Domain reseller suspended (Australian IT)
THE Australian domain name authority has suspended its provisional
accreditation of a domain reseller accused of deceptive conduct. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4179253%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000025001,20264761,00.htm

Senator Revives Dot-Sex Idea (Wired)
Or "dot-prn" or "dot-xxx." Her bill introduced this week doesn't say
which new top-level domain should be the future repository for all
naughty material. 
...
Closed books: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
has replied to a suit brought last month by one of its directors.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51975,00.html

CFP: Debate over ICANN reform rages on (Australian Industry Standard)
Nearly two months after the president of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) called for fundamental reform of
the beleaguered organization, ICANN watchers at the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference in San Francisco Thursday
continued their high-volume debate over exactly what those reforms
should be.

http://www.thestandard.com.au/idg2.nsf/All/07348BE32BF2DC47CA256BA0000A8C02!OpenDocument&n=Section&c=Marketing+and+Media

4525 different domains that lead to a single porn site (ICANNwatch)
In casual web surfing, many Internet users have stumbled into a
seemingly-innocuous domain name that oddly presented a screen full of
sexually-explicit images. Usually, this causes a momentary puzzle
that's forgotten in an instant, but when it happened to me at
bicyclebills.com (warning: sexually-explicit images), I decided to
investigate the Tina's Free Live Webcam operation to which
bicyclebills.com had redirected me.
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=677

International Trade Mark Holders To Retrieve .ru Domains (from Baker
and McKenzie Global E-Law Alert)
New regulations have been introduced compelling RosNIIROS, the body
that registers the .ru domain name, to annul registrations by those
infringing the trade mark rights of an international owner, and then
re-register the name in the favour of the claimant.

Es rechazada la demanda de la revista Hola por la recuperaci�n del
dominio 'www.hello.com' (delitosinformaticos.com)
El centro de Mediaci�n y Arbitraje de Dominios de la OMPI
(Organizaci�n Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual) ha rechazado la
demanda interpuesta por el grupo al que pertenece la revista Hola
contra Idealab, que es due�a del dominio 'www.hello.com'.
 http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/101925369998608.shtml

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