Judge Curbs Renewal Mailings (Wired) A judge tells VeriSign to stop sending undated renewal notices to domain name owners who registered with a competitor. The temporary order follows a hearing in a suit filed by rival BulkRegister. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52539,00.html http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=960447 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-913730.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16067-2002May14.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176584.html International Domain Names Pose A New Security Risk (Scientific American) Is this the Web address of tomorrow: (see online article for this!)? At the moment, non-Latin alphabets and scripts are not compatible with ASCII, the lingua franca of the Internet also known as plain text. But as of March only 40 percent of the 561-million-strong global online population were native English speakers, according to online marketing firm Global Reach. Work has been proceeding for some time, therefore, to internationalize the system that assigns domain names (sciam.com, for example) to the dotted clumps of numbers that computers use (such as 192.1.1.0). http://www.sciam.com/2002/0602issue/0602scicit5.html INTA Releases Responses To Studies Critical Of ICANN's UDRP (INTA news release) The International Trademark Association (INTA) today released responses, prepared by its Internet Committee, to two studies that are critical of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): “Rough Justice” by Milton Mueller, an assistant professor at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and “Fair.com?: An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP” by Michael Geist, a professor at the University of Ottawa School of Law. http://www.inta.org/press/pr2002_09.shtml See also Geist response: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/geistintaresp.pdf http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=742 Mueller response: http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=730 Second "land rush" for local dot-info domains (ZDNet) The dot-info LandRush2 will soon be underway amid revelations almost a third of the registrations during the Sunrise Period were registered inappropriately. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265214,00.htm IE Domain Registry Limited Announces First Annual Results (IEDR news release) IE Domain Registry Limited reported growth of 74% in new registrations in the 18 months to December 2001, the company's first trading period as an independent limited company since its transfer from University College Dublin. http://www.domainregistry.ie/pressrelease1.doc Times Technobabble (Times) For one small company, it just didn't pay to mess with Microsoft. REALNAMES was one of those not-quite-needed ideas that nonetheless received $100 million of funding in the dot-com dream days. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-296264,00.html Limiting Speech: The Consequences of Quashing Cybersquatting (GigaLaw) How are rights to domain names like property rights? Is trademark law adequately dealing with domain name disputes? Is the Anticybersquatting Act really such a good thing after all? This article explores those questions. [This is from 2000, so not that recent-DG] http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2000-all/ghosh-2000-02-all.html See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the news, along with the last week's archive archive. http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Save your important files online for easy access!Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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