Since 2003, Toyota sued Lisa and Farzad Tabari, the owners of Fast Imports, in a Los Angeles federal court in 2003 stating that consumers would be confused by the use of the name Lexus in the defendant’s Web site domain name and the use of Lexus photos and the Lexus logo. The domain names are buy-a-lexus.com and buyorleaselexus.com. The federal court judge already ordered Tabaris to remove the term Lexus and the copyrighted Lexus photos and the Lexus logo from his websites.

However, Tabaris appealed their case. They might confuse the public if using domain names such as we-are-definitely-not-lexus.com and independent-lexus-broker.com. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote: “When they say Lexus, they mean Lexus. We’ve long held that such use of the trademark is a fair use, namely nominative fair use. And fair use is, by definition, not infringement.” The panels also claimed that trademarks are part of our common language, everyone have some right to use them to communicate in truthful, nonmisleading ways. Finally, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that an authorized Lexus dealer can use the word “Lexus” in its Internet domain name.

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There is a big revolution going on  in industry of domain names. Not long ago ICAAN announced that .xxx domain, which will cater to pornographic websites is approved; also, non-Latin characters can be used to register in domain names; Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE are the first languages that accepted among the non-Latin characters. Recently, we also always heard about the news of Chinese domain names. At last, ICAAN give out the final confirmation to allow using Chinese character in domain names.

This decision will benefit all the Chinese-speaking Internet users and the Internet is about to become more accessible for around 1 billion users in the world. This figure is believed that will be increased more as Chinese learning already is a trend of this world. “Chinese learn pinyin, so they know how to write Chinese using Roman characters — every educated Chinese knows that ‘hulianwang’ for instance means Internet,”said Paul Denlinger, an Internet consultant specializing in the Chinese market. One of the intentions of making this decision is because Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) found the majority of Internet content is in English almost 60% of users aren’t native English speakers.

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There is a news that the new Chinese ccTLDs .中国 and .中國 (each meaning .China) already been approved by ICAAN and were managed by the Chinese registry CNNIC. However, people still do not clear how are these new ccTLDs going to be used since no further information from ICAAN or CINNIC. There is some rumors that .cn would be aliased to .中国. Regarding these rumors, CINNIC explained to public that .中国 would not be used as a separately registered competing ccTLD.

Meanwhile, the .cn ccTLD will be strengthened which would be coupled with .中国. The statement from the CNNIC service desk was: “Right now, when customers register chinese domain name with [the] .cn suffix, a chinese domain name with [the] .中国 suffix will be given to the customer for free. ” This action might help to recover the value of .cn which has been decline.

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Not long ago some movie site such as TVShack.net, Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, etc had been seized by US Government because of cracking down on Internet piracy and counterfeiting. The US Government still continue their seizure action and now The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload domains are on the target list. However, domain seizures is not something new and over 140 domains related to online gambling had been seized by Governor of Kentucky since 2008.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the body responsible for managing the web’s DNS system to ensure that users of the Internet can find websites by using domain names. However, there is a report from Internet policy and security research group KnujOn which released on last month show that a lot of Internet domain registrars (who sell domains to the public) could be violating their agreements with ICANN, including but not limited to the blocking of Whois information.

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Online pornography is one of the most profitable businesses on Internet. At the same time, it is also a business that a lot people are trying to avoid  because of their moral standpoint. Recently, there was a news stated that new top-level domain are specially made for online pornography industry, .xxx is accepted by ICANN and will be available to market very soon. This news get good response from every Internet pornography site and most of them want to get the .xxx domain.

Now, some groups are thinking that this act is actually legitimizing pornography. People started to query that will this act make pornography more of an online menace? However, it is believed that the answer is no. Getting a new .xxx domain do not mean that these sites can be pass through the search engine filter and be found easily. There are some problems that can be created upon this new top domain name, say, what is in your mind if you see the domain name such as bbc.xxx or britneyspears.xxx? for sure this do not sound comfortable to the related companies and individuals.

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Do you own a CO.SA domain? Did you register domain name of organization as instructed? “There are many examples of commercial organizations whose Internet Service Provider (ISP), webmaster or employee has failed to do s,” said Neil Dundas, policy and legal advisor of UniForum South Africa, the organization responsible for the CO.ZA South African domain name registry.

In this case, the organization might face problem in their financial and business consequences. One of the purposes of this policy is to improve the relationship between registry, registrar and registrant. However, there are some ISPs or webmasters refuse to follow the policy and want to switch to new service provider. This behavior already caused increase of number of conflict between ISPs and clients. Users can always check their domain’s registrant from www.coza.net.za, where only relevant domain names needed to search the related information. Users are reminded that Section 2(a) is the most important information where the detail listed must be same with what was provided.

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