OECD report - Comparing domain name administration in OECD
countries
The aim of this paper is to provide comparative information
on the administration of domain names across the OECD area.
 http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00040000/M00040342.pdf

AU domain admin moves against dodgy practice
The .au domain name administrator has moved to stop
resellers claiming customers must transfer their domain
name registration to their registrar of choice as a
"technical requirement" of the Web-site hosting process.  

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20273532,00.htm

CSR Limited v Resource Capital Australia Pty Limited [2003]
FCA 279 - Federal Court Of Australia
Trade Practices - domain names - injunction - cyber
squatting - whether registering a domain name through the
business name of a non-trading company solely for the
purpose of selling or trading the domain name to another
company which has a business interest in that name
constitutes misleading and deceptive conduct in the course
of trade or commerce.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2003/279.html

ICANN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Not an Arbitration
Under Federal Arbitration (reg req'd)
A domain name dispute decided pursuant to the ICANN Uniform
Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is not an
arbitration under the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (FAA)
and, thus, is not entitled to the deferential standard of
judicial review afforded by the FAA. Dluhos v. Strasberg,
Case No. 01-3713, 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 3014 (3rd Cir.
February 20, 2003).

http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=20455&p=5&c=2414&e=on

US Hostway hunts domain registrar here
US web hosting player Hostway is planning to acquire a
domain name registrar following moves to acquire "a number
of businesses" in Australia.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6250338%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner
The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war
over its Internet future is just beginning.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30170.html

High Court Rejects Beanie Babies Trademark Dilution Claim
Ty Inc., the maker of Beanie Babies, on Monday lost a bid
to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a reseller from using
the Web site www.bargainbeanies.com.
 http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030407/1603001037_1.html

Insurance Giant Fails In Porn Site Domain Challenge
Insurance giant The Prudential Insurance Company of America
has lost a domain dispute under the UDRP after they failed
to show that prudentialmotors.com - which diverted web
users to a pornographic site - was confusingly similar to
their Prudential trade marks.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/04/10_pr.htm

Sweden Gets Even More Liberal
From the end of April, 2003 the Swedish country code top
level domain will be made available to registrants on a
first-come-first served-basis. Domains will no longer
require preliminary examination by the naming authority and
restrictions of the number of domains available per
applicant will be scrapped.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/04/08_se.htm

Introduction Of A New Domain: The Sweden Way
The new Swedish regime includes original elements. For the
first time, applicants who have trademarks and domain names
can register a domain name in priority over those who only
have trademarks. In addition, the scope of the alternative
dispute resolution policy is very broad; any names capable
of acquiring rights in Sweden can be invoked in an
alternative dispute resolution action. Accordingly, it can
reasonably be expected that a number of disputes will arise
after the end of the allocation periods.
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2586.asp

In Defense Of Face To Face - Esther Dyson
I recently caused a stir in a small but passionate
community. I was speaking about a topic I've discussed many
times before: the need for more effective public input into
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,
the nonprofit corporation that controls the Internet's
protocols, addresses and domain name system.
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2587.asp

With No Privacy Standards Who Knows Who Is Abusing The
Whois Database
John Banks is a loan officer in New York. John's supervisor
recently warned John about the potential number of bad
loans he may be carrying as part of his portfolio. To dump
some of the bad loans he might be carrying, John came up
with a scheme. He pointed his web browser to www.whois.org
and entered terms denoting disease or poor health such as
'cancer' and 'illness'. This query on the Internet's WHOIS
database reported results of names and addresses of domain
name owners who had developed websites devoted to providing
information on certain serious illnesses. John compared
these names and addresses with those in his portfolio of
loans. For the matches, he canceled the loans and required
immediate payment-in-full.
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2584.asp

Time For ICANN/IANA To Squarely Face The Question Of
Privacy In The Domain Name Whois Database - Karl Auerbach
Privacy is a hard question. It is a matter that pervades
all aspects of information handling. It would be entirely
inappropriate, and ultimately futile, to try to deal with
privacy as an after-the-fact adjustment to the existing DNS
Whois system. It is necessary to examine the most
fundamental questions -- such as what reasons, if any,
justify there being a Whois database at all. This article
contains thoughts on how we might try to deal with these
questions in a principled way.
 http://www.circleid.com/articles/2585.asp
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