In the last couple of days documentation has been lodged with the Supreme Court of Queensland that has confirmed that the Australian domain industry regulator, au Domain Administration Ltd, has invented complaints in order to strip businesses of their Au domains.
For example, the auDA compliance officer (Shane Honey) under directions from the CEO (Chris Dispain) […]

ICANN’s Contractual Compliance branch published its third Semi-Annual Contractual Compliance Report (http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/reports/contractual-compliance-report-27feb09-en.pdf) [PDF, 1,100K]. that report summarizes ICANN’s compliance activities from July 2008 through January 2009. During that period, ICANN updated two audits and commenced two additional audits in addition to continuing work on studies and escalated compliance actions. ICANN conducted each audit by […]

The results of a lengthy community consultation to improve institutional confidence in ICANN have been published today for discussion at the Mexico City meeting.
The draft Implementation Plan for Improving Institutional Confidence (http://www.icann.org/en/jpa/iic/draft-iic-implementation-26feb09-en.pdf) [PDF, 468K] has been produced by the President’s Strategy Committee and chases extensive research, analysis, deliberation and consultation with the global World […]

auDA today announced that it has extended its au Registry Licence Agreement with AusRegistry. AusRegistry will now continue as Registry Operator and wholesale provider for all commercial domain names including .com.au and .net.au and non-commercial domain names, .gov.au and .edu.au until 2014.
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Toys ‘R’ Us is the lucky winner of Toys.com. The domain was bought by the toy store chain in a heated phone auction that took place earlier today at the final bid of $5.1 million. DirectNavigation blogged live from the auction here.
According to Domain Name Wire, the following bidders participated in the auction:

1-800-Diapers
Toys ‘R’ […]

Toys ‘R’ Us is the lucky winner of Toys.com. The domain was bought by the toy store chain in a heated phone auction that took place earlier today. DirectNavigation blogged live from the auction here.
According to Domain Name Wire, the following bidders participated in the auction:

1-800-Diapers
Toys ‘R’ Us via Eagle, LLC
National A-1
Schilling Aviation Corp […]

If you are dreaming of publishing your own ebook but have come to a standstill considering you don’t have the technical know-how to actually put the PDF ebook onto your website and link to it, check out
this article.
Original post by Nameclerk

whether former Washington State Gov. Gary Locke (D) is confirmed as the new U.S. Commerce Secretary, he’ll face several World Wide Web policy issues that require instant attention and decisive action in 2009, says Network World. But whoever is confirmed in the position will face the same challenges as outlined by Network World.
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With the ICANN meeting in Mexico City on next week, Domain Name Wire has published a guide to surviving the often violent city.
While the city can often be dangerous, with a few tips from the write-up, they propose you lessen your risks of anything poor happening dramtically.
Original post by Domain Name News, The Domain Industry […]

[news release] The APWG, the global, independent coalition combating
electronic crime, today announced the availability of a new industry
advisory that examines the abuse of subdomain registries by criminals
engaged in phishing attacks. by 10-percent of all phishing sites,
representing tens of thousands of scams worldwide, originate on
subdomains available for registration at subdomain registry services,
the advisory reports.
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