Hi all

No news on Friday... hope to be back Monday...

David

Congress May Criminalize Provision of False Web Information (law.com)
Fed up with rampant fraud and deceit on the Internet, Congressional
Representatives Howard Coble, R-N.C., and Howard Berman, D-Calif.,
have submitted a draft bill for consideration in the House of
Representatives that would "provide criminal penalties for providing
false information in registering a domain name on the Internet."
Internet charlatans frequently use incorrect identifying information,
such as false names and contact numbers, when registering Internet
addresses. This frustrates law enforcement authorities, as they have
trouble tracing perpetrators when the "WHOIS" databases of Internet
registrars are unreliable. The draft bill is designed to grapple with
that problem.

http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZYHHLU61D&live=true&cst=1&pc=5&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0

Judge orders VeriSign to stop ad campaign (CNN/Reuters)
A U.S. court on Tuesday ordered Internet naming giant VeriSign Inc.
to immediately cease a direct-mail campaign that used what a rival
called deceptive advertising to poach its customers.

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/05/15/domains.reut/index.html
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/ver051502.cfm
 http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/020515verisign

ING not invited to domain name D-day (ZDNet)
auDA's suspension of reseller Internet Name Group as a
provisionally-accredited registrar remains in place, even as the
registry for .com.au, .net.au, .org.au, .asn.au and .id.au prepares
to go live.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20265301,00.htm

Clothier Helps Fashion Own Defeat In Domain Dispute (Newsbytes)
Internet addresses packing the famous labels of Ralph Lauren and Polo
fashions and an alleged cybersquatter who didn't even bother to
respond to the accusation would normally add up to a slam-dunk
decision for a trademark holder under a fast- track system to resolve
disputes over domain names.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176612.html

Casino developer wins right to domain names
A federal judge ordered six registrants of Internet domain names that
allegedly infringed trademarks belonging to casino resort developer
Steve Wynn of Las Vegas to return the domain names to Wynn.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/gaming/2002/may/15/513449499.html

VeriSign details reciprocal customer deals (CNET/Reuters)
VeriSign Inc. on Wednesday said more than 6 percent of its
first-quarter revenues came from reciprocal deals with customers and
firms in which it holds stakes, nearly double the share from a year
earlier. 

http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-9908821-0.html
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/eba050802.cfm


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