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Businesswire: RegisterSite.com and Seven Other Registrars Sue ICANN and Verisign to Stop 'Anti-Consumer, Anti-Competitive' Wait List Service Implementation.

The Trademark Blog: Zuccarini to Receive 30 Months in Prison.

Slashdot: Verisign Sues ICANN Over SiteFinder.

ICANNwatch: Links to VeriSign Complaint Against ICANN.

Verisign Press Release: VeriSign Files Lawsuit Against ICANN.

Adam Peake @ Too Much TV: ITU Workshop on Internet governance.

Monika Ermert, in German: Swiss diplomat do lead UN working group on Internet Governance.

The Trademark Blog: Waiting for Wait List.

Discourse.net: Supremes Let Stand Evil Ruling in 'Secret Habeas' Case.

Groklaw: Trojans and Spam.

Internet Villain of the Year: Verisign, for their presumption that they own the Internet and the domain name system hijacking scandal.

Susan Crawford: Concerns about ICANN's direction.

Andrew McLaughlin: Pinging Mars and Beyond.

Axel Horns: COREPER Compromise Proposal for Directive on Measures and Procedures to ensure the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights.

Andy Newton: Welcome to the Technorati.
In the end, it would have been more disturbing if I hadn't done a tour of the Orkut network. As it turns out, we are just karma whores among bigger karma whores.

EFF: Record Industry Targets 531 More Filesharers.

ICANN: Three staff members promoted, two more hired.

Bret Fausett: Registrars Send Demand Letter on WLS. Discussion at ICANNwatch.

BBC: Hefty fine for X-rated spam scam.

Susan Crawford explains MPAA's vision for the broadcast flag.

Alexander Svensson has another look at .kids.us: The Mummy Domain.

Andrew Newton points to the latest IRIS drafts from the CRISP working group.

K-F Lenz: CELEX Free.

RFC 3675: .sex Considered Dangerous.

SecurityFocus HOME News: Software Bug Contributed to Blackout.

Via Wortfeld: Tales from the Orkut.

Bundesverfassungsgericht: Germany's highest court goes RSS.

Fred von Lohmann sketches Technology basics for lawyers.

Wendy Seltzer explains The Importance of Anonymity.

Rumors from the Whiskey Bar: Shrub's Lost Summer.

Nicole Simon on Orkut problems: meet Mary Simonson (in German) and from Mary to anonymous (in English).

The opposite of Orkut: Introvertster.

Downloading silence: Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple.

A worm open-sources its predecessor: MyDoom.C Analysis - LURHQ.

Decllan McCullough on FOISA: Privacy reduction's next act | CNET News.com.

SaferInternet: Internet with a human face.

Politech: FBI wants computer repair shops to report Kazaa, DeCSS users?

Washington Post, via Politech: Media Asked to Delete Security Testimony.

Brian Cute on the registrars' list: Summary of US House Hearing on Internet Domain Name Fraud.

Ross Rader: Wesson, IP Interests Completely Miss the Point.

Max Dornseif: Routing Security.

Ross Rader: Bill not the right answer.

Copyfight: Listening to Grokster.

Wired 12.02: The Quiet Zone - Radio Astronomy, Spectrum Policy, and Wi-Fi.

Ed Felten: Googlocracy in Action.

GROKLAW: Darl (SCO) Goes To Harvard. (webcast)

Karl-Friedrich Lenz has news on software patents in Europe. (For a different take of this, see Axel Horns' Blog.)

Avi Rubin on reverse Turing tests: This is a case of computers using humans as oracles to answer challenges.

Max Dornseif: Microsoft breaking IE - and Web Companies.