ICANN Names Web Dispute Resolution Service in Asia
The non-profit corporation charged with overseeing allocation of Web
addresses has named a joint venture in China and Hong Kong to settle
domain name disputes in Asia, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) said on Monday.
 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-icann.html
 http://europe.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/12/05/icann.reut/index.html

VeriSign to play domain-name watchdog 
VeriSign on Thursday plans to introduce services that help guard
companies' brands online, diversifying its own revenue in the face of
a potential lag in its Internet registrar business. 
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8086534.html

Web address disputes deemed unfair 
One of four arbitrators that help work out domain-name squabbles
plans to leave the business, saying the dispute-resolution process
unfairly favors trademark holders and large corporations over
individuals.
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8068926.html

Afilias Tweaks Plan To Challenge Fraudulent .Info Addresses 
Afilias - the company that manages the recently christened ".info"
Internet domain - is modifying its plan to deal with .info addresses
registered under false pretenses during the company's
pre-registration period earlier this year, a company spokesman said
today. 
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172726.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48875,00.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/technology/06DOMA.html

From BNA Internet Law News
FIRST CIRCUIT RULES ACPA CAN BE USED TO OVERRULE ICANN UDRP
In an important new decision, the First Circuit Court of
Appeals has ruled that a U.S. court can apply the
Anticybersquatting act to overturn an ICANN UDRP decision.
The decision stems from a dispute over the corinthians.com
domain.  After a WIPO panelist ordered the domain
transferred to a Brazilian soccer team, the domain name
owner sought to have a federal court declare that he was not
a cybersquatter under ACPA and declare that the name should
not be transferred.  The district court refused, ruling that
there was no live dispute and declining to rule on the case.
 The appellate court overturned, finding that there was in
fact a dispute over the domain itself and that Section
1114(2)(D)(v) of the ACPA "provides a registrant who has
lost a domain name under the UDRP with a cause of action for
an injunction returning the domain name if the registrant
can show that she is in compliance with the ACPA."
Decision at
<http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01-1197.01A>

CIRA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING TODAY
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority runs its first
general meeting today.  The proceedings, which include
results from Alan Gregg of a study on attitudes toward the
dot-ca as well as a presentation on the new Canadian Dispute
Resolution Policy from myself and CIRA General Counsel
Deborah Duffy, will be webcast.  Information at
http://wm.stylus.ca/CIRA/2001.12.06/webcast.htm


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