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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates. ********************************************************** 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/ ********************************************************** Of ICANN and the Registerfly meltdown: What needs to be done http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/03/icann_registerfly_domain/ Stiffening at last, ICANN threatens Registerfly with legal action http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/04/icann_sues_registerfly/ RegisterFly Update http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02mar07.htm British porn domain mastermind fights US Government http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/lawley_vs_us_government/ Motorola loses Razr domain name case http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/motorola_loses_razr_domain_case/ An Update on GoDaddy Whois Issue and Other Registrars Responses http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/02/an-update-on-godaddy-whois-issue-and-other-registrars-responses/ *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** A packet filter placement problem with application to defense against spoofed denial of service attacks by Benjamin Armbruster, J. Cole Smith, and Kihong Park Abstract: This paper analyses a problem in computer network security, wherein packet filters are deployed to defend a network against spoofed denial of service attacks. Information on the Internet is transmitted by the exchange of IP packets, which must declare their origin and destination addresses. A route-based packet filter verifies whether the purported origin of a packet is correct with respect to the current route map. We examine the optimization problem of finding a minimum cardinality set of nodes to filter in the network such that no spoofed packet can reach its destination. We prove that this problem is NP-hard, and derive properties that explicitly relate the filter placement problem to the vertex cover problem. The paper identifies topologies and routing policies for which a polynomial-time solution to the minimum filter placement problem exists, and prove that under certain routing conditions a greedy heuristic for the filter placement problem yields an optimal! solution. http://www.cs.purdue.edu/nsl/sdarticle.pdf ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Of ICANN and the Registerfly meltdown: What needs to be done Comment: The scorn heaped upon ICANN recently for its laissez faire attitude toward customer allegations of fraud by its accredited registrar Registerfly - a scandal in which ICANN spent the better part of a year repeatedly referring customers back to Registerfly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of misconduct - has forced ICANN to acknowledge that it is a responsible for holding its accredited registrars to certain ethical standards. Well, it's a start. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/03/icann_registerfly_domain/ Stiffening at last, ICANN threatens Registerfly with legal action ICANN has finally firmed up in its battle with troublesome domain registrar Registerfly and looks ready to battle the company in court. In a letter from its powerhouse attorneys at Jones Day, ICANN accuses Registerfly of willfully refusing to comply with an accreditation audit as mandated in its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/04/icann_sues_registerfly/ RegisterFly Update ICANN has provided an update on the ongoing issue with RegisterFly, noting issues such as Notice of Breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement; ICANN sent two employees to RegisterFly offices in New Jersey to audit them and obtain the registrant information to which RegisterFly has not complied; and ICANN has provided notice that it will file a suit against RegisterFly in the United States District Court for the Central District of California seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) requiring RegisterFly to turn over the data requested and to compel an emergency audit of its books and records. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02mar07.htm British porn domain mastermind fights US Government The British man behind the proposed .xxx internet domain believes the US Government has intervened to thwart his plans. Stuart Lawley is fighting a court battle to retrieve the documents he says would prove his case. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/lawley_vs_us_government/ http://out-law.com/page-7824 Motorola loses Razr domain name case Motorola has lost a battle to gain control of the domain name motorazr.com because it failed to prove when it started using the term Moto Razr. The domain name will be kept by its US owner R3 Media. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/motorola_loses_razr_domain_case/ http://out-law.com/page-7818 An Update on GoDaddy Whois Issue and Other Registrars Responses GoDaddy will not return domain; other registrars say what they would do in the same situation. Its been just a few days since Domain Name Wire broke the story about GoDaddy deleting a domain registration due to an invalid e-mail address in whois. GoDaddy responded to the article but few people seem satisfied. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/02/an-update-on-godaddy-whois-issue-and-other-registrars-responses/ When luxury companies play the name game What is in a name? Everything. Yet today it has become increasingly difficult to find a name for a company, a product, even a new shade of lipstick that has not been taken already. ... As for the Internet, the growth of trademarked domains Web addresses or Web sites is exponential, said Delphine Parlier, a co-founder and partner in Quensis, a Paris-based company with its own technology that integrates the creative process of choosing a name at the same time as it does the legal, cultural and linguistic screening that is necessary now. http://iht.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/rbrand.php nz: Third time lucky for '.bank.nz'? After being rebuffed twice by the Internet community, the Bankers' Association is trying for the third time to create a place in cyberspace specifically for New Zealand banks, ".bank.nz" a move which it says could make it safer to bank online. http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/3982469a28.html Public survey on the access and publication of the AFNIC database (news release) The AFNIC wishes to update and formalise its data access and publication policy by supervising juridically, when necessary, the data utilization by third parties. It seems important for the AFNIC to associate to its reflection a large range of users and experts that can express different needs and enrich the service brought to the Internet community. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/general/NN20070227 The AFNIC reacts to the publication of a decree on domain names (news release) A decree on domain names has been published in the French Official Journal (JO) on February 08th 2007. The AFNIC would like to draw the attention of all of the stakeholders, in particular registrars, users and legal claimants on this new legal element for naming in France. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/general/CP20070208 Proposed .MUSEUM sTLD Registry Agreement Posted for Public Comment The proposed .MUSEUM sTLD registry agreement is posted for public comment. The proposed .MUSEUM registry agreement substantially follows the format of other recent sTLD registry agreements negotiated by ICANN. The agreement is for a ten-year term. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-02mar07.htm Vint Cerf: Father Knows Best He's probably one of the only people at Google who can remember the Arpanet or what the Internet was like before the Web. And there's one thing few people know about Internet legend Vinton Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP stack that was used to build the Internet infrastructure: His secret wish is to be an actor. ... His move from MCI to the post of chief Internet evangelist at Google in late 2005 led him to a part of the Net he hadn't focused on before: the applications. "Having spent a good portion of my career on the infrastructure of the Internet, its fun to work on new ways to use it." http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=118596 au: Reseller forced to shut down Asus site Notebook reseller PC Market has taken down its www.asusnotebook.com.au site because of a request by notebook vendor AsusTek to shut down the site after director Meng Wei Koh was instructed or face all stops on rebates and demo products. http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=74625 DNS BE working with Hypothèse asbl to inform French-language schools about using the Internet (news release) The Liège-based not-for-profit association Hypothèse is launching the www.crackduweb.be website in conjunction with DNS BE. DNS BE has worked alongside Hypothèse to create a tool that tells French-language schools about using domain names and the Internet in general. Hypothèse, which is running the project, encourages teachers and their pupils at French-speaking schools to register at the website and become Web Wizards. The new web tool enables students aged 10 to 12 at schools registered in the programme to learn about the Internet and gradually become familiar with the essential elements needed for building a website. http://www.dns.be/pdf/Pressrelease_en_200702.pdf .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Under Scrutiny (reg req'd) Domain Names identify Internet sites. They are the text name of a numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet. The increased popularity of the Internet has demanded an Internet presence and every company/organization wants to have a webpage in their name. This development has lead well-known companies/organizations to become protective of their domain names, as everyone has realized that having a domain name identical or similar to them can establish and increase their Internet presence. http://www.mondaq.com/news.asp?e=1&a=46454 ke: Internet Safety Lessons From Raila-Kalonzo Web Saga Unless the truth of what really happened to the websites of ODM's presidential aspirants Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga is plainly told, a number of people may fear using the Internet. They might believe it is unsafe and may never put their money and time in the technology. ... Occasionally, Cyber Squatters register domain names with the intention of making money. Around 2001, another joker registered www.rais.go .ke with the hope of cajoling government officials to part with cash in the name of redeeming their brand name. He got nowhere with his schemes and the government has since got smarter. You cannot now register a .go.ke domain without the approval of the Government of Kenya. http://allafrica.com/stories/200703030052.html The State of the Industry January 2007: 15 Domain Experts Ponder What Happened in 2006 and Predict Whats Coming Next Every January Domain News Journal kicks off the New Year with a survey of domain industry leaders who are perfectly positioned to identify the most important events and trends of the past year and to forecast what we are likely to see in the year ahead. If you dont put much stock in predictions, you might want to revisit our January 2005 and January 2006 State of the Industry reports to see just how remarkably accurate our panel of experts have been. http://dnjournal.com/cover/2007/january.htm Does it matter if Google can't have Gmail.cn? A few days ago Reuters published an article about Google's attempts to buy the Gmail.cn domain from a Chinese company. It seems that Google has been frustrated in its attempts to get its hands on the domain, which was first registered back in 2003, before Google announced Gmail, by a Chinese domain registrar called ISM Technologies. Naturally enough, ISM runs a webmail service on the domain. They even use a multicolored logo that, while not a direct ripoff of the Gmail logo, is certainly suggestive. But this isn't a new story. http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/blog/littleredblog/0,39056119,61993636,00.htm Who's Your Go Daddy? With shrewd marketing and in-your-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/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394968 Update on IPv6 Host Mobility By Wolfgang Fritsche and Gerardo Giaretta As mobile communications become a more integral part of our daily lives, so are they capturing the attention of the IETF, which has seen an increase in the number of IETF working groups dealing with mobility issues. This review provides an update on the work being done in the area of IPv6 host mobility as discussed last November at IETF 67. http://www.isoc.org/tools/blogs/ietfjournal/?p=115 Coca-Cola contracts NetNames to protect online initiatives Coca-Cola Enterprises, the company responsible for the manufacture and distribution of Coca-Cola products in the UK, has selected NetNames, the London-based domain name management specialist, to protect its trade services and initiatives online. http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=22543 http://hostsearch.com/news/netnames_news_5656.asp us: 29 powerful law-related domain names, including names for tax, bankruptcy, personal injury, and other legal fields, have been posted for sale. A provider of books, web resources and seminars for lawyers has recently posted a number of rare and valuable URLs related to the legal industry for sale. http://www.pr-inside.com/powerful-law-related-domain-names-including-r58780.htm us: Galligan domain names taken in Jeffersonville mayoral campaign Three Internet domain names that could be appropriate for Jeffersonville mayoral candidate Tom Galligan have been tied up by the citys information technology director, who is helping with the re-election campaign of Mayor Rob Waiz. http://news-tribune.net/clarkcounty/local_story_061125342.html Creating a special web address for mobile phone customers (sub req'd) The mission of dot mobi, backed by a consortium of the world's leading mobile operators, is to establish its internet domain as the address of choice for businesses to locate their mobile websites http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2007/0302/1172185341689.html The domain halflife.com is exposed on sale for one million dollars Company Rowanlea Grove has exposed the domain halflife.com on sale for one million dollars. The information on sale of the domain has appeared on a site rather recently (according to whois-inquiry, the information on the domain has been updated 20.02.2007). http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/33998/ Network Solutions announces ownership change (news release) Network Solutions announced that General Atlantic, a leading global private equity firm, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Network Solutions from Najafi Companies (formerly Pivotal Private Equity). Champ Mitchell, chairman and CEO of Network Solutions, and the current Network Solutions management team will continue to lead the company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. http://onlinepressroom.net/networksolutions/ Sell your Domain Names without paying a commission (news release) Excellent opportunity to sell all your Domain Names at cDomains.com without the need to use a broker and pay him the usual 10% or 15% commission. http://24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=25145 World's Longest Domain Name Just Got Longer (news release) Internet domain world has become playground for corporations, speculators, investors and individuals called domainers. Their target is to get their hands to as many good, short, memorable and close to generic word top level domains (TLDs) as possible - with a good price we might add. http://addpr.com/articles/web_sites_and_internet/15794.html Berliner Internet-Fans blicken ängstlich nach Seedorf Die Seedorfer Gemeindevertreter stehen vor einer Entscheidung von internationaler Bedeutung: Mit ihrem Handzeichen helfen sie, ein bislang weltweit einmaliges Projekt im Internet zu verwirklichen - oder eben auch nicht. Am Anfang der Geschichte stehen ein paar (Stadt-)Berliner mit einer gehörigen Portion Lokalpatriotismus. Sie haben ehrgeizige Pläne und wollen für private wie geschäftliche Internet-Nutzer eine eigene "Top-Level-Domain (TLD)" beantragen. Für den Laien: Die Gruppe möchte erreichen, dass Homepages von Berlinern (bei Interesse) im World-Wide-Web nicht mehr länger auf .de, .com oder .net enden - sondern mit .berlin. http://www.ln-online.de/artikel/2081370/Berliner_Internet-Fans_blicken_%E4ngstlich_nach_Seedorf.htm Entrevista a Eduardo Santoyo en torno a las nuevas politicas de registro de dominios del cctld .pe LatinoamerICANN entrevisto a Eduardo Santoyo, Gerente General de la Red Cientifica Peruana sobre la aprobación de las nuevas politicas de delegación de nombres de dominio en el ccTLD .pe http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1448 Y ahora en Lisboa - ICANN Soccer Primero Mar del Plata, luego fue Luxemburgo, despues Sau Paulo y ahora le toca a Lisboa. Este sera el IV Campeonato de Futbol - ICANN http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1447 Dominios .MX desde $6 USD Como mecanismo para fomentar el registro de nombres de dominio bajo el .mx, el NIC Mexico ha iniciado una campaña, durante marzo, para que el registro resulte bastante económico. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1446 Sistema Peruano de Nombres de Dominio aprueba nuevas Politicas de Delegación de Nombres de Dominio bajo el .pe La Comisión Multisectorial de Políticas del Sistema Peruano de Nombres de Dominio, conformada por entidades del Sector Gubernamental, el Sector Privado y la Sociedad Civil, y teniendo a la RCP (administrador del ccTLD .pe) como Secretaria Tecnica, han aprobado las nuevas Politicas de Delegacion de Nombres de Dominio bajo el ccTLD .pe, el día de hoy. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1445 Apertura de solicitudes para Programa de Becas LACNIC X Al igual que en años anteriores y continuando con su política de apoyo a la comunidad regional, LACNIC ofrecerá un número limitado de becas de asistencia financiera dirigidas a miembros de la comunidad de Internet del área de servicio de LACNIC que estén interesados en asistir a su reunión anual LACNIC X. El evento se realizará en esta oportunidad en la Isla de Margarita, Venezuela del 21 al 25 de mayo de 2007. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1444 Registro de Nombres de Dominio en America Latina - Estadisticas (actualizacion) El Proyecto LatinoamerICANN ha iniciado una recopilación de datos estadisticos para medir la incidencia de políticas de Sociedad de la Información en el desarrollo de los ccTLD's de la región, así como analizar el impacto de las políticas de los ccTLDs en las politicas de Sociedad de la Informacion nacionales. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1443 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. 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