domain name news - November 23

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

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Headlines from the November 26 edition of the news include:
Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN by Jay P. Kesan & Andres A. Gallo | The emerging Internet governance mosaic: connecting the pieces by William H. Dutton & Malcolm Peltu | ICANN New Delhi meeting website online | au: Many websites may be outside the law | Government of Barbados wins management of .BB domain | Breizh: Breton domain name feasibility study | CENTR magazine Domain Wire now available online | .nz Newsletter - November 2007  | Nominet releases first Domain name industry report | UK ENUM project starts | Lapsed domain names 'bought in seconds'

And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings.


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The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web
http://www.nemertes.com/internet_singularity_delayed_why_limits_internet_capacity_will_stifle_innovation_web

Internet could run out of capacity by 2010, study claims [IDG]
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9047939
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1183190727;fp;2;fpid;1

Net gridlock by 2010 study warns
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7103426.stm

uk: Nominet Domain name industry report
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/26156_Nominet_Domain_name_industry_report_2007.pdf

Vint Cerf on IPv4 and IPv6
http://www.govtech.com/gt/206531?topic=117688

Only a third of global ISPs on the way to IPv6 compliance
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1434651888;fp;2;fpid;1

Enterprises still dragging their feet on IPv6 migration
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1680921443;fp;2;fpid;1

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The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web
Executive Summary: In this research study, Nemertes performed an independent in-depth analysis of Internet and IP infrastructure (which we call capacity) and current and projected traffic (which we call demand) with the goal of understanding how each has changed over time, and determining if there will ever be a point at which demand exceeds capacity.
http://www.nemertes.com/internet_singularity_delayed_why_limits_internet_capacity_will_stifle_innovation_web

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Internet could run out of capacity by 2010, study claims [IDG]
Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday. A flood of new video and other Web content could overwhelm the Internet by 2010 unless backbone providers invest up to $137 billion in new capacity, more than double what service providers plan to invest, according to the study by Nemertes Research LLC, an independent analysis firm. In North America alone, backbone investments of $42 billion to $55 billion will be needed in the next three to five years to keep up with demand, Nemertes said.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9047939
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1183190727;fp;2;fpid;1

Net gridlock by 2010 study warns
Consumer demand for bandwidth could see the internet running out of capacity as early as 2010, a new study warns. US analyst firm Nemertes Research predicted a drastic slowdown as the network struggles to cope with the amount of data being carried on it. Such gridlock would drastically affect how people use the web and could mean the next Google or YouTube simply doesn't get off the ground, it said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7103426.stm

Bandwidth Demands Exceeding Internet Infrastructure Investment
Nemertes Research has released a report on the future of the Internet infrastructure. The key finding from the report is that bandwidth demands are exceeding infrastructure investment, especially at the access layer. We project that users may begin to see the impact of degraded application performance as early as 2010. We also noted that the planned investments in Internet infrastructure are insufficient to meet growing demand.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/711209_bandwidth_demands_internet_infrastructure/

An Internet Security Operations Viewpoint of IGF
The IGF is an annual UN conference on Internet governance which was held this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The topics discussed range from human rights online to providing Internet access in developing countries. A somewhat secondary topic of conversation is Internet security and cyber-crime mostly limited to policy and legislative efforts. Techies and Internet security industry don’t have much to do there, but I have a few updates for us from the conference.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/711219_internet_security_operations_igf/

IP Justice Report on 2007 IGF
The 2007 IGF is officially over. The second meeting hosted by the United Nations to advance discussion on issues related to Internet governance was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 12 – 15 November 2007. The 4-day international conference focused on 5 main themes: Openness, Access, Security, Diversity, and issues related to the management of Critical Internet Resources (CIR). Capacity building was a cross-cutting issue through all the main themes. Over 2,000 registered participants from 109 countries attended the IGF’s various main plenary sessions, workshops, best practice sessions and other related meetings.
http://ipjustice.org/wp/2007/11/19/2007-igf-rio-wrap-up/

Network Neutrality: Implications for Europe - 3-4 December 2007 Bonn, Germany
Given the growing prominence of broadband, an intense debate concerning whether Internet service providers should be required to offer access to content, applications and network devices on a non-discriminatory basis has been raging in the United States. This Network Neutrality debate has not been intense so far in Europe; however, the issue of Network Neutrality was a factor in the 2006 review of the European regulatory framework, and it could have far-reaching implications for the long-term development of ICTs in Europe. This workshop will try to assess the current situation, identify shortcomings and explore future options.
http://www.wik.org/content/netneutrality_main.htm

Is the Internet Governable? by Larry Seltzer
Opinion: No, there's no Internet Governmental Organization based in Switzerland that can order anyone around. What authorities there are can only focus on the high-profile stuff. Mostly, it's every man for himself. Most people must assume that there's some agency in charge of the Internet, someone who can enforce rules and impose new standards. Of course there isn't. Partly it's from misleading representations of technology on TV and the movies. I especially remember one "Law&Order" episode in which the NYPD computer guru ran a "tracert" program that identified who had sent an e-mail down to the address of their house. Neat trick.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219851,00.asp

Partnership to Grow Internet Information in African Nations [reg req'd]
Increasing awareness about Internet Governance issues and working together on the development and growth of the Internet in Africa are part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU).
http://hana.ru.ac.za/article.cfm?articleID=1763

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Partnership to grow Internet information in African nations
Increasing awareness about Internet Governance issues and working together on the development and growth of the Internet in Africa are part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the African Telecommunications Union (ATU).
http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/410/23/19843.html

Hero’s honour for decision-maker - Dennis Jennings, new ICANN board member
Back in 1983, while most of us were being asked to tighten our belts, Irishman Dennis Jennings had to make a decision that would eventually have far-reaching social, scientific and economic implications, not only for the world but also for Ireland. Dublin is now the envy of the world, with major internet companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Amazon and eBay having bases here and employing thousands between them. Few realise that the internet, as we know it, was made possible by Jennings’ decision in 1983, when he was in charge of the supercomputer programme at the National Science Foundation in the US, to deploy a protocol known as TCP/IP in a network linking 304 university research departments in the US.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9684
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/herorsquos-honour-for-decisionmaker-1226729.html

Domain Name Update: Front Running by Matthew Hall
The Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of ICANN has launched a probe into the practice of what it calls domain name "front running". ICANN said that there are widespread suspicions that checks for availability are being monitored and the information used to register desired addresses in order to sell them back to the user at a profit. People who want to buy a domain name usually check its availability first on websites such as whois.net, or through registrar companies. It is at that point that unscrupulous operators may be registering names in order to profit from the demand.
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=54526

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Internet law - Andorran domain registration
Andorra is one of the smallest countries in the world, and only recently came under self-rule. But given that the little state tucked away in the Pyrenees range has beautiful scenery, tourism has helped invigorate a formerly moribund economy. Set in the center of southern Europe, the country could become an Internet hub if interested parties invested in the infrastructure, knowing that the prime E.U. location and small amount of bureaucracy could prove a potent business mix.
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=418794FA-5B9C-4E4C-BA95-424B2BCF1754

Popular Spanish domain names containing accents raffled [reg req'd]
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=193593

.LAT to become the new Internet Domain Extension for Latinos
It is official! eCOM-LAC and NIC Mexico, the organizations in charge of pursuing the Internet domain name for Latinos, announced that .LAT as the extension to identify this new domain.
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/07/11/19/lat-to-become-the-new-internet-domain-extension-for-latinos

uk: Nominet Domain name industry report
Nominet has released their first ‘Domain name industry report’. The key themes examined in the report are: an analysis of global domain name statistics; registrant statistics and trends within the UK and a close look at the UK registrar market. The findings of the report show that the domain name industry both globally and in the UK is healthy. The report demonstrates the extent of the uptake of the Internet in the UK. It reveals areas of potential future growth and gives pointers as to current trends in domain name registration and the changing nature of the UK registrar market.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/26156_Nominet_Domain_name_industry_report_2007.pdf

uk: Nominet establish a Foundation [news release]
The Board is proposing the establishment of a Nominet Foundation for the purpose of public benefit to UK Internet stakeholders through education, research and the funding of suitable projects.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4618

Nominet awarded the contract to run the Tier 1 registry for ENUM [news release]
Nominet has announced they have been awarded the contract to run the Tier 1 registry for UK ENUM, a standard that will unify the telephone numbering system with the Internet's Domain Name System.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4616

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DNS security improves as firms tool up to tackle spam
Domain name servers on the net are still often vulnerable to attacks despite some marked improvements, according to a new survey. Many organisations are making efforts to install the most recent versions of BIND and eliminate Microsoft DNS for external servers. But most still leave their systems open to denial of service and pharming attacks by allowing recursion and zone transfers in response to arbitrary requests from unauthenticated parties.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/dns_security_survey/

DNS Servers in Harm's Way
Sometimes it takes a DNS attack for an organization to get serious about the security of its Internet-facing DNS name servers. Many of these servers today are still not properly secured or configured, security experts say, leaving them wide open for distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) and other types of attacks. "There are many organizations who are still in the dark about managing their external DNS," says David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. "Just as people run firewalls and anti-spam systems, it's important for them to manage the DNS coming into, and leaving, their network.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139525

DNS security still "as vulnerable as ever"
The security of domain name system (DNS) continues to be an issue for network administrators, despite the availability of more secure DNS servers such as BIND 9, according to a survey by network appliance company, Infoblox.
http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39169220,00.htm

Are your servers vulnerable to DNS attacks?
More than half of internet name servers today allow requests that leave networks vulnerable to cache poisoning and distributed denial of service attacks — a fact that has not improved over the past year. The finding is part of the third annual survey of the internet's domain name servers released this week by The Measurement Factory, which conducted the survey for DNS management appliance maker Infoblox.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/737ABB3F3EB55D35CC25739A00062FD8

Video spam and other nastiness set for 2008
MessageLabs has unveiled its security predictions for 2008, and unsurprisingly the forecast is a tad gloomy, with video file spam among other nastiness predicted for the coming year.
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"ICANN will continue to be exploited through loopholes, and domain kiting will continue to be a problem." (Again, ICANN exploits are already with us).
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10714

Protecting Your Brand in Cyberspace
For business, the Internet age means sales without borders and a worldwide market of billions of customers. The same aspects of the Internet that are so attractive to business, however, can also be a source of sleepless nights and deep concern for legal counsel charged with corporate brand protection.
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1195466653399

Domain Name System still at risk
The Domain Name System (DNS) is still growing strongly, indicating the internet's expansion in terms of infrastructure, users, traffic and applications. But the annual survey of domain name servers on the public internet by Infoblox suggests that the global DNS is as vulnerable as ever.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203785/dns-survey-reveals-systems

Hackers Abuse Domain-Name Trust
Using variations on trusted, popular domains has long been a common tactic for scammers, spammers and porn sites. But cyber criminals have devised a new twist on the misspelled domain-name trick by hijacking IP addresses. And they tried it on Yahoo.
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3712071
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3712496

Domain names can falsely lure users
The type of domain name that a website uses is not necessarily authorised anymore, it has been claimed, and can be attained by almost anyone. Record sales of certain domain names with popular key words highlight the importance of the name of site, yet communications supplier Pipex Hosting has stated that these names are often not actually what they describe.
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.15949

UK cements reputation as phishing hotspot
The UK is now established as the second biggest target area for phishing attacks on banks, according to research from security firm RSA show.
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10704

Slip of the fingers nets profit for some: McAfee report
A slip of the fingers on the keyboard is helping a band of online entrepreneurs make money from our mistakes. A new report from security software company McAfee reveals the practice of "typo-squatting" - using common misspellings of popular brands, products and people in order to redirect consumers to alternative websites.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/22/1195321926053.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/22/1195321926053.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,22803221-5014239,00.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=137&objectid=10477751

Misspelled Children's Web Sites Lead to Porn
Children's Web sites are frequent targets a growing category of online fraud where unsuspecting Web surfers are lured to malicious sites when they misspell the URL.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139828-c,sites/article.html

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Vint Cerf on IPv4 and IPv6
The current Internet design - Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) - was standardized in 1978, and has 4.3 billion unique terminations. Simply put, "We can foresee a time when the allocations of addresses will end," said Cerf, who is known for his work in helping to create what we now know as the Internet. The number of unique Internet addresses in IPv4, he said, will run out around 2011.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/206531?topic=117688

Only a third of global ISPs on the way to IPv6 compliance
Only a third of the world's top 21 ISPs have begun the move to IPv6, according to Latif Ladid, president of the IPv6 Forum. Speaking at the IPv6 Summit in Canberra yesterday, Ladid said IPv6 continues to come under attack from multiple fronts forming part of the "world wars" of the Internet.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1434651888;fp;2;fpid;1

Enterprises still dragging their feet on IPv6 migration
Australia's ICT industry needs to focus on the possibilities of IPv6 and how the technology will transform online communities. The best way to drive up interest in IPv6 among consumers and business-users is to drive home the potential advantages the technology can bring, according to Bruce Sinclair, the CEO of Hexago.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1680921443;fp;2;fpid;1

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The Name Game: Sometimes, It's a Losing Effort
The list of forgettable names is long, corny and meaningless -- except maybe in terms of learning from the fallen. Blish, Colib, Diigo, Eskobo, Gliffy, Gootodo, Goowy, Meebo, Noodly, Otavo, Oyogi, Qoop, Renkoo, Skobee, Tioti, Trumba, Woomp, Wrickr, Zlango and Zoozio are but a few. This bizarre avalanche of bad names comes from a single source: the elusive URL. ... "All of the names in the Blish to Zoozio list cited above are examples of 'what were they thinking?' and what they were thinking was this: We must have a domain name that matched exactly our company/product name," agrees Jurisich. "But, the success of Google has made this issue irrelevant."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/The-Name-Game-Sometimes-Its-a-Losing-Effort-60429.html

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Tucows - Enhanced Domain Parking Programs
Tucows Inc. , a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today officially launched its domain parking programs that will share over $1 million in revenues with Tucows resellers over the next 12 months. The two programs, Parked Pages Program and Expired Domains Program, offer additional sources of revenue to resellers, including a slice of the growing domain name re-sale market through a share of Tucows Premium Domains service sales revenues.
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=23034
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/11/20/tucows-relaunches-parking-services-for-resellers/

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Wer regiert das Internet? Ruf nach mehr Demokratie
Mehr Schein als Sein – das wird UN-Konferenzen oft vorgeworfen. Dass es auch anders geht, bewies vorige Woche das zweite Treffen des IGF in Rio de Janeiro. An die 1400 Vertreter von Staaten, Unternehmen und der Zivilgesellschaft aus 109 Ländern trafen zusammen, um über die Zukunft des Internet zu sprechen.
http://www.diepresse.com/home/recht/rechtallgemein/344330/index.do

Domain-Markt – Fünf Gründe für noch mehr Boom
Der Domain-Markt schwächelte vor mittlerweile sieben Jahren, als die Internetblase gerade implodierte. Doch innerhalb kürzester Zeit und als erstes internetaffines Geschäft erholte sich der Handel mit Domains – und es gibt kein Halten.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2007/domain-markt-fuenf-gruende-fuer-noch-mehr-boom-id667098.html

registrantsearch.com – neues Tool zur Inhabersuche
Das US-Unternehmen Name Intelligence Inc. hat ein Online-Werkzeug entwickelt, das die Herzen vieler höher schlagen lassen wird: unter der Domain registrantsearch.com ist es ab sofort möglich, nach den Domains zu recherchieren, die eine Einzelperson oder ein Unternehmen für sich registriert hat. 
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2007/registrantsearch-com-neues-tool-zur-inhabersuche-id667099.html

Tippfehler-Mafia attackiert das Netz
Ein paar Buchstaben zu viel in der Webadresse machen den Unterschied zwischen einer Suchmaschine und Seiten voll blanker Brüste und fieser Viren. Cyber-Kriminelle nutzen die Vertipper-Adressen für Angriffe, warnen Sicherheitsfirmen. Das und mehr im Nachrichten-Überblick.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,518950,00.html

+23% de .EU ce trimestre
L’EURid annonce une progression soutenue des enregistrements et renouvellements en .EU ce 3eme trimestre 2007 et publie des statistiques détaillées sur son extension.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/extension/1367/europe-+23-de-eu-enregistres-ce-trimestre.php

Accord tacite d'utilisation d'un nom de domaine
A l’issue d’une PARL par décision technique concernant le nom de domaine fortinet.fr, l’expert de l’OMPI justifie sa décision de ne pas transférer ce dernier par le fait que le demandeur aurait implicitement autorisé le défendeur à exploiter ledit nom de domaine.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/chronique/171/accord-tacite-d-utilisation-d-un-nom-de-domaine.php

Un .LAT pour l’Amérique latine
C’est cette dénomination qui a finalement été retenue par l’organisation E-com Lac et le registre du .MX, pour désigner le projet d’extension dédiée à l’Amérique latine.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/extension/1364/amerique-latine-un-lat-pour-l-amerique-latine.php

«Internet n’est pas une zone de non-droit»
En même temps qu’est né le web est apparue la question du statut juridique des sites Internet. Quels sont les droits et devoirs d’un contenu diffusé simultanément sur l’ensemble de la planète ? Ce sujet couvre un large champ de domaines (nom de domaine, vie privée, propriété intellectuelle, cybercriminalité, règlementation commerciale, etc.) et concerne à la fois les hébergeurs, les sites, les créateurs de contenus et les visiteurs.
http://www.ecrans.fr/Internet-n-est-pas-une-zone-de-non,2619.html

Qui contrôle les concepts ?
A quoi sert la communication ? On essaie de nous faire croire qu’elle servirait à unifier et à pacifier le monde. Qu’il suffirait que la communication se globalise et se mondialise – grâce, en particulier, au couplage des ordinateurs et des téléphones, et à l’essor d’Internet – pour que les conflits sociaux, politiques ou militaires s’apaisent et disparaissent. C’est un mythe, bien sûr. Que répandent ceux qui possèdent le contrôle des concepts. D’où l’énorme importance de la bataille des mots qui se livre actuellement.
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Au prétexte de la traque du terrorisme, les Etats-Unis se sont érigés en gendarme des flux globaux (financiers, maritimes, aériens, informationnels). Ainsi, lors du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’information de 2005, les a-t-on vus opposer une fin de non-recevoir à la question de la réforme du « gouvernement d’Internet ». Le réseau mondial est en effet géré par l’Icann.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/08/MATTELART/15008

La governance di Internet tira le somme dopo Rio
L'Igf 2007 ha parlato dell'urgenza di una carta dei diritti di Internet e di una Rete poliglotta e pluralista
http://www.vnunet.it/it/vnunet/news/2007/11/21/la_governance_di_internet_tira_le_somme_dopo_rio

Internet Governance Forum: avanti tutta verso una Rete poliglotta
Da Rio de Janeiro il richiamo dell'Onu per un'Internet fondata sui valori di pluralismo e diversità. A partire dai caratteri utilizzati per gli indirizzi: stop all'egemonia dell'alfabeto latino
http://www.mytech.it/internet/articolo/idA028001070013.art

La Governance di internet dopo Rio
Ban Ki-Moon, Segretario Generale dell'ONU, nel suo discorso di saluto, ha definito l'Internet Governance Forum " modesto nei suoi mezzi, ma non nelle sue aspirazioni". Quella che potrebbe sembrare una elegante definizione di velleitarismo definisce, invece, una modalità di azione inedita quanto è inedita la modalità di relazione costituita da Internet.
http://www.articolo21.info/notizia.php?id=5731

Ber for åpent nett
Internettoppfinner Vint Cerf kjemper beinhardt for Internetts sjel. Han har liten sans for bredbåndsleverandører og andre som prøver å kuppe deler av nettet.
http://e24.no/it/article2112342.ece

I ricercatori sul DNS poisoning: conoscevamo la falla da dieci anni
La vulnerabilità di sicurezza relativa al server DNS di Windows 2000 Server e Windows Server 2003 risolta Martedì scorso da Microsoft mediante il rilascio di un'apposita patch sarebbe una falla conosciuta ai ricercatori già da più di 10 anni. La falla può essere sfruttata da parte di aggressori per reindirizzare in modo silente le richieste di connessione a siti web assolutamente leggitimi verso pagine contenenti malware o foriere di attacchi "phishing".
http://www.ilsoftware.it/news.asp?ID=4005

Una Carta dei diritti per l'universo di internet
Quasi nelle stesse ore in cui a New York una commissione dell'Onu approvava con uno storico voto la proposta di moratoria della pena di morte, a Rio de Janeiro il rappresentante delle stesse Nazioni Unite chiudeva il grande Internet Governance Forum affermando che i molti problemi che si pongono in rete richiedono un Internet Bill of Rights.
http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=109996

Un codice per i blog : i diritti fra governance e liberta' della rete
Da una parte chi vorrebbe piena lberta' di copiare i contenuti della rete in nome della condivisione del sapere ed inorridisce all'idea che un blog possa essere oscurato per accuse di diffamazione, dall'altro chi difende il diritto di copyright e sfruttamento commerciale di un'opera e teme che la piena liberta' di espressione in Internet possa portare ad abusi impuniti.
http://www.osservatoriosullalegalita.org/07/acom/11nov3/2144ritainfonline.htm

Nace .LAT, el dominio para Latinoamérica.
Autoridades de las organizaciones de eCOM-LAC y NIC México dieron a conocer que quienes quieran ser identificados como latino en Internet, podrían utilizar .LAT (que quiere decir Latinoamérica en Internet), a partir del 2009.
http://www.radioformula.com.mx/entreten/rf2101.asp?ID=72208

Piden más empresas punto.com
Cuatro de las empresas de telecomunicaciones más importantes de México se encuentran en pláticas sobre una alianza con la firma Verising para convertirse en distribuidores directos de los dominios (direcciones) de internet con la extensión .com y .net.
http://www.milenio.com/mexico/milenio/nota.asp?id=570152

Red.es anuncia que el próximo 12 de diciembre se liberalizará el registro de dominios multilingües
La entidad pública Red.es informó ayer de que a partir del próximo 12 de diciembre quedará liberalizado el registro de dominios multilingües ".es", lo que hará posible que todos los usuarios puedan tener dominios con caracteres de las lenguas oficiales en España, como la "ñ", la cedilla o las vocales con tilde.
http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/consumer/20071121/ttc-red-es-anuncia-que-el-proximo-12-de-56149c7_1.html
http://blogdedominios.blogspot.com/2007/11/redes-anuncia-que-el-prximo-12-de.html

Comenzó el VII Congreso Iberoamericano Independiente de Nombres de Dominio e Internet Governance.
Dio comienzo en la ciudad de Loja, Ecuador, el VII Congreso Iberoamericano Independiente de Nombres de Dominio e Internet Governance. El evento es organizado por la Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja.
http://blogdedominios.blogspot.com/2007/11/comenz-el-vii-congreso-iberoamericano.html

Typosquatting: Cuidado con lo que escribe en su navegador.
Typosquatting es una forma de ciberocupación que se basa en los errores tipográficos de los usuarios de Internet al ingresar direcciones en su navegador. Ello da lugar a que sean remitidos accidentalmente a un sitio web distinto al que originariamente deseaban visitar, y que se encuentra bajo el dominio de un ciberocupador.
http://blogdedominios.blogspot.com/2007/11/typosquatting-cuidado-con-lo-que.html

Trafikkork på internett i 2010
Nye måter for å analysere trafikkveksten på internett fører til spådommer om at veksten kan komme til å kvele nettet allerede i 2010.
http://www.idg.no/pcworld/article76193.ece

Story in Russian mentioning ICANN
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2007/11/21/696106.shtml

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