Eugene Kashpureff has bounced around the Canadian Court system since Halloween, but the ironic part of his plight is that the country wants to get rid of him. Kashpureff has been pushed back and forth between the immigration officials who want to deport him and the court system trying to extradite him, but they [...] Continue reading →

With the rest of the domain community focusing on new TLDs, Jenni Baier quieting struck a deal with the Niue government to provide domain registrations under the Niue country code domain, .nu. [...] Continue reading →

Microsoft sent legal warnings to a Windows informational site, windows.net, which helps users configure their windows programs correctly. The legal letters informed the windows.net site owner that he has infringed on their trademark. [...] Continue reading →

After spending a few minutes in front of the judge today's, the only thing Kashpureff knows for sure is that he won't be going home any time soon. He was to be sent back to his cell to wait for deportation to the US, where the FBI waits to charge him with wire and [...] Continue reading →

Emergent Corporation is one of the latest in the domain naming scuffle. They’ve been assigned to build the next domain name system by the Internet Council of Registrars (CORE). [...] Continue reading →

The Federal government has filed charges of wire and computer fraud against Eugene Kashpureff for hijacking InterNIC visitors and sending them to his own site, AlterNIC. The internet users, once at Kashpureff’s site, were shown his protest propaganda, with a ‘click here to go back to InterNIC’s site’ button. The FBI charged Kashpureff [...] Continue reading →

The FBI finally caught up with Eugene Kashpureff and arrested him in Toronto today for hijacking InterNIC’s site address and sending browsers to his own site, AlterNIC, instead. Network Solutions (InterNIC’s ‘owner’) recently filed civil charges against Kashpureff, but dropped them and settled out of court when he publicly apologized. [...] Continue reading →