UK company issues High Court proceedings stopping NAF domain name decision.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 July 2002-Internetters: UK company issues High Court proceedings stopping NAF domain name decision (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07222002 In the first case of its kind, a UK domain name registrar has issued High Court proceedings last week to halt the transfer of a domain name to a US company - whilst claiming US-biased arbitration procedures.

Internetters launched the action following a decision by the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)-appointed, National Arbitration Forum (NAF), to transfer "domainregistry.biz" to a US company which claims it has a registered trademark for the name, but does not. Paul Westley, co-founder of Internetters, explains: "We registered 'domainregistry.biz' when the...