Dot-Biz: An Illegal Lottery? - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/07/45584 "In a class action lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Newman is charging that Internet regulators, the company managing the dot-biz domain and a list of more than 30 individual registers are conducting an illegal lottery for valuable online property." By Joanna Glasner. [Wired]
.biz Domain Registration a Complete Shambles - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/22/biz_domain_registration_a_complete/ "The registration process for the new .biz TLD is so convoluted that even professional registration companies have no idea what is going on." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]
When Worlds Collide: The New Dot-Biz and the Old - http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/28/030209.shtml "It seems the new dot biz domain conflicts with domains registered in an alternative root system." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]
.biz Is Tiny -- or Is It? - http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/19/195040 Dueling accounts of the size of the PacificRoot .biz TLD. [ICANNWatch]
Weird Doings at the FTC: Shoddy 'Consumer Alert' Appears, Vanishes - http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/222314 "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issues a pro-ICANN, anti-alternate root, consumer advisory entitled 'What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration Scams' that is partisan and inaccurate, then suddenly it's gone." News and discussion forum. [ICANNWatch]
ICANNWatch: Class Action Alleges ICANN's .biz Is an Illegal Lottery - http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/25/073442 A class action lawsuit was filed earlier this week alleging that the .biz registration process is an unfair and deceptive trade practice because it is running as an illegal lottery.
ICANN Movie, The - http://www.paradigm.nu/icann/ Satirical series of Flash movies about ICANN. Part II focuses on the .biz dispute.
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