{"id":8599,"date":"2012-03-06T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/porn-domain-on-internet-touches-alarm-buttons\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:44","slug":"porn-domain-on-internet-touches-alarm-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/porn-domain-on-internet-touches-alarm-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Porn domain on Internet touches alarm buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Robert Evans<\/span><\/p>\n

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GENEVA, March 5<\/span> (Reuters) – Within three months of the
\nlaunch of the Internet “pornography” domain “.xxx,” 10 cases
\nhave been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it
\nusing the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said
\non Monday.<\/p>\n

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Sources at the World Intellectual Property Organization
\n(WIPO) reported that among complainants to its dispute
\nresolution system over .xxx — usually called dot-triple x —
\nwere banks, a jewelry business and an online shopping operation.<\/p>\n

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One individual complaint, against a site called femjoy.xxx,
\nwas brought by someone named George Streit, according to WIPO’s
\ndispute website. But the sources could not say if this was
\nGeorge Strait, the U.S. country music singer. WIPO officials
\ncould also not confirm whether the slightly different spelling
\nwas a typographical error.<\/p>\n

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WIPO, whose Director General Francis Gurry reported on
\nMonday that cases of Web piracy, commonly called cybersquatting,
\nrose 2.5 percent last year involving a record 4,781 sites with
\nnearly 90 percent resolved in favor of complainants.<\/p>\n

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Many world-famous personalities, such as film star Tom
\nCruise and soccer player Wayne Rooney, and major corporations
\nand brand names like Barclays Bank and Nestle, have in the past
\nwon cybersquatting cases in WIPO.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

But these have all been brought against owners of sites
\nregistered under well-known and long-established domains such as
\ndot-com, dot-int and dot-org, or the national suffixes
\nidentifying countries, including France’s dot-fr.<\/p>\n

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Cyberquatters often register at a nominal fee using commonly
\nknown names or brands with the aim of selling them at a profit
\nto the real name-owners. But they also use misleading sites to
\nattract Web surfers to their own products or services.<\/p>\n

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Dot-triple x came into operation on Dec. 6, 2011, after
\nyears of debate within the Internet Corporation for Assigned
\nNames and Numbers (ICANN), on how to control the spread of
\npornography on the Web and make it manageable.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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