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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates and also 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/ ********************************************************** Lack of space may force world wide web to implode http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2566681,00.html Why the .xxx would anyone want a top-level domain for porn? by Seth Finkelstein http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1997492,00.html Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/25/1169594375822.html fr: (nearly) All registrars violate French consumer law! http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/01/nearly-all-registrars-violate-french.html GoDaddy pulls security site after MySpace complaints http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Names as Domains, Names as Marks: Issues Concerning the Interface Between Internet Domain Names and Trademark Rights by ZOHAR EFRONI (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Peter K. Yu, ed) Abstract: This book chapter addresses various domain name issues and the interface between registration of domain names and trademark rights. It provides technical and historical background to domain names disputes and moves to focus on particular matters of interest such as regulation in the U.S. and via ICANN, conflict of laws, international aspects, potential abuse of regulatory mechanisms, litigation strategies and freedom of speech issues. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=957750 Distributed Denial of Service: Law, Technology & Policy by MEIRING DE VILLIERS (World Jurist Law/Technology Journal) Abstract: A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to deprive legitimate users of a resource or service provided by a system, by overloading the system with a flood of data packets, thus preventing it from processing legitimate requests. This article analyzes the doctrines governing the allocation of liability among key players in a DDoS attack. The doctrines are well established and based on common law tort principles and policy considerations. The main contribution of the article is the adaptation of these principles to the novel technological environment in which DDoS attacks occur. The analysis shows that detailed understanding of the technologies and analysis of their role in DDoS attacks are essential to effective judicial decisionmaking. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=952177 Addressing the Issues of Internet Governance for Development: A Framework for Setting an Agenda for Effective Coordination by William H. Dutton (Oxford Internet Institute) This paper outlines a framework for agenda setting that could help the Forum to ensure these processes identify and attend to the key substantive issues that merit discussion at the Forum. It is anchored on the view that most issues of Internet governance for development are being grappled with by many separate but interdependent actors and agencies at various levels. However, this creates a need to identify issues that are not owned, or not well understood, in order to facilitate the creation of bridges between actors and agencies trying to tackle the same or similar issues. It draws on various research initiatives at Oxford Universitys Oxford Internet Institute (OII), particularly an international forum on Internet governance (see Dutton and Peltu 2005) and a series of seminars reflecting on civil society participation in the WSIS. http://www.intgovforum.org/Substantive_1st_IGF/Dutton-IG4D-30July06.pdf ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** Lack of space may force world wide web to implode Massive demands being placed on the internet could soon see the network run out of web addresses, technology experts, including Vint Cerf, said yesterday at Davos. The internet was being threatened by mounting technological challenges, including increasingly malign software viruses and botnets. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2566681,00.html http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=133872007 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Why the .xxx would anyone want a top-level domain for porn? by Seth Finkelstein The idea of a ".xxx" web suffix for porn sites is the internet's vampire: it seems nothing can kill it. Censors often oppose it because they believe anything that can be construed as legitimisation of pornography will hinder their efforts against it. Civil libertarians oppose it on grounds such as the threat of it being used to marginalise a wide range of material having to do with sexuality. Adult webmasters widely view it with suspicion, as anyone who has a ghettoisation scheme to "help" them usually isn't doing them a favour. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1997492,00.html http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/27/0348223 Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone The list of Internet domain names just got shorter. ICANN decided recently to yank ".um" - for U.S. "minor outlying islands." No one was using it anyhow, and the organization that has run ".um" - the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute - no longer wanted to bother. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/25/1169594375822.html http://www.examiner.com/a-525885~Unused_Domain_Name_for_U_S__Isles_Gone.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16788293/ http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/25/um.domain.ap/ Um, It's Gone, Vint Cerf Did It David A. Utter Surprising news comes from ICANN; they have removed the top-level domain .um, for United States "minor outlying islands," from the list of available domains. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070124UmItsGoneVintCerfDidIt.html uk: Goodbye No 10, hello world Domain names are beginning to be the predictor of what someone, say a politician, will be doing when they finish in office. The Daily Telegraph reports that one of Cheris Blair's "closest confidantes is setting up a charitable foundation in the Prime Minister's name. The American restaurateur Martha Greene, who helped the Blairs find their London home in Connaught Square, registered the domain name www.blairfoundation.org.uk in November. The foundation will pay Blair a salary and act as a vehicle for all his commercial and political activities." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/20/nblair20.xml fr: (nearly) All registrars violate French consumer law! This blog article concludes that "All registrars which do not let their French customers use a payment tool which is not free of charge, are subject to fines, as Sony UK was." http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/01/nearly-all-registrars-violate-french.html GoDaddy pulls security site after MySpace complaints A popular computer security Web site was abruptly yanked offline this week by MySpace.com and GoDaddy raising questions about free speech and Internet governance. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=33949 GoDaddy Faces PR Nightmare Over Domain Suspension GoDaddy chief Bob Parsons is a big supporter of free speech. Hes also a big supporter of privacy as a way to do this by promoting domain whois privacy services. Thats why the internet world was shocked today to learn that GoDaddy suspended a domain name, seclists.org, based on the content on that site. MySpace contacted GoDaddy to suspend the registration because the site had information about MySpace users including their usernames and passwords. GoDaddy complied. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/01/26/godaddy-faces-pr-nightmare-over-domain-suspension/ Registrar Deletes Domain Name Sua Sponte, Sort Of Registrars reserve powerful rights to de-register domain names belonging to registrants who have violated the terms of service agreement. They tend not to, in the absence of a court order. It turns out that GoDaddy does, here in the case of a website that was making available lists of MySpace usernames and passwords. http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2007/01/registrar_delet.html ICANN Posts Summary of Responses On Accountability and Transparency On October 16 2006 ICANN asked the community for their input on improving accountability and transparency within ICANN. This was the first phase of consultation in the development of a set of Management Operating Principles with a request for comment by 31 December 2006. The attached is a summary of the responses received. Thank you to everyone who contributed. These comments will be used to develop a draft set of Management Operating Principles. It is anticipated that this draft will be available before ICANN's Lisbon meeting with a consultation to take place at the meeting. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-26jan07.htm Web users warned to be vigilant against pharming Security software companies are warning Internet users to be vigilant against one of the latest forms of cybercrime, pharming. Pharming misdirects users to fraudulent sites or proxy servers, typically through Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking or cache poisoning, to either steal information or expose the user to infection. Pharming can trick a user into entering sensitive data such as a password or credit card number into a malicious Web site that impersonates a legitimate one. http://khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/business/2007/January/business_January704.xml§ion=business&col= Total Number of Registered CO.JP Domain Names Exceeds 300,000 (news release) JPRS announced on January 17, 2007 that the cumulative number of registered CO.JP domain names (e.g., EXAMPLE.CO.JP) exceeded 300,000, hitting 300,899, as of January 1, 2007. The total number of JP domain name registration including CO.JP is 882,325 as of the same date, indicating that 34% of the JP domain names are CO.JP names. http://jprs.co.jp/en/topics/070118.html CNNIC: Chinese Netizen Number Reaches 137 Million and 4.11 million domain names By the end of 2006, China had about 4.11 million domain names, of which 1.8 million were .CN domain names, up 64.4% compared with the same period of last year. 1.94 million were .COM domain names, accounting for 47% of China's total domain names. At the end of 2006, China had 843000 websites and 98 million IPv4 addresses, and all of these were seeing stable growth. http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/01/25/4907-cnnic-chinese-netizen-number-reaches-137-million/ nz: IDNs - Expressions of Interest for Working Group The .nz Oversight Committee (NZOC) is establishing a working group to consider the implementation of IDNs into the .nz domain name space. http://dnc.org.nz/story/30269.html uk: Replacing 'tag holder' with 'registrar' (news release) Nominet has rewritten terms and conditions for tag holders. The new Registrar Agreement replaces the existing Tag Holder Agreement from 01 March 2007. This re-draft of the contract has been used as an opportunity to replace the terms 'tag holder' and 'registration agent' with the single term 'registrar'. http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3537 IE Namespace: We Need Personal Domains! by Michele Neylon In my day job I run one of the largest registrars/resellers of IE domains (the IE ccTLD is the domain name for Ireland). In the course of doing that I have spent quite a lot of time becoming accustomed to the rules and regulations that govern both the naming and general registration criteria of IE domains. In some cases I can understand why rules are the way they are, whereas in others I am completely baffled. http://www.circleid.com/posts/ie_need_personal_domains/ Stockpickr: Picking at Domain-Name Stocks by James Altucher Following the fortunes of companies that are stockpiling domain names -- the "arms merchants" of the domain name business -- is well worth your while, regardless of the state of the economy. [NB: a link to this article appeared in a previous edition of the news] http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/techstockupdate/10331607.html Domain Names Back In Business As Big Money Seeks Hot Property You might not think of generic Internet addresses like Carbs.com as the beachfront property of the Web, but plenty of financial heavy-hitters do, and they're snapping up such real estate -- fast. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16552993.htm Internet domains in high demand Housing prices may be fizzling in the real world, but a virtual land grab is under way on the Internet, with financial heavy hitters snapping up what they see as the Web's beachfront properties: generic Internet addresses such as Carbs.com. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/business/16560153.htm ICANN formalises relationship with ccTLD Manager, Belgium ICANN has signed an exchange of letters with the ccTLD manager for .be - Belgium, DNS BE. http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?articleID=21530 ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Belgium http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-25jan07.htm DNS BE and ICANN formalise their relationship http://www.dns.be/en/home.php?n=396 ICANN Opens Public Comment Period on ICANN Fee Amendment from .MOBI On 16 January 2007, ICANN's Board of Directors approved the posting for public comment of an amendment proposed by mTLD to the .MOBI Registry Agreement. If approved by the ICANN Board, the amendment would change the amount of fees paid by mTLD to ICANN. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-26jan07.htm sk: SL Attorney in ICANN leadership position Sri Lankan Attorney-at-Law Jayantha Fernando has been selected as a member of the Panel of Experts of ICANN. http://www.sundaytimes.lk/070128/News/116news.html Celebrity Domain Names Set for Auction on TDNAM.com (news release) Popular celebrity domain names such as HillaryRodhamClinton.mobi and TerrellOwens.tv are now available for public auction on www.TDNAM.com, a re-seller of popular domain names. http://prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb500209.htm NetNames Manages Unilever Domains UK domain name management provider NetNames announced it has signed a contract to protect Unilever's (unilever.com) global trademark portfolio of domain names, which includes Dove, Surf, Cif, Knorr and Vaseline. http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/012507_NetNames_Manages_Unilever_Domains.cfm Cyperspace Land Grab: Domain Names Back In Business As Big Money Seeks Hot Property You might not think of generic Internet addresses like Carbs.com as the beachfront property of the Web, but plenty of financial heavy-hitters do, and they're snapping up such real estate -- fast. Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, billionaire Ross Perot and Richard Rosenblatt, former chief executive of MySpace and its parent, Intermix Media, are just three of those attempting to build sprawling businesses around Web domains. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/16552993.htm http://redorbit.com/news/technology/816185/cyperspace_land_grab_domain_names_back_in_business_as_big/ us: Geiger sues for name-branded Web addresses Pop star-actor-product pitchman Teddy Geiger is now a plaintiff. The Pittsford singer-songwriter filed a suit in federal court in Rochester on Tuesday, claiming a Minnesota man is violating the trademark status of Geiger's name by claiming ownership of www.teddygeiger.com and www.teddygeiger.net. http://democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070125/LIVING/701250365 Second Highest .Mobi Sale To Date Heads New DN Journal Top 20 A lot of jaws hit the floor when Flowers.mobi sold for $200,000 in an auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in October. This time it was Sportsbook.mobi commanding the big bucks - a whopping $129,800. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales01-23-07.htm Google-Domain-Diebstahl: Nicht in Österreich Die Österreicher behaupten, dass ein Google-Domain-Klau in ihrem Land nicht möglich gewesen wäre und kritisieren das deutsche System. Richard Wein, der Geschäftsführer der österreichischen Registrierstelle Nic.at, übt heftige Kritik am deutschen Domain-Verteilungs-System. Dies berichtet österreichsche Pressetext. http://www.testticker.de/news/netzwerke/news20070126008.aspx Deutsche Google-Domain kurzfristig "entführt" Die deutsche Domain der Internet-Suchmaschine Google ist in der Nacht auf Dienstag kurzfristig gekapert worden. Wie das Unternehmen in Hamburg mitteilte, war die Homepage deshalb für einige Internetnutzer in Deutschland vorübergehend nicht erreichbar. Das Problem sei jedoch "innerhalb kurzer Zeit behoben" worden. http://derstandard.at/?id=2738849 at: Google-Domainklau: "In Österreich wäre das nicht passiert" Auch am Tag 2, nachdem Google kurzfristig ohne deutsche Webseite dastand, steht die deutsche Registrierstelle Denic weiterhin unter Kritik. "Ein derartiger Vorfall wäre in der Art und Weise, wie er bei der Google-Domain abgelaufen ist, in Österreich nicht möglich", kommentiert Richard Wein, Geschäftsführer von der österreichischen Registrierstelle Nic.at, gegenüber pressetext den Vorfall. http://derstandard.at/?id=2742355 Le casse-tête .XXX Le 16 janvier dernier, le Conseil d'administration de l'ICANN s'est réunit par téléconférence. Parmi les points à l'ordre du jour, une discussion sur le nouveau projet de contrat proposé par ICM Registry pour le .XXX. http://www.domainesinfo.fr/extension/1116/sexe-le-casse-tete-xxx.php Une extension disparaît Lors de sa dernière réunion, le Conseil d'administration de l'ICANN a décidé de supprimer l'extension .UM, qui n'était plus utilisée. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1117/iles-mineures-eloignees-des-etats-unis-une-extension-disparait.php Campaña para proteger dominios .ORG gana aceptación con programa de asociación Las organizaciones que prestan servicios a empresas sin fines de lucro y al desarrollo de la tecnología, desarrollo de Internet, protección al consumidor y gobierno de Internet en América Latina se encuentran entre las primeras que se asociarán con Public Interest Registry (Registro de Interés Público) en una campaña para preservar el valor de los dominios .ORG http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1436 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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