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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.
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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.
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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.
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Slashdot: AOL Threatens Peng, Demands Domain Handover
News of America Online demanding the pengaol.org domain name and reader comments.
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Fair Domain-Dispute Arbitration Firm Quits the Business
"EResolution has decided to quit the Domain Name Dispute- Resolution business because its reputation for being fair has driven away its potential customers - the trademark holders who are filing the complaints." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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kuro5hin: New York State Is Taking Away My Domain Name
New York State Fair disputes Scott Brady's NYSFair.com.
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Register: Reuters Cybersquats on Man's Domain
Article about Reuters' refusal to relinquish reters.com to Mr. Stanley Reters. By Kieren McCarthy.
www.theregister.co.uk/

CNN: New Group Formed to Resolve Domain Conflicts
A group of Internet top-level domain (TLD) holders have formed a nonprofit association to prevent what they fear will become a splintered Internet domain naming system.
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National Arbitration Forum: Domain Dispute
Instructions on filing complaints or responses, details of specific dispute resolution services, and an archive of past decisions.
arbforum.com/

WIPO Loads Dice in Domain Dispute Conference
"WIPO made sure its views on domain name disputes were made clear at an international meeting in Geneva on Monday by stacking pro-WIPO speakers against critics." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]
www.theregister.co.uk/