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The landslide of bad news from Registerfly has continued, as ICANN created a forum for dispute resolution for this mess, and Registerfly customers desperately tried to shift their domains to other registrars before they vanished into cyberspace.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will intensify controls of the growing numbers of bloggers using the Internet to lay bare their thoughts, politics and even bodies, the country's chief censor has announced.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Internet's key site identity system is in mounting danger from new techniques that could cause havoc by turning it into a free-for-all market, the World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO warned on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Friendster Inc. named Google Inc. as its exclusive advertising and Web search provider, part of a plan by the originator of the social network craze to expand globally, the company said on Tuesday.

OSLO (Reuters) - A new U.N.-led alliance will work out global scrapping guidelines to protect the environment from mountains of electronic trash such as computers, phones and televisions, the group said on Tuesday.

Comment The scorn heaped upon ICANN recently for its laissez faire attitude toward customer allegations of fraud by its accredited registrar Registerfly - a scandal in which ICANN spent the better part of a year repeatedly referring customers back to Registerfly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of misconduct - has forced ICANN to acknowledge that it is a responsible for holding its accredited registrars to certain ethical standards. Well, it's a start.

Security watchers have discovered a string of malicious websites that install Trojan code, allowing hackers to compromise end-user banking credentials for more than 50 financial institutions and ecommerce websites.

A hacker has once again managed to pilfer eBay credentials that allow him to masquerade as an official company representative even as he taunts eBay officials on the company's message boards. It's at least the second time the person going by the name Vladuz has pulled off the prank, which is causing many users to question the adequacy of eBay security.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) that argues it abuses trademarks by allowing rivals of a company to buy ads that appear when consumers search the Web for information on that company. 

In light of the current fiasco involving ICANN sanctioned domain registrar Registerfly, readers may be forgiven for asking themselves - just what is ICANN responsible for, anyway?

Analysis Western Australia legislators have threatened to reaffirm the stereotype that Australia is a “convict nation” by backing online gambling restrictions more draconian than those faced here in the US. And the bookies are less than pleased by the situation.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Top U.S. online matchmakers -- among them popular eHarmony and Match.com -- are hoping to hook up with Chinese partners to promote Web dating services, in an effort to explore new profit streams in emerging markets.

The European Parliament has recommended that the only logical way to stop US anti-terrorist investigators from illegally snooping on European financial transactions is to get the firm handling them to remove its data from US shores.

3GSM was in full swing on Tuesday as BT strengthened its hand in the mobile space. Two new smartphone deals with HP and HTC could help the telco regain the dominant position it lost when it sold its Cellnet division earlier this decade.