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Typosquatting and the law

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Law"Typosquatting" is a meaningless term where the law is concerned. Laws generally are not concerned about registrations of domain names that are similar to other domain names or similar to existing trademarks, unless some other important factor is involved.

Domain name registry

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A domain name registry, also called Network Information Centre (NIC), is part of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet which converts domain names to IP addresses. It is an organisation that manages the registration of Domain names within the top-level domains for which it is responsible, controls the policies of domain name allocation, and technically operates its top-level domain.

Domain names are managed under a hierarchy headed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which manages the top of the DNS tree by administrating the data in the root nameservers.

IANA also operates the .int registry for intergovernmental organisations, the .arpa zone for protocol administration purposes, and other critical zones such as root-servers.net.

IANA delegates all other domain name authority to other domain name registries such as VeriSign.

In US, unemployment cancelled for $1/day from AdSense

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New York State Department of Labor cancelled an unemployment for a person that earns money with the Google AdSense program from blogs, about $1 per day ($30 per month).

As Forbes says in an article, the New York officials failed to yield a clear response as to whether Google AdSense payments is residual or self-employment income.

No more hidden ads for blogs and social media

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Federal Trade Commission establish new rules beginning with December 1 for bloggers, forcing it to disclose any payment they receive for reviews. This applies for advertisers as well as for celebrities. The penalties are up to $11,000 for the violation of these rules. Richard Cleland, assistant director for the division of advertising practices at the FTC, said that "given that social media has become such a significant player in the advertising area, we thought it was necessary to address social media as well."

While FTC is a specific US institution, I do not understand how these rules will be applied to the bloggers belonging to other nations, that comply with their own nation rules. Besides, as stated by Rick Calvert, chief executive of the blogger conference BlogWorld & New Media Expo, there are "tens of millions of blogs, podcasts and other forms of new media content out there and growing every day," so it is difficult to enforce the FTC rules.

Marriage restrictions

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A Ketubah in Aramaic A Ketubah in Aramaic, a Jewish marriage-contract outlining the duties of each partner

Societies have always placed restrictions on marriage to relatives, though the degree of prohibited relationship varies widely. In almost all societies, marriage between brothers and sisters is forbidden, with Ancient Egyptian, Hawaiian, and Inca royalty being the rare exceptions. In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins. The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance (in both consanguinity and affinity) for marriage.

In many societies, various rights are allotted only to married individuals .

Animal Euthanasia

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Euthanasia (Greek, "good death") is the practice of killing a human or other animal, in a painless or minimally painful way, for merciful reasons, usually to end suffering. This article discusses non-human animal euthanasia; a separate article covers euthanasia in humans.

An animal is euthanized when it is killed in a manner deemed to be humane, and in the case of a pet, in accordance with the emotional needs of the owner. This process is commonly referred to by the euphemism "put to sleep".

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