Court: U.S. law trumps domain decisions 
Decisions by international arbitrators in cybersquatting cases can be
challenged in U.S. court, an appeals panel has ruled. 
Reversing a lower court, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Boston on Wednesday found that federal courts have jurisdiction over
international domain name disputes, including those filed with the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a Geneva-based
arbitration organization approved by the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 

http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8105325-0.html

VeriSign looking for a RealName
My 12-year-old son Vermel and his classmates, who have a history of
passionately defending inanimate objects, have embarked on their
second hunger strike, this time to save the Higgs boson. 
This hypothesized particle, if found, could clear up the tricky
question of why matter has mass. Scientific evidence, alas, has
detected little sign of the particle's existence, even after years of
searching for it. 
Too bad nobody's staging a hunger strike on behalf of RealNames, the
company that's been hawking a simplified Web address system these
many years, to little demonstrable effect. Critics are comparing
RealNames to the endangered boson, calling both of them ideas that
neatly fit a theory but show scant evidence of existing in the real
world. 
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1015-205-8102720.html

Microsoft disowns Nokia cybersquatting prank
Microsoft has blamed a lone, crazed cybersquatter for hijacking
Nokia-related domains and diverting them to The Beast's own rival
PocketPC website. 
 http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?id=1831

Kraft Gobbles Up PEZ Collector's Domain Name 
Gerber.com was taken. And so was PEZ.com. But in 1998, Patrik Gerber,
a collector of PEZ Candy dispensers, was able to register a dot-com
address that allowed him to showcase his hobby and reflect a nickname
he says he's had since he was a Boy Scout: Sugus. 
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172851.html

From BNA Internet Law News
US JUDGE SET TO RULE ON BARCELONA.COM
A pair of entrepreneurs from Spain, who were told by a UDRP
arbitrator in August 2000 that Barcelona.com should really
belong to the government of that city and that they were
cybersquatters for owning the contested domain name, have
finally had their day in a US court last week.  US District
Court Judge Claude Hilton in Alexandria, Virginia, will
decide if US trademark law will allow them to keep the
domain name they registered in 1996 and use as a portal to
their regional capital city.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172793.html

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