.us - Mousetrapping typosquatter faces criminal trial
John Zuccarini this week became the first person charged
under America's new Truth in Domain Names law. If
convicted, on charges of using misleading web addresses to
lure children to porn sites, he faces up to four years in
jail.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=mousetrappingtyposq1062768011
 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071133.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60307,00.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7162110%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://www.circleid.com/article/244_0_1_0_C/

Lax Controls Encourage Web Scams, Lawmakers Say
Spammers, scammers and child pornographers can hide easily
on the Internet because regulators allow them to register
under false names with stolen credit cards, lawmakers and
technology experts said Thursday.

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3390249
 http://www.house.gov/judiciary/courts090403.htm

Man Held in Lucrative Web Porn Scam
Federal agents Wednesday arrested a man they say runs Web
sites that exploit misspellings by computer users to direct
children looking for Disneyland or the Teletubbies to
explicit sex instead.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-trick4sep04,1,4033362.story
 http://rss.com.com/2100-1025_3-5071523.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60279,00.html

Internet domain name squatters face countdown to pay up or
move on
Czech Internet domain name squatters will be told to pay up
or move on under new rules that come into effect this week.
 http://www.pbj.cz/user/article.asp?ArticleID=184397

Tanzania loses name to tanning salon chain
The country formerly known as the United Republic of
Tanzania has lost the use of its name to Tampa-based
Tanzania Tanning Salons, the Florida Supreme Court ruled
Monday.
 http://www.theonion.com/current_news1.html

.ng - Icann Lauds Internet Group
A director of the International Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN), Mr. Mouhamet Diop, has lauded
the efforts of the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) in hosting
the nation's Top Level Domain (TLD) locally, and assured of
ICANN's support.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200309050775.html

.za - Broll Evicts Cybersquatter
THE international body that adjudicates disputes over
internet domain names has shooed a cybersquatter off
property that should rightfully be owned by a South African
firm.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200309050003.html

UK music biz tackles Nominet over domain nobbling
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) - the UK's answer
to the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) - may be
planning an all-out assault on websites that allow
copyrighted tracks to be downloaded. In minutes of a recent
meeting of Nominet's Public Advisory Board (PAB), it was
revealed the company in charge of the UK's domain registry
had been approached several times by the BPI seeking to
enforce correct domain details - essential if a prosecution
is to be brought.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32686.html

Number of .cn domain names may soon outnumber number of
.com.cn domain names 
The number of .cn domain names registered in mainland China
will soon surpass that of .com.cn ended domain names, Sun
Lemin, PR official with CNNIC (China Internet Network
Information Center), told Interfax in an interview. Lemin
added that more and more domestic companies are replacing
their .com.cn-ended domain names with .cn ones.
 http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=5656606&req=

IP Addresses For Coke Cans?
VeriSign is quickly making plans to hook every can of Coke
-- and box of screws and shirt -- into the Internet.
 http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3073421

Communicate.com to Receive $1 Million for Four Domain Names
An e-commerce company, Communicate.com Inc., that develops,
owns, and operates a network of websites specializing in
travel, consumer goods, sports/lifestyle and B-to-B
(business to business) has announced that it has entered
into an agreement to sell Automobile.com, Exercise.com,
Body.com and Makeup.com for $1 million to Manhattan Assets,
Inc., a private U.S. corporation. A non-refundable initial
payment of $200,000 has been received.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/243_0_1_0_C/

Bugwatch: Protecting your domain name
Each week vnunet.com asks a different expert to give their
views on recent security issues, with advice, warnings and
information on the latest threats. This week Yurong Lin,
chief executive at CommonName, warns against the perils of
losing your domain name to a cyber-squatter.
 http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1143379
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