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Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Domain Names and Trademarks
FAQs and advice on how to defend against claims of domain name trademark infringement and other legal scare tactics, compiled by students at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
www.chillingeffects.org/

ICANN Internationalized Domain Names Internal Working Group
established by ICANN to identify the various internationalization efforts and the issues they raise, to engage in dialogue with technical experts and other participants in these efforts, and to make appropriate recommendations to the Board.
www.icann.org/

ICANN Public Comments Forum on Internationalized Domain Names
Established for comments and discussion about the introduction of internationalized domain names.
forum.icann.org/

Washington Post: Clear Sailing For PortOfHelsinki.com In Domain Dispute
Six months after ruling that the Internet domain name Barcelona.com should be taken away from its current owners and handed to the Spanish city with the similar name, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has taken a different stand in a dispute over an Internet address referring to the Port of Helsinki. By Steven Bonisteel.
www.newsbytes.com/

Newly Chinese Government approved domain names
The newly-approved domain names, completely in Chinese characters (including the ‘dot’ character) that we offer do not suffer from these two problems. They are already widely usable in China, and authorized by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of the People's Republic of China.
www.netusdomains.com/

Holding on Property Status of Domain Names is Bad News for NSI
"The 9th held last Friday that a domain name registrant may sue a registrar, NSI, for conversion of the registrant’s domain name." [iBusiness Law]
ibusinesslaw.info/

Slashdot: AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover
News of America Online demanding the pengaol.org domain name and reader comments.
yro.slashdot.org/

NewsBytes: WIPO Sends Message To AOL In ICQ Domain-Name Dispute
Petter Rindforth, an arbitrator assigned by WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center to handle the ICQPlus.org dispute, ruled this month that Russian programmer Vadim Eremeev of St. Petersburg can keep the domain because he doesn't charge for the popular software he promotes on a Web site at that address. By Steven Bonisteel.
www.newsbytes.com/

CNet: Judge approves domain name penalty on eReferee
In one of the broadest crackdowns ever issued against a domain name holder, a federal judge orders eReferee.com to stop using the word referee in all of its domain names. By Lisa M. Bowman.
news.com.com/

NF Domain - Norfolk Island
NIC for .nf CCTLD.
www.names.nf/