"An internet businessman has been stripped of ownership of porn portal sex.com following a ruling by a Californian court." By John Leyden. [Register]

"It is time to spell out exactly why this set of rules threatens to damage the very fabric of the Internet." [Register]

"WIPO has continued its march toward control of the domain dispute market, taking 68.5 per cent of all cases in November." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]

"We covered the first five of the ten main points in the first part. Here are the remaining four and a short piece on the future of UDRP." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]

"WIPO made sure its views on domain name disputes were made clear at an international meeting in Geneva on Monday by stacking pro-WIPO speakers against critics." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]

It's fairly rare, but WIPO has made a decision regarding www.yourmove.com that we (and normal people everywhere) agree with. It decided that Scottish businessman Irving Remocker is fully entitled to the domain name and can do with it what he wishes. B...

Passport authenticates a user for access to his credit cards and Web site accounts and passwords, to make life easy for on-line merchants and shoppers, and hackers and identity thieves. By Thomas C. Greene.

Some bright empiricist from Root-Core has discovered that anyone can log into their Hotmail account and then call messages from any other Hotmail account by crafting a URL with the second account's username and a valid message number. By Thomas C Greene.

A US District Court in Denver has issued a temporary restraining order on behalf of online marketing gurus, 24/7, against the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). [The Register]

Report on European consumer watchdog groups with no spam policies. [The Register]