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NCIP grants ancestral domain titles to 3 tribes (Sun Star)IT'S an early Christmas for three tribal groups in Southern Mindanao, as their ancestral domain will soon have the government's official stamp.

U.S. says go slow in expanding .com on the Web (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The U.S. government urged Internet standard-setters to move slowly on a proposal to relax rules on domain names such as .com or .edu, over concerns about economic costs and security.

/Opinion/ Domain names (.net)Your domain name is a valuable property. Keep track of renewals and don?t let cybersquatters steal it, urges Nominet?s Emily Taylor

ICANN Sets the Schedule to Kill Domain Tasting (CircleID)Domain tasting, as everyone probably knows by now, is the disreputable practice of registering lots of domains, seeing how much traffic they get, and then using the five day Add Grace Period (AGP) to refund the 99.9% of them that aren't worth paying for. A related abuse is front running, registrars speculatively grabbing domains that people inquire about to prevent them from using a different ...

ICANN Sets Limits On Domain Refunds (WebProNews) ICANN has put the final nail in the coffin of domain tasting by imposing limits on the number of domains registrars can return within the five-day grace period. Registrars will only be able to return ten percent of registered domains or fifty, whichever is greater, per month within the five day grace period for a full refund. A registrar purchasing 1,000 domains at $6 a piece, then, would ...

Will State Get a Bargain in Columbia Eminent Domain Seizures? (The New York Observer) The Columbia Spectator is reporting that the Empire State Development Corporation decided today to take the properties of the last two hold-out owners in Columbia's West Harlem expansion footprint through eminent domain. It's not an unexpected move: In July, the ESDC declared the footprint blighted, setting the ball rolling toward an eminent domain seizure. The properties to be seized ...

Eminent domain case resurfaces after home is demolished (Newton Tab) Former Crystal Lake property owner Pat Hannon is not ready to claim defeat over the ownership of his home on 20 Rogers St. He filed a complaint last Friday claiming rights to property that was taken by eminent domain by the city of Newton last year.