domain name, WSIS & governance news - 25 August

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au: auDA WHOIS Policy Review - Aug 2005
auDA is currently holding a public consultation and
reviewing the WHOIS Policy (2003-08).
 http://auda.org.au/reviews/whois-2005/

au: Melbourne IT boosts profits
Domain name and internet services provider Melbourne
IT has boosted its half year profit figures and
expects to do even better in the second half.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/melbourne-it-boosts-profits/2005/08/22/1124562795862.html

au: Rush for far north domain
CAIRNS is one of the most highly sought-after
Australian locations . . . on the Internet.

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16335115%255E3102,00.html

U.S. puts hold on porn Web domain
The federal government, acknowledging "unprecedented"
opposition, has asked the Internet's key oversight
agency to delay approval of a new ".xxx" domain name
designed as a virtual red-light district. [I may have
included this story before, but the following excerpt
was brought to my attention and is most interesting]
Mr. Gallagher's comments, however, carry greater
weight because his agency [Department of Commerce] has
veto power over ICANN decisions.

http://washingtontimes.com/business/20050816-102616-4338r.htm

Derailing triple-X domain
The U.S. Commerce Department has done the bidding of
religious conservatives. Last week, it pressured the
independent organization in charge of Internet names
and addresses to postpone establishing ??.xxx'' for
adult-content Web sites.

http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2005/08/24/newsopinion/hjjejbhfjjfagg.txt

Once again, Canada on opposite side of official U.S.
position on a moral issue
A Canadian non-profit company is to be the primary
manager for a new internet domain, .xxx.
 http://am.novopress.info/?p=924

ICANN meeting takes place in the shadow of US tough
talk
Just after the United States made clear it intentions
to retain control over the internet's root-servers, an
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers) meeting took place in Luxembourg.
Brazil-based RITS director of planning and strategy
Carlos Afonso participated in the four-monthly meeting
of the organisation, which took place in Luxembourg,
from July 11 to 15.
 http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=973254

in: WIPO evicts cyber squatter from India's SBI domain
An Australian entity, which hijacked the domain name
of SBI Cards hoping to later sell it for a hefty sum
to the State Bank of India subsidiary, has been
evicted by the World Intellectual Property
Organization.

http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=29209

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050822/asp/business/story_5140754.asp

de: Number of Denic?s .de domain registrations reaches
9m
More than 80 000 holders of .de domains are based
outside Germany, most of them in the neighbouring
countries of Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=9805

DENIC Registers Nine-Millionth .de-domain (news
release)
On August 20, the domain registry DENIC received the
request to register the nine millionth .de domain. The
number of Internet addresses registered under the
German Top Level Domain has thus continued to grow.
Roughly a million .de domains are added every year.
The country-code-ending .de remains the world?s second
favourite after .com. Even people and organizations
outside of Germany are keen to have .de domains. More
than 80 000 holders of .de domains are based abroad,
most of them in our neighbouring countries of Austria,
Switzerland and the Netherlands.
 http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_71.html
 http://www.denic.de/de/denic/presse/press_71.html
(German)

.CN Domain Names Tops In Asia
Latest statistics from the China Internet Network
Information Center (CNNIC) shows that by the end of
July 2005, .CN domain name registration in China had
reached 720,000 and surpassed Japan's .JP domain
registration of 630,000 for the first time.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2917

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/24/content_3397992.htm

ICANN postpones decision on ?XXX quarantine? until the
15th of September
The body that oversees Internet domain announced on
Wednesday the delay of the decision to set up a
special xxx domain for sex sites.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Sex-Domain-Still-Has-A-Month-In-The-Open-6591.shtml

uk/vn: Early Learning Centre loses domain name claim
The Early Learning Centre has lost an attempt to
recover earlylearningcentre.com from a Vietnamese man
who has not used it and did not respond to the
arbitration complaint. The trade mark was deemed too
weak to prove bad faith.
 http://out-law.com/page-6036

eu: eu first ? companies race to register new domain
name
IRISH firms are fighting to register the first
pan-European Union internet domain names. Earlier this
year the European commission, after tortured
negotiations lasting six years, finally reached
agreement on the introduction of the pan-European
domain name, ?.eu?.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2769-1743024,00.html

eu: Network Solutions Now Taking Pre-Registration
Requests for New EU Domain Names
Network Solutions Now Taking Pre-Registration Requests
for New European Union Specific Top-Level Domain Names

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=12881
 http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/article1328.html

Domain Name Registration Ripoff?
I hold a small string of domain names. Now, I?m not a
big-time domain name speculator, by any ways or means,
but I?ve been around the block. So when the good ol?
USPS delivers something scary and official looking
from a domain name registrar that wraps itself in Old
Glory, I know to be wary

http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20050823_domain_name_registration_ripoff.phtml

Domain Industry's Sizzling Summer Continues As Another
Six-Figure Sale is Finalized
Photographer.com sale confirmed for $133,000.
 http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Pre-registration for ".travel" domain names begins
Encirca announced it has begun pre-registration for
travel and tourism companies that would like to adopt
a dot travel (.travel) domain name.

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050823_103106.html
 http://www.litmags.co.za/articles.asp?id=2022

http://www.investors.com/breakingnews.asp?journalid=31107530
 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851111,00.asp

http://travelagentcentral.com/travelagentcentral/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=176500
 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=1060968

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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Whose net is it anyway?
Is it time to take control over the net away from the
US government, asks BBC technology analyst Bill
Thompson?
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4165920.stm

South African Civil Society learn about WSIS
The biggest SANGONeT information communication
technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society
Organisations of South Africa has started in Cape Town
with an opportunity for the general public to learn
about WSIS.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,110898,00.html

Azerbaijan ? Organizing Committee Member & Sponsor Of
Tunis Summit
Azerbaijan is to become member of the Organizing
Committee and one of the sponsors of WSIS to be held
in Tunis.

http://azertag.com/en/index.shtml?language=english&catid=&news_year=&news_month=&news_day=&newsid=130967


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