Domain Name Disputes Decline as Internet Matures
The wild wild Web is getting tamed. Cybersquatters no
longer freely roam its highways looking for easy marks and
trademark owners who once went after anyone who crossed
their path are now choosing their battles much more
carefully.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1044059430652

Net names' rallying cry
Online luminaries Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson have
issued a call to arms at an Oxford conference debating the
net's future.
Over two hundred delegates packed the debating chamber of
the Oxford Union last week to hear internet luminaries
Lawrence Lessig and Esther Dyson consider the future of the
Internet and ways we can shape its future.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,892676,00.html

Dyson cleans out her closet
Esther Dyson, one of the key figures in the development of
the commercial Internet, advisor to Al Gore, promoter of
the Net in Eastern Europe and poster woman for the dotcom
millionaires, went to massive lengths today to distance
herself from the failures of ICANN, the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Despite having
been a Founding Director, Dyson now says that her
involvement in ICANN's development was actually very
limited.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29225.html

Dyson ends support for ICANN 1.0
Esther Dyson is increasingly distancing herself from the
old ICANN as she seeks to create ICANN 2.0 to oversee the
Internet's future. But experts are still divided over how
the organisation should work 
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130166,00.html

Europe threatens to invade ICANN
The Internet is teetering on the brink of war. European
forces amassed under the executive chairman of UK registry
Nominet, Dr Willie Black, are poised ready to strike at the
very heart of the Net and liberate its inhabitants
following years of non-cooperation by the ICANN regime.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29259.html
 http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=14844

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/02/10/2221212.shtml
 http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/1429217

Flak flies over ICANN contract renewal
The U. S. Department of Commerce has come under fire for
awarding, without a proper tender process, a contract for
running the most basic and crucial functions of the
Internet to ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/enterprise/story/0,2000025001,20271954,00.htm

The right domain for .eu?
Don't get me wrong, I love my domain; but while nik.co.uk
has a certain charm, it's doesn't have the international
appeal of nik.net, nik.com or even nik.org, each of which
was bagged by someone else years ago.
 http://www.vnunet.com/Analysis/1138651

Final Report of the GNSO Council's Whois Task Force
Accuracy and Bulk Access
 http://www.icann.org/gnso/whois-tf/report-06feb03.htm

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-06feb03.htm

Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform - Proposed
Clarifications, Corrections, and Modifications to New
Bylaws
Since the New Bylaws became effective on 15 December 2002,
various members of the community have identified
clarifications, technical corrections, and minor
modifications that would be desirable. After reviewing many
suggestions, the Evolution and Reform Committee recommends
that the Board adopt the following clarifications,
corrections, and modifications to the New Bylaws.

http://www.icann.org/committees/evol-reform/proposed-bylaws-corrections-08feb03.htm

Advisory Concerning VeriSign Response on .com and .net
Nameserver Behavior
 http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-07feb03.htm

Letter from Rusty Lewis to Stuart Lynn (With Attachment
Responding to IAB Statement)

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/lewis-letter-to-lynn-07feb03.htm

GNSO Council Teleconference on 20 February 2003 - agenda 

http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20030220.GNSOteleconf-agenda.html

E-Legal: Domain Name 'Typosquatting' Equals Bad Faith
"Typosquatting" -- the intentional misspelling of words in
domain names to siphon off Internet traffic from its
intended destination -- can lead to loss of the misspelled
domain names and legal findings of bad faith. This was the
result in the recent case National Association of
Professional Baseball Leagues, Inc. v. John Zuccarini with
respect to the domain name minorleaugebaseball.com, which
contains a commonly made misspelling, and which caused
Internet traffic to be directed to a pornographic Web site.
 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1044059452628

Avoiding Domain Name Slamming and Hijacking
Domain name slamming and hijacking are becoming
increasingly popular techniques by which someone can lose
some -- or all -- control of a domain name. Fortunately, by
knowing what these deceptive practices are, domain name
registrants can possibly avoid these pitfalls. This article
provides practical steps any domain name registrant can
take to better secure an important Internet address.

http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2003/hollander-2003-02.html

The case of the mysterious .gov site
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman has never heard of
the group that operated AONN.gov, and the U.S. General
Services Administration has pulled the site's .gov domain
because of questions about the organization's connection to
the U.S. government.
 http://virus.idg.net/ic_1145457_9677_1-5046.html

Portland Bolt Slips In UDRP Decision - from UDRPlaw.net
http://www.udrplaw.net
In a National Arbitration Forum decision issued yesterday,
Panelist Charles K. McCotter, Jr. denied a complaint
brought against the registration of Portlandbolt.com.
 http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/137713.htm

Split Panel Finds Use of DavidoffShop.com Confusingly
Similar To Davidoff Mark Feb. 6, 2003  
Swiss tobacco, beauty and style company Davidoff & Cie SA
received an important UDRP victory from a split
three-member National Arbitration Forum Panel in its case
against the registrant of DavidoffShop.com. Read more about
the decision in ExclusiveNews #19.
 http://www.udrplaw.net/ExclusiveNews19.htm

Election fever grips UK domain registry
UK domain registry Nominet will announce the people
standing for the four vacant positions on its Policy
Advisory Board (PAB) on Monday. 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29237.html

New.Net Partners With Bulkregister
Alternative-root domain supplier New.net have announced
that ICANN-accredited Registrar BulkRegister will now offer
their domains along with its existing domain registration
services.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/02/07_new.htm

Thomas Cook Journeys To Victory In Nominet Appeal - Almost
Nominet's fourth appeal decision, under the auspices of the
UK Internet Naming Authority's Dispute Resolution Service,
represents the second time that a three-member appeal panel
has reversed the decision of an independent expert at first
instance. But this did not mean that the panel handed total
victory to the complainant.
 http://www.demys.net/news/2003/02/07_wb.htm
 
BulkRegister Offers New.net Domains
Domain name registry offering descriptive domain extensions
New.net (New.net) announced on Thursday that it has made an
agreement with major domain name registrar BulkRegister
(BulkRegister.com), according to which BulkRegister will
offer New.net's targeted domain names to its customer base
of 21,000 business members.
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/bul020703.cfm

Court rules for critic of Taubman
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a 2001 ruling,
and unanimously ruled that a Texas man can keep a Web site
that sharply criticizes shopping mall giant Taubman Centers
Inc.
 http://www.detnews.com/2003/business/0302/09/b01-80220.htm

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