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Verisign Liable to Pay for Mishandling of Sex.com Domain

BBC: Sex.com Row Rumbles on The Register: Sex.com Owner Can Sue VeriSign Out-Law.com: Sex.com Domain Name Is Property, So Owner Can Sue VeriSign Although you might think everyone's reporting on it just because the site involved is Sex.com, this is actually a major legal prec  [...]

Sex.com - The Fight Continues

IT-Director.com: The Battle for Sex.com This is tale of sex, forgery, business incompetence, and legal madness that apparently? may end in Verisign owing $100 million in damages. Although this case is clearly a farce, and an entertaining one at that, a serious precedent could come out of it. The question being raised is whether domain names can be considered as legal property, the consequence being that that would give t  [...]

Volvo in Domain Domain Dispute with Pig Farmer

Press Release: Volo Auto Museum Announces That Volvo of North America (Goliath) Sues Volo Auto Museum (David) for Internet Domain Name Infringement Domain name disputes are always good fun, especially when the little guy fights back :-) Volo, Illinois is a rural community approximately 50 miles northwest of Chicago. Volo's mayor is a local pig farmer and the 200 or  [...]

Web Not on Radar's Radar?

The NYT reports on the buzz in the publishing industry about the launch next week of the new magazine Radar, edited and published by Maer Roshan, formerly the editorial director of Tina Brown's ill-fated Talk magazine. My first instinct, naturally, was to visit   [...]

Domain Boogers

ExecutiveSummary.com: Domain Boogers Ever notice sites that are not configured properly to let you neglect to type the www. of a domain? E.g., the site for the bank HSBC comes up fine when you type www.hsbc.com, but it comes up 404 when you type merely hsbc.com. Such sites are administered by morons. I dub this phenomenon "Domain Boogers." More  [...]

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Devious Domain Registrants Could Be In Trouble

CNET: Use misleading domain name, go to jail? The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal that would criminalize using misleading domain names to lure unsuspecting people to sex sites. Under the proposal, a last-minute amendment to an unrelated child abduction bill, people who knowingly use an innocent-sounding domain name to drive traffic to a sexually explicit Web site could be fined and i  [...]

Domain Giant Moves into Email Marketing

DMNews: Register.com Offers E-Mail Marketing Services Domain name registrar Register.com Inc. is expanding its offerings online with an e-mail marketing service for small businesses looking to build their customer databases on a boot-string budget. A Constant Contact service will let small businesses build an e-mail database directly from its Web site. Roving Software, a Waltham, MA, provider of ready-made  [...]

Network Solutions Gets a Facelift

NetworkSolutions.com: New page I just received an email from Network Solutions, who presumably has my email address because years ago I used to deal with their sorry-ass service for my domain management (before there was a Register.com and, more recently, before I discovered the wonderfully cheap GoDaddy.com), and hopefully not because they simply indexed the domain   [...]

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I Think ICANN: Domain Masters to Fight Spam

ZDnet: ICANN Urged to Tighten Rules, Block Spam In an effort to cut down on spam and protect privacy, a task force of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the standards body for Internet domain names, has recommended tightening security, privacy and accuracy policies around the administration of the WhoIs master directory   [...]

Phony Domain Name Sellers Settle With FTC

IAR: Fake Domain Sellers Nailed A handful of companies accused of selling phony domain names such as ".usa" have agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which had accused them of operating a scam that may have taken as much as $300,000 from consumers. Sophisticated users, of course, would not be caught up in anything like this, but it's the constant stre  [...]

Register.com Blames Falling Revenue on Low Domain Renewals

Reuters: Register.com Posts Loss on Sluggish Renewals I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that GoDaddy.com charges 1/3 of Register.com's prices for domains?   [...]