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domain name & governance news - 24 July
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UN Secretary-General Convenes Internet Governance
Forum
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/UN+SecretaryGeneral+Convenes+Internet+Governance+Forum.aspx
International steps taken to build global Information
Society (news release)
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2006/NP05.html
The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight by
Patrick Vande Walle
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_blurr_cade_proposal_on_root_zone_oversight/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ntia_burr_proposal_icann_dns_root_control/
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823963,00.html
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken -- In Domain Names,
Too
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115326960876810574-tMKl4ti4Ky3PU6UOckwQGl0TXs0_20060817.html
US government urged again to end net role
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/burr_cade_usg_paper/
The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination
and Management of the Internet Domain name and
Addressing System
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/2006/726dns/index.htm
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UN Secretary-General Convenes Internet Governance
Forum
The Secretary-General of the United Nations has
announced the convening of the Internet Governance
Forum, to be held in Athens on 30 October - 2 November
2006. The Secretary-General's message is available in
all UN languages
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/UN+SecretaryGeneral+Convenes+Internet+Governance+Forum.aspx
International steps taken to build global Information
Society (news release)
Implementation of the outcomes of the recently
concluded World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) gathered momentum with the launch of the United
Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS). High
level representatives of twenty-two UN agencies met on
Friday, 14 July 2006 at ITU Headquarters in Geneva
under the chairmanship of ITU Secretary-General Yoshio
Utsumi to facilitate the process.
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2006/NP05.html
Die Vereinten Nationen, die NGOs und die
Informationsgesellschaft
Das Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) der Vereinten
Nationen tut sich schwer mit der Einbeziehung von
Nichtregierungsorganisationen in die Aktivitäten, die
im Anschluss an den Weltgipfel der
Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) dessen Ziele
weiterverfolgen und die nach heftigen
Auseinandersetzungen doch noch gefassten Beschlüsse
umsetzen sollen. Bis zum gestrigen Dienstagabend
rangen ECOSOC-Mitglieder in Genf um eine Entschließung
zum WSIS-Anschlussprozess.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/75674
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The Blurr-Cade Proposal on Root Zone Oversight by
Patrick Vande Walle
Becky Burr (former NTIA official) and lobbyist Marilyn
Cade has made a proposal to create a multilateral
working group to oversee the root zone file updates. I
would characterize the Burr-Cade proposal as a ?small
step for mankind and a giant step for the US? to
paraphrase Neil Armstrong. The main merit of the
proposal is that it looks like something the USG might
want to follow.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_blurr_cade_proposal_on_root_zone_oversight/
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ntia_burr_proposal_icann_dns_root_control/
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823963,00.html
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken -- In Domain Names,
Too
It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only
Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory. There are
roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com,"
making that space the biggest and most prestigious
piece of real estate on the Internet. Getting a URL
listed as a dot-com involves, ultimately, checking in
with a database at Verisign, the Mountain View,
Calif., company that keeps tabs on the dot-com world,
the way your state's DMV knows about which cars have
which license plates.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115326960876810574-tMKl4ti4Ky3PU6UOckwQGl0TXs0_20060817.html
US government urged again to end net role
The United States government is under pressure again,
this time from two high-profile insiders, to end its
overseeing role on the internet and transistion its
role to an international body. A paper co-written by
the ex-government lawyer that originally drew up the
contract between the US government and internet
overseeing organisation ICANN in 1998, J. Beckwith
Burr, and ICANN insider and member of the ICANN's
President's Strategy Committee, Marilyn Cade, will be
officially released later today at a public meeting
called to discuss the organisation's future.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/burr_cade_usg_paper/
The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination
and Management of the Internet Domain name and
Addressing System
On July 26, 2006, NTIA is holding a public meeting to
discuss issues associated with the continuation of the
transition of the technical coordination and
management of the Internet domain name and addressing
system (Internet DNS) to the private sector.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/2006/726dns/index.htm
ICANN Announces Formalisation of Relationship with
ccTLD Manager for Norway
ICANN has formalized its relationship with the Norway
country code top-level domain manager, Uninett Norid
by a mutual agreement to abide by ICANN's
Accountability Framework program.
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=16908
ICANN Announces Formalisation of Relationship with
ccTLD Manager for Norway
ICANN has announced today that it has signed an
exchange of letters with the Norway ccTLD manager,
UNINETT Norid AS. UNINETT Norid AS has become the
eighth registry to formalize their relationship with
ICANN in the last few months.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20jul06.htm
ICANN President's Strategy Committee Consultations
Update (announcement)
The President's Strategy Committee Consultations shall
begin at 7:20am US Pacific Time, 21 July 2006. A
web-link to the audio cast will be provided here. The
stream will start approximately 15 minutes before
7:20am US Pacific Time. Questions from the community
shall be sent to psc-questions@icann.org. An agenda is
posted.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-20jul06.htm
ICANN President's Strategy Committee Consultation with
the ICANN Community Improving the Inherent Strength of
the Multi-stakeholder Model
At its December 2005 ICANN meeting, the ICANN Board,
emphasizing the importance of the bottom-up ICANN
processes, noted that the ICANN community could also
'benefit from the advice of a group responsible for
making observations and recommendations concerning
strategic issues facing ICANN.' In light of this, the
ICANN Board passed a resolution for the President to
appoint a President's Strategy Committee. This
Committee plays an important role in providing
observations and recommendations concerning strategic
issues facing ICANN and contributing to ICANN's
strategic planning process, which occurs in
consultation with the community.
http://icann.org/announcements/psc-consultation.htm
ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for
Honduras
ICANN has announced today that it has signed an
accountability framework with the ccTLD manager for
.hn--Honduras, Red de Desarrollo Sostenible Honduras
(RDS-HN).
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-21jul06.htm
uk: Wayne Rooney sees red over domain namesake
Football star and petulant pug-face Wayne Rooney is
seeing red again - this time over his internet domain
namesake.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/21/wayne_rooney_dotcom/
Seltzer blows whistle on 'domain tasting' rat but
serious questions remain
Larry Seltzer who I used to work with at PC Week
(before it changed its name to eWeek) has exposed
Chesterton Holdings as a rat that either ICANN or
Verisign must deal with immediately. The outfit for
which very little information is available (it didn't
respond to Larry's inquiries) is somehow spying on
people as they research domain names they're
considering for registration and then beating those
people to the punch by registering those domain names
first. In most cases, such research is done by
querying something known as a WHOIS (who is?)
database.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=3349
Whois Hijacking My Domain Research? By Larry Seltzer
Opinion: Leave it to the domain-squatting industry to
come up with a way to jump claims. One of the most
popular subjects readers contact me on is domain theft
and abuse, and more messages came in after my recent
story on "domain tasting." If you thought that
practice was distasteful, you haven't seen what I
found next. It involves a domain-tasting firm. But
that's not what's most interesting.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1991365,00.asp
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1991732,00.asp
The list of Google domains is very misleading
No, those aren't all Google domains. was derived in a
flawed manner that lends itself to a very high
percentage of false positives. This particular list
by Neil Patel has many domains not owned by Google.
Neil assumes that the "server data" section on domains
like allevil.org is believable ? not so.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/index.php?p=264
cctld. no (Noruega) intercambia letras con el ICANN
El día de ayer, el ICANN anunció que el administrador
del ccTLD .no, UNINETT Norid AS, ha intercambiado
cartas con el ICANN, dentro de este proceso de
formalización de relaciones con diversos ccTLD.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1315
.hn: Accountability Framework con ICANN
De esta manera el ccTLD .hn es el segundo ccTLD de la
región LAC en firmar el Acuerdo con el ICANN.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1314
El Mercosur gestiona su propio dominio en internet
El Mercosur inició gestiones ante el ICANN para
instrumentar un dominio propio del bloque en la red
electrónica.
http://mipunto.com/punto_noticias/noticia_tecnologia.jsp?tipo=TECNOLOGIA&archivo=060719224101.8ypf6i5z.txt
http://www.rosarionet.com.ar/rnet/mercosur/notas.vsp?nid=28700
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/07/20/um/m-01237112.htm
Un séminaire international à Rabat sur la gestion du
spectre des fréquences
Après la deuxième réunion annuelle de l'ICANN qui a eu
lieu en juin dernier à Marrakech, le Maroc abritera,
au mois de septembre, un autre événement international
relatif au secteur des nouvelles technologies. Il
s'agit d'un séminaire qui se tiendra, à Rabat du 11 au
20 septembre, sur les métiers de la gestion du spectre
des fréquences pour les pays d'Afrique francophone.
http://www.lematin.ma/Economic/Article.asp?id=12039
A Dada il 100% di Register.it
Dada S.p.A. ha formalizzato in data odierna l?accordo
per l?acquisizione del 3% di Register.it S.p.A.. Si
tratta della quota restante del capitale sociale della
società finora detenuta da quattro professionisti che
operano da anni nel Gruppo e che manterranno
inalterato il proprio rapporto di collaborazione.
http://www.pubblicitaitalia.it/news.asp?id_news=35038
http://notizie.alice.it/notizie/search/index.html?filter=foglia&nsid=11998135&mod=foglia
VeriSigns Geschäftszahlen liegen im Rahmen der
Erwartungen
Der IT-Security-Spezialist und
Domain-Registry-Betreiber VeriSign schloss das zweite
Quartal 2006 mit einem Umsatz von 391,9 Millionen
US-Dollar ab. Damit übertraf das Unternehmen die
Prognosen von Analysten, blieb aber deutlich unter dem
Umsatz von 430,4 Millionen US-Dollar im gleichen
Vorjahresquartal.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/75779
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