More news, although it's getting smaller coming to christmas...

Cheers
David

New rival hits out at Melbourne IT 'monopoly' (Fairfax IT) 19Dec
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20001219/A7931-2000Dec19.html
Investors have spurned it and it has been cast out of the ranks of leading
stocks. Now a rival has attacked Melbourne IT's partial monopoly on Internet
domain names.
Also see Primus to set up domain name register (Fairfax IT) 19Dec
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20001219/A7825-2000Dec19.html
Competitive talk hits Melbourne IT (Australian IT) 19Dec
http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1535602%5E442,00.html
Registry roasted as Primus fires up (Australian IT) 19Dec
http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1532520%5E442,00.html

Chinese domain names going once, twice... (South China Morning Post) 19Dec
http://technology.scmp.com/internet/DAILY/20001218232303307.asp
Domainpricing.com, China's biggest Internet domain name firm, will hold an
auction of top domain names on Thursday, Chinese official media reported on
Monday. Just 20 names chosen from thousands it has are up for sale.

Domain name sovereignty a legal minefield (South China Morning Post) 19Dec
http://technology.scmp.com/features/DAILY/20001218072346570.asp
The English-language monopoly over Internet domain names is raising complex
legal disputes and touching on issues of national sovereignty for the
world's most populous nation.

VeriSign set to end China domain name row (South China Morning Post) 19Dec
http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001219140658764.asp
Claiming that the stability of the Internet is at stake, VeriSign said it is
moving to mend fences with mainland authorities over the registration of
Chinese-character domain names and is hoping for a resolution "sometime next
year".

auDA receives Government endorsement (auDA news release) 19Dec
http://www.auda.org.au/docs/govt-endorsed.html
au Domain Administration (auDA) has been formally endorsed by the Australian
Government as the appropriate entity to hold the delegation of authority for
administration of the .au domain space.

Baa.com - domain battle decided but case goes on (Register) 18Dec
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15562.html
BAA plc may have secured the ownership of Baa.com, after the domains current
owner Tom Bourke settled the domain dispute out of court, but previous owner
Michael Lawrie is having none of it and vows to fight the big corporate all
the way.

EU-Kommission legt Verordnung �ber .eu-Domain vor (Heise) 18Dec
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-18.12.00-006/
Mit einer Verordnung will sich die Europ�ische Kommission in Br�ssel weit
reichende Kompetenzen f�r die geplante Top Level Domain .eu sichern.

Auf dem Weg zur .eu-Domain (n-tv) 18Dec http://www.n-tv.de/?1650619
Schritt f�r Schritt r�ckt die geplante .eu -Domain n�her. Die Europ�ische
Kommission hat einen entsprechenden Vorschlag an Rat und Parlament
weitergegeben.

Pfizer's hopes deflated in 'Viagra' domain-name suit (China Online) 14Dec
http://www.chinaonline.com/topstories/001214/1/C00121304.asp
U.S.-based Pfizer Inc. has lost a court bid in a Beijing court to protect
the name "Viagra" from being registered as an Internet domain name.

Netpia considers antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft (Korea Herald) 13Dec
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2000/12/13/200012130023.asp
The heated rivalry between Netpia.com and Microsoft over Korean-character
Internet domain service is headed for a court battle. Netpia yesterday said
it is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against the software giant and
its partner RealNames, charging that they use unfair means in deploying a
keyword-based Hangul domain search service.