ATLANTA, September 25 /PRNewswire/ --

- Discuss Internet Governance, New TLDs, and the Harmful Effects of
Cybersquatting

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held its eighth
educational forum on online Brand Abuses and Internet Governance on Tuesday,
September 23. Hosted by CADNA, Turner Broadcasting System, and Alston & Bird
at the CNN Center in Atlanta, the event featured expert advice on proactive,
preventative and reactive online domain name strategies available to brand
owners and provided a forum for frank discussion.

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The event opened with remarks from Jeanene Jobst, Counsel to Turner
Broadcasting, who gave a brand owner's point of view on one of the most
pressing issues affecting brand domain strategies -- the imminent launch of
an unlimited number of new top level domains (TLDs). As counsel to Turner,
Ms. Jobst manages the international trademark portfolio of the Cartoon
Network, as well as its worldwide domain name portfolio. With firsthand
knowledge of how daunting the task of policing a brand online can be, she
expressed her concern that the new TLD launches will make it that much
harder.

John Hambrick, Unit Chief of the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at
the Federal Bureau of Investigation in West Virginia, gave the keynote
presentation on the evolution of cybercrime and the efforts of the cyber
division of IC3 to combat this growing problem. The key, according to Mr.
Hambrick, is collaboration -- progress will come about much faster if groups
work together. Featured speaker Paul Martino, a partner at Alston & Bird's
Washington office, outlined the role of US legislation in deterring
cybersquatting and likewise emphasized the importance of collective action.
Brand owners need to get involved and meet with members of Congress and
administration policymakers to educate them on cybercrime, how it harms
consumers and businesses, and the need for legislation to address it.

CADNA members are prominent brand owners with a wealth of collective
knowledge on and experience in dealing with the practice of cybersquatting.
Attendees at the event benefited from a panel discussion featuring CADNA's
representatives from DIRECTV, Inc. and American International Group, Inc. It
is CADNA's hope that with this conclusion of its 2008 Educational Forum
Series will come a renewed effort on the part of brand owners to get involved
in the fight against cybersquatting.

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit
organization dedicated to ending the systemic domain name abuses that plague
the Internet today. For more information, please visit www.cadna.org.

Contact:
    Yvette Wojciechowski
    press@cadna.org
    +1-202-223-9355

Web site: http://www.cadna.org