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By Karl Auerbach http://www.circleid.com/posts/losing_control_of_the_internet/ Judge Rules for Ousted Registerfly CEO http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070309_245992.htm Allegations Fly at Registerfly http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070307_079128.htm New shield foiled Internet backbone attack http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6166107.html International domain names succeed in testing http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6165972.html XXX Comes to a Head posted by Milton Mueller http://www.circleid.com/posts/xxx_comes_to_a_head/ ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** uk: POSTnote - Internet Goverance There is increasing international debate on Internet governance, which encompasses a variety of public policy issues related to internet infrastructure, management and use. This POSTnote describes the structure of the Internet and summarises the debate over its management. It also discusses the prospects for its international governance, following the first meeting of the UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum. http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn279.pdf Are We Slowly Losing Control of the Internet? By Karl Auerbach I have long been intrigued by the question of how do we turn the internet into a lifeline grade infrastructure... My hope that this will occur soon or even within decades is diminishing. Most of us observe, almost daily, how even well established infrastructures tend to crumble when stressed, even slightly... I was at the O'Reilly Etel conference last week. The content was impressive and the people there were frequently the primary actors in the creation and deployment of VOIP. However, not once during the three days did I hear a serious discussion by a speaker or in the hallways about how this evolving system would be managed, monitored, diagnosed, or repaired. http://www.circleid.com/posts/losing_control_of_the_internet/ A complex battle over openness ...Another subtle but important change: the growing role of international organizations. We live in a globalized economy, superintended by important institutions such as the World Trade Organization (which referees trade disputes), the International Monetary Fund (which monitors governments' economy policies), or the lesser-known ICANN (which rules the internet). Decisions made by organizations such as these affect the well-being of millions of citizens but they are not required to comply with the transparency rules that we've imposed on national, state and local governments. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070311/OPINION/70310009/1049 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Judge Rules for Ousted Registerfly CEO In a legal decision that stunned even the lawyers for the victor, a U.S. District Court judge on Mar. 8 handed over the embattled Web registrar Registerfly.com to the executive who was running it when it began to founder. Judge Peter Sheridan ruled in favor of defendant Kevin Medina, who had been chief executive of the parent company, Unifiednames, before he was fired by two other board members on Feb. 12. http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070309_245992.htm http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/030907_Ex_Registerfly_CEO_Regains_Control.cfm Allegations Fly at Registerfly Registerfly.com may not be a very big company, but an extremely ugly falling out between the owners of the registrar of Web site domain names is causing a major headache for 200,000 site owners who registered their sites through it. That roster of customers includes registrants as varied as the government of Thailand, the Easter Seals charity, and pop star Michael Jackson. The company's problems have also brought a hail of criticism down on ICANN. Customers of New Jersey-based Registerfly.com complain in online forums that ICANN waited too long to intervene in a dispute that has left the company's statusand some domain namesin flux. http://businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070307_079128.htm Registerfly, a Domain Name Disaster Any business that goes under is a serious personal tragedy for those who worked diligently to try to make it a success. When the business going under is a registrar, a cascade effect can cause ripples through the Internet as other businesses are threatened. Thats exactly what is happening with Registerfly. http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-News/Registerfly-a-Domain-Name-Disaster/ RegisterFly Update March 10 2007 ICANN spoke yesterday with Kevin Medina and Mark Klein of RegisterFly. ICANN asked for greater clarity from RegisterFly about auth-info codes and draw attention to this link to the registerfly.com auth-info codes retrieval process. http://blog.icann.org/?p=45 RegisterFly Update: 9 Mar 07 The United States District Court in New Jersey yesterday awarded Kevin Medina control of RegisterFly.com Inc. The decision resolves a dispute over ownership of the company. http://blog.icann.org/?p=42 International Womens Day On International Womens Day (8 March), Jacob Malthouse had a look at the number of women on various ICANN groups. He found: Board: 4 of 15 or 27%; Interim ALAC: 5 of 14 or 36%; Nominating Committee: 3 of 22 or 14%; GNSO: 5 of 22 or 23%; and ASO: 0 of 15 or 0%. http://blog.icann.org/?p=41 New shield foiled Internet backbone attack An attack in early February on key parts of the backbone of the Internet had little effect, thanks to new protection technology, according to a report released by ICANN. http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6166107.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6166107.html http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-03-11-net-attack_N.htm DNS Attack: Possible Botnet Sales Pitch The attackers behind the distributed denial-of-service attack last month on the Internet's DNS root servers may have been doing a little botnet sales pitch, according to a newly-released postmortem report on the attack. The so-called "factsheet" document, issued yesterday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), didn't draw any final conclusions on the reasons or motivation for the attack, but it did provide some theories, and it shed new light on a few details about the attack. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=119128 Last month's root-server attack revisited Last month's attack on at least six of the net's root servers was formidable, but thanks to the implementation of a technology designed to protect the infrastructure, only two were affected, according to a factsheet issued today by ICANN. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/09/root_server_assessment/ ICANN release DNS Attack Factsheet ICANN has released a factsheet concerning the recent attack on the root server system on 6 February 2007. The factsheet is intended to provide an explanation of the attack for a non-technical audience in the hope of enlarging public understanding surrounding this and related issues. Aside from covering the attack itself and the engineers' response to it, the factsheet also briefly reviews the root server system, the domain name system, Anycast technology, and what can be done in order to deal with such attacks in future. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08mar07.htm Factsheet: DNS attack Today ICANN posted the first in what we hope will be a series of factsheets that will help explain various elements of ICANNs mission as well as wider, technical aspects of the Internet. http://blog.icann.org/?p=37 DNS Attack Factsheet Released ICANN has today released a factsheet concerning the recent attack on the root server system on 6 February 2006. The factsheet is intended to provide an explanation of the attack for a non-technical audience in the hope of enlarging public understanding surrounding this and related issues. http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/104325 International domain names succeed in testing Internationalized domain names have moved a step closer to reality, following ICANN's announcement that it had successfully completed testing. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6165972.html http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6165972.html http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=160345&nr= (sub req'd) Internationalised domain names inch forward (vnunet.com) Internationalised top-level domains have cleared another hurdle, after a test commissioned by Icann failed to detect any adverse effect from domain names containing non-ASCI characters on root name servers. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2185106/internationalized-domain-names http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2185106/internationalized-domain-names http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2185106/internationalized-domain-names XXX Comes to a Head posted by Milton Mueller Just when you thought the .xxx affair couldnt get any worse, it does. Im beginning to think that ICANNs approach to TLD approval was cooked up by a demented sergeant from Abu Ghraib. http://www.circleid.com/posts/xxx_comes_to_a_head/ Triple-X Domain Will Promote Legalization of Obscenity says Pro-Decency Groups (news release) Thirty-three pro-decency organizations and individuals have sent a letter to the Department of Commerce opposing a revised proposal to create a Triple-X "domain" for pornographic web sites on the Internet. http://standardnewswire.com/news/39697741.html IANA Report on the Delegation of the .TEL Top-Level Domain Conclusion: Based on the foregoing evaluation, IANA concludes that the proposed delegation will promote service to the Internet community and will help assure the continued Internet interoperability through the global technical coordination that ICANN was created to provide. IANA concludes that the .TEL sTLD should be established and delegated to Telnic Limited. http://www.iana.org/reports/tel-report-22jan2007.html ICANN: Outcome of ccNSO Council Nominations The ccNSO is pleased to announce the results of a recent call for nominations to the ccNSO Council. Chris Disspain, Oscar Robles-Garay, Paulos Nyirenda and Bernie Turcotte have been returned to the Council representing Asia/Australia/Pacific, Latin America/Caribbean, Africa and North America respectively. Lesley Cowley replaces Bart Vastenburg as the representative for Europe. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-09mar07.htm Reminder on 2007 Nom Com Positions This is a reminder that the 2007 ICANN Nominating Committee is inviting Statements of Interest on three open positions for the ICANN Board of Directors, two members of the GNSO Council, one member of the ccNSO and three members of the At-Large Advisory Committee. Statements of Interest are due by 1 May 2007. More information is available at http://nomcom.icann.org. http://blog.icann.org/?p=35 In a Global Marketplace, Claiming a Name Becomes an Art in Itself When a snazzy new product goes on sale in many countries, its name must be one of a kind. 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. ... As for the Internet, the growth of trademarked Web addresses or Web sites is exponential, said Delphine Parlier, a founder and partner in Quensis, a company in Paris that goes through the process of choosing a name at the same time that it does the legal, cultural and linguistic screening. Today, there are over 64 million domain names, Ms. Parlier said. This compares to 45 million in August 2005. Naming is not a problem for a small company with local distribution, but its a big problem for global brands, she said. Before, it used to be like climbing a hill. Now, its like crossing the Himalayas. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/business/media/08adco.html ca: Federal Court: "Cheap Tickets" for everyone, no more monopoly The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that everyone has the right to sell "Cheap Tickets". In ruling that two registered trademarks, "Cheap Tickets" and "Cheap Tickets and Travel", should be struck from the trademarks registry, The Honourable Justice Barry Strayer decided that no one should have the monopoly over describing their tickets as "cheap". Montreal-based Internet developer, Emall.ca Inc., had taken Victoria-based travel agency, Cheap Tickets and Travel Inc. to Federal Court to strike its registered trademarks. The lawsuit was in response to the travel agency's previous attempts to force Emall.ca Inc. to turn over its domain name, CheapTickets.ca. The travel agency had unsuccessfully complained to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, and then sued Emall.ca Inc. for trademark infringement in British Columbia. http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/March2007/09/c9086.html ca: Fear Based Domain Name Transfer Marketing Jules of Floobergeist breaks down a particularly insidious domain name transfer marketing tactic that's spreading across Canada. For those of you in the US who own domains, you've probably seen this one before: The Domain Registry of Canada is sending out notices to all domain owners whose domain names are due for renewal this year. Not by email, but by regular post. If you arent on the technical side, or if you happen to be one of the thousands of Canadians who have domain names, and dont really keep track of where the domain is (sometimes i can be accused of this), it looks like a very official and professional warning. Its VERY ballsy. http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/03/fear_based_domain_na.html uk: Aberdeen business targeted in internet domain-name scam Aberdeen City Trading Standards today warned small businesses to beware of a new attempt to part them from their money. A business in Aberdeen has been contacted by fax by a sender claiming to represent a discount internet domain-name specialist. http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acci/web/site/CouncilNews/pr/pr_domain_090307.asp Changes In .Be (Belgium Domain Names) Favor Trademark Owners (reg req'd) DNS BE announced a number of changes to its Terms and Conditions that favor trademark owners. The changes involved Faster implementation of Dispute Resolution decisions; Partial recovery of Dispute Resolution costs for Successful complainants and Partial responsibility for Dispute Resolution costs by cybersquatters. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=46784 The Mind Boggles: 400,000 .mobi Registrations Has the internet turned upside-down? Why do 400,000 registrants believe that creating a separate mobile web is the way to go? http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/index.php?action=expand,54263 Asia Domain Names Set to Explode as Instra Corporation Goes 'Chinese' (news release) Instra Corporation, Australia's leading Domain Name and ENUM Registrar, has been named by HKDNR, the Hong-Kong Domain Name Registry, as their Best Performing New Service Partner 2006 (Overseas). ... Mr. Shea took the opportunity of the Award Ceremony to launch the '.hk' Chinese Domain Name. http://www.asiaregistry.com/about/press.html February Was Tough Month for Domain Name Parking Companies I usually start each month by giving my results for domain parking for the previous month. This will be difficult for Februarys results. First, TrafficClub lost its DomainSponsor and Google Adsense for Domains channels. TrafficClub automatically optimizes your domains across various parking programs. Now all of my domains are only being sent to Skenzo. Although this defeats the general purpose of TrafficClub, TrafficClub does still provide access to Skenzo. Skenzo requires 1,000,000 uniques per month and would not accept my portfolio for its program. You can expect TrafficClub to ad other partners in the near future. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/09/february-was-tought-month-for-domain-name-parking-companies/ Auction achieves ludicrous prices for domain names More than US$4 million of domain names have been sold at the recent Moniker TRAFFIC WEST Live Auction in Las Vegas; the domain name Families.com achieved a price of US$650,000, while Greeting.com went for US$350,000 and Blogster.com went for $275,000. http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/03/10/auction-achieves-ludicrous-prices-for-domain-names/ Moniker Domain Name Auction Rakes in $4.3M The live domain name auction yesterday in Las Vegas resulted in $4.3M in sales; more to come in silent auction. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/08/moniker-domain-name-auction-rakes-in-43m/ More than $4 Million in Domain Names Sold at Moniker's T.R.A.F.F.I.C WEST Live Auction (news release) $4.3 million of premium domain names were purchased during Moniker's T.R.A.F.F.I.C WEST Live Auction on Wednesday, March 7 at The Venetian Resort, Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. http://www.sys-con.com/read/347313.htm LI Web Hosting Reduces Cost of .info Domain Names LI Web Hosting has reduced the cost of .info domain names. The company is offering one-year .info registrations for only $0.99. http://hostsearch.com/news/li_web_hosting_news_5679.asp us: Hold your noses and vote A bogus candidate, hoarding domain names, and a local candidate even sinks to another all-time low by playing the race card; it appears that Jeffersonville politicians will pull out all the stoppers in 2007. http://www.news-tribune.net/opinion/local_story_070032625.html .cn domain name costs 1 yuan China's top Internet address registration agency has slashed the price of domain names ending with .cn to win users from the ".com" service, whose server is overseas. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-03/08/content_823053.htm http://english.eviewweek.com/n10322c18.aspx http://eng.zgjrw.com/News/200738/English/833665452700.html CNNIC cuts price of .cn domains to $0.1 (sub req'd) Prices for .cn domains were cut from $5.2 to $0.1 until May 31 to promote the domains, the China Internet Network Information Center, which administrates the .cn domains, announced this week. http://www.interfax.cn/displayarticle.asp?aid=22020&slug=IT ICANN veröffentlicht Bericht zu DNS-Attacken Alle zentralen Rootname Server sollen Anfragen schon bald über ein System von Anycast-Servern beantworten. Damit lassen sich die Effekte von Angriffe wie die Distributed Denial of Service Attacke (DDoS) im Februar mindern. Diesen Schluss zieht die ICANN in einem Bericht zu der jüngsten Attacke, bei der vom US-Verteidigungsministerium in Ohio (G) und der von ICANN selbst in Kalifornien betriebene Rootserver (L) zeitweilig ausgefallen waren. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86507 Sicherheitsnetz für Root-Server greift Am 6. Februar dieses Jahres ist ein Angriff auf fünf der 13 Root-Server, die für die Adressverwaltung im Internet zuständig sind, erfolgt. Die ICANN veröffentlichte nun eine Analyse, in der die Attacke und Lösungsansätze geschildert werden. http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/177596/ DNS-Root-Betreiber gibt grünes Licht für nicht-englische TLD-Adresszonen Keinerlei Beeinträchtigung beim Betrieb eines DNS-Rootservers durch die Einführung nicht-englischer Adresszonen meldete die schwedische Autonomica. Das Unternehmen, selbst Betreiber eines der 13 zentralen Root-Nameserver für das DNS, hatte im Auftrag der ICANN einen Labortest gemacht, um etwaige Probleme mit voll internationalisierten Adresszonen abschätzen zu können. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/86467 Les ccTLD dopent le marché des noms de domaine Dans une synthèse publiée début mars, le gestionnaire du .COM confirme la nette progression du marché des noms de domaine au 4eme trimestre 2006 et l'irrésistible ascension des ccTLD. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1150/les-cctld-dopent-le-marche-des-noms-de-domaine.php Nouveau contrat de gestion du .MUSEUM L'ICANN lance un appel à proposition jusqu'au 23 mars 2007 pour le nouveau contrat de gestion du .MUSEUM. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1149/les-musees-nouveau-contrat-de-gestion-du-museum.php L'ICANN veut facturer le domain Tasting des .ORG L'ICANN publie une proposition de réforme qui obligerait tout registrar abusant des suppressions de noms en .ORG dans les 5 jours suivant leur enregistrement à payer une amende. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1148/organisation-l-icann-veut-facturer-le-domain-tasting-des-org.php Oscar Robles es nombrado miembro del Consejo del ccNSO En la reciente renovación del Consejo del ccNSO, ha sido nombrado Oscar Robles (ccTLD .MX) por la región de América Latina y el Caribe. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1450 Servicios DNSAr Para analizar las condiciones del servicio de nombres (DNS) en la APN, ArCERT desarrolló y pone en funcionamiento DNSAr. Este servicio realiza consultas de información pública a los servidores de nombres y genera informes de hallazgos. Estos informes son enviados a los responsables de los dominios y son almacenados con fines estadísticos. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1449 Stärkt skydd räddade internets rotnamnservrar vid attack För en dryg månad sedan angreps flera av Internets rotnamnservrar. Tack vare stärkt skydd blev effekterna små. http://sakerhet.idg.se/2.1070/1.98781 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. See http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/mailman/listinfo/technewsreview for an archive of recent newsletters and to subscribe to the domain name and general internet news. Also see http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent news updates. 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