internet news - 18/2

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Domain Name News

ICANN Proposes 'Grace Period' For Deleted Addresses (BizReport)
Internet addressing authorities this week proposed establishing a
uniform one-month "grace period" during which domain-name holders
could reregister Internet addresses that inadvertently lapse, either
due to malicious hijacking or simple oversight.

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=2997&PHPSESSID=40a6f8d6635b96daa6c36a4054b18306
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174557.html

Web .info names available in May-consortium (CNET)
Internet users will get a chance in May to reserve domain names like
hawaii.info and science.info, after domain manager Afilias finishes
rousting thousands of cybersquatting speculators from the new Web
marketplace, Afilias said Monday. 

http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8834642-0.html
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t278-s2104524,00.html

Addressing Companies Question Lapsed Name 'Grace Period' (Newsbytes)
Officials for some Internet addressing companies are questioning the
workability and timing of a proposal that would establish a uniform
one-month "grace period" during which domain-name holders could
reregister Internet addresses that inadvertently lapse.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174564.html
 http://www.icann.org/registrars/redemption-proposal-14feb02.htm

Afilias Unveils Dot-Info Redistribution Plan (Newsbytes)
Afilias - the company that manages the recently christened dot-info
Internet domain - today announced its plans for redistributing
dot-info addresses seized from fraudulent registrants.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174567.html

http://www.netimperative.com/media/newsarticle.asp?ArticleID=14430&ChannelID=2&ArticleType=1

Sex.tv Sues The .tv Corporation (AVN Online)
Sex.tv disappeared from the Web on Monday, hours after its parent
company, Sex.tv Ltd., filed suit against registrar The .tv
Corporation in U.S. District Court. The lawsuit alleges fraud,
cybersquatting, and deceptive business practices under California and
federal statutes. It also seeks to have the court place the domain
Sex.tv and the $688,000 paid by Sex.tv Ltd. to The .tv Corporation
for domain registration fees in a 'constructive trust' pending
further action.
 http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200202/newsarchive/021202_lead.shtml
Sue dot TV
On Monday 11th February 2001 Sex.tv launched their court case against
the .tv corporation. Citing cybersquatting as one of the main
allegations against .tv. Charles Carreon, the lawyer which won the
infamous Sex.com case, will be bringing the .tv corporation to task
over their lack of support and investment into building an extension
which is worth the exorbotant amount of money that they have been
charging for their 'premium' domains.
 http://www.suedottv.com

Internet News

Mahathir net closing on websites (Australian IT)
Moves by the Malaysian government to control internet websites is a
blow to free speech, according to the head of Malaysia's foremost
internet news service.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,3757565%5e16681%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 
Next generation Internet lands (CW360)
After years in development, the next version of Internet Protocol
(IP) is finally seeing its first live implementations.
This is good news for anyone who cares about mobile data services,
secure corporate computing or the future growth of the Internet.
Implementations are still in the early stages, and participants are
grappling with technology problems such as security issues.  

http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1014029658&REQSESS=29726364&REQHOST=site1&690REQEVENT=&CARTI=109910&CARTT=2&CCAT=1&CCHAN=7&CFLAV=1&CPAGEN=Article%20Page&CPAGET=-99999&CSEARCH=&CSESS=4046775&CTOPIC=

The appeal of innocence (Christian Science Monitor)
Media depictions of erotica and gore abound, but innocence is not
lost. In film and on television, it still draws big audiences. Why
does it endure?
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0215/p13s02-almo.html

Judge orders Microsoft to reveal code (CNET)
A federal judge late Friday told Microsoft it must disclose portions
of the Windows source code, including XP and XP Embedded, to nine
litigating states and the District of Columbia.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-839356.html

Keep the web simple, stupid (BBC)
Should websites have trendy designs? Or should they be as simple as
possible? A debate has been raging...but could it really lead to
fisticuffs? BBC News Online's John Walton writes. 
Sites are often too pretty for their own good - that is the basic
gist of Jakob Nielsen's critique of current web design. This stance
has seen the net guru threatened with a punch on the nose. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1779000/1779849.stm

New Policies on Newsgroups (IWF news release)
Since its formation in late 1996, the IWF has run a 'notice and
takedown' procedure in relation to individual items judged to be
illegal and found to be hosted on a UK server, usually child
pornography and usually in a newsgroup. This arrangement has worked
very well indeed: over 40,000 items of child pornography have been
removed and no UK Internet service provider has been prosecuted.
However, the Board has now decided to tighten the net in two
important respects. 
 http://www.iwf.org.uk/news/detail_news.htm?INFO_ID=109

Porn watchdog under fire (BBC)
Britain's online porn watchdog, the Internet Watch Foundation, has
announced a new chief executive and a tough new policy on child
pornography amid resignations and criticisms.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1822000/1822881.stm

Internet providers move to ban child porn sites (Times)
Companies that provide Internet message boards and chatrooms are to
attempt to stop the transmission of child pornography.  
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-209283,00.html

Internet copying is tolerated by school (Times)
The limits of the Internet as a research tool for schools have been
exposed by a row in a small farming community near Kansas City, which
could have implications for children the world over.  
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-209657,00.html

Death by email as junk multiplies (Sydney Morning Herald)
The Federal Government will investigate the increasing torrent of
spam, or junk email, forcing its way into Australian homes and
offices with offers of Viagra, free vacations or lessons in how to
sack the boss.
Australians received six times as many unsolicited emails in 2001 as
the previous year, according to Internet groups. The National Office
of the Information Economy has been asked to report on the
effectiveness of attempts to control spam and recommend further
action.
 http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/19/national/national19.html

Arbitration Panel to Rule on Internet Radio Royalties (New York
Times)
An arbitration panel is to rule this week on the amount that Internet
radio stations must pay recording companies for songs played online.
The ruling could clear up one of the more nettlesome issues facing
the Internet radio business. 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/technology/ebusiness/18ECOM.html

Putin wary of Web revolution (South China Morning Post)
With his designer suit and fashionably trimmed goatee, Alexander
Yashukov is almost a caricature of the new breed of Internet
executive hailed by President Vladimir Putin as the great hope of his
country's future. 
 http://technology.scmp.com/techinternet/ZZZ1NOS3GXC.html

PCs Are Incorrect on TV (Wired)
Hollywood uses a handful of clichés to denote villainy. The bad guys
are Nazis, Asians, Soviets or Arabs. They wear black clothing and
they speak with accents. Now there's a new one: The baddies use
Windows PCs. 
 http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,50441,00.html

Online dating booming in Europe (CNN)
More Europeans than ever before were going online on Valentine's Day,
in an attempt to find romance on the Internet. 

http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/13/internet.dating/index.html

Se constituye la Asociación Nacional de Cibercafés (ZDNet)
Durante la celebración de Mundo Internet 2002 ha tenido lugar la
creación de la Asociación Nacional de Cibercafés, un nuevo organismo
que nace con la voluntad de ser el punto de referencia de los más de
1.000 establecimientos de esta clase en España.
 http://www.zdnet-es.com/canales/zdnn/mostrarnoticias_i.html?id=3764

Yahoo! y MSN siguen liderando las audiencias mundiales en Internet
(ZDNet)
Según el Índice Global de Internet correspondiente al mes de
diciembre de 2001 realizado por Nielsen/NetRatings en 29 países, lo
que representa el 91% del universo total de la Red, Yahoo! y MSN
siguen liderando las audiencias a escala mundial. 
 http://www.zdnet-es.com/canales/zdnn/mostrarnoticias_i.html?id=3765

Europe not sold on Internet at home (Register)
Europe's love affair with the Internet may never become as intense as
that between US citizens and cyberspace, according to the latest
eEurope benchmarking report of the European Commission. 
Although there has been a dramatic rise in household Internet use in
the EU, rising from 18% of households in March 2000 to 39% last
December, the EC thinks this rise increase could be flattening. 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24025.html

BT clowns in tangle over web patents (Observer)
Business corporations are legal individuals. And just as individuals
can lose their marbles, so too can corporations. Which brings us to
British Telecom, that well-known basket case, now under new
management and desperately seeking commercial salvation.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,651367,00.html

More Hispanics are using Internet, preferring Spanish-language sites
(Silicon Valley)
Celeste Guzman uses the Internet an hour or two daily, but some of
her favorite Web sites are those that provide text in Spanish.
What's enticing about these Web sites are the culture it provides and
a chance for Guzman to brush up on her "kitchen-style" Spanish.
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2693204.htm

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