Website promoting documentary ‘OutFoxed’ on Fox News here.

NY Times article alleging that ‘Outfoxed’ was made in secret, in fear of Fox attempting to stop distribution with copyright suit, here.

Editor & Publisher article on Fox News v. NY Times article and documentary here.

Washington Post on brouhaha here.

Copyfight with many links on whether there will be a lawsuit arising from all this here.

TONY TWIST lawsuit vs. Todd McFarlane continues – now hockey player and ‘enforcer’ Tony Twist has been awarded $15m in damages against artist McFarlane for using ‘Tony Twist’ as the name of a mobster in a comic book.  Earlier aspects of this case had gone up to the Supreme Court which did not rule (background here and Supreme Court of Missouri decision here.

Ravindran Asscoiates of Singapore emails us to advise that the Singaporean Trademark Act has been amended, effective July 1, to include dilution actions, and to give greater protection to well-known but unregistered marks.  The new law itself does not appear online, but is available from the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore.

Dodora, an ICANN-accredited registrar, has had its ‘operations’ frozen, and its names migrated by the bankrutpcy receiver to Directi, according to this Directi announcement. 

This ICANN Watch piece indicates that Dodora was associated in some way with spamming.  This Domain Name Journal page indicates that Dodora has ‘long been a source of consumer complaints.’

I’m aware of registars being sold (NSI being the largest example) and registrars being merged (SRS Plus, where I’m a re-seller, was merged into NSI), but I am not aware of another instance of a prior instance of a registrar going bankrupt, necessitating the migration of the domain name registrants.  Email me if I’m wrong.

An anonymous comment posted to the ICANN Watch piece states that ’50 to 75 registrars have indicated that they will go out of business’ (there are over 200 accredited registrars, although not all are active).  Does anyone have more info on this?