copyright or, perhaps, >> Trademark - - and real property - - resembling a single family home or an >> office building - - share many similar characteristics, one of the >> significant distinctions between the two forms of "property" relates to >how >> or whether the use of the property by others may reduce the owner's >ability >> to enjoy or use the property. >> >> Secret Meeting Shows ICANN - IBM Dependence (Cook Report) Jan2000 >> http://www.cookreport.com/icannoverall.shtml >> ICANN Emerges as IBM - US Gov't Brokered Internet Equivalent of WTO - >Lessig >> Shows Internet as Potential Victim of Public Private Manipulation >> >> ISOC's ICANN Coalition Widens Its Control (Cook Report) Sep1999 >> http://www.cookreport.com/isoccontrol.shtml >> Attempts to Regulate DNS - Invites Trademark, IP, ITU, EC, E-Commerce >> Interests to Expand ICANN Scope >> >> At War For The Future Of The Internet (Cook Report) Jun1999 >> http://www.cookreport.com/icannregulate.shtml >> ICANN Ignores Its By-Laws, Sweeps Opponents Aside, Claims Control Of All >DNS >> And Prepares For Showdown With NSI Under Guise Of Ending NSI Monopoly >> >> The Mighty Five Install One of Their Own as Interim President and Ignore >> Magaziner's Wishes (Cook Report) Oct1998 >> http://www.cookreport.com/whorules.shtml >> >> nic.at Internet Verwaltungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. >> Jakob-Haringer-Stra�e 8 >> A-5020 Salzburg >> >> Infos zur Domainverwaltung http://www.nic.at >> >> Email: david.goldstein§sbg.nic.at >> Tel.: +43 (662) 4669-0 >> Fax: +43 (662) 4669-19 >> In Oesterreich gebuehrenfrei: >> Tel.: 0800 800 888-0 >> Fax: 0800 800 888-19 >>Received on Mon Dec 11 2000 - 02:23:34 UTC
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