DOMAINHANDBOOK.COM
is in its sixth year of posting links to media reports
about the domain name industry. Although this page is off
to a late start., we are working on it to catch up with
the first two months of news. Links that have been added
in the most recent page update are noted by  .
Links to domain name news from years 1998 through 2002
are now in the Archives
section of this website.
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We commend those
online news organizations that make their
archives freely available for sufficient time to
allow historians and chroniclers to catch up.
The news links below are published in reverse
chronological order.
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Links to news about
ICANN's activities are posted in an ICANN
section
on this website. News about domain
name disputes and
litigation
involving registries and
registrars
are
posted elsewhere on DOMAINHANDBOOK.COM.
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23-Apr-04
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- How
to get a new top-level domain approved by
ICANN, by Andy
Oram (O'Reilly Network)
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21-Apr-04
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- Accountant's
Old Domain Name Now Shows
Porn (WBAL
Channel)
- Fred Shaw, an accountant
who used the Internet for his business, let
his domain name registration for KJCFS.COM
lapse and it was purchased by another party
to display adult entertainment.
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15-Apr-04
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- The
Launch of .PRO Domain for
Professionals,
by Philippe Rodhain (Circle
ID)
- A "sunrise" period is
available until May 5 for trademark owners to
register defensive .PRO domains corresponding
to their marks in the TLD designated for
doctors, lawyers and CPAs.
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6-Apr-04
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- Japan
Bets New Internet Standard to Drive
E-World,
by Yukari Iwatani Kane (Reuters)
- Companies led by Japan's
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp and KDDI
Corp look to the next-generation
standard:IPv6 which will allow for every home
appliance, PDA, light switch or device to be
given its own IP address.
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11-Mar-04
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- ardner (TechWeb
News)
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26-Mar-04
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- United
Nations ponders Net's
future, by Declan
McCullach (C/Net)
- Delegates to a UN summit
want involvement in the security, regulation
and technical underpinnings that control the
Internet.
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24-Mar-04
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- Network
Solutions Offers 100-Year Net
Addresses, by
David McGuire (Washington Post)
- More than one dozen
companies have paid NSI a fixed $1000 fee to
register a domain name for a new 100-year
term.
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15-Mar-04
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- Pornographer
donates WHITEHOUSEKIDS.COM address to U.S.
government (SiliconValley.com)
- Dan
Parisi, who says he is getting out of the
online porn business, donated
WHITEHOUSEKIDS.COM to the government and has
put his WHITEHOUSE.COM domain name and 100
derivatives up for sale.
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11-Mar-04
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- Web
Domain Proposed For Mobile
Phones, by W.
David Gardner (TechWeb News)
- Nine companies including
Microsoft and Nokia have proposed to
establish a new TLD, .MOBILE, for websites
catering to mobile phone users.
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27Jan-04
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- 2nd
Circuit Upholds Inunction on Web Hosting
Firm, by Mark
Hamblett (New York Journal)
- A two0judge panel upheld
the preliminary injunction against Verio,
Inc., barring its access to Register.com's
WHOIS data for mass marketing.
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28-Jan-04
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- Cyber-squatters
sit tight
(Australian IT) T
- he WIPO arbitration
center received 1,100 cases in 2003 -
approximately three complaints per day -
about disputes over rights to domain
names.
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20-Jan-04
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- Domain
name renewal scam still
running, by Rich
Kavanagh (I.T.Vibe)
- Domain Registry of
America continues to use a somewhat
misleading tactic to get new
customers.
- Microsoft:
We took Mike Rowe too
seriously, by
Munir Kotadia (C/Net)
- Microsoft admits it may
have been overzealous in threatening teenage
web entrepreneur Mike Rowe over his domain
name, MIKEROWESOFT.COM
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19-Jan-04
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- Police
warn of .eu domain
scam (I.T.
Vibe)
- Dot Com Avenue is
offering a pre-registration service for the
.EU domain names which are not yet available
and cannot be pre-registered.
- Microsoft
Takes on Teen Over Web
Site, by AP
(Washington Post)
- Microsoft and its
attorneys have demanded that 17-year old Mike
Rowe give up his MIKEROWESOFT.COM domain
name, which he registered in August. See also
Microsoft
takes on teen's site
MikeRoweSoft.com
(CNN)
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17-Jan-04
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- Web
war over; 'cyberpirate' raises the white
flag; Tyszka agrees to sell domain names to
Donnelly, by James
Wensits (South Bend Tribune)
- Political consultant T.
Nicholas Tyszka agreed to sell to Democratic
congressional contender Joe Donnelly three
domain names he had registered--
DONNELLYFORCONGRESS.COM, JOEDONNELLY2004.COM
and DONNELLY2004.COM for the cost of
registering them.
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14-Jan-04
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- Brand
owners can go for .HK domain names this
month
(Out-law.com)
- The Hong
Kong Internet Registration
Corporation will
launch second level .HK domain registrations
in May, with priority being given to trade
mark holders and those who already hold third
level .HK domains.
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9-Jan-04
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- VeriSign
planning more changes to .COM,
.NET,
by Paul Roberts (IDG News)
- VeriSign
will begin making more frequent updates to
the root server system, although networking
experts express concern about unintented
consequences that could interrupt Internet
traffic.
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Thank you for your patience while we convert the 2003
media links to the Archives
section of this website.
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