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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 ********************************************************** VeriSign Still .Com Master http://news.earthweb.com/xSP/article.php/3646471 Price rise on the cards for .com http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=CD394F01-8E4C-47EF-B24B-2E5C3DE00730 ICANN Rejects `.travel' Search Plan (AP) http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/01/1164777735421.html ICANN Says No to .travel Typo Search http://www.betanews.com/article/ICANN_Says_No_to_travel_Typo_Search/1164927691 Demand for .travel Domain Names on the Rise http://www.circleid.com/posts/demand_travel_domain_rise/ Domain Registrations Hit 112 Million http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_registrations_hit_112_million/ When big names complain, they usually get domain name rights http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/16144116.htm cym: Welsh domain debate hots up http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/12/01/Welsh-domain-name.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** VeriSign Still .Com Master VeriSign has emerged again as the .com master nine months after submitting its revised deal to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC). http://news.earthweb.com/xSP/article.php/3646471 Price rise on the cards for .com The price of a .com domain name registration is likely to go up, after the US government gave price-raising powers to VeriSign Inc, the company that runs .com. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=CD394F01-8E4C-47EF-B24B-2E5C3DE00730 http://computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=4ECD3119%2DD8AF%2D4E91%2D9CED%2D28D247AB0FC9 Commerce OKs VeriSign `.com' Contract (AP) VeriSign Inc. will run the key directories that keep track of ".com" domain names until at least 2012 as the U.S. Commerce Department approved a lucrative contract extension. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/01/1164777752425.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/12/01/1164777752425.html http://iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/30/business/NA_FIN_US_Travel_Domain.php US government approves dotcom contract The United States government has approved a revised contract for ownership of the dotcom registry, solving one of the biggest problems at the heart of the internet, but also lighting the fuse on an almighty international argument over Net control. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/usg_approves_dotcom_contract/ Verisign to continue registering .coms (Reuters) The U.S. Department of Commerce has approved a deal that allows Verisign Inc. to continue running the lucrative ".com" Internet registry through 2012, the company said Thursday. http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/30/technology/bc.verisign.agreement.reut/ Commerce Department extends .com contract with VeriSign (IDG) The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has approved an agreement for VeriSign Inc. to continue to operate the .com domain for six more years, despite objections about pricing and security. http://infoworld.com/article/06/11/30/HNdotcomcontract_1.html VeriSign Still .Com Master VeriSign has emerged again as the .com master nine months after submitting its revised deal to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC). http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3646471 Commerce OKs VeriSign `.com' Contract The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday approved a bid by VeriSign Inc. to run the key directories that keep track of the Internet's ".com" domain names. http://www.newsday.com/technology/ats-ap_technology15nov30,0,1828389.story Reaction to ICANN-VeriSign Deal Mixed News of the U.S. Department of Commerce's approval Nov. 30 of the deal between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and VeriSign was met with both jubilation and disdain by those in the computer industry. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2066897,00.asp DOC Revises Verisign Deal, New Terms on Pricing and Renewal by Bret Fausett Early press reports this morning that the U.S. Department of Commerce had "approved" the proposed .COM Agreement submitted by ICANN-Verisign appear to be a bit off the mark, perhaps in important ways. Yes, it appears that the DOC has approved a new .COM registry agreement for Verisign, but no, it's not, it seems, the same deal that ICANN submitted to the DOC for approval. Obviously, this requires greater reading and analysis from everyone. Details here, from the NTIA. http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/30/2539443.html NTIA Approves New .Com Domain Name Registry Agreement The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) approved today a new .com domain name registry agreement between ICANN and VeriSign Inc. The new agreement allows VeriSign to operate the .com domain through 2012. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2006/icanncom_113006.htm ICANN Rejects `.travel' Search Plan (AP) ICANN said it has rejected a proposed search service to help guide people who mistype ".travel" Web addresses or seek nonexistent ones. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/01/1164777735421.html http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/01/tech-search.html http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/columnists/joyce_kasman_valenza/16132188.htm http://redorbit.com/news/technology/749803/net_agency_rejects_travel_search_plan/ ICANN Says No to .travel Typo Search ICANN has rejected a request by the operator of the .travel top-level domain name to redirect all mis-typed and non-existent Web addresses to a search service, much like VeriSign's controversial "Site Finder." http://www.betanews.com/article/ICANN_Says_No_to_travel_Typo_Search/1164927691 http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=264230 Demand for .travel Domain Names on the Rise With little more than 30 days remaining until the expiration of .travel Place Name Priority Rights, Tralliance Corporation, the .travel Registry, reports a surge in domain name requests and has established a hotline for potential registrants to expedite the domain name application process. http://www.circleid.com/posts/demand_travel_domain_rise/ Domain Registrations Hit 112 Million VeriSign is reporting that over 112M domains have been registered as of the end of Q3 2006. A record number of domain names are now registered, at 112 million, which is 30% higher than just one year ago and 6% higher than the previous quarter. The five largest TLDs remain .com, .de (Germany), .net, .uk (Britain), and .org. http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_registrations_hit_112_million/ When big names complain, they usually get domain name rights Certain names have a cachet on the Internet. Vin Diesel's got it. So do the New York Yankees. But for luxury handbag maker Louis Vuitton Malletier, not so much, according to the Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum, which settles disputes over domain names. It recently acted on complaints on the three names. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/16144116.htm cym: Welsh domain debate hots up Since our interview in October with dotCYM campaigner, Siôn Jobbins, the campaign for a Welsh domain name has grown in popularity but has also raised many questions as to its objectives and its potential consequences for Wales. http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/12/01/Welsh-domain-name.html Chinese domain names standardized internationally The Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced in Beijing on November 30 that the "Registration and Administration Recommendations for Chinese Domain Names", formulated by the Chinese, have been approved by the International Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and are now the international standard. http://english.people.com.cn/200612/01/eng20061201_327372.html ICANN Publishes Report on Implementation of the Whois Data Reminder Policy (WDRP) A 20-odd page report is available from ICANN's website. http://icann.org/whois/wdrp-report-30nov06.pdf President's Strategy Committee Releases Draft Recommendations for Community Consideration and Announces Process for Further Consultations ICANN's President's Strategy Committee was established in December 2005 to provide observations and recommendations concerning strategic issues facing ICANN, and hence contribute to ICANN's strategic planning process, which occurs in bottom-up consultation with the ICANN community. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-30nov06.htm ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Managers for Czech Republic and Kazakhstan (news release) ICANN has announced today that it has signed accountability frameworks with the ccTLD managers for .cz--Czech Republic, CZ-NIC, z.s.p.o. and .kz--Kazakhstan, Association of IT Companies of Kazakhstan. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-30nov06.htm President's Strategy Committee Releases Draft Recommendations for Community Consideration and Announces Process for Further Consultations (news release) ICANN's President's Strategy Committee was established in December 2005 to provide observations and recommendations concerning strategic issues facing ICANN, and hence contribute to ICANN's strategic planning process, which occurs in bottom-up consultation with the ICANN community. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-30nov06.htm ICANN Posts Summary of Comments on Management Operating Principles (news release) As part of its commitment to continuously improving transparency and accountability, on October 16 this year ICANN sought input from the community on the development of a set of Management Operating Principles. These Operating Principles will set new standards for transparency and accountability for interactions within the ICANN community and between members of the community and staff. ICANN is posting a summary of comments that have been received so far. This summary will allow those who wish to participate in the discussions on Management Operating Principles at ICANN's Sao Paulo meeting to gain an overview of the comments made in this part of the consultation. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-29nov06.htm ICANN Board: Who Needs Public Comment? Not us by Bret Fausett In what has to be one of its most jaw-dropping repudiations of the value of public input ever, the ICANN Board has disapproved the .TRAVEL wildcard proposal two weeks before the public comment period was scheduled to end. http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/1/2542052.html Surfers of the world, Unite! Over the last twenty years the global economy has been shaped and reshaped by computers and the growing reach of the internet as a public communications network. Businesses now rely on the net in the way they relied on the telephone back in the 1950’s or the railway back in Victorian days, and new ways of doing business are constantly emerging based around the capabilities of the network. http://p2pnet.net/story/10586 Domain pulse 2007 Together the registries of Germany (DENIC), Switzerland (SWITCH) and Austria (nic.at ) perform the Domain Pulse symposium every year. The next Domain pulse will be organized by SWITCH and will take place in Baden in Switzerland on February, 8th and 9th 2007. http://www.nic.at/en/uebernic/current_issues/nicat_news/news_view/period/1165109578///article/81/domain-pulse-2007/ Making sense of Babel Richard Haigh, owner of £.com (xn--9a.com), defends the registration of the domain name in a letter to The Guardian, saying registration was within ICANN's guidelines. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1959721,00.html Registering domain names with the right company is crucial. Choosing the right company to entrust your domain name registrations is vital. There are literally hundreds of companies offering domain name registration services, but how do you know how reliable they are? How long have they been in business? Do they offer all the extra services? http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=18436 Non-Latin characters in domain names could break the internet, ICANN Chief says According to the Sydney Morning Herald, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey has complained of the organisation coming under ’signficant politicial pressure’ at a recent UN Athens conference to allow non-Latin standard characters to be used in domain names. This, he says, could “Break the whole internet”. http://www.multilingual-search.com/non-latin-characters-in-domain-names-could-break-the-internet-icann-chief-says/01/12/2006/en/ ICANN zeichnet ihre Weltkarte neu Die für die Adressvergabe im Internet zuständige ICANN hat am Dienstag bekannt gegeben, einige Länder neuen ICANN-Verwaltungsregionen zugeordnet zu haben. http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/154178/ US-Handelsministerium übernimmt direkte Aufsichtsrolle bei .com Das US-Handelsministerium (US Department of Commerce, DoC) stimmte dem umstrittenen neuen Vertrag zwischen der ICANN und der .com-Registry VeriSign zu. Der Vertrag sichert dem Ex-Monopolisten den Betrieb der Domain-Datenbank für Domain-Registrierungen in der größten Top Level Domain .com bis ins Jahr 2012 zu. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/81844 http://www.tecchannel.de/news/themen/telko/456867/index.html http://www.computerwoche.de/nachrichten/584423/ http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/154674/ be: Procédures de résolution des litiges en .BE : un coût réduit de moitié En cas de litige, le registre belge vient de décider de rembourser la moitié des taxes supportées par le plaignant pour autant qu’il parvienne à faire valoir ses droits. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1064/belgique-procedures-de-litiges-en-be-un-cout-reduit-de-moitie.php Streit um Whois-Daten - Datenschutz contra Transparenz Die Diskussion um den öffentlichen Zugang auf Whois-Daten bekommt neue Nahrung. Die oberste Internetverwaltung ICANN hat kürzlich zwei neue Konzepte für generische Top Level Domains vorgestellt. http://www.pressetext.ch/pte.mc?pte=061129026 LACTLD se reune en Sau Paulo En el marco de la Reunión de ICANN en Sau Paulo, la primera actividad programada es una Asamblea Extraordinaria del LACTLD. Y una gran noticia, el ccTLD .AR se incorpora a LACTLD, de manera formal en esta Asamblea. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1410 ASN 32 bits LACNIC recibió en el ultimo día 30 de noviembre un conjunto de ASN de 32 bits para ser asignados en la región. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1409 Si a Sau Paulo no vas.... ... te queda el webcast y la participación remota. El ICANN ofrecera mecanismos para participación remota. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1408 Comentarios de Alfa-Redi al Mou y Principios Operacionales del LAC-RALO Alfa-Redi ha realizado una serie de comentarios a la propuesta de MoU y Principios Operaciones que se han propuesto para el LAC-RALO, los mismos se han hecho en español y conjuntamente a los remitidos por Claudia Fonseca son los unicos presentados desde la región. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1407 Resultado de las Elecciones para el Directorio de LACNIC De acuerdo a lo establecido en los estatutos de LACNIC y en la reglamentación definida por la Comisión Electoral, y cumplidas todas las etapas de acuerdo a las normas vigentes, entre las fechas 10 y 20 de noviembre de 2006 se procedió a la votación electrónica para la elección de candidatos para ocupar dos cargos en el Directorio de LACNIC. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1406 Story in Korean mentioning ICANN and VeriSign http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/20061201/042500000020061201112708K3.html Story in Chinese (?) mentioning ICANN http://www.chubun.com/modules/article/view.article.php/28248/c7 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! 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