Customers claim refunds over dot-biz domains 
Almost 9,000 UK web users who signed up for a dot-biz domain name are
to receive a refund after the original allocation process was deemed
to be improper. 
 http://www.silicon.com/a51442

http://www.netimperative.com/media/newsarticle.asp?ArticleID=14447&ChannelID=2&ArticleType=1

Right To A Domain Name At Issue In Sex.com Case (Newsbytes)
The question of whether or not a domain name is "property" that can
or cannot be "converted" will be decided later this year by a federal
appeals court in California. The issue stems from the continuing
fall-out from the theft of a lucrative domain name seven years ago.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174608.html

Appeals Court Quashes Domain-Name Ban For PR Firm (Newsbytes)
An appeals court has reversed the ruling of a federal court judge who
said more than a year ago that a California public relations firm
could not use the domain EntrepreneurPR.com because it infringed on
trademarks belonging to the publisher of Entrepreneur magazine.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174595.html

VeriSign teams with Web services providers (iwon Money)
VeriSign Inc. has reached deals with a group of technology
heavyweights to integrate its technology for authentication, payments
and domain name lookups with their Internet-based services.

http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?cat=USMARKET&src=201&feed=reu&section=news&news_id=reu-n18243968-u1&date=20020219&alias=/alias/money/cm/nw
 http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1106-840673.html

From BNA Internet Law News
Proposal To Do Away With ICANN At-Large?
 Internet message boards were humming yesterday with news from ICANN
director Andy Mueller-Maguhn that Joe Sims, lawyer to ICANN, recently
met with officials from the European Union and proposed a complete
restructuring of the ICANN board that would see the at-large
community eliminated and government representative invited onto the
board. Mueller-Maguhn, the European elected ICANN director, was
apparently not invited to the meeting.
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=554
 http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc09/msg01055.html 



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