domain name news - 13 June

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

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au: NetRegistry cops one from auDA
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=33475

au: auDA carpets NetRegistry in domain dispute
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;65921915;fp;2;fpid;1

Domain name price hikes come under fire
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6081336.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6081336.html

Will Your Web Site's Name Cost More?
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2006/sb20060612_435509.htm

Another Day in Court for CFIT vs. VeriSign and ICANN
http://www.circleid.com/posts/court_cfit_vs_verisign_icann/

Bad Taste: Another Way ICANN Blew Domain Registration
By Larry Seltzer
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1974213,00.asp

CNNIC Launches Chinese Domain Names For Government
Departments
http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=4058

Branson.com domain sells for $1.6M
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2006/06/05/daily21.html

my: Local websites hit
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2006/6/8/technology/20060608121648&sec=technology

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au: NetRegistry cops one from auDA
A recent administrative decision by auDA has left
domain name registrar NetRegistry questioning the
decision making processes of the industry body.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=33475

au: auDA carpets NetRegistry in domain dispute
The local .au Domain Administration (auDA), has flexed
its muscles and deleted two domain names it considered
in breach of its policies after local registration
house, NetRegistry, refused to carry out the request.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;65921915;fp;2;fpid;1

au: auDA boss warns NetRegistry of possible suspension
When they wake up tomorrow morning, the management of
one of Australia?s largest domain name registrars,
NetRegistry, can expect a public citation for refusing
to follow the directives of the Australian Domain Name
regulator auDA.
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4567/937/

au: NetRegistry breaches Registrar Agreement
auDA has cited NetRegistry for breaches of .au policy
and the Registrar Agreement.
http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-08062006/

Domain name price hikes come under fire
A dispute over the cost of Internet domain names has
spilled over onto Capitol Hill, where allegations of
monopolization and unreasonable price hikes surfaced
in a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6081336.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6081336.html

Will Your Web Site's Name Cost More?
For small businesses, a proposed fee increase doesn't
appear to be cause for alarm. For industry players,
though, big money is on the table
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jun2006/sb20060612_435509.htm

Another Day in Court for CFIT vs. VeriSign and ICANN
The CFIT vs. VeriSign et. al. lawsuit had another day
in court today. The defendants?VeriSign and ICANN had
filed a motion to dismiss the suit. The key point
coming out of a hearing today (Friday, June 09, 2006)
in front of U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Whyte in
San Jose, California is that the arguments made by
CFIT against the .com deal between ICANN and VeriSign
will continue.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/court_cfit_vs_verisign_icann/

Bad Taste: Another Way ICANN Blew Domain Registration
By Larry Seltzer
Opinion: Speculators have learned to abuse the Grace
Period in registration to engage in "Domain Tasting."
Whether it's good for registrars or not, regular
people lose out.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1974213,00.asp

CNNIC Launches Chinese Domain Names For Government
Departments
Chinese domain name registration institution China
Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has
launched a special service for government departments
to register their own Chinese-language domain names.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=4058

Netcraft June 2006 Web Server Survey
The Internet experienced its strongest site growth
ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free
web sites. In the June 2006 survey we received
responses from 85,541,228 sites, a gain of 3.96
million sites from the May report. This is the largest
one-month increase in sites in the history of the
Netcraft survey, surpassing a gain of 3.3 million in
March 2003, although the 2003 gain was larger in
percentage terms (8.5%, compared to 4.7% this month).
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html

nl: Paedophile party forced to change name
The Love of Fellow Man, Freedom and Diversity party,
which grew out of the paedophile movement, was told on
Friday by a judge in The Hague to change its acronym,
NVD. ... The judge ordered the party to remove the
abbreviation from its registration with the chamber of
commerce and in its statutes and to change its
Internet domain name. He gave the party three days to
comply.
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=30695

us: Dot-com domain price hike sparks angry debate
A dispute over the cost of internet domain names has
spilled over into the US Congress, where allegations
of monopolisation and unreasonable price hikes
surfaced in a congressional hearing.
http://www.techzonez.com/comments.php?shownews=18373

Branson.com domain sells for $1.6M
In the third highest-priced domain sale of the year,
Larry Milton bought the domain name Branson.com for
$1.6 million in cash.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2006/06/05/daily21.html

Half-Million Dollar Sale of Bike.com Leads a Trio of
Six-Figure Domains to the Top of This Week's Sales
Mountain
In one of the five biggest domain sales reported thus
far in 2006, Stephen Sinatra's StepMedia sold Bike.com
for $500,000 this week in a deal brokered by Sedo.com.
That blockbuster was one of three impressive
six-figure sales completed this week.
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Present at the creation Premium content (sub req'd)
Vinton Cerf was one of the founding fathers of the
internet and has continued to take an active role in
its development
http://economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7001923

my: Local websites hit
MyCERT has detected 300 .my domain website defacements
up till the end of May this year.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2006/6/8/technology/20060608121648&sec=technology

In Shiloh's domain
SHILOH Nouvel Jolie-Pitt arrived less than two weeks
ago, but already she has at least three URLs
registered under her name and 182 friends on her
myspace.com web page.
http://www.entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,19415573-7485,00.html

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Domain Name?s for Sale
Creates Huge Moral Controversy (news release)
Lovethename.com launches ?Fame Capitalization? section
of site. Since Domain names such as ?Brangelina? or
ChildrenofJolie-Pitt? are hot commodities in the Top
Level Domain (TLD) name game, investors are keeping a
sharp eye put for celebrity domain names. Whether it
is Brad Pitt, Katie Holmes - Tom Cruise, cyberspace
gives a whole knew meaning to ?LoveTheName.com?
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb397286.htm
http://www.sys-con.com/read/231650.htm

600 Blog Portal Domain Name Portfolio for Sale on eBay
The world?s largest and most comprehensive blog portal
domain name portfolio is being offered on more than
350 auctions currently underway on eBay. The portfolio
owned by Blog Spot Network includes business &
industry blog portals, city blog portals, city news
portals, real estate blog portals, and travel blog
portals.
http://www.w3reports.com/?itemid=1360

Französische Domains für jeden! (news release)
Ab dem 20. Juni 2006 werden alle Volljährigen Personen
welche eine Adresse in Frankreich haben die begehrten
.fr Domains registrieren können. Fast genau zwei Jahre
nach der ersten Lockerung bei den .fr-Domains lässt
AFNIC, die Französische Registrierungstelle für
.fr-Domains, verkunden dass es eine weitere Lockerung
geben wird, um dieses Ereignis besonders zu feiern
gibt EuroDNS 50% Rabatt auf alle .fr Bestellungen ab
dem 20. Juni!
http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=060612013

.de-Registry DeNIC will Mitglieder auf Stillschweigen
verpflichten
Einen "Code of Ethics" will sich die Registrierstelle
für .de-Domains DeNIC eG geben. Die
Genossenschaftsmitglieder sollen sich mit der
Unterzeichnung zur Sachlichkeit bei DeNIC-internen
Auseinandersetzungen, zur Offenlegung möglicher
Interessenskonflikte, vor allem aber zum
Stillschweigen über genossenschaftsinterne
Informationen verpflichten.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74096

.mobi: TLD für mobiles Internet geht an den Start
Zweite Registrierungsphase für eingetragene
Markennamen hat begonnen
http://www.golem.de/0606/45842.html

Seconde décision à propos d'un nom de domaine en .eu
dans une affaire n'impliquant pas le Registre
... et première décision à être rendue dans une langue
autre que l'anglais.
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/seconde-dcision-propos-dun-nom-de.html

20ème décision de l'Arbitration Center for .eu
Disputes
Résidant britannique, William M. attaque la décision
de l'EURID d'avoir alloué le nom muller.eu à la
société française Muller et Cie.
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/20me-dcision-de-larbitration-center.html

Noms de domaine en .eu : le titulaire d'une marque ne
peut enregistrer un signe voisin de cette marque
pendant la première phase d'enregistrement
Après avoir utilisé plusieurs fois la procédure UDRP
pour récupérer des noms de domaine, la société
Grundfos est aussi à l'origine de la dix-neuvième
décision relative à un nom de domaine en .eu (décision
499).
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/noms-de-domaine-en-eu-le-titulaire.html

L'usage d'un nom proche d'une marque, à des fins
publicitaires, n'est pas considéré comme du
cybersquatting
Une procédure UDRP, la marque d'un voyagiste connu (au
moins en France), un défendeur coréen : la combinaison
de ces éléments laisse en général deviner que le nom
du second sera transféré au premier. Tel n'est pas le
sens de cette décision à propos de jettour.com
(décision D2006-0250 signée Warwick Smith, David
Sorkin et Pierre-Yves Gautier).
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/lusage-dun-nom-proche-dune-marque-des.html

NIC-Panamá/PANNet/UTP Celebran el Día de IPv6
La Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá Celebra el Día de
IPv6 registrando sus Servidores de Nombre de Dominio
en IPv6 (DNS IPv6) para su nombre de dominio
ipv6utp.ac.pa ante NIC-Panamá (organismo que
administra el Dominio de Nivel Superior .pa).
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1293&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

"Pai da internet" prevê explosão de serviços
disponíveis on-line
O norte-americano Vinton Cerf, 62, atraiu a atenção de
diversos representantes do setor de tecnologia nesta
semana, em visita ao Brasil. Seu currículo justifica o
interesse: considerado um dos pais da internet, o
atual vice-presidente do Google e presidente da Icann
(sigla em inglês para Corporação da Internet para
Nomes e Números Designados) tem bagagem para falar
sobre o histórico da rede e também os rumos que ela
deve tomar nos próximos anos.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u20164.shtml

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