"In a class action lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, Newman is charging that Internet regulators, the company managing the dot-biz domain and a list of more than 30 individual registers are conducting an illegal lottery for valua http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,45584,00.html
"The registration process for the new .biz TLD is so convoluted that even professional registration companies have no idea what is going on." By Kieren McCarthy. [Register] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19916.html
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issues a pro-ICANN, anti-alternate root, consumer advisory entitled 'What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration Scams' that is partisan and inaccurate, then suddenly it's gone." News and discussion fo http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/17/222314
"Gallegos, who works for Atlantic Root Network, is happy to sell you a domain name with a 'dot-biz' suffix. The current cost: A handy $6 a year." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired] http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,40301,00.html
A class action lawsuit was filed earlier this week alleging that the .biz registration process is an unfair and deceptive trade practice because it is running as an illegal lottery. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/25/073442
"ICANN's selection of the new TLD '.biz' has angered the owners of the Atlantic Root Network (ARN), a company that already offers the .biz suffix as part of its alternative root network." [AdLaw] http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/industry/Dot-Biz.shtml