Hi all, This is the last of the news for 2006! So have a great christmas and new year and/or festive season, and I'll be back bright-eyed and bushy tailed in 2007, the week commencing 8 January.
Till then I'll have regular updates on my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/. Cheers David ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University, Singapore http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ ********************************************************** ICANN to undergo transparency review (IDG) http://infoworld.com/article/06/12/19/HNicannreview_1.html Cost of Wii domain name likely to stay a mystery http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/business/160788.php ca: Internet registry scam http://cfcn.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/B,C/20061219/crs?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&slug=crs&date=20061219&archive=CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=home&subnav=fullstory&site_cfcn=http://calgary.ctv.ca ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ICANN to undergo transparency review (IDG) A U.K. governance organization will review ICANN as it tries to increase transparency after criticism of its close U.S. government ties. The report from One World Trust will be made public when it's completed next year, said Paul Levins, ICANN's executive officer and vice president of corporate affairs. http://infoworld.com/article/06/12/19/HNicannreview_1.html http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/061219icann/ http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1467618322;fp;2;fpid;1 http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7918 http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=27591 Cost of Wii domain name likely to stay a mystery Titans of their respective global industries clashed this summer in a secret battle over three letters: wii. Weyerhaeuser Co. of Federal Way, Wash. owned them. Nintendo Co. Ltd. of Kyoto, Japan, wanted them. When the digital-and-wood dust settled, ownership of www.wii.com belonged to Nintendo. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/business/160788.php ca: Internet registry scam An Internet registry scam is hitting Calgary businesses hard right now. CTV's Consumer Watch received dozens of inquiries about the scam where many businesses have received a $960 invoice in the mail from Central Registration Service. http://cfcn.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/B,C/20061219/crs?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&slug=crs&date=20061219&archive=CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=home&subnav=fullstory&site_cfcn=http://calgary.ctv.ca Who's Your Go Daddy? With shrewd marketing and in-you-face tactics, Bob Parsons made his company the hottest thing in the Internet domain world. Now he's about to see how his act plays on a much grander stage. http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/18/magazines/business2/godaddy.biz2/index.htm T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Announces New York City Show for Domain Name Owners The World Association of Domain Name Developers, Inc. has announced it's first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. show in New York City starting June 19th and running until the 22nd. The "by invitation only" domain conference and trade show includes such giants as Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com and over 300 other companies. http://prweb.com/releases/2006/12/prweb491590.htm ie: ComReg to launch commercial ENUM service Ireland's Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) is to launch the country's first commercial electronic numbering (ENUM) service in 1Q 2007. http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=20552 http://rte.ie/business/2006/1218/comreg.html ICANN Okays Finland Domain ICANN announced on Sunday it has signed an exchange of letters with the country code top-level domain manager for the .fi domain for Finland, the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority. http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/121906_ICANN_Okays_Finland_Domain.cfm China announces new anti-piracy crackdown as Treasury Secretary Paulson visits (AP) U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson confronted mixed signals as he arrived in China Wednesday for trade talks, with Beijing announcing a renewed crackdown on pirated goods but also running up a record trade surplus with the United States. ... Also signed at the ceremony, ... and a deal between VeriSign and the China Netcom Group and the Ministry of Information and Industry to set up a system to help create domain names. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/061217/b121706A.html http://money.canoe.ca/News/Other/2006/12/15/2806635-ap.html http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php?cat=22&id=121706 SnapNames Tops DN Journal Top 20 For The Second Straight Week With Six-Figure Sale of FixedIncome.com SnapNames sold made the topof Domain Name Journal's Top 20 list with at least 20 domains selling for US$10K or more last week. The highest sales was for FixedIncome.com that sold for $101,250. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales12_19_06.htm Domain name changes sought (AP) Over the past few years, the Internet has seen new domain names such as ".eu" for Europe and ".travel" for the travel industry. 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