domain name, WSIS & governance news - 28 July

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

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us: Hillary Clinton, Cyberwarrior
Hillary Clinton, at first blush, would appear to have
little in common with big-screen bombshells like
Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts, let alone such iconic
sportsmen as the late Vince Lombardi. But as
politicians go, New York's junior senator is larger
than life. And like each of these superstars, she has
seen her good name hijacked by so-called
"cybersquatters."

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0530,lombardi,66223,2.html

us: Advocates Take Supreme Court Fight To Web
THE BATTLE TO REPLACE U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor has yet to begin in the Senate,
but advocacy groups started making online preparations
as early as November of 2004 by purchasing domain
names related to possible nominees.

http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=32379

Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in
Response to IDN Homographs Spoofing
Mozilla Foundation has announced changes to Firefox
concerning Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to
deal with homograph spoofing attacks. According to the
organization, "Mozilla Foundation products now only
display IDNs in a whitelist of TLDs, which have
policies stating what characters are permitted, and
procedures for making sure that no homographic domains
are registered to two different entities."
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1148_0_1_0_C

Free Trials Offered by .name Registry
The operator of the .name registry is offering a "free
trial" on its domains, and appears to be encouraging
registrars to mass-register .name URLs for existing
customers.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/07/24/free_trials_offered_by_name_registry.html

New .tel domain will manage contacts
ICANN has approved an application for a new .tel
domain, that will hold contact details for companies
and individuals. The final contract has yet to be
produced, but Telnic, the company that put in the
application, is expecting to offer .tel domains by the
end of 2006.

http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;94951803;fp;2;fpid;1

http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=5889&mhnews_page=1

The End User: Scaling down the real Web
Every day, I look on the Internet from my mobile
phone. Often, I don't like what I see - and I'm not
just talking about the cellphone spam I get.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/15/business/ptend16.php

us: Infoblox delivers nonstop DNS
Information technology managers struggling to maintain
complex network identity infrastructures could get
some relief from new appliances and software that
Infoblox released this month. The products are
designed to keep crucial Domain Name System (DNS)
services running smoothly.
 http://www.fcw.com/article89004-05-30-05-Print

us: Go Daddy Group Offers .JOBS Domains
Go Daddy, Blue Razor Domains and Wild West Domains now
offer the .JOBS top level domain extension.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=12640

Domain names registered by Disney reveal studio plans
Jim Hill Media writes of some website names registered
by Disney, including quite a number taken just for the
Tarzan and Mary Poppins Broadway shows alone.
 http://www.animated-news.com/archives/00003746.html

http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1562

us: NASA?s Jet Propulsion Lab Boosts DNS Operations
with Infoblox Appliances (news release)
Infoblox today announced that Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), managed for NASA by the California
Institute of Technology, has selected Infoblox
appliances to perform domain name resolution services
? essential to keeping the JPL network available 24x7
and collecting, correlating and transmitting data
collected by spacecraft instruments aboard NASA
satellites.
 http://infoblox.com./news/release.cfm?ID=45

Europa-Domain ".eu": Anmeldung zur Teilnahme an der
Sunrise Period für Markeninhaber hat begonnen
Der Countdown läuft: im Rahmen der lang erwarteten
Einführung der neuen europäischen Internet-Adressen
mit der Endung .eu (dotEU) haben Inhaber von
Markenrechten sowie weiterer, besonders geschützter
Rechte ab sofort die Möglichkeit, sich beim
Starnberger Registrar www.united-domains.de zur
Teilnahme an der so genannten "Sunrise Period"
anzumelden. Im Wettrennen um die begehrtesten
.eu-Domains erhalten sie damit die Chance, sich einen
guten Startplatz für ihre Wunsch-Domain schon vor dem
offiziellen Registrierungsbeginn zu verschaffen.
 http://www.presseportal.de/story_rss.htx?nr=706273

Domain für 750.000 Dollar verkauft
Rekordpreis des Jahres 2005
 http://derstandard.at/?id=2123716

Nuevo dominio ?.tel?: Será destinado a la telefonía a
través de Internet.
La ICANN aprobó el nuevo dominio .tel, el que tendrá
la finalidad de ser un nexo entre los diferentes
medios de telecomunicaciones, como voz, mensajería,
combinaciones de voz y datos.

http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/0705/2707/noticias/noticias_270705-06.htm

http://www.hispamp3.com/noticias/noticia.php?noticia=20050726105723

Mieux se préparer à l'ouverture du .EU
A l?occasion de l'E-Commerce 2005, nous avons le
plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence - Le .EU : la
nouvelle adresse européenne sur Internet, menaces et
opportunités.
 http://www.domaines.info/article.php?art_id=694

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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When Will The Internet Be Divided Among Nations?
The desired goal of most of the other countries other
than US is to end up with their own local language
suffixes, own local language domain names, basically
their own Internet, with its own domain registration
policies -- in a nutshell, a very big and a very
complex global mess, indeed.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1145_0_1_0_C

BBC Go Digital podcast
The UN considers how the net should be run, our love
affair with the iPod and hi-tech fish
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/1478157.stm

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