domain names
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Website of ICANN, a technical coordination body for the internet. It is a non-profit corporation which coordinates the assignment of IP addresses, domain names, and protocol parameters. The site has organisational information, details of staff members and news items including an archive of ICANN's weekly newsletter. There is information on current and past topics the organisation is concerned with, details of committees and working groups and financial information.
World Intellectual Property Organization: Database of WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions
A free database of internet domain name dispute cases, provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva. The Center offers alternative dispute resolution services in international commercial disputes between private parties. All the domain name cases back to 1999 are available in the database, searchable by domain name, key word, party names or case number. The full text of the decisions is available. The site also provides indexes of decisions by domain name category and by legal point, together with lists of the most-cited cases.