Bill planned to protect domain names (Daily Yomiuri) 20Dec
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20001220wo32.htm
The International Trade and Industry Ministry plans to revise the Unfair
Competition Prevention Law to prevent illicit use of corporate and product
names by nonrelated parties in their Internet domain names, MITI officials
said.

Melbourne IT scrapes new depths (Fairfax IT) 20Dec
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20001220/A8723-2000Dec20.html
The hotly contested Australian Internet domain category, .com.au, is
expected to be released into the open market in about July, ending Melbourne
IT's exclusive rights to such sales.

Streit um Internetadressen immer �fter vor Gericht (Rheinische Post) 20Dec
http://www.rp-online.de/news/multimedia/online/domain_grabbing.html
Immer �fter m�ssen sich deutsche Gerichte mit dem so genannten
Domain-Grabbing auseinander setzen. L�sst sich eine Privatperson eine
Internetadresse reservieren, die einen Markennamen enth�lt oder auch nur
�hnlich klingt, greifen die Richter in der Regel hart zugunsten der
Markeninhaber durch.

Warnung - ICANN erwartet Betrug mit neuen Top-Level Domains (e-media) 20Dec
http://194.96.59.121/cgi-bin/wdbcgiw/media/media.show_newsboard_content?p_ty
p=N&p_id=7839&p_newsroom=J
Das Internet-"Amt" Icann und die amerikanische Handelsaufsicht Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) warnen Internet-User vor betr�gerischen Web-Unternehmen,
die bereits jetzt gegen Geb�hr Reservierungen f�r Domainnamen der neuen
Top-Level-Domains (TLD) entgegennehmen. Bis heute sei noch keine
Entscheidung dar�ber gefallen, welche Organisationen die neuen Domains in
Zukunft verwalten werden.

Gerichte urteilen �ber Domain-Namen (Heise) 20Dec
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-20.12.00-000/
Wer sich ohne nachvollziehbares Interesse einen mit einer Produkt-Marke
identischen Domain-Namen sichert, kann auf Unterlassung verklagt werden.

easyJet Gets Tough On Domain-Name Rivals (TechWeb) 19Dec
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001219S0003
British airline easyJet is making life difficult for Web businesses with
similar monikers. It says they can't use the word 'easy' in their domain
names and has threatened legal action against some.
Also see easyJet Gets Tough On Domain-Name Rivals (Wall Street Technology)
19Dec http://www.wstonline.com/story/itWire/TWB20001219S0003

P&G off-loads "flu.com," other Net domain names (CNET) 19Dec
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4212330.html
Procter & Gamble has sold the Internet domain name "flu.com," one of nearly
100 commercial names the consumer products company has put up for sale
because it has no plans to use them for Web sites.

Australian Domain Name Body Gets Govt Thumbs Up (Newsbytes) 19Dec
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/159607.html
The au Domain Administration (auDA), a non-profit company set up in April
1999 in order to become the first industry self-regulatory body for the .au
domain name space, has now received official Australian Government
endorsement.

The Name Game Times Seven: How New Web Suffixes Are Changing the Rules for
Internet Players (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 6-19Dec
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/articles.cfm?catid=9&articleid=288&homepa
ge=yes
Suppose the Wharton School wanted to register Wharton.biz as a domain name
using one of the seven new web suffixes approved last month by ICANN. Then
let's say that Joe Wharton, owner of a dog grooming business in Iowa City,
wanted to register Wharton.biz to advertise his pet service. Finally,
suppose an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania wanted to set
up Wharton.biz to sell potential customers a selection of his writings on
the American author Edith Wharton. 
 
Rechtsstreit um die Domain "kinder.at" (ORF) 19Dec
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=52030
Grundsatzurteil �ber Zul�ssigkeit von Gattungsbegriffen als Domains zu
erwarten | Konsequenzen f�r bank.at und reise.at m�glich | Ferrero klagt
MediaClan - "kinder"-Schokolade vs. Eltern-Kinder-Portal | Ferrero sieht
Verletzung des Markenrechts | Keine Verwechslungsgefahr - so der
MediaClan-Anwalt