At 10:29 PM +1100 21/11/02, David Goldstein wrote:
>[snip]
>Domain Name Wins Court Appeal
>On 7th November 2002 a fresh decision was issued by the US
>Court of Appeals concerning the Anti-cybersquatting
>Consumer Protection Act or ACPA.
>Regular readers of Demys News will recall that under this
>Act it is possible for a US trademark holder to bring an
>action not against a domain name registrant but against the
>domain name itself. This means the registrant is
>effectively brought into a US court even if he is domiciled
>in another country. Demys last reported on this 'shepherd's
>crook' effect of US jurisdiction in I'll see your domain
>name in court!
>  http://www.demys.net/news/02_nov_18_court.htm
>[snip]

Interesting article. I suppose the moral of this article is "Don't 
use an American registrar".

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Leefe Hicks - wyvern§tengutech.net
http://www.tengutech.net/wyvern/