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  1. Domain hijackers by Robin+Lionheart · · Score: 1 · on .Info, .Biz, .Behind The Scenes At ICANN
    You can fault ICANN for many reasons but telling the .web and .biz squatters to take a long walk off a short pier is not one of them.

    The wildcat squatters were told when they began that they would not be recognized.

    The application by IOD, a current operator of .web, received an inaccurate assessment and was rejected. However, because of the dispute, ICANN also avoided giving .web to Afilias, and assigned them .info instead.

    ICANN wasn't entirely dismissive of IOD, perhaps because IOD actually paid the exorbitant $50,000 fee and applied for it. IOD has also demonstrated a willingness to fight for .web in their Federal lawsuit against CORE, another .web operator, for unfair competition and trademark infringement.

    Inconsistently, ICANN ignored a similar conflict with .biz, and gave it to NeuLevel, ignoring Pacific Root's operation of the legitimate .biz domain for the past six years.

  2. How they're dealing with trademarks. by Junon · · Score: 2 · on .Info, .Biz, .Behind The Scenes At ICANN
    I checked out the .info registration site, www.afilias.com, and according to them, the trademarked domains will be up for registration doing a "Sunrise" period, and the trademark owners can only get a "domain name must be identical to the textual elements of the trademark or service mark."

    I'm assuming that means something like Microsoft can get Microsoft.info, but not MicrosoftSucks.info, Microsoftblows.info, so on. I don't think that that would be that bad where they get their trademarked domain name, only when it's an exact match to their registered trademark, which has to be registered before October 2000 and must be a nationaly recognized trademark, whatever that means.

    At the .biz registry, www.neulevel.com, it says something close to how .biz will be handeling trademark issues. They are haveing the initial trademark(IP) phase starting on May 21st where the trademark owners will get preference. The trademark .biz domain must exactly match a company's trademark claim before they start a dispute process. Their policies arn't as clear as the .info domains.

    Personaly, I don't much care about the .biz domains, but I'm looking forward to grabbing a .info domain or two. It looks like the .info folks look like they are handleing the trademark issue pretty well, you get your 'exact' trademark text first. Hopefully it won't turn into a trademark free-for-all.

  3. Speaking of TLD by HiroProtagonist · · Score: 2 · on Karl Auerbach Profiled In Salon

    Anyone heard of FOCI (Friends Of a Competitive Internet)?

    http://joinfoci.org/

    " We're mad because the current ICANN process to introduce new Top Level Domains (TLDs) into the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) is in danger of being hijacked in a sham designed to extend Network Solutions, Inc. ( NSI ) and the other Afilias registrars' monopoly control over the most popular Internet real estate."

    Looks like Karl Auerbach already has something to work against at ICANN.

  4. Re:where's .web? by JBReynolds · · Score: 1 · on New TLDs Proposed To ICANN

    There are two different .web applicants: Image Online Design and Afilias, a consortium of 19 ICANN registrars.