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domain name & governance news - 22 June
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us: Domain registrars in court
http://news.com.com/2110-1030_3-6085599.html
ICANN Formalizes Relationship with Three More ccTLD
Managers (ICANN news release)
http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_formalizes_3_more_cctld_managers/
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-19jun06.htm
Perspective: ICANN needs to clamp down on domain name
abuse
http://news.com.com/ICANN+needs+to+clamp+down+on+domain+name+abuse/2010-1030_3-6084970.html
uk: A new weapon against cybersquatters
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=636753&ISS=22002&LS=EMS77676
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GOVERNANCE
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Wissenschaftler liefern Input im Internet-Governance
Streit
In der Diskussion um die Zukunft der
Internetverwaltung gibt es nun eine neue Plattform
namens GigaNet, die 50 Wissenschaftler aus 30 Ländern
vernetzen soll. Die Treffen sollen parallel mit dem
Internet Governance Forum IGF
http://www.intgovforum.org der Vereinten Nationen
abgehalten werden.
http://de.biz.yahoo.com/19062006/295/wissenschaftler-liefern-input-internet-governance-streit.html
http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=060619028
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DOMAIN NAMES
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us: Domain registrars in court
Domain name registrar Web.com filed a patent
infringement lawsuit on Monday against rival
GoDaddy.com. The lawsuit alleges that GoDaddy's Deluxe
Hosting Plan infringes on Web.com's patent called
"Synchronized Server Parameter Database," which allows
customers to have remote access to a control panel
that is part of the Web hosting service.
http://news.com.com/2110-1030_3-6085599.html
ICANN Formalizes Relationship with Three More ccTLD
Managers (ICANN news release)
ICANN has today announced that it has signed an
exchange letters with the county code top level domain
(ccTLD) manager for .lt - Lativa, the Institute of
Mathematics and Computor Science, University of
Latvia. It has also formalized its relationship with
the ccTLD managers for .cx - Christmas Island, the
Christmas Island Internet Administration Ltd and .nf -
Norfolk Island, the Norfolk Island Data Service by way
of accountability framework documents.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_formalizes_3_more_cctld_managers/
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-19jun06.htm
Perspective: ICANN needs to clamp down on domain name
abuse
While Congress continues to consider the merits of
so-called Net neutrality, an even more soporific but
vital Internet legal issue looms, with ramifications
for every business online and every user of the World
Wide Web: What is the purpose of the database that
contains information on every domain name registrant?
http://news.com.com/ICANN+needs+to+clamp+down+on+domain+name+abuse/2010-1030_3-6084970.html
ICANN Marrakech Meeting Announcement Update
The Marrakech meeting announcement has been updated in
two important ways. First, additional meeting times
have been added so that now the agenda is essentially
complete. Note that the Strategic Planning workshops,
to be held in four languages, will be scheduled
shortly. Second, content guides have been added to
many of the important meetings. The guides for each of
these meetings describe: "What It Is", "Why It Is
Important", and "Who Should Attend". The guides are
intended to aid participants in creating individual
agendas most in line with their interests.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20jun06.htm
uk: A new weapon against cybersquatters
Brand owners have a new way to find information on
domain name piracy in the UK using Nominet's Public
Register Search Service.
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=636753&ISS=22002&LS=EMS77676
us: Suit claims labor's lost to Yahoo
A Colorado company that owns dating website
lovecity.com has sued Yahoo, claiming the Internet
giant improperly used a trademark domain name to
direct consumers looking for lovecity on Google to
Yahoo's dating site.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_3937517
Internet Oversight: A Crucial Test
When WSIS in Tunis concluded last November, the U.S.
departed with a diplomatic coup. The U.S. government
convinced Internet policymakers from a range of
skepticaland in some cases, hostilenations that the
arm's-length policy of U.S. oversight in a key area of
Internet governance is working and is independent of
other U.S. policy
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/19062006/244/internet-oversight-crucial-test.html
Interview: Why DNS defences need bolstering
Nominum?s Albert Gouyet describes how enterprises can
protect their DNS servers and the security threats in
this field? Albert Gouyet: Network naming and
addressing is now being used as the vector in new
types of attacks. Because it?s not given [a high]
level of attention, [roughly] every quarter we find
that people are discovering new vulnerabilities that
are exploited. This has the potential to reduce
people?s trust in the internet and domain names.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2158577/why-dns-defences-bolstering
ie: Allegations of .ie cybersquatting
Big brand names such as Nike, Adidas, Bebo and iPod
have been reserved by cyber-squatters, internet
industry professionals have claimed. The chief
executive of Ireland?s domain registry (IEDR) David
Curtin confirmed that there was a small number of
instances where high-profile names have been
registered.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single6609
vn: Opportunities for high-class domain name ?.vn?
For many people, domain names with ?.vn? like
google.com.vn and yahoo.com.vn are now familiar, but
don?t know that these are national code domain names
on the global Internet system.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2006/06/582499/
us: 2008 domain names going, going, gone
?Dear Russy-kins ? I?m in love with you. ... I?ll
support you for whatever office you choose to run for.
Especially president. In 2008. Love, Brian,? says one
fan on russ08.com, a site that endorses Sen. Russ
Feingold (D-Wis.) with a pink background and a
heart-shaped picture of the Wisconsin Democrat.
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062106/news3.html
uk: Hard cheese for Stelios in EasyPizza case
Self-proclaimed man of the people Stelios Haji-Ioannou
has been branded a "rich bully" by a London
businessman who has obtained a court order against the
EasyJet founder to prevent him from interfering any
further with his pizza business.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/20/stelios_loses_easypizza/
.mobi off to good start
The new top-level domain created specifically for
access by mobile users, Dotmobi, is said to be off to
a good start.
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=8327148B-97B8-4EDE-B4D2-AF1F0EDB527E
Web?s red light zone is doomed
THE proposal to have a separate red light zone in the
Internet has been shrouded in deep controversy. For
more than six years, there was a move to have a
separate domain name ending with .xxx for all
pornographic material.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2006/June/opinion_June60.xml§ion=opinion&col=
Tucows Pessimistic About New TLDs? by Bret Fausett
Tucows' acquisition of Mailbank is interesting on
several levels. First, and as a matter of disclosure,
I'm a shareholder, so I probably follow the company
closer than I follow other players in the industry.
Second, I completely understand the value that common
surnames and hobbies as domain names have in the
Tucows' business plan and the value that those names
will have to Tucows' customers.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/19/2040930.html
Tucows to buy NetIdentity
World well known domain wholesaler Tucows announced on
Friday it has entered into an agreement to acquire
Mailbank, aka NetIdentity - a privately held company
that operates a large porfolio of domain names.
http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=9884&mhnews_page=1
Net Regret (full story subscription only)
A number of dotcom millionaires have had a mea culpa.
They made millions, then, in good faith, poured those
millions into spreading the Internet to developing
countries, particularly in Africa. Their hope was that
technology would empower the poor. Now, many
dotcommers admit?some publicly, others privately?that
those efforts were misdirected.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3481
Blackjack.de Rakes in $300,000 Pot in Week's Biggest
Domain Sale
Blackjack.de sold for a whopping $300,000 this week at
NameDrive.com (the biggest sale to date in that
company's Park & Sell program) to easily top our new
Top 20 chart. That was one of three impressive .de
sales that hit the top half of the Big Board with all
three featuring strong gambling keywords.
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm
eu: The Buzz About European Domain Names
So what relevance does this have? If you have a
valuable company name, brand, or trademark in Europe
that you want to protect, visit the EURid WHOIS
database. You may find out that your site name has
been taken by a competitor or a cybersquatter, who
will be calling you shortly to sell you the same
address at some phenomenal price.
http://redorbit.com/news/technology/543608/the_buzz_about_european_domain_names/index.html
Oversee.net Acquires Domain Portfolio of 35,000 Names
Oversee.net, a technology-driven media company, today
announced its acquisition of a privately-held domain
name portfolio of 35,000 Internet domain names.
Oversee.net monetizes more than one million domain
names and has more than 100 million unique visitors
per month.
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=16219
DomainMart Estimates Domain Name Price Appreciation at
94% (news release)
DomainMart released today a study that estimates the
annual domain name price appreciation to be 94
percent.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/6/prweb399816.htm
http://domainmart.com/news/94_percent_annual_domain_name_price_appreciation.htm
Stoff für den Streit um die Internet-Verwaltung
50 Forscher aus 30 Ländern haben am vergangenen
Wochenende im sächsischen Rathen das GigaNet
gegründet, das sich als Plattform für Forschung rund
um das Thema "Internet Governance" versteht.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74400
Le .MOBI fait son apparition
Le .MOBI est l?une des extensions retenues par
l?ICANN, qui supervise l?organisation de l?Internet,
dites sTLD (Sponsored Top Level Domain) car soutenues
par des "Sponsors", c'est-à-dire des représentants de
communautés d'intérêt.
http://www.comparatel.fr/news/dnews_id-6268_t-Le,MOBI,fait,son,apparition.htm
« Il est important d'avoir du volume »
L'année dernière, le .BE a plus que doublé de taille.
Aujourd'hui, il a dépassé le million de noms. Une
telle croissance est-elle indispensable pour assurer
sa pérennité ?
http://domaines.info/interview.php?inter_id=65
Les noms de domaine en .FR font la Une des journaux
Jour historique pour l?ouverture du .FR. Le 20 juin
2006, chaque français majeur peut enfin obtenir son
nom de domaine sur le registre national. Le sujet est
bien sûr abondamment traité par les médias, ce qui
prouve l?intérêt du phénomène "Noms de domaine". Revue
de presse.
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=944&z=100
Bonnet d'âne pour l'ICANN en géographie
Le régulateur du nommage sur Internet annonce le
ralliement à sa cause de trois nouveaux pays? en
confondant la Lettonie et la Lituanie!
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=943&z=100
"Egeni- Afrique 2006" le 24 courant à Marrakech
« Egeni Afrique 2006 » aura lieu ce samedi 24 juin
2006 à Marrakech. Cette conférence sur l'Internet
baptisée "Etats généraux du nommage et de l'adressage
sur Internet" est organisée à l'initiative des
chapitres d'Internet Society (ISOC) Marocain et
Français.
http://www.menara.ma/Infos/includes/detail.asp?article_id=11519&lmodule=Technologie
Télex : Le père de l'Internet à Marrakech
Télex : Le père de l'Internet à MarrakechL'association
marocaine pour la promotion de l'Internet Misoc
présidée par Aziz Hilali, organise «Les états généraux
du nommage et de l'adressage sur Internet «EGENI
Afrique 2006».
http://www.aujourdhui.ma/thematiques-economiques-details47107.html
?Um arquivo baixado, um fã conquistado?
Em tempos de democracia e internet, a cultura precisa
ser livre. Proposto por Lawrence Lessig, guru do
modelo de direitos autorais alternativos Creative
Commons, o mantra acima é que irá dar o tom de uma
série de conferências que começam nesta sexta, no Rio
de Janeiro, e vão até domingo.
http://www.link.estadao.com.br/index.cfm?id_conteudo=7706
Tres mas y que sigan sumando....
El ICANN ha anunciado que tres cctlds han "formalizado
sus relaciones" con la firma de los "Accountability
Framework " respectivos.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1296&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
.ec: Sitio Web renovado
NIC.EC lanza su sitio Web renovado con un diseño más
moderno y con acceso directo a las opciones mas útiles
y de uso frecuente, en el registro de dominios .EC
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1295&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
El dominio .mobi registra 4.000 solicitudes en sus
primeras horas
La compañía dotMobi está llevando a cabo el desarrollo
del uso de Internet en dispositivos móviles para
asegurar la mejor utilización de los servicios Web.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1294&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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