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...Critics object that .com, .net and .org are global domain names, and thus U.S. courts should have no jurisdiction over them. "The Internet does not have any boundaries, so it has to be global," says Andrew McLaughlin, chief policy officer at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which administers domain names. "If the U.S. Congress has an anti-cyber-squatting law then maybe the E.U. will want one, maybe the U.K. will want its own, or China or Germany or wherever...
...What WIPO and ICANN act against are bad faith, where domain names are bought simply to sell on to organisations which own a trademarked name. And in many of the Olympics-related cases, the company registering the Web address fully intended to use it for appropriate commercial purposes. "This is a classic example of the net running faster than the people on the ground," said Jonathan Robinson, CEO of NetBenefit, probably Europe's largest domain name registration company. A staunch defender of trademarks on the Internet, Robinson has some sympathy for the IOC's plight but he believes that they...
Zittrain says the center is preparing a study that outlines how ICANN might become subject to oversight by Internet users...
...open governance" component of the Berkman Center deals with the regulation of domain names--Web site addresses--around the world that are currently entrusted to a non-profit company known as ICANN...
Zittrain says the center is preparing a study that outlines how ICANN might become subject to oversight by Internet users...