Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for
the latest domain news. By close of business Melbourne
time 12 September, a more recent edition of the news
should be posted to the auDA web site.

    The domain name news is supported by auDA.

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au: Respondent's Long Use of JACUZZI in Australia
Prevails in Domain Name Dispute
Jacuzzi, Inc., owner of rights in the mark JACUZZI,
challenged the domain name jacuzzi.net.au in this
first WIPO decision involving the .au domain. The
Australian respondent had used the JACUZZI name for
nearly 15 years.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1183_0_1_0_C

European firms rush to get .eu names (reg req'd)
With the launch of ".eu" internet domain names just
weeks away, European companies are rushing to register
their domain names.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/european-firms-rush-to-get-eu-names/2005/09/05/1125772438960.html

http://www.mweb.co.za/hubs/news/newsItem.aspx?id=BUS_more|2886129

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2005/09/05/2003270487

http://biz-day.com/read/service/04_sep_05/gwrxt-u/european_businesses_abuzz_over_eu_internet_domain_names.htm

http://www.finance24.com/articles/business/display_article.asp?Nav=ns&lvl2=buss&ArticleID=1518-1786_1764955

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2863404&fSectionId=552&fSetId=662

Spanish domain names open to trade mark owners (reg
req'd)
>From this week, any owner of a Spanish trade mark or
Community trade mark can apply to register an .es
domain name in Spain

http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=578611&ISS=20242&LS=EMS50743

Second Phase of Spanish Domain Names Registration
under .ES Launched
ESNIC, a department of the Corporate Entity RED.ES,
the Spanish authority for the management of the
assignment of Internet domain names under the country
code ?.es?, announced in a press release on Tuesday
that the second phase of the progressive registry is
available starting September 6 and will end on October
21, 2005.
 http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=2104

Free China .cn domain names
Net.cn, the largest domain name registrar in Communist
China, says it?ll spend more than RMB10 million
($1,235,849 at the time of writing) on free domain
names for current users and clients.
 http://p2pnet.net/story/6156

http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2956

fi: Domain names with Nordic characters popular (news
release)
In Finland, according to the Ministry of
Communications, a total of 1,500 new .fi-domain names
with the special Nordic characters "?", "?" and "?"
were registered during the first two days after they
were launched on 1 September 2005.

http://e.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=40623

GNSO Council/ICANN Board Meeting Agenda - 8 September
2005
Draft Agenda for GNSO Council meeting Thursday,
September 8, 2005

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-08sep05.htm

Constituency statements and WHOIS Task force
presentation at the GNSO Public Forum held on July 12,
2005 in Luxembourg
    * Update from the gTLD Registries constituency

http://www.icann.org/presentations/gtld-constituency-lux-11jul05.pdf
    * Registrar Constituency Statement

http://www.icann.org/presentations/registrar-constituency-lux-11jul05.pdf
    * White paper on internet domain name expansion

http://www.icann.org/presentations/white-paper-lux-11jul05.pdf
    * Noncommercial Users Constituency Statement

http://www.icann.org/presentations/nonCommercial-constituency-lux-11jul05.pdf
    * Whois Task Force Public Forum

http://www.icann.org/presentations/whois-lux-12jul05.pdf

xxx: Sex, the Internet and the future
A devastating decision almost snuck up on us recently:
the provisional approval ? temporarily on hold ? to
add a new ".xxx" domain to the Internet, alongside
.com, .org and .net. This proposal was lobbied for by
pornographers, recently approved by the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),
and met by outrage from think tanks, therapists,
average citizens and family groups.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002474812_woman06.html
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1055&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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