The Register: ‘In the Wake Of Registerfly, Is ICANN Taking Flight?” (Attempting to causally link ICANN’s recent contemplation of a change in legal status, to its recent dis-accreditation (decreditation? removal of accreditation?) of registrar RegisterFly.)

Tennessean.com: “Keith Urban countersues Keith Urban”

InternetNews.com: “Domain Name Fee Increase Set” (Verisign can raise $6 registry fee to $6.42 in October).

CyberLaw Central: “General Media v. Crazy Troll: Not Reverse Domain Name Hijacking To Bring ACPA Case for Expired Domain”

Text of Microsoft press release on cybersquatting initiatives:
LONDON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced new legal actions against cybersquatters in the United Kingdom and the United States, which include expansion of a lawsuit filed in Seattle in August and the filing of a new federal lawsuit against the…

Biz.Yahoo.com: “Network Solutions Annonces Ownership Change” (General Atlantic Partners purchase NetSol from Pivotal Private Equity).

MercuryNews.com: “Sex.com hijacker pleads poverty after fleeing to Mexico“:
“A man who siphoned millions of dollars from a pornography Web site and fled to Mexico cried poor Monday and asked a judge to erase the $65 million he owes the rightful owner of Sex.com.
Stephen Michael Cohen was released from prison in December…

David Pecker is the chairman of American Media, Inc., publisher of, among others, National Enquirer and Weekly World News. ‘Mr. Ferris’ registered the domain name DAVIDPECKER.COM, had a PPC company host it, where it was keyed to ads for porn, because, according to the registrant, the word PECKER was in the domain name. Mr. Pecker…