domain name, WSIS & governance news - 25 January (correct version)

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

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DOMAIN NAMES
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Domain Registrar Charges $1 per Spam
Acting on a tip from a WebHostingTalk forum, Email
Battles decided to troll the Terms of Service
agreements (TOS) of six Internet domain name
registrars, looking for an atrocious clause similar to
the $5.00 Per Spam charge tucked in Qwest's High Speed
Internet Subscriber Agreement.

http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=16952

The search continues - Vint Cerf interview
Vinton Cerf is sometimes referred to as the Father of
the Internet, although he begs to differ. Today he?s
Chief Internet Evangelist for a company making more
than its share of headlines?a little online search
outfit called Google. It?s been quite a ride.
 http://www.gcn.com/25_2/interview/38005-1.html

Endangered Domain
More than a decade after the Internet became available
for commercial use, other countries and organizations
are erecting rivals to it -- raising fears that global
interconnectivity will be diminished. German computer
engineers are building an alternative to the Internet
to make a political statement. A Dutch company has
built one to make money. China has created three
suffixes in Chinese characters substituting for .com
and the like, resulting in Web sites and email
addresses inaccessible to users outside of China. The
22-nation Arab League has begun a similar system using
Arabic suffixes.
 http://www.unifiedroot.com/corporate/pressnews-wsj

Skype affiliate can keep Skyp.com, says WIPO
An amateur photographer, painter and sculptor who uses
the domain name Skyp.com to redirect visitors to
Skype.com has won a battle to keep his name. He
pointed out that the internet telephony company had
accepted him as an affiliate.
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6551

IETF hums along at 20
>From a notorious striptease by internet pioneer Vint
Cerf to a fist-pumping, table-jumping brawl about
cryptography policy, the internet's premier
standards-setting body has had its share of big
moments.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/AA0524ED6EED4966CC2570FE006EEF77

"Sex.com" ist zwölf Mio. Dollar wert
Domain wechselte am Montag den Besitzer
 http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/85033/
 http://derstandard.at/?id=2316038

El registro del dominio '.cat' estará abierto al
público a partir del próximo 23 de abril
El dominio '.cat' abrirá el próximo 13 de febrero el
periodo de registros para instituciones de promoción
de la lengua y cultura catalana, entidades con
presencia en catalán y los adheridos a la campaña de
apoyo a la candidatura del '.cat'. A partir del 23 de
abril, el registro se generalizará a particualres y
cualquier tipo de empresa interesada en esta
denominación.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1199&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Compran el dominio sex.com por 14 millones de dólares
Tras varias disputas legales sobre la verdadera
pertenencia del dominio, 'sex.com' fue vendido en 14
millones de dólares a LLC de Escom, una compañía con
sede en Boston, EE.UU.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1198&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Catalonia: Hawl i arfer enw gwefan
O Ionawr ymlaen mae Catalonia'n cael defnyddio'r
llythrennau .cat ar wefannau'r wlad honno.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/welsh/hi/newsid_4640000/newsid_4640600/4640678.stm

El 13 de febrero comienza el período de registro
controlado para los dominios ".cat"
La apertura de los dominios ".cat", aprobados por la
ICANN el pasado mes de septiembre, comenzará entre el
13 de febrero y el 21 de abril con un período de
registro controlado, denominado "Sunrise". El registro
se abrirá por completo dos días después, el 23 de
abril. Todo este proceso será gestionado, a través del
sitio web "Nic.cat", por la Fundació puntCAT.

http://www.consumer.es/web/es/tecnologia/2006/01/23/148794.php

http://www.vnunet.es/Actualidad/Noticias/Comunicaciones/Internet/20060123033

http://www.entrebits.com/noticias/Internet/articulos/n_116248_1.html

Surgen webs rivales para frenar el dominio de EE.UU.
en la Red
Más de una década después que Internet empezó a ser
usada con fines comerciales, varios países y
organizaciones están creando sus propias redes
rivales, generando temores de una disminución de la
interconectividad global

http://www.laflecha.net/canales/blackhats/noticias/200601223/

Les premiers .EU actifs dans 40 jours
Certains .EU demandés au début de la sunrise
commencent à être validés. Sans opposition de la part
de tiers, ils seront donc actifs 40 jours après.
Décodage.

http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?cahier=eu&vde_id=827

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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The WFUNA Task Force on WSIS
On February 21.-22. 2006,The WFUNA Task Force on WSIS
and The Danish Network on WSIS is hosting an
international conference on "Where to go from Tunis?
Implementation of and follow-up to the World Summit on
the Information Society and the role of Civil Society
in this process".
 http://una.dk/wsis/

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