01/16/2003

• Sex.Com Announces Partial Victory in Domain Name Property Dispute; Federal Appeals Court Looks to California State Supreme Court
  With signs pointing towards a win for Sex.Com, the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco has asked the state Supreme Court, the final authority on California Law, to intervene and decide whether a domain name is property that can be converted as well as guidance to assess damages that might amount to $100 million
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01/15/2003

• Domain glitch halts .gov.au sites
  A ROUTER outage at domain name gatekeeper AusRegistry rendered some of Australia's state government websites unavailable for most of Wednesday.
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01/14/2003

• VeriSign Moves to Internationalize Domain Names
  VeriSign (Quote, Company Info) is taking steps to offer new services that will enable Internet users globally to navigate the Web in a variety of different languages
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• Microsoft Gains Control of Windows Domain
  A Dutch computer enthusiast surrendered the WindowsXP.nu domain name to Microsoft after the Redmond, Washington, software maker threatened to take legal action
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01/13/2003

• Domain names slow VeriSign
  ONLINE transaction security firm VeriSign has learned a hard lesson: Gold mines lose much of their lustre after a gold rush
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01/10/2003

• Govt. enters ‘domain’ of promoting Bermuda
  Government will soon be seeking ideas to help promote Bermuda’s “.bm.” domain internationally
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• Australians still opting for local domain name
  ZDNet reports that the number of registered .dot.au domain names rose steadily during the second half of 2002
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• Battle for SA domain caught in a legal web
  GOVERNMENT's battle for control of the internet domain southafrica.com appears doomed to failure as a result of a precedent-setting ruling that a country's name is not a trademark that a government has the right to own
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01/06/2003

• VeriSign splits off domain registrar
  It's back to the future for Network Solutions
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• Energy firm offloads domain name management
  Energy pipeline company National Grid Transco has outsourced the management of its domain names to prevent cyber-squatting and improve efficiency
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01/03/2003

• VeriSign Dispute Over Sex.Com Sent to State Court (Update1)
  A federal appeals court asked California's high court to resolve questions about the Sex.Com domain name in a dispute over whether VeriSign Inc.'s Network Solutions must pay as much as $65 million for improperly transferring the address
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• PIR Takes Over .Org Domain
  The Public Interest Registry (PIR) assumed control Jan. 1 of the .org top-level domain registry from VeriSign Global Registry Services (Quote, Company Info) to begin the largest transfer of data from one registry to another in the history of the Internet
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• 'Biz' domain name operators agree to refund application fees
  Operators of the ".biz" domain name have agreed to refund the "nonrefundable" application fees it had collected as part of the initial awarding of names in 2001
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01/02/2003

• NeuLevel Settles Internet Domain
  One company that aimed to offer an alternative domain naming services has settled a class-action suit for roughly $1.2 million. NeuLevel Inc. is said to have operated an "illegal lottery" in distributing .biz domain addresses
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01/01/2003

• Register.com Slams Domain-Name Slammer
  This week in U.S. District Court, Register.com won an injunction against Domain Registry of America, which it accused of hoodwinking its customers into switching their domain-name registrations
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  Editor's Note: Some of our customers have also been victim of this company and have filed the appropriate complaints against them. See below from the above article:
  The deceptive marketing case wasn't the first such allegation the Domain Registry of America has been accused of, according to presiding Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, who noted the concern's executives had been previously convicted of various unlawful activities, and went on to state that the company's deceptive tactics were "neither accidental nor innocuous, but calculated and intended to confuse and mislead consumers."
• Domain Madness
  Currently the words file lists the words in Webster's Second International, who's 1937 copyright has expired. Oddly enough, the result is that 63% of the words are NOT registered names!!
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