U.S. extends its hegemony over the Net
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last week wrote an
intriguing column titled "The Theory of Everything," in
which he sought to explain the escalating global resentment
toward the United States. Friedman suggested that
throughout the 1990s the U.S. became exponentially more
powerful economically, militarily, and technologically than
the rest of the world.

http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251778146&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

Price 'not trivial' but not only factor in Domainz sale
Money talks, but it won’t be the only consideration in the
sale of name registrar Domainz, according to InternetNZ.

http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/E37BA57C12D876AECC256D4000174B30

OECD speaks out on WHOIS 
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) has produced (and de-classified) a report on the
importance of accurate and available WHOIS data. As regular
readers of Demys.net will recall, the OECD is itself no
stranger to the difficulties of tracking cyber-snatchers
who fail to provide their registrar with genuine contact
details.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/06/09_oecd.htm

http://www.oecd.org/EN/newsevents/0,,EN-newsevents-13-nodirectorate-no-no--13,00.html

High Court Refuses Sex.com Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive an
adult-entertainment executive's bid to avoid paying $65
million to the owner of the Sex.com Web site for stealing
the Internet address.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-sex10jun10,1,5692365.story

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