A hearing is underway in Atlanta to determine whether CNN's request for a temporary restraining order will be granted, in which case Exley's site will be repressed for 10 days while the court decides the merits of case. By Aparna Kumar. [Wired]

"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 valuab...

"Toy giant Mattel is insisting that Benson turn over her domain name, BarbieBenson.com, claiming that the name infringes on the Barbie trademark." [Wired]

"The king of toothpaste, soap, and household cleaners has backed away from its demand that a small, noncommercial Web site change its domain name." [Wired]

Louise Knapp's article about collectors of the discs.

Strange things are afoot in blogland. Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.

Wired News story by Katie Dean.

Wired News story by Lynn Burke.

Wired News report.

Wired News story by Katie Dean.