• .US address raises red-white-blue flap
  We all know about dot-coms. But many had no idea that the United States has its very own Internet name: .US. It has been around for 17 years but was used mostly by government offices. That changed last week when the public got its first chance to grab a name — the only one that officially gives a U.S. address on the Internet. More than 200,000 names were scooped up.
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• Indian tribes gain special domain name suffix
  Federally recognized American Indian tribes will gain a special domain name suffix identifying them as government entities under a cooperative agreement announced by the Interior Department and the General Services Administration
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• Domain Is Signed, Sealed, Delivered ... To Peter Frampton
  In a potentially controversial decision, an international arbitrator has ruled that individuals could lose rights to their own names in Internet addresses if those same monikers are sought by celebrities.
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• Millers Fight For Family Domain on Web
  "It's Miller Time" is a popular slogan used by Miller Brewing Co. to market its lager, but it was the Miller family of San Mateo County that had first dibs on the phrase as an Internet domain.
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• Commerce Secretary Vows Scrutiny Of ICANN Reforms
  The U.S. Commerce Department is keeping close tabs on efforts to reform the body that manages the Internet's addressing system and will strive to make sure that those reforms reflect the needs of Internet users, U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans told lawmakers last week.
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04/29/2002

• Consumer Groups Decry 'Dot-US' Policies
  When America's "dot-us" Internet suffix opened to the public last week, U.S. Internet users responded in droves, registering more than 200,000 names. But some consumer advocates say certain addresses - like "union.us" and "nonprofit.us" - should not have been sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
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• Indian Tribes Gain Special Domain Name Suffix
  Federally recognized American Indian tribes will gain a special domain-name suffix identifying them as government entities under a cooperative agreement announced by the U.S. Interior Department and the General Services Administration.
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• Bobby Kennedy's daughter loses domain case
  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lieutenant Governor of the US State of Maryland, has lost a domain name claim...
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04/26/2002

• Domainz may take action against provider
  Internet registry Domainz is considering legal action against a service provider that sent junk e-mails to thousands of New Zealand Internet domain name holders asking for $125.
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• Viacom loses fight over domain name
  GLOBAL entertainment company Viacom International Inc, which runs the cable music station MTV, has lost its fight to have the domain name mtv.com.sg transferred to it
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04/25/2002

• Toronto Internet domain scammers to pay fine - FTC
  A Canadian company has agreed to pay $375,000 to settle charges that it duped Internet domain-name holders into needlessly buying similar-sounding names, federal regulators said Thursday.
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04/24/2002

• .US Domain Has Huge Demand in Asia
  There are more than 33,000 US companies or enterprises plus more than 100,000 US-China jointly owned companies or enterprises in China - We are sure .US domain names will have great demand in Asia
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• Domain name games
  Five years ago there was a rush by the unscrupulous to register company domain names and effectively hold them to ransom. The trend...
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04/23/2002

• Revamped ".us" Internet domain goes live
  U.S. Internet users looking for a star-spangled Web presence will be able to sign up for domain names with a ".us" tag starting on Wednesday
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• ICANN Seeks Out Dot-Org Operator
  The organization that manages the Internet's global addressing system today kicked off its search for the next steward of "dot-org" - the online neighborhood that that is home to many of the world's nonprofit groups.
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04/22/2002

• More Action Against Australian Domain Name Seller
  An Australia-based domain-name seller, Internet Name Group, has lost its accreditation until completion of a federal court case brought against it by a consumer watchdog
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04/19/2002

• Domain name scammers at it again
  A company called Central Web Pages Register (CWP) (www.c-w-p.co.uk) has apparently been circulating a letter to all .uk registrants demanding they pay a renewal fee of £225 or face being disconnected.
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• Australian Domain Name Seller Faces Court Case
  An Australia-based domain name seller, Internet Name Group, has been taken to court over marketing practices that the nation's consumer watchdog alleges are misleading
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• Monster Parent Pays $800K for Jobs.com
  Although expensive by recent standards, the price paid for Jobs.com pales in comparison to some URL price tags during the peak of the dot-com boom
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• Debate Over ICANN Reform Rages On
  Experts agree changes are needed, but don't agree on what those changes should be
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04/18/2002

• Nappers in your domain
  Keep your domain name registration up to date or risk losing it to a predator
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• VeriSign Locates Domain Server in Terremark NAP
  Terremark Worldwide Inc., announced on Thursday that digital trust provider VeriSign will relocate one of its generic top level domain name (gTLD) servers to the NAP of the Americas.
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04/17/2002

• Canadian Cities Face Hurdles In Race For Shorter Domains
  Some 14 years after the introduction of Canada's dot-CA Internet-addressing scheme, local governments in this country can begin sometime after midnight to register the shortest-possible incarnations of their official monikers as Internet domain names
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04/12/2002

• ICANN Convenes Industry-Heavy Security Panel
  The body that manages the Internet's global addressing system has gathered a clutch of high-tech industry officials and addressing experts to serve on a panel that will be charged with safeguarding the security of the Domain Name System (DNS)
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04/11/2002

• Kid-Safe Domain Nears Reality
  Legislation is no substitute for parental monitoring of dot-com kids, some critics say
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• ICANN Warns of Domain Name Scam
  Fraudulent company is asking Web site operators to pay up to resolve phony domain disputes
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04/10/2002

• Kid-friendly Internet domain bill heads to House floor
  An effort to create a kid-friendly Internet zone free of violence, pornography and other adult material cleared another hurdle on Wednesday when a House of Representatives panel gave its unanimous stamp of approval
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• InternetNZ appoints domain commissioner
  InternetNZ has appointed Debbie Monahan as the inaugural Net domain name address commissioner with responsibility for .nz registration and administration
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04/09/2002

• Tobacco Firm Smoked In Dispute Over Kool.com Domain
  In a trademark dispute that has smoldered for nearly three years, cigarette giant British America Tobacco (BAT) Group has been told by an international arbitrator it can't claim the Internet address Kool.com from a U.S. company.
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• Elvis Impersonator Is The King In Domain Name Dispute
  An almost-famous Elvis Presley impersonator who sometimes uses the stage name Johnny Blaze will be able to keep the JohnnyBlaze.com Internet address that a marketer of sportswear and hip-hop clothing says it should own
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• Soccer star gets his domain name back
  Roma captain Francesco Totti has won a battle to regain control of the internet domain name www.francescototti.com
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04/07/2002

• Judge orders company to stop using Syracuse as domain name
  A federal judge ordered an Internet Web-design company to stop using Syracuse University as one of its domain names.
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04/05/2002

• Singapore Outlines Rules For Domain Name Registrars
  Singapore could have a number of dot-sg Internet name registrars competing for business soon after July, with the recent introduction of a scheme for their accreditation by the government-owned dot-sg domain name space manager.
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• ICANN wins confidence of RIRs
  The Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers is close to forming binding relationships with the three Regional Internet Registries that are responsible for allocating IP addresses to internet service providers.
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04/04/2002

• Executive nets new domains
  The distinctive Scottish identity for internet domain sites is now available as alternative to ".uk" addresses after an agreement with the Seychelles, which was originally granted the ".sc" suffix.
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• Mayor to return captive Web site domains, but only to `true journalists'
  Miffed at a critical Web site calling for his resignation, Mayor Vincent Cianci Jr. has snatched the rights to Internet domain sites registered in the names of prominent journalists.
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04/03/2002

• Computing Group Asks ICANN To Scale Back Mission
  One of the world's oldest and largest computing organizations is calling on the body that manages the Internet's addressing system to scale back its role in creating global Internet policy.
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04/02/2002

• New European Domain Game
  The powers that be in the EU administration capital of Brussels have decided that the Internet is inally a subject fit to grab their attention. The EU has now formally approved the creation of yet another new Internet domain, .eu, to join the national country identifiers that already exist
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• ICANN comes under fire - again
  The organisation that is supposed to coordinate Web addresses is facing attack from all sides and its very future could now hang in the balance
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04/01/2002

• News Analysis - ICANN can't go on, says Net community
  The body governing the Internet is facing a crisis that may mean its end, and insiders are divided on how best to move ahead.
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