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SchwimmerLegal.com has a nice overview table that links home pages, WHOIS services, and registration and dispute resolution policies for a large number of ccTLDs.

GoDaddy.com offers c-Site as a service that is supposed to make federal copyright registration in the US easier. Bret Fausett calls their marketing overly simplistic, if not outright deceptive. The people behind copyright blog, however, write: How does $9,95 ... sound to give your site protection against theft and unauthorized use? Not bad.

Update: Here's a third lawyer weighing in on the topic.

ICANN's ccNSO Launching Group is now taking membership applications for the Country Code Names Supporting Organization.

Computerworld has a theory that attempts to explain SCO's threats against anything Linux: Driving up the stock price.

The change of software also brings some change with respect to the feeds provided by this site: There's an RSS 0.91 feed, an RSS 1.0 feed, and a dedicated ICANN items RSS 1.0 feed. Please update your subscriptions accordingly.

Società Internet, the Italian ISOC chapter, has submitted the first at large structure application to ALAC. The committee will now review this application according to the certification process for at-large structures that was adopted in Montreal.

The At-Large Advisory Committee is seeking comments on its draft statement on new gTLDs. The statement argues in favor of a more open sTLD RFP, and lists a number of general principles that any addition of new gTLDs should adhere to. Comments can be submitted to forum@alac.icann.org until September 7. (Of course, you're also free to use this weblog to comment...)

Via Goolgenews: According to Koera IT News, governments and businesses in Asia are in the process of defecting from the current Internet address (domain) structure which is unilaterally administered by the US-led ICANN, and begin to unveil independent alternative services.

The article goes on to talk about some new service offers which appear to aim at providing complete URLs in non-latin scripts, from the protocol identifier to the top level domain. (As much of the referenced information isn't available in any language that I'd understand, I may quite well be misunderstanding this, though.)

Martin Schwimmer has more details on the planned House hearings about the IP lobby's top gripes with ICANN (ICANNwatch broke the story), including a copy of the letter from representatives Lamar Smith and Howard Berman to the Department of Commerce.

According to this press release, the JAP anonymizing proxy (think of it as anonymizer.com plus Chaumian mixes) is anonymizing again: The District Court in Frankfurt/Main decided yesterday that the enforcement of the judicial instruction by the Lower District Court in Frankfurt to the partners of the AN.ON project ... is to be suspended.