[LINK] Australia supports global cyber-squatting regulations

[Ron Ipsen]

>
> >Cybersquatting Workshop
> >January 31st and February 1st, Sydney Inter-Continental Hotel
> >
> >NOIE and IP Australia will be co-chairing a workshop to discuss key issues
> >relating to "cybersquatting" or buying up Internet domain names to sell
> >later at exorbitant prices.

This assumes of course that avarice is the only reason for this activity.


>Major objectives of the workshop include
> >developing a "Framework" for a response to cybersquatting, and the
> >establishment of a set of principles to address cybersquatting

Will such a framework address other - more philanthropic - utilisations of 
the practice?

ron




Ron Ipsen,
Managing Director,
Gippsland Internet Pty Ltd
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