Nissan's Appeal Over Website Rejected

The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Nissan (the car company) against Uzi Nissan, who registered nissan.com and nissan.net in 1994 and 1996 for his business Nissan Computer Corp.

Interesting result, considering we have seen the opposite often before.
However the courts had already placed several restrictions on what
could be shown on the websites.

Netcraft: 'Popesquatting' Seen on Potential Papal Domains

As an extension on my post about dead pope domains, Necraft has some information on speculative domain registrations related to the new pope.

deadpope.com is taken and apparently gets 506 unique visitors per month. It was created on Dec 25th, 2003.  popeonarope.com is a personal site where 'the pope f*cking rocks'. 'dyingpope.com' is still available.

Dark Blue Sea (the ones running roar.com and fabulous.com) published a report on the 'domain name aggregators' - quite an interesting read:

Domains - the numbers game | domain name and web development blog (download the PDF as well)