MelbIT future 'challenging' (Australian IT) MELBOURNE IT has tipped 10 per cent growth in earnings for the first half of 2002, but acknowledges that the future is "challenging" as it is about to lose its monopoly on the .com.au wholesale business. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4367872%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/22/1021882066569.html House draws lines for kids online (CNET) Hoping to create a safe playground for children on the Web, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would gather sites designed for youth under a new Internet domain. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-919416.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51134-2002May21.html http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52694,00.html http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=990585 http://www.msnbc.com/news/755410.asp http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000036075may22.story http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176705.html Dot-Kids Heads a Mess of Regs (Wired) The U.S. Congress, racing to leave town before the Memorial Day recess, is focusing on Internet regulation like never before. Politicians are scrambling to debate a raft of technology regulations, ranging from domain names and privacy to broadband, spam, and funding for security research. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52709,00.html ICANN Director Seeks Court Order to Review Records (EFF news release) The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a motion with the Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of ICANN Director Karl Auerbach requesting the court grant him immediate access to corporate records that ICANN management has denied him for one-and-a-half years. http://www.eff.org/Cases/Auerbach_v_ICANN/20020521_eff_icann_pr.html http://www.icann.org/legal/litigation.htm Canada's '.Ca' Authority Holds Second Board Election (Newsbytes) While the powerful Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) rethinks the concept of democratic control over top-level domains like dot-com and dot-net, the Canadian agency in charge of that country's domain-name space is launching its second public election of board members. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176710.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52149-2002May21.html La OMPI resuelve a favor de Telecinco por el dominio 'www.tele5.com' (delitosinformaticos.com) El Centro de Mediaci�n y Arbitraje de Dominios de la Organizaci�n Mundial de Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) ha fallado a favor de Telecinco por la utilizaci�n del dominio 'www.tele5.com'. http://www.delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102201497616874.shtml Kevin Spacey Loses Round Two Of Domain Name Case (from BNA Internet Law News) Actor Kevin Spacey has lost another attempt to obtain the kevinspacey.com domain. A California court has ruled that it cannot assert jurisdiction over the dispute since the domain name registrant is located in Canada and did nothing to direct his activities to the state of California. 6th Circuit Upholds Domain Decision; Reverses On Jurisdiction (from BNA Internet Law News) The 6th Circuit Court of Appeal yesterday issued an interesting decision involving a suit against domain name registrar Dotster and domain auction service Afternic. The court reversed a lower court decision in finding that the Ohio court could assert jurisdiction over Dotster since the company accepted business from thousands of state residents on its site. The court then proceeded to uphold the dismissal of trademark infringement, unfair competition, ACPA, and copyright infringement claims arising from the listing of a purchased domain on the Afternic site. http://laws.findlaw.com/6th/02a0177p.html See http://www.alfa-redi.com/noticia/ for the web version of the news, along with the last week's archive archive. ===== David Goldstein post: 82 Kingston Road, Coventry CV5 6LR, UK email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +44 24 7667 7226 (home) +44 7786 704 887 (mobile) 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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