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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates with RSS feeds. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ Sponsored by EuroDNS and AsiaDNS - for your domain name registration http://www.eurodns.com/?refid=57d25a87c8bffdc565a16a5bf01e8825 ********************************************************** uk: Nominet wins EGM votes by a whisker http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/nominet_wins_egm/ uk: Nominet puts its future on the line http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/nominet_egm_two/ Initial reports on the process to register .eu domain names http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1615 ICANN Opens Consultation on Latin America and the Caribbean Regional At Large Organisation Organising Instruments http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-22nov06.htm za: Regulations to manage domain name disputes (news release) http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?ID=06112215151001 *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** On international trademark and the internet: the Lanham Act’s long arms by Joshua Clowers Trademarks tie a face to a product. The face is often a name or symbol, but it can also be something like a sound, a smell or even a “look.”1 They exist for the benefit of both the trademark owner/producer and the consumer. The purpose of a trademark, traditionally, has been to protect against the confusion of consumers when selecting products or services. Yet, a trademark’s functionality is not limited to preventing confusion. Other uses include both preserving the goodwill of the consumer for the mark owner and preventing the “diversion of trade through commercial misrepresentations.”3 Trademark is a system by http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v13i1/article4.pdf ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** 3 Jolting Statements at the IGF by Assoc Prof Ang Peng Hwa In his third report on the recent IGF A/P Ang Peng Hwa writes of 3 jolting statements by US Ambassador David Gross, Lynn St Amour President, ISOC, and Vint Cerf. The first by David Gross, Ang Peng Hwa says there are concerns that the US is developing a system of content regulation with the reason being the War on Terror. http://internetinasia.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/3_jolting_state.html Internet Governance Forum Report 2: Why The Need for IG A/P Ang Peng Hwa is surprised at those who continue to say that (i) the internet is working fine, (ii) that therefore it needs no governance and (iii) that the phrase “internet governance” should not exist. On the first point, he raises the point that many governments feel uneasy that the internet to any one particular country could be cut off by a decision of the US government. Second, that “governance” is not “government” and the differences between them. And third, the US dominance of the internet may not be such a good thing. Point 2, raised by Lynn St Amour President, ISOC, who says in part that the discussion needs to go back to the “national level, local level, participation in the forms that are available to you, that are important to you as an individual” while Ang Peng Hwa who says in part “Taking away the Forum and moving such meetings to the national and local levels would only reduce the quality of the discussion when was is needed is higher, not lower quality.”! And third, Vint Cerf who Ang Peng Hwa says “there cannot be competition at the root zone, that ICANN is a “natural monopoly” not in the strict economic sense but because of the requirements of the system—there can only be one root.” Further, “Cerf, however, misses a major point—in the good old USA as well as significant portions of the civilised world, there is only on way to handle monopolies—regulate them. This is precisely the issue of internet governance. If ICANN is indeed an inevitable monopoly, then it inevitably invites regulation. Anything less would not be transparent or fair.” http://internetinasia.typepad.com/blog/2006/11/internet_govern_1.html How engineers tamed the internet's Tower of Babel At the IGF last month, a bespectacled Swede made a small, barely noticed announcement that nevertheless represented a pivotal moment in the history of the internet. "Regarding the technical implementation for the world wide web, we are done," Patrik Fältström told the Internet Governance Forum. By "we are done", he meant that following a decade of hard work by a global consortium of engineers and linguists, they had finally decided on a document that will enable all the world's languages to be fully represented on the internet. People will be able to type in addresses in their own language, search in their own language and move around the internet in their own language. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1954159,00.html The end of the web as we know it? Vint Cerf, chairman of Icann and co-creator of the TCP/IP standard, talks about the future of the internet and warns against creating a two-tier web system http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/11/23/220129/The+end+of+the+web+as+we+know+it.htm ITU Conference signals enhanced international cooperation in ICT: Plenipotentiary Conference endorses expanded mandate for ITU The 17th ITU Plenipotentiary Conference wound up Friday evening by setting out a road map for the Union to chart its future course as the pre-eminent world body for telecommunications and state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICT). It endorsed ITU’s essential role in Bridging the Digital Divide and ensuring the continued expansion of global communication networks. The Conference renewed focus on implementing the outcomes of the WSIS. Over 2000 participants from 164 countries, including more than one hundred ministers attended the Plenipotentiary Conference, the supreme organ of ITU which meets every four years, and lent their support to the future work of the Union. The conference focused on a number of key issues: ITU’s role in Implementing the outcomes and action lines of WSIS; Enhanced cooperation among the membership on international public policy issues related to the internet, such as internationalized domain names, to build bridges within the in! ternet community and in the intergovernmental process. http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2006/27.html Forward the online revolution We all have the power to shape the networked world, argues regular BBC commentator Bill Thompson. Over the last 20 years the global economy has been shaped and reshaped by computers and the growing reach of the internet as a public communications network. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6180666.stm Die Rolle der ITU bei der Verwaltung des Internet bleibt umstritten Die Änderung des Namens der International Telecommunication Union (ITU) stieß bei der Hauptkonferenz der Delegierten (Plenipotentiary Conference) der ITU-Mitgliedsländer in Antalya auf große Skepsis. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/81502 IDN, l'ICANN chiede di pazientare All'Internet Governance Forum di Atene si è parlato di "internationalized domain names" (IDNs). In molte parti del mondo, sta crescendo la frustrazione per l'uso di caratteri latini per accedere ai top-level domains (TLDs), anche se fanno riferimento a siti in Tamil, Farsi o Mandarino. I cambiamenti ci saranno, sebbene non saranno imminenti come vorrebbero molte persone. http://www.tomshw.it/news.php?newsid=8398 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** uk: Nominet wins EGM votes by a whisker UK registry Nominet has won two crucial votes at its extraordinary general meeting this morning - but only just. In what the company's CEO Lesley Cowley called "a bit of a test", the request that the company be allowed to expand its business beyond running the .uk registry passed by just 0.97 per cent - a margin that may have come down to literally one or two of Nominet's 3,000 members voting. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/nominet_wins_egm/ http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsID=7406 uk: Nominet puts its future on the line UK registry owner Nominet is this morning holding its second extraordinary general meeting in a year in Oxford in an effort to expand its business and modernise its processes. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/22/nominet_egm_two/ Initial reports on the process to register .eu domain names More than two million .eu domain names have been registered in nine months, showing the great success of this European electronic identity. To regulate registrations, regulation (EC) N° 733/2002 of 22 April 2002 on the implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain has been adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (the "Regulation"), providing that holders of prior rights recognised or established would benefit from an exclusive period of time (from December 7, 2005 until April 6, 2006), the sunrise period, to register their domain names. To register during the sunrise period, applicants needed to prove a prior right entitling them to claim the corresponding domain name. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1615 ICANN Opens Consultation on Latin America and the Caribbean Regional At Large Organisation Organising Instruments As provided in the ICANN Bylaws, Article XI, Section 2, part 4, an advisory process has been created to allow the interests of individual Internet users to be represented in the ICANN community. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-22nov06.htm ICANN Launches Public Comments on Whois Task Force Report ICANN is launching a public comments period on the Preliminary Task Force Report on Whois Services. This report forms part of the GNSO policy development process (PDP) on Whois which seeks to build consensus on policy issues in the generic top level domain (gTLD) space. The public comment period will last from 24th November, 2006 to 15 January, 2007. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-24nov06.htm us: Cyber squatting all the rage for 2008 Squatters hope domain names of a presidential candidate pays big: This time they’re buying up domain names of potential presidential candidates. Buying them like mad. There are about 50 registered sites for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. None of them belong to him, and, by the way, he hasn’t even said he’ll run. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15843850/ za: Regulations to Manage Domain Name Disputes The Department of Communications has published regulations to deal with disputes regarding the .za domain name, in the Government Gazette. http://allafrica.com/stories/200611220500.html http://allafrica.com/stories/200611260038.html http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=4958 http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/economy.aspx?ID=BD4A324778 http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3557808 http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3556943 http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,9294,2-13-1443_2034346,00.html http://www.upi.com/AfricaMonitoring/view.php?StoryID=20061122-551686-5883-r za: Regulations to manage domain name disputes (news release) The South African Department of Communications has published regulations to deal with disputes regarding the .za domain name, in the Government Gazette. The Alternative Dispute Resolution Regulations that have been signed by Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri provide guidelines, rules and procedures and also set out fee structures for the adjudication of such disputes. http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?ID=06112215151001 uk: UK ISP mislays domains beginning with 'C' UK ISP Legend Communications has been suffering an alphabetical technical problem over the past couple of days apparently affecting its Designer Servers customers, with domains beginning with the letter C unable to be resolved. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/legendary_mishap/ PIR launches campain to help .ORG Domain Name holders protect the value of their .ORG Domains (news release) The Public Interest Registry (PIR) has announced a new international public awareness campaign aimed at protecting .ORG domain name holders from the potentially damaging consequences of allowing their .ORG domain names to expire. The campaign, called "protectyour.ORG: Preserving the Value of Your .ORG Domain", seeks to educate registrants about the value of .ORG domains - even those that are not currently being used as Web sites. It offers steps for locating, managing, consolidating, and securing domain names in order to reduce the potential for problems that may occur when domain names lapse either intentionally or because the registrant was unaware that a name had expired. http://www.isoc.org/isoc/media/releases/061121pr.shtml PIR Protects .org Domain Name Holders General, Hana Staff The PIR campaign is intended to educate and empower the non-commercial community on how to most effectively utilize the Internet. Chief executive of PIR, Mr. Edward G. Viltz while announcing this development, said it is an international public awareness campaign aimed at protecting .org domain name holders from the potentially damaging consequences of allowing their domain names to expire. http://allafrica.com/stories/200611250003.html http://webhosting.info/news/1/pir-launches-campaign-to-help-.org-domain-name-holders_1122062731.htm What's in a name? A small Australian business established a strong local presence in Melbourne, and unbeknownst to them, a competitor had set up operations in Melbourne using a phonetically identical name. The story describes this as a "deliberate business identity theft". A representative of a Sydney-based law firm as one of its recommendations in the story suggests the government should "Crack down on domain name regulators to control parties trying to profit from registering questionable domain names". http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20759160-5000920,00.html General-use JP Domain Names Exceed 500,000 - In Just 5 Years since Launch On November 2, 2006 JPRS announced that the cumulative number of registered General-use JP domain names (EXAMPLE.JP) as of November 1, 2006 had reached 505,615, within 5 years and 9 months since the service was launched in February 2001. http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/061102.html Tractors.com Pulls $153,500 Load to Top Spot on New DN Journal Domain Sales Chart Tractors.com sold for US$153,500 going to the top of Domain Journal's weekly charts for this week. Other notable sales were Mortgage.net ($149,000) and University.org ($100,000). http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales11_28_06.htm DotMobi aims to be mobile dot com The chief executive officer of the recently launched top-level domain tells Reuters TV why he sees a big future for dotMobi. http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoStory.aspx?isSummitStory=false&storyId=0d7b3e04cd30182a5e01a00e7586e94214f97102 Is long-term domain registration a search ranking factor? Webmaster World forums recently hosted a discussion on whether or not a site’s search engine ranking is affected by the length of time a domain name is registered for. The theory is that registering a domain name for ten years indicates to Google that the domain’s owners’ have made a long term commitment and therefore the site is less likely to be spam. http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362192/is-long--term-domain-registration-a-search-ranking-factor.html World Wildlife Fund Fails To Obtain Transfer Of WWF.Com (reg req'd) A WIPO panel has rejected a complaint made by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature which had sought to obtain a transfer of the disputed domain name wwf.com under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). In reaching its decision, the panel considered that the current owner of the wwf.com domain name had purchased it in good faith to use for a "Web Wrestling Forum" website and so refused to order the transfer of the domain name. The panel stated that, in cases where it was one party's word against the other, and where an injunction is necessary, the proper forum for the dispute was the courts. http://www.mondaq.com/news.asp?e=1&a=44392 Who's Afraid of Bob Parsons? 1&1 CEO Andreas Gauger is, apparently. According to an article in the December issue of Business 2.0 Magazine (pages 126-132), Andreas says everyone fears Bob: "If he doesn't do anything wrong, nobody in the domain business can touch him." I disagree, and I'll tell you why later in this post. http://thewhir.com/blogs/Isabel-Wang/index.cfm/2006/11/22/Whos-Afraid-of-Bob-Parsons Icann-Boss warnt vor internationalisierten Domain-Namen Das Internet ist englisch - zumindest was Domain-Namen angeht. Das DNS-System, mit dessen Hilfe kryptische Internet-Adressen wie 195.71.11.67 in leicht zu merkende Klarnamen wie www.spiegel.de umgesetzt werden, ist auf 37 Zeichen beschränkt. Länder, in denen andere Schriftzeichen üblich sind, etwa chinesische oder arabische, fühlen sich davon natürlich benachteiligt. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,450009,00.html Le .TR ouvert aux IDN Le registre du .TR sera habilité à enregistrer des IDN le 4 décembre 2006. Une innovation supplémentaire pour une extension qui dépasse déjà les 100 000 noms. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1059/le-tr-ouvert-aux-idn.php Les internautes français passent de plus en plus de temps sur le web Le temps mensuel passé par les internautes français sur le web a augmenté de 3h39mn en un an, d'octobre 2005 à octobre 2006 et a quasiment doublé en quatre ans, selon une étude Médiamétrie. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1061/les-internautes-francais-passent-de-plus-en-plus-de-temps-sur-le-web.php Un nom de domaine peut-il constituer un droit antérieur ? Les agents de validation du .EU, n’ont pas retenu l’existence d’un nom de domaine antérieur comme étant un droit permettant un enregistrement prioritaire du .EU. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1052/europe-un-nom-de-domaine-peut-il-constituer-un-droit-anterieur.php Il vuoto oltre lo stato Il mondo che abitiamo somiglia sempre più da presso a una centrifuga. Per ottenerne una riprova basta leggere l’ultimo saggio di Sabino Cassese (Oltre lo Stato, Laterza 2006). Ne emerge un affresco dell’economia globalizzata, e della folla d’attori e comprimari che cercano di guidarla sui binari del diritto. http://www.radicali.it/view.php?id=76793 ICANN abre la consulta sobre los instrumentos de organización del At Large En la manera prevista en los estatutos del ICANN, en el artículo XI, sección 2, parte 4, un proceso consultivo se ha creado para permitir que los intereses de los usuarios individuales de Internet sean representados en la comunidad de ICANN. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1405 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! The domain name news is supported by auDA. Also see http://internews.tv/mailman/admin/internetnews_internews.tv for an archive and to subscribe to the domain name and general internet news and http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent news updates. 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