Source: ICANN contract compliance team (which enforces the accrediation contact between a registrar and ICANN):
For January to October 2009:
9 terminations of registrars
7 (contested) non-renewals of registrars
184 breach notices transmitted
4,290 enforcement actions
9,304 consumer complaints processed

I’m here in Seoul at the ICANN meeting. The third version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook to the new TLDs is out.
As to timing, the initial word is that the process will be kicked even further into the future. ICANN suggested in the opening remarks that the application process itself, intially scheduled for early…

If you’re going and want to meet up, drop a line. If you want to chat about the new gTLD process when I get back, that’s good too.

Chirs Bosh won a cyber-squatting suit and was awarded defendant’s portfolio of domain names. Bosh is now giving the names away to their rightful owners. Check for your name on the list lined to in the article.

The comedian Gil Gottfried had a routine at a ‘roast’ honoring Bob Sagett where a recurring theme was the denial, with greater and greater specificity, that contrary to a rumor, Bob Sagett did not in fact rape and murder a young girl in 1990. It’s one of those bits that isn’t funny the first six…

One of those in rem ACPA complaints you hear about.
Complaint in Rem Acpa

InsideFacebook.com: “Will Facebook Give Away Vanity URLs in a Landrush?“:

Under such a system, users would be able to get URLs like facebook.com/mark for their own personal profiles. (However, some of the most common first names are already taken.)
Administering such a landrush would be a significant challenge. Presumably, Facebook wouldn’t let users

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Mattel v Barbie-Club.com, denying in rem jurisdiction in ACPA case where plaintiff argued that mere deposit of a ‘registration certificate’ gives rise to in rem jurisdiction.
Also – BNA Tech Law round-up of some of the Judge’s ‘cyber’ cases.