For anyone who shares my obsession with the regulation of Internet domain names and the balance between the (quasi)-property rights in domain names against other interests such as privacy and free speech, my new book in the Edward Elgar International IP series on this issue has come out this week.
It's available on the Edward Elgar website and available for pre-order on Amazon (not that I expect people to rush out and buy it). Apparently it's also available in several popular e-book formats. Details here.
HOWEVER, for those more interested in light holiday reading, my greater achievement in recent months has been completing the non-Sookie-Stackhouse (AKA HBO's True Blood) series of books by Charlaine Harris. Harris has written three other murder mystery series, one of which has supernatural elements, but no vampires. I would rank the series as follows:
1/ Harper Connelly mysteries (Summary: "I see dead people and solve crimes for a living.")
2/ Aurora Teagarden mysteries (Small town librarian solves a lot of murders and goes through several gentleman friends)
3/ Lily Bard mysteries (Personal crisis survivor moves to a new town to escape past life and solves murders while developing new life)
I can assure everyone that these books are shorter, easier-to-read and much more fun than my scholarly output!
Congrats on the publication of your book! May the royalty payments propel you into a higher tax bracket!!
I'm always looking for a UCC slant. I'm guessing that for some debtors, a domain name is quite valuable and may be used as a source of collateral. Query, though, whether foreclosure on a domain name is practical (at least without debtor consent, which may not be forthcoming after default).
Well, I wrote an article about taking security over a domain name years ago in Australia, but unfortunately they still use the old form chattel mortgage system there (or at least they did when I wrote the article) so it's not technically a UCC angle…