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Domain that moved in the night
When Simon Bettison registered a domain with the
registrar Dotster in April last year, he never thought
that he would have to jump through hoops in the event
that he decided to transfer it to another registrar.
And he never guessed that the domain would silently
slip from one registrar to another without his having
to do a thing. 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Domain-that-moved-in-the-night/2005/02/11/1108061853616.html


ph: Embattled .ph administrator hits gov't
re-delegation process 
Joel Disini, embattled administrator of the .ph
Internet domain, has once more hit government's plan
to start the procedure of re-delegation of the
".ph"domain. 
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=27185


.CN domain name registration fees drop
After last week's Chinese Domain Name Registrar
Conference held in Kunming by the China Internet
Network Information Center (CNNIC), many domain
sellers have dropped their prices for .CN domains by
as much as 40%. 
http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=4941&mhnews_page=1


uk: Nominet wins case against Domain Registry Services
Nominet UK has won its legal action against bogus
invoicing scam outfit Domain Registry Services after
the .uk internet domain name registry took civil
action against Peter Francis-Macrae and his company
Ultra Technologies Ltd. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/11/nominet_court_case/


es: Frank Rijkaard wins rights to his name in
cyberspace
Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard has won control of the
Internet domain name www.frankrijkaard.com in a ruling
issued Thursday by a United Nations panel. 
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/3388118 

ICANN's .Net Evaluator Under Scope 
ICANN said it is confident that Telcordia
Technologies, its choice to pick the next .net manager
from a list of bidders, can render a fair decision. 
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3482341 

us: NTIA Nixes Privacy Protection in Whois 
Many registrars have gotten complacent about reforming
the Whois-Privacy relationship. After all, they can
sell additional privacy protection to their
subscribers for an extra $5-10. Seems like a perfect
"market oriented" interim solution, as the so-called
"bottom up" policy development process of ICANN
figures out how to provide tiered access. 
http://www.circleid.com/article/937_0_1_0_C/ 

us: Registrars End Effort to Block Domain Name Service

A group of registrars suing to block a controversial
service for the back-ordering of domain names has
dropped its lawsuit, but the service remains mired in
legal disputes. 
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1764226,00.asp 

us: In Celebration of Engineers Week, .Eng.pro Domain
Name Launches for Engineers Only: Engineers. We Built
It, It's Our Domain.
.Pro domain expands to provide secure and confidential
Internet communication to engineers who seek the
highest assurance in a registry 
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050208/netu025_1.html 

us: Nokodo.com Introduces Real-Time Deleted Domain
Names Search Engine (news release)
Nokodo has announced the opening of a free real-time
keyword search engine of deleted domain names. 
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=11543


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

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(c) David Goldstein 2005

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