The following domain sales have been reported as the first results from the Sedo Dutch Domains Auction…

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BOSTON – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, today announced that its technology arm, Iron Mountain Digital, has been selected by the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to provide escrow services which will be available to the more than 900 ICANN-accredited domain name registrars. The escrow program will protect registration data for the 90 million domain names they support. This agreement solidifies the security and stability of the Internet’s domain name system by safeguarding the data associated with registered domain names in secure escrow accounts managed by Iron Mountain Digital. (more…)

Canada is in the midst of undergoing a copyright reform process which will align itself with international copyright standards. Speculation that Canada is going to institute some form of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has been a topic of frequent forum discussion but recently a letter has surfaced which indicates that Canadian copyright reform would bring Canada closer to “conformity with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)“. The news comes just shortly after reports of the Copyright Reform bill coming within the coming “weeks”.

This obviously means that it will be easier in the future for trademark owners to pursue Canadian domain owners who infringed on trademark law. (more…)

The Pirate Bay, one of the largest BitTorrent trackers, obtained the IFPI.com domain in early October of this year. The IFPI.com domain originally belonged to the industry trade group, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Claiming it was the donation of an anonymous donor, The Pirate Bay quickly reworked the site, creating the International Federation of Pirate Interests. And all hell broke loose!

The Pirate Bay was able to obtain IFPI.com because of a simple reason, the IFPI forgot to renew the domain. Currently, there are hundreds, if not thousands of individuals out there at this very moment monitoring the top Internet domains, waiting for an organization to slip up. An anonymous individual managed to pick up the IFPI.com domain, and from there donated it to The Pirate Bay.

CNN published an interesting article about the dot Asia online auctions that are about to begin in December. For the full article click here.
 
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Source:  CNN International Article - November 30th, 2007

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Personal computer giant Dell Inc. is pursuing a major “cybersquatting” lawsuit against several companies that buy and sell Web site addresses, alleging that the entities earned millions of dollars from Internet traffic intended for Dell and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies.

In a case quietly filed with the U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in October and unsealed last Wednesday, Dell took aim at a stable of registrars - companies that are licensed to register and sell new domain names to the public - alledging that they are responsible for registering and profiting off of nearly 1,100 domains that were “confusingly similar” to Dell’s various trademarks. (more…)