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uk/au: Nominet wins battle against domain scammers
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39155298,00.htm
ch: Tug of war over Swiss internet address
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=6364883&cKey=1136560452000
.eu domain to boost e-commerce
http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2006010213.html
IPv6: Extinction, Evolution or Revolution? by Geoff
Huston
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_extinction_evolution_or_revolution/
Standing up to domain squatting: secure your IP in
virtual world
http://www.hindu.com/biz/2006/01/09/stories/2006010900761500.htm
Europe is to the US Controlled GPS as Europe is to the
US Controlled DNS Root? By Karl Auerbach
http://www.circleid.com/posts/gps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root/
CONFERENCE: Internet Governance: New Political and
Regulatory Frameworks for Global Network Communication
http://www.icahdq.org/events/conference/2006/InternetGovernance.html
When will the Internet be divided among nations?
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2574
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uk/au: Nominet wins battle against domain scammers
Two Australians who sent out bogus letters urging
domain owners to pay a fee have been fined nearly a
million pounds
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39155298,00.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/03/domain_scam/
http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/vnunet/news/2148077/nominet-wins-mining-case
http://www.out-law.com/page-6498
ch: Tug of war over Swiss internet address
The federal authorities and a Swiss businessman are
locked in a dispute over a sought-after internet
domain name.
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=511&sid=6364883&cKey=1136560452000
us: Pearl Jam Awarded Internet Domain Name Rights
US rockers Pearl Jam are celebrating after being
awarded the rights to an internet domain name, almost
identical to the band's official website address,
which directed users to unrelated commercial sites.
http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2006/jan06/20060104_pearljam.html
in: Trai for hopping onto advance Net protocol
Faced with increasing demand for Internet protocol
addresses, better quality of service and security, the
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today
recommended a transition from the existing version of
internet protocol (IPv4) to the next-generation IPv6
platform.
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/business/stories/132504.html
.eu domain to boost e-commerce
Companies and public bodies rushed to register .eu
addresses to capitalize on the European top-level
domain (TLD). But the benefit might take couple of
years to roll in.
http://www.cbw.cz/phprs/2006010213.html
Time for a .xxx domain?
There's no use in hiding from the truth. Adult
content, including explicit sexual pornography, runs
rampant on the Internet.
http://www.zdnetindia.com/insight/business/stories/132244.html
IPv6: Extinction, Evolution or Revolution? by Geoff
Huston
For some years now the general uptake of IPv6 has
appeared to be "just around the corner". Yet the
Internet industry has so far failed to pick up and run
with this message, and it continues to be strongly
reluctant to make any substantial widespread
commitment to deploy IPv6. Some carriers are now
making some initial moves in terms of migrating their
internet infrastructure over to a dual protocol
network, but for many others it's a case of still
watching and waiting for what they think is the
optimum time to make a move. So when should we be
deploying IPv6 services? At what point will the
business case for IPv6 have a positive bottom line?
It's a tough question to answer, and while advice of
"sometime, probably sooner than later" is certainly
not wrong, it's also entirely unhelpful as well!
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_extinction_evolution_or_revolution/
Standing up to domain squatting: secure your IP in
virtual world
Domain squatting is a common nuisance for many a
company that strives hard to protect its IP rights for
its business.
http://www.hindu.com/biz/2006/01/09/stories/2006010900761500.htm
ICANN: Policy for IPv6 ? Background Report, 2 January
2006
The development of Global Internet Number Resource
Policies is the subject of an MoU between ASO/NRO and
ICANN . There are also specific ICANN Board
Procedures, adopted by the Board on 15 July 2005 at
the ICANN meeting in Luxemburg, for handling global
policy proposals in this context.
http://icann.org/announcements/ipv6-report-03jan06.htm
ICANN: Call for Papers -- Policy Development for
Introduction of New gTLDs
In order to inform the recently launched Policy
Development Process on new gTLDs, the GNSO is inviting
organizations and individuals to submit substantive
papers on the issue areas identified in the Terms of
Reference for New gTLDs. Submitters of papers should
address the topics or sub-topics related to the above
areas and should provide reasoned background analysis
and references for statements expressed. Contributions
are due by 31 January 2006 as text documents to
<gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> . Received papers
will be considered for oral presentations to the GNSO
Council during February 2006 via scheduled conference
calls with the GNSO Council.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan06.htm
ICANN GNSO: Call for Papers -- Policy Development for
Introduction of New gTLDs
In order to inform the recently launched Policy
Development Process on new gTLDs, the GNSO is inviting
organizations and individuals to submit substantive
papers on the issue areas identified in the Terms of
Reference for New gTLDs. Submitters of papers should
address the topics or sub-topics related to the above
areas and should provide reasoned background analysis
and references for statements expressed. Contributions
are due by 31 January 2006 as text documents at
<gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org> . Received papers
will be considered for oral presentations to the GNSO
Council during February 2006, via scheduled conference
calls with the GNSO Council.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan06.htm
ICANN GNSO: Extension of Public Comment Period on GNSO
New gTLDs Policy Development Process to 31 January
2006
In order to enable interested parties to prepare
substantive comments on the identified issue areas in
this policy development process, the deadline for
comments has been extended to 31 January 2006. In
addition, a call for substantive papers on the topics
in the Terms of Reference, for posting and
consideration for oral presentations to the GNSO, will
be issued shortly with the same deadline of 31 January
2006.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-06dec05.htm
IE 7 will support IDN
The second beta release of Internet Explorer (IE) 7
will have support for URLs (uniform resource locators)
written in different languages, widely seen as
critical for making the Internet more international,
according to a Microsoft developer.
http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=7060&mhnews_page=1
Urban Identity by City Top-Level Domains
This document is intended to be a starting point for a
discussion on upcoming city Top-Level Domain Names
(city TLDs) such as .berlin, .nyc, or .london. It
reflects considerations about the impact of city TLDs
on the city society, the individuals in the city, the
regional and global environment, and the Internet at
large.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/urban_identity_by_city_top_level_domains
Time to Renew .coop, .museum, and .aero ICANN By John
Levine
Way back in 2000-2001, ICANN approved a handful of new
top level domains, and entered into agreements with
their promoters. Three of the sponsored domains, are
coming up for renewal next year, so they've sent in
their renewal proposals. A sponsored domain is one
that restricts who can register to members of a
particular community, in this case respectively
co-ops, museums, and the airline industry. Let's take
a look and see how they're doing.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/time_to_renew_coop_museum_and_aero_icann/
Google Sued for Trademark Infringement Based on
Third-Level Subdomain By Eric Goldman
It's no surprise that Google has been sued again for
trademark infringement, but the basis of this lawsuit
is surprising. Rather than another lawsuit over the
sale of trademarked keywords to deliver ads (along the
lines of the GEICO, American Blinds, Rescuecom and JTH
Tax cases, or the dozens of international lawsuits),
this lawsuit is based on a Blogspot blog URL. Because
of its comparative novelty, this lawsuit raises some
complex and unsettled legal issues.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_sued_for_trademark_infringement_on_third_level_subdomain/
Europe is to the US Controlled GPS as Europe is to the
US Controlled DNS Root? By Karl Auerbach
An Analogy: Europe is to the US controlled GPS as
Europe is to the US controlled DNS root? That's not a
very good title is it? But it does express the point I
want to make. This week the European Union launched
the first satellite of its own global positioning
system, Galileo. One has to wonder why the Europeans
feel they need to do this. Isn't the GPS system run by
the United States a perfectly good system?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/gps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root/
What's in a Name?
Internet domain names are truly bizarre. There is
nothing especially remarkable about them from a
technical perspective, but from a social and political
perspective they are all sorts of fun. We can have
arguments over control of the DNS root, arguments over
whether names are property, arguments over innate
rights to specific names, arguments over a registrar's
right (or lack thereof) to exploit unregistered names
for private gain, and many more arguments besides. In
this article, I'd like to explore the argument-space
rather than defend any particular position in it. In
so doing, I hope to illuminate some novel (or
under-emphasised) perspectives on the matter.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/whats_in_a_name/
What's Wrong with Domain Names?
Despite the significant traffic that comes from
typed-in domain names, the public harumphing and
clucking about type-in traffic is climbing in volume
as it becomes clear how much money is involved.
Articles this week show that domain names, and the
people who make money on them, are making some
commentators uncomfortable.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/whats_wrong_with_domain_names/
The Search for Net Neutrality by Michael Geist
My weekly Law Bytes column examines the growing trend
toward a two-tiered Internet, which upends the
longstanding principle of network neutrality under
which ISPs treat all data equally. I argue that the
network neutrality principle has served ISPs, Internet
companies, and Internet users well. It has enabled
ISPs to plausibly argue that they function much like
common carriers and that they should therefore be
exempt from liability for the content that passes
through their systems. ...Notwithstanding its
benefits, in recent months ISPs have begun to chip
away at the principle. ???
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_search_for_net_neutrality/
How Domain Name Typo-Squatters are Gaming Google
In a recent article, eWeek reports on researchers at
Microsoft revealing large-scale, typo-squatting
schemes that use "multi-layer URL redirection to game
Google's AdSense for domains program". According to
this report, the Microsoft Research Systems Management
Research Group succeeded in tracking a ring of
typo-squatters registering misspelled domain names
that generated traffic for serving advertising from
Google.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_domain_name_typo_squatters_are_gaming_google/
Out of This World! Earth.com Sells for $800,000 & Two
Others Fetch Six Figures As 2005 Goes Out With a Bang
What an appropriate ending for a great year. The
domain market spent 2005 on an upward trajectory that
continued right through the final week of the year
when a trio of hefty six-figure sales sent the
business into orbit. Earth.com changed hands for
$800,000 to land among the three biggest sales
reported this year.
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm
ca: NDP asks cybersquatter to stop using phony URLs to
redirect traffic
B.C. resident David Bedford has de-linked bogus public
sector Web sites to the New Democratic Party after it
asked him to stop re-directing traffic to its home
page.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=37977
us: What's in a name? Poetry group says plenty
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet. But if
you're a poetry group with a lawyer, it can be grounds
for a lawsuit. A nonprofit Illinois foundation
"committed to a vigorous presence of poetry in our
culture" charges that an Iowa-based Internet firm has
"squatted" on a key section of cyberspace: poetry.org.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051231/NEWS01/512310345/
Understanding Internationalized Domain Names
The article addresses some security concerns and how
can you protect yourself.
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_3350.shtml
eu/hu: PwC Newsflash - ?.eu" domain name registration
in Hungarian
In the latest edition of its Newsflash
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides information on
registering domain names with the .eu domain label.
http://www.portfolio.hu/en/cikkek.tdp?cCheck=1&k=2&i=6822
ie: IEDR cuts its domain name prices
IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for
Ireland's dot.ie domain names, today said it has
introduced cuts in its registry prices.
http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1328357;s=rollingnews.htm
Colapsado el registro de dominios argentinos por la
venta de 'porno.com.ar'
El sitio www.nic.ar, perteneciente al ente regulador
de dominios de Internet de la Argentina(NIC), se vio
colapsado durante la jornada de ayer, al conocerse la
nueva entrada en disponibilidad del dominio
"porno.com.ar", informa "periodismo.com"
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1187&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Nominaciones al Directorio de ICANN
De acuerdo con el Memorando de Entendimiento del ASO y
los estatutos del ICANN el Consejo de Direcciones del
ASO hace un llamado para nominaciones para el
Directorio de ICANN para llenar un asiento del ASO
actualmente ocupado por Mouhamet Diop, cuyo periodo
termina en junio del 2006.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1186&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Internet, escurridizo objeto del deseo político
El organismo que regula de forma centralizada el
funcionamiento de algo tan vital como las direcciones
de Internet, ICANN, es el objeto de deseo político por
parte de algunos gobiernos cuya ambición, más que el
control técnico, es el dominio sobre los accesos y los
contenidos. Esto al margen de la necesidad de que
ICANN sea menos dependiente de EE UU.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1185&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
NIC México promueve el desarrollo de Internet en
México al organizar el evento IPv6: Usos y Tendencias.
Con el objetivo de promover el conocimiento en el tema
de la Administración de Direcciones IP, NIC México
(Network Information Center México S.C.) llevó a cabo
el evento IPv6: Usos y Tendencias en la ciudad de
México, D.F.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1184&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Novedades desde el Paraguay.... actualizacion de
Politicas del ccTLD .py
La administración del ccTLD .py ha actualizado las
políticas de transferencia de dominios y las referidas
al pago del registro de nombres de dominio.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1183&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Primera copia del servidor raiz F en America
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), NIC Chile y LACNIC
instalaron un nuevo servidor raíz en Santiago de
Chile.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1182&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
NIC Chile Fortalece la Infraestructura Global y la
Estabilidad de Internet con Espejo del Servidor de
Raíz F
El moderno equipamiento es financiado por NIC Chile
con el apoyo de LACNIC (registro de direcciones IP
para América Latina y el Caribe) y será operado por la
empresa ISC (Internet Systems Consortium). Margarita
Valdés, Directora Legal y Comercial de NIC Chile,
explicó que mediante la instalación de estos
servidores en puntos claves de la Región se busca
robustecer la infraestructura de la red. Así, se
aumenta el alcance, fortaleza y velocidad de respuesta
del sistema de nombres de dominio (parte fundamental
de la infraestructura de Internet) a escala regional y
global, detalló la ejecutiva.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1181&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Espejo del Servidor Raíz F para Chile
Con fecha 29 de Diciembre de 2005, fue efectuada la
ceremonia de inauguración del Espejo (Mirror) del
Servidor Raíz F de Internet para Chile, en un esfuerzo
conjunto de LACNIC, ISC y NIC Chile
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1180&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Novedades sobre el .es
La liberalización del dominio .es está siendo una
auténtica chapuza, impropia de un país supuestamente
desarrollado como España. Esa es la opinión casi
unánime de la Red.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1179&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Dominio para América latina
Se espera la apertura de nuevas propuestas de dominios
en la ICANN para que el .lac pueda hacerse realidad.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1178&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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CONFERENCE: Internet Governance: New Political and
Regulatory Frameworks for Global Network Communication
This symposium will analyze the results of the Tunis
summit and discuss in particular for key areas of
Internet governance as follows: 1. Internet Oversight
and the Management of the Internet Core Resources; 2.
Internet and Human Rights: Freedom of Expression,
Access to Knowledge and Protection of Privacy; 3.
Internet Security and Stability: Cybercrime, Spam and
Identity Theft; 4. Internet and Development: Bridging
the Digital Divide. The aim of this pre-conference is
to form a network of scholars to monitor the progress
of and to research internet governance, with a special
emphasis on the international aspects.
http://www.icahdq.org/events/conference/2006/InternetGovernance.html
When will the Internet be divided among nations?
This fight over ICANN is all about a golden key.
Without it, the Internet is completely useless. That
golden key is a name on the net called a URL. It's all
about the master design of a sophisticated key
management system so that billions of single domain
name identities can offer access to billions of sites
without any problem. After all, without this access,
the Internet has no value. It's this portion of the
magic of the Internet that is now being challenged.
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2574
Derailing the Dance of the Digital Divide
Headlines proclaiming victories often apply only to
the day they are published. When it comes to politics
there are no "final victories" and I fear that will be
the case with our so-called win at the recent meeting
in Tunis of the World Summit on the Information
Society. Headlines proclaimed "U.S. to Retain
Oversight of Web" but one victorious battle for
America does not mean that the war has been won. What
is at stake is our continued control of our wealth and
technology.
http://www.aim.org/guest_column/4276_0_6_0_C/
Protest to President Ben Ali of Tunisia Over IFJ
Website Ban Following UN Summit Criticism
The International Federation of Journalists today
protested to the Tunisian government over the banning
of the Federation?s web site. In recent weeks,
following the World Summit on the Information Society
in November when the IFJ sharply criticised
restrictions on Internet use and harassment of human
rights activists, the IFJ web site has been
unobtainable.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200601090624.html
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