Ronaldinho wins domain dispute
Footballer Ronaldinho, who plays for Brazil and Barcelona, has
been awarded ronaldinhogaucho.com in a dispute arbitrated by the
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Even though his
real name is actually Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, the "Ronaldinho
Gaucho" professional name was trademarked by the footballer's
agent back in 2000 and is the name that applies to several
sponsorship deals. The original registrant of the domain failed to
respond to Ronaldinho's complaint.
Afilias to provide registry services for .in
Afilias India Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of the .info registry
Afilias Limited, has signed an agreement with the National Internet
Exchange of India (NIXI) to provide registry services for the Indian
country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), .in. Afilias will be
responsible for the registration system, Whois service and DNS.
Afilias will also advise on policy, marketing and other relevant
matters.
Microsoft lose out on mocosoft.com
WIPO has decided that Microsoft is not entitled to a Spanish
software company's domain name, mocosoft.com. The panel decided that
"moco" is not phonetically close enough to
"micro" to use the precedent set by past rulings (in
Microsoft's favour) over domains such as microsof.com and
mikerosoft.net.
Chinese Internationalised Domain Names coming
soon
The launch of .cn Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) is set for
17th January 2005. More information will follow in the new year.
Happy holidays to everyone
N3 Lite would like to wish all our readers a very happy holiday
and a prosperous and healthy new year.
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