.SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) now offers the option of faster and less expensive processing of ADR cases in the event of a domain name dispute. [news release] Under the accelerated ADR, the dispute is decided by an arbitrator within 10 working days, instead of 30 days, at a cost of SEK 2,000.

PARIS (AFP) – A French judge declined to force web provider OVH to shut down the WikiLeaks site, OVH said on Monday, after the government called for the whistleblower website to be kicked out of France. The legal challenge came after French Industry Minister Eric Besson called for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers after the site took refuge there on Thursday, having been expelled from the United States

A screengrab from ChristianLoveToys.com When Abdelaziz Aouragh first thought up the idea of an online sex shop for Muslim couples , I bet he didn’t imagine for a moment the amount of interest his new venture would generate. But the site actually attracted so many visitors (70,000 hits within the first four days) that eventually it crashed , and Aouragh was forced to find a new web host to deal with the volume of traffic he was getting

ICM Registry has published an open letter to ICANN and the internet community as part of their campaign to lobby for ICANN to approve the .XXX Top Level Domain.

A survey of the domain registration behaviour of Fortune 100 companies conducted by Minds + Machines reveals that they have not registered many of their trademarks in recently created generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In the study it was found a sample of 1043 brands were registered in less than 30 per cent of the eight new open gTLDs created after 2001.