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Not ICANN-related, but aggregator-related: Library Stuff reports that My Yahoo now has a really nice RSS aggregator module. Current bugs mostly look like they'll be fixed quickly: Currently, that aggregator can't deal with description-only feeds (like Scripting News or (void *)), and it seems to have problems to properly digest time stamps in "non-funky" Userland or Blogware feeds. "Funky" Movable Type blogs work perfectly, though.

Heise reports (in German) about a preliminary injunction by a court in Hamburgt which found "be-mobile.de" to be confusingly similar to "t-mobile.de", since both domain names sound similar. Previously, a lower court that apparently focused on the written form of the domain names had found no confusing similarity, and had not granted the injunction.

Further discussion (in German).

Florian Hitzelberger has interviewed Sabine Dolderer (.de; Google translation) on a number of topics, including ICANN reform -- There is no new era. ICANN 2.0 is just presenting itself in a more friendly way than ICANN 1.0. --; ccNSO and the question whether .de will join -- We're currently assessing whether the possible benefits of joining the ccNSO would outweigh the problems. The problem is, we don't find such benefits. --; possible government control over .de; whether or not .de will adopt the UDRP -- There's neither a reason, nor demand for doing this. --; international uniform WHOIS policies -- A globally uniform policy would fail due to divergent privacy laws. --; and a host of other topics. Worth reading.