domain name news - 23 January

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

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au: Discussion paper on edu.au policies released
The edu.au 2LD is managed on behalf of the Australian
education sector by the Australian Information and
Communications Technology in Education Committee
(AICTEC).
 http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=52

Sex.com Sold to Escom LLC For $14M
The infamous and controversial domain Sex.com has
officially been sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for a
reported $14 million, XBiz has learned.
 http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=12847

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/sexcom-fetches-19m/2006/01/20/1137553746035.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/sex_com_fight_continues/
 http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=15405
 http://p2pnet.net/story/7656
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/19/domain_sold/

Vixie, Cerf Clash On Net's Future
Paul Vixie helped create BIND, the domain name system
that lets people type in a domain name instead of a
dotted quad; now the programmer has lent his talents
to a German group seeking to create an alternative to
the modern Internet. "What were you thinking?" Vint
Cerf, now with Google, asked Vixie upon learning of
his efforts with Germany's Open Root Server Network
(ORSN), the Wall Street Journal said. "I don't think
it's helpful to give visibility to a group that is
fragmenting the Internet," Cerf told the Journal.

http://webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060119VixieCerfClashOnNetsFuture.html
 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/0337225

Registrars Meet with ICANN
On Jan. 11, 2006 in Washington D.C., registrars met
for a day-long session with ICANN executives including
Paul Twomey, Kurt Pritz and John Jeffrey.
 http://cfit.info/newsletter_jan18.html

CFIT Delivers Concerns of Proposed .COM Registry
Agreement
At a meeting in December with representatives of the
U.S. Department of Commerce, CFIT was asked to submit
its formal opposition to the .com deal. CFIT is asking
Commerce to oppose the deal on the grounds that it is
both anti-competitive and anti-consumer. The key
arguments outlined include presumptive renewal,
supercompetitive pricing and monopolistic expansion.
 http://www.cfit.info/downloads/commerce.pdf

The Smells of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (from
http://udrplaw.blogspot.com)
It has been awhile since a UDRP panelist issued a
decision in support of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
against a trademark owner. The latest RDNH decision
involves the domain name AROMA.COM. In a decision
issued January 16, 2006, Panelist John J. Upchurch
determined that Mirama Enterprises, Inc. dba Aroma
Housewares Company "attempted to abuse the
administrative process to wrest control of
Respondent's domain name and take over the domain name
registration."
 http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions/588486.htm

John Levine: Reflection on new TLDs
While pondering the renewal prospects for the three
sponsored TLDs, .aero, .museum, and .coop, I went back
and looked at the original applications for those and
also for the unsponsored TLDs approved at the same
time, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, and .PRO. Two lessons leapt
out at me

http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/tldreflec.html?seemore=y

ALAC on New TLDs (ICANNwiki)
A Draft ALAC Response to the Questions Posed by the
GNSO The Bold text below comes from the Terms of
Reference approved by the GNSO Council on 2 December
2005.
 http://www.icannwiki.org/ALAC_on_New_TLDs

CENTR welcomes Fay Howard as the General Manager
Fay was CENTR's first General Manager and led the
project to create CENTR in 1998. She has since worked
for Nominet UK and Eurid (.eu) as well as a number of
TLD bids.
 http://www.centr.org/docs/2006/01/Text_Fay.pdf

cn: Ucloo files lawsuit against domain registration
company
Ucloo Online Inc. has decided to file a lawsuit
against a domain name registration service provider
over its blocked domain "ucloo.cn".

http://english.people.com.cn/200601/19/eng20060119_236754.html

Taiwan hosted 7.67 million Internet domain names in
July 2005, says government agency
Taiwan hosted 7.67 million Internet domain names in
July 2005, ranking globally fourth or fifth, according
to a report released early last week by the Focus on
Internet News & Data and Innovation Diffusion Enabler
& Activator of the Advanced e-Commerce Institute
(ACI-IDEA-FIND) under the government-sponsored
Institute for Information Industry (III).
 http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060118PR211.html

Dot-mobi firm opens Dublin headquarters
MTLD, the company charged with managing the new
dot-mobi internet domain name has opened a new
headquarters in Dublin.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/19012006/95/dot-mobi-firm-opens-dublin-headquarters.html

The Catalan Campaign to Win .Cat Top-Level Domain
In September 2005 ICANN approved the first top?level
Internet domain to be dedicated to a particular human
language and culture: '.cat'. A related paper was
recently published in First Monday by Peter Gerrand,
titled "The Catalan campaign to win the new .cat top
level domain". As explained in its abstract, the paper
explains: "While '.cat' creates a precedent for
greater use on the Internet of 'minority languages',
there are significant hurdles for other candidates for
language?based top?level domains. The paper discusses
the concomitant factors needed to support the greater
use of any minority language on the Internet."

http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_catalan_campaign_to_win_cat_top_level_domain/

es: El domini .cat obrirà finalment la fase de
registre el 13 de febrer
El domini .cat, aprovat per la ICANN a mitjans de
setembre, obrirà finalment el pròxim 13 de febrer el
període de registres adreçada a institucions de
promoció de la llengua i cultura catalana, entitats
amb presència en català i els adherits a la campanya
de suport a la candidatura del .cat.

http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20060120193451&tabID=1&ch=59

http://www.noticias.com/articulo/20-01-2006/redaccion/dominio-cat-abrira-finalmente-fase-registro-13-febrero-5216.html

http://www.cadenaser.com/articulo.html?xref=20060120csrcsrtec_2&type=Tes

http://www.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.asp?idnoticia=1447512

http://www.fuerteventuradigital.com/portal/noticias/noticia.asp?canal=tecnologia&fecha=20060120&hora=184030

Nuevo Moderador ASO AC
LACNIC saluda a Sebastián Bellagamba quien fue elegido
el pasado miércoles 3 de enero como nuevo moderador
del ASO AC para el año 2006

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1197&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

y cuantas veces aparece su tld en google?
Un reciente estudio?, llevado a cabo por William
Slawski, se enfoco en saber cuantas referencias se
hacian a un TLD en Google, el estudio estaba enfocado
en conocer el estado referencial de penetracion de
acuerdo a su presencia en el citado buscador.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1196&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Recomendacion para el Procedimiento de Manejo de
Conflictos sobre Obligaciones Legales entre Registro y
Registrante de acuerdo a las leyes de Privacidad y sus
obligaciones contractuales con el ICANN
Bajo un titulo bastante largo, el GNSO ha remitido al
Board del ICANN la recomendacion del Whois Task Force
en relación a las relaciones Registro/Registradores
relacionados a temas de Privacidad en el marco de las
obligaciones con el ICANN.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1195&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

GNSO publica Reporte Preliminar sobre Whois para
comentarios
El reporte preliminar del Whois Task Force esta
referido a temas de los contactos que aparecen en el
Whois (de los nombres de dominio) y al mismo Whois.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1194&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Le Forum de la Gouvernance de l'Internet prend forme
On attendait une remise à plat de la gouvernance de
l?Internet, lors du dernier sommet de Tunis et
spécialement sur le rôle de l?Icann, organisme tout
puissant américain et gendarme du net. Les Etats-Unis
firent pression pour éviter cette remise en cause
exposant que « ce serait comme avoir plus de cent
conducteurs pour un seul bus. A l'heure actuelle, nous
avons un seul conducteur et jusqu'ici il a fait du bon
boulot » (Michael Gallagher, vice-secrétaire américain
au commerce).

http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/26081-Le-Forum-de-la-Gouvernance-de-lInternet-pren.htm?vc=1

FN diskuterar toppdomäner
Vilket organ som ska ha makten över tilldelning av
toppdomäner (exempelvis .se och .com) har den senaste
tiden blivit en allt hetare potatis. Kritik har
riktats mot den nuvarande formen av administration då
den organisation som styr tilldelningen, ICANN,
sorterar under den amerikanska regeringen.

http://sakerhet.idg.se/ArticlePages/200601/19/20060119010152_SOS/20060119010152_SOS.dbp.asp

Whois-Daten-Streit: Ausnahmen für den Datenschutz
Konflikte zwischen nationalem Datenschutzrecht und den
Bestimmungen der ICANN sollen künftig ganz offiziell
gelöst werden. Dazu hat das für Top Level Domains
zuständige ICANN-Gremium, der GNSO Council, dem
ICANN-Vorstand nach mehrjährigen Diskussionen einen
Vorschlag unterbreitet.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68561

Verhandlungen über .com-Registry weiter hinter
verschlossenen Türen
Für einigen Ärger sorgen Verhandlungen der
Internet-Verwaltungsorganisation ICANN mit dem
Registry-Betreiber VeriSign. Trotz massiver Proteste
gegen einen beim letzten Treffen der Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in
Vancouver vorgelegten neuen Vertrag zum Betrieb der
lukrativen .com-Zone gehen die Verhandlungen zwischen
der ICANN und VeriSign offenbar hinter verschlossenen
Türen weiter.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68556

Vint Cerf und die Zukunft des Internet
Für einen der Väter des Internet, Vint Cerf, der vor
mehr als 20 Jahren gemeinsam mit Bob Kahn das TCP/IP
Protokoll entwickelte und damit eine Vernetzung von
Netzwerken ermöglichte, hat die Zukunft des Internet
gerade erst begonnen.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68583

Jon Hall unterstützt UnifiedRoot
UnifiedRoot bekommt prominente Unterstützung für sein
alternatives Domain-Namen-System: Jon "Maddog" Hall,
Präsident von Linux International, tritt dem
Advisory-Board von UnifiedRoot bei.

http://www.internet-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=42749&type=0&nrubrik=&datum=2006.01.17

Domain für Prags EU-Vorsitz schon belegt
Findiger Geschäftsmann sicherte sich URL
 http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/84327/

Sex.com kostet 14 Millionen Dollar
Heute in unserem Netz-Nachrichtenüberblick: Ein
berühmter Dicker behauptet, Nintendo sei Schuld an
seiner Leibesfülle, Sex.com ist verkauft worden, WLans
werden schneller, ein Spezialkeyboard für
Handy-Klingeltöne - und noch viel mehr.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,396279,00.html


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