Community geographic domain names (CGDNs) are domain names registered within the eight Australian state and territory 2LDs: act.au, qld.au, nsw.au, nt.au, sa.au, tas.au, vic.au, wa.au. The purpose is to preserve Australian geographic names for use by the relevant local community....

In a unanimous decision, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled in favor of Dire Straits in a “cyber-squatting” case. The U.K. rock band filed a complaint with the Geneva-based patents and intellectual property authority May 28 over a...

Mattel, which makes Barbie dolls, was forced this month to recall millions of toys that were made in China because of lead paint and loose magnets. So what’s Mattel’s next step in recovering from possible lost revenues? To attack porn...

The first heavy metal domain dispute I’m aware of. There are reports “the surviving members of Pantera are involved in a legal battle with their former webmaster over” Pantera.com. Pantera.com was once the band’s official web site, but since February...

This is an update to our story about Bobog.com a few days ago. Seems as if the news reported was not 100% accurate and that the US judge overstepped his boundaries. Visit Jay Westerdal post here for his perspective on...

An updated version of the proposed .MUSEUM sponsorship agreement is posted today for public comment. The amendment from the previous draft agreement is a result of significant collaboration between the registry sponsor and community members. The updated agreement is posted...

The continuing saga at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) about policy for approving new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is entering what may be its final stages this summer. There has been a stream of controversy surrounding...

ComputerWorld comments on the New Zealand Honey Net project, which produced Capture-HPC and produced a “white paper about using Capture-HPC to identify malicious Web servers.” ComputerWorld notes the project “inspected more than 300,000 URLs (nearly 149,000 hosts) for three weeks...

Starting in September, take advantage of registering your .MX domain name at a lower price! During the months of September, take action and take the first step towards having a Mexican Internet identity. Register a .MX domain starting at only...

Only 16 months after its official appearance, the .eu domain has recorded 2.5 million registrations for the second time – after a brief consolidation. The same number had been reached in the spring, but as the year ended, some of...