Check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for
the latest domain news. Within 24 hours of this news being
posted, a more recent edition of the news will normally be
posted to the auDA web site. The domain name news is
supported by auDA.
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Non-Commercial Website Domain Names Using Trademarks
There are now several different courts of appeals that have
upheld the right of individuals to post a non-commercial
website using the domain name www.company.com, and there
are as yet NO appellate decisions that forbid such websites
outside the context of the serial cybersquatter who tries
to erect a so-called gripe site as a CYA measure after
being sued. In fact, it seems to me that we are getting
close to the point where companies that sue over such
websites have to consider seriously the possibility that
they will not only lose the suit, but face a malicious
prosecution action or other counter-measure from the
consumer critic seeking damages for having been sued.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/577_0_1_0_C

uk:  Domain names: Don't be hustled
Small businesses are being warned by the Office of Fair
Trading (OFT) about the sales tactics of some internet
domain name registration agents.

http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=24329&n=
 http://www.vnunet.com/News/1154802

au: Domain Names clash on court ruling
Domain Names Australia (DNA) is pressing ahead with its
appeal against the Federal Court forbidding its marketing
practices.
 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1918701705

us: Fur's flying on the Web over Neiman Marcus parody
It's spring, when thoughts usually turn to warm-weather
topics like barbecues, tank tops and colossal home runs by
Barry Bonds. But this year, at least in the online world,
spring has raised a wintry matter, fur -- and a flap over
three other little letters: c, a, s. Those three letters
have led Neiman Marcus Group Inc., one of the most
conspicuous high-end U.S. retailers, to try to shut down
three Web sites for the Fund for Animals, a national
organization founded in 1967 by former author and
humanitarian Cleveland Amory.

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/8557911.htm

us/au: Informedia Domain Names May Come Back To Haunt
Realtors
The chance is faint, but Informedia founder Alan Isabelle
could come back and demand that the domain names that
MelbourneIT releases to Realtors still belong to him. Never
mind that he registered agents' domain names to his company
without their knowledge.
 http://realtytimes.com/rtapages/20040430_informedia.htm

Reichert aide buys up other candidate's Web domain name as
joke
When state Sen. Luke Esser was setting up his congressional
campaign Web site, his staff was curious to learn that
several Web addresses with his name were already taken.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915343_web29e.html

ITU: Letter to ICANN re Applications to ICANN Concerning
Telephony Addressing Top Level Domains
The ITU Secretary-General has addressed a letter to ICANN
concerning Applications to ICANN Concerning Telephony
Addressing Top Level Domains.

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/mina/2004/lettertoicann-20041.pdf

Public Comment period for sTLD applications has been
extended
ICANN has extended its Public Comment period for all of the
new sTLD applications until 23.59 UTC 14 May. Interested
parties are further encouraged to submit comments. ICANN
will launch the independent evaluation process as
scheduled, and proceed with the sTLD application timetable
as originally published.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-30apr04.htm

ICANN Nominating Committee's Frequently Asked Questions for
2004 (Version 1.0)
 http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/nc2004/faqs.htm

The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance
By David Johnson, Susan Crawford, and John Palfrey
Three problems of online life - spam, informational
privacy, and network security - lend themselves to the peer
production of governance. Traditional sovereigns have tried
and, to date, failed to address these three problems
through the ordinary means of governance. The sovereign has
a role to play in the solution to each of the three, but
not as a monopoly and not necessarily in the first
instance. A new form of order online, brought on by private
action, is emerging in response to these problems. If
properly understood and encouraged, this emerging order
could lead to an accountable internet without an offsetting
loss of those aspects of online life that we have found
most attractive. There has been a great deal of loose talk
about the need for internet governance, particularly in the
context most recently of the World Summit on the
Information Society, but much less careful analysis of the
question whether the online world really does pose special
problems, or present special opportunities, for collective
action. There has been a general discussion as to whether
the internet, as a general rule, lends itself to governance
by traditional sovereigns or if something in the net's
architecture resists such forms of control. We do not seek
to re-open this debate, acknowledging at the outset the
important role that traditional sovereigns have to play in
most areas of decision-making and enforcement on the
internet. Rather, we seek to look more closely at a series
of particularly thorny issues that have proven especially
challenging for policy makers seeking to impose governance
by states. We seek the special problems -- and
corresponding opportunities – of online activity and assess
the relative merits of various options for how to resolve
them.
 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/2004-04

N. Americans Plan ENUM Directory
Moves are being made in the U.S. to create an organization
that will be in overall charge of a directory that will
link phone numbers to URLs, and thus IP addresses.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=51698&site=lightreading

Web Hosting News: Valuing Domain Names: A Monograph By
DomainMart
DomainMart has published a monograph on domain-name
valuation. It outlines the strength and limitations of
various approaches to valuing domain names. It also
describes the statistical model used for their Appraisal
Report.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=2067

au: Internet business found guilty of misleading conduct
A Queensland business which sells domain names for the
Internet has been found guilty in the Federal Court of
engaging in misleading conduct.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1099458.htm
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Sources include Quicklinks (www.qlinks.net) and BNA
Internet Law News (www.bna.com/ilaw)".


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