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I've been trying to see if there was a website for the language, you know like Perl, PHP, etc.... This is what I found: A political site?

The Domain Defense Advocate is a grass-roots organisation trying to combat unwarranted domain confiscations. IMHO, a very worthwhile thing to support.

Ajax said it was the best UNIX there he has ever used. I value his opinion; so should you.

Often wrong but never in doubt.
I am Jack9.

...maybe someone should write an FAQ...

Dunno about a FAQ, but there's a mailing list/lobbying group at Ajax.org. Good luck.

Take a look at: http://www.ajax.org/dda/

Since I really have no affiliation with them, I can't tell you exactly what they will do, but the webpage gives you an idea.

Good Luck, and may the force be with you...

Steve
(I swear I'm not a Star Wars junkie..I just felt like being creative in my post =) )

Check this site out: http://www.ajax.org/dda/

I don't agree with the "popular names" clause, as I stated before. However, from your description it doesn't sound like the Newton situation would fall under the new law anyway. I'm not familiar with the background on this, but it sounds like newton.com wasn't held by Mr. Newton solely to squeeze a lot of money out of Apple computer. This case sounds like the same old "big corp. unleashes lawyers and dollars to grab by intimidation what they can't take by law" story. See veronica.org, ajax.org, etc. If newton.com wasn't a business with interests in the same arena as the trademark holder, then it should have been safe from Apple's actions.

Of course things didn't work out that way. But the course of events in the newton.com situation would not have been altered by the proposed cyber-squatting bill. The real problems were:

• NSI's trademark dispute resolution policy, which assumes that the accuser is correct and puts the burden of proof on the shoulders of the accused
• The disparity between the financial and legal resources of your normal big business and the resources of a small domain owner
• The legal system, which allows the disparity in resources to play a deciding role in many of these cases

I'll be the first person to agree with you that the current legal situation involving domain name disputes favors big business considerably at the expense of the individual domain owner. I just want to see the real issues are being addressed, rather than the usual /. railing against everything the government does. Removing the popular names clause and adding some protection for the individual domain owner (loser pays legal costs in trademark disputes?) would be a welcome addition to this bill, but I don't see how prohibitions specifically against "cybersquatting with intent to resell to the registered trademark owner" can be used to take away an individual's personal domain, like newton.com, veronica.org, or ajax.org.

I recently read Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning was the Command Line (good read, I wonder if that link is a legal copy?) and can't help but think about the probability that without support from Windows' home edition (whenever and whatever it may be), the IA-64 won't become a commodity chip and may be just as out of reach for Joe Hacker as the rest of the chip world (with the notable exception of PPC, of course.)

I'd hate to see that happen. I would love to ditch bloat on my CPUs as much as I loved ditching bloat in my OS :-)

the people over at ajax.org, themselves previously the victims of one of these disputes, have set up a Domain Defence Assistance thing to help out others in similar situations. Read the page here or subscribe to the mailing list (put "subscribe" in the subject body).

the people over at ajax.org, themselves previously the victims of one of these disputes, have set up a Domain Defence Assistance thing to help out others in similar situations. Read the page here or subscribe to the mailing list (put "subscribe" in the subject body).

.... contact the domain-name defense advocate too.