9 Dec 11: ICANN Warned Again In The US On New Internet Domains (IP Watch) – Members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology propose that ICANN pursue a slow start with new top-level domains (TLDs).

2 Oct 11: “Re-Registration” of domain name  registered before trademark adopted can’t support claim under ACPA (Stoel Rives) – The Ninth Circuit holds that the owner of a federally registered mark cannot establish a claim for cybersquatting under the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act where the disputed domain name was registered by the original owner before the plaintiff’s mark had become distinctive, even where a subsequent owner acquired the domain and sought to exploit it for profit in bad faith.

27 Sep 11: Russian domain name registrar yields to trademark owners’ pressure (Baker & McKenzie) - The largest domain name registrar in the ‘.rf’ domain has changed its regulations and client agreement to provide that it can cancel ownership of a domain name at its own discretion, without a court order, if a registered owner of a trademark or company name in Russia submits a claim for the domain name.

12 Sep 2011: Comparative study of ccTLD and gTLD Dispute Resolution Policies (CIRA) – The Canadian domain name authority publishes a comparative study of the dispute resolution policies of 30 country code top level domains (ccTLDs).

7 Sep 2011: Domain names are personal property says Canadian court - The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that a domain name constitutes personal property. As a consequence, an Ontario court has jurisdiction to grant declaratory relief that would circumvent a UDRP action.

6 Sep 2011: Policy panel recommends retention of .au eligibility requirements - The Names Policy Panel of the .au domain administrator has concluded that .au should remain restricted to Australian entities and individuals.

6 Sep 2011: “Champagne” not a trademark for a UDRP action - The owners of the wine geographical indication “Champagne” failed in an action under the UDRP to win the domain name “champagne.co”.

31 Aug 2011: ANA slams ICANN’s new TLD program (ANA) - The United States Association of National Advertisers claims that ICANN’s new gTLD program “is economically unsupportable and likely to cause irreparable harm and damage”, and “violates common sense”.

30 Aug 2011: Protecting rights in light of new adult-entertainment domains (Lexology)

25 Aug 2011: ICANN under pressure to halt gTLD programme (Managing IP)

15 Aug 2011: Octogen doctrine dealt damaging blow (Managing IP)

17 May 2011: The World Intellectual Property Organization has urged the organisation responsible for the internet domain name system to step back from revising its procedures for judging disputes about cybersquatting (WIPO)

11 May 2011: How to keep your brand name out of the Adult industry’s neighborhood (Sunstein Law)

11 April 2011: WIPO says cybersquatting filings are sharply up, and watches ICANN’s domain name expansion (IP Watch)

1 April 2011:  WIPO has now released the second edition of its UDRP Overview (‘WIPO Overview 2.0′) (WIPO)