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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/ ********************************************************** Privacy for Internet names moves forward (AP) http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/21/1174153102728.html What Happened at RegisterFly and How to Protect Your Domains http://isedb.com/db/articles/1623/ Registerfly gets terminated http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BD3E79FC-6579-4FD3-B05D-63FB67F72D79 Registrar Accreditation Agreement Process To be Reformed - Registrants Input Needed. http://blog.icann.org/?p=65 .INFO now supports over 1 million dedicated Web sites after passing 5 year anniversary (news release) http://afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2007-03-20-01 Battle brews over the .nu domain http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/34326848DADB5465CC2572A5007821E3 Online squatters kicked off .sg sites http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=66049 Those who profit from typos, may face legal challenges http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=sci_tech&id=5134946 How to Get Started as a Domainer: 28 Tips, Techniques and Resources http://www.avivadirectory.com/domain/ Domain Sniffing: Fact or Fiction? http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/19/domain-sniffing-fact-or-fiction/ Vietnam adds tonal marks to website names http://thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=26256 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Privacy for Internet names moves forward (AP) Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name and subject yourself to junk or harassment. Or enter fake data and risk losing it outright. Help may be on the way as a key task force last week endorsed a proposal that would give more privacy options to small businesses, individuals with personal Web sites and other domain name owners. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/21/1174153102728.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17708550/ http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-03-21-domain-name-privacy_N.htm http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/56422.html http://sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=363227 http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/D/DOMAIN_NAME_PRIVACY http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=50889 ICANN proposal would shield contact info in Whois record An ICANN Task Force has recommended some changes to the domain registration process that would allow registrants to more easily shield their identities. A report released by the Task Force on Whois Services suggests that registrars make it easier for domain name owners to shield their identities. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070321-icann-proposal-would-shield-contact-info-in-whois-record.html http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/19/whois-taskforce-new-rules-for-maintaining-whois-data/ What Happened at RegisterFly and How to Protect Your Domains On March 16 ICANN publicly de-accredited the domain registrar RegisterFly.com for fundamental contractual breaches. BusinessWeek Online appropriately called the RegisterFly.com debacle a "Train wreck". Perhaps this article will help you protect your domain(s) and ultimately your livelihoods from future train wrecks. To that end, I have outlined some tips at the end of this post that will serve as a checklist to help protect you. http://isedb.com/db/articles/1623/ ICANN: Final Task Force Report on Whois Services The Whois Task Force completed its work and sent its Final Task Force Report on Whois Services to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council on 12 March, 2007. The report concludes the task force phase of the GNSO policy development process (PDP) on Whois, and sets out the key findings of the Whois Task Force, since it was convened in February 2005 and began work on its terms of reference. The GNSO Council will now consider the Task Force Report and deliberate on making a policy recommendation to the ICANN Board. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-16mar07.htm Registerfly gets terminated ICANN is to terminate Registerfly's license to sell domain names, cutting off its main revenue stream and leaving its customers victorious but nervous, after months of scandal which have rocked the company. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BD3E79FC-6579-4FD3-B05D-63FB67F72D79 http://computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=A121A30A%2DE693%2D4272%2D9928%2DB62215AB9C13 http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2185865/icann-pulls-registerfly-licence http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2185865/icann-pulls-registerfly-licence http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/story/234887 http://story.cambodiantimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/3a8a80d6f705f8cc/id/234887/cs/1/ http://itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=48177 Registrar Accreditation Agreement Process To be Reformed - Registrants Input Needed. ICANN’s President and CEO, Dr Paul Twomey has called for major review of ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAA) and the Accreditation process. He made the following statement and posed some questions. “What has happened to registrants with RegisterFly.com has made it clear there must be comprehensive review of the registrar accreditation process and the content of the RAA” he said. “This is going to be a key debate at our Lisbon meeting scheduled for 26 - 30 March 2007. There must be clear decisions made on changes. As a community we cannot put this off.” http://blog.icann.org/?p=65 http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-21mar07.htm .INFO now supports over 1 million dedicated Web sites after passing 5 year anniversary (news release) Afilias announced that the .INFO gTLD has reached over 4 million domain names under management, just months after crossing its fifth anniversary of real time registrations available to the public. The four millionth name was registered in the United Kingdom by the registrar MelbourneIT. http://afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2007-03-20-01 Battle brews over the .nu domain Niue is wrestling with a US businessman for control of the .nu internet top domain. Niue’s government say its domain was stolen. Toke Talagi, the travelling ambassador of Niue, does not mince words: “This is digital colonialism. The domain is not used by our nation, and it hasn’t given us anything, except for an internet connection. Also, Niue gets the blame for all the bad things done from .nu domains.” http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/34326848DADB5465CC2572A5007821E3 Online squatters kicked off .sg sites Cybersquatting in Singapore, like the rest of the world, is a problem as this AsiaMedia story notes. Google, McDonalds and Samsung have all had their .sg domain names registered by cybersquatters, but these were eventually handed back to the rightful owners. Over the past five years, 10 cases of cybersquatting have been handled by the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service. http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=66049 Those who profit from typos, may face legal challenges One of the newest risks on the electronic road - "brandits." They're companies looking to steal your eyeballs from some of the hottest sites on the Web. And all they need to take money from people is a typo and few seconds. How Does It Work: The practice is most commonly known as "cybersquatting" and involves a company or individual buying a domain name that is similar to a popular brand name. http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=sci_tech&id=5134946 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=2958608 How to Get Started as a Domainer: 28 Tips, Techniques and Resources How does a salary of $10,000 per day sound to you? Aviva have a guide to earning a living from domain names, suggesting that you to could be like webmaster and marketing extraordinaire Marcus Frind who reportedly pulls in $10,000 per day in Google AdSense from his dating website PlentyofFish.com. However that’s nothing compared to the $100,000 per day domainer Yun Ye was pulling in before he sold his domain portfolio for about $164M in 2004 and subsequently disappeared under the radar. The guide suggests domaining is a lot like stock investing, the very best in the field have moved beyond basic strategies and have developed their own specific formulas for success. They discuss Trademark Typo Domains, Keyword Typo Domains, Automated Volume Buying, Trendwatching, Brute Force using Automated Domain Research Tools, how to financing your domaining, Important Practices such as don’t fall in love with a domain name, Techniques for Monetizing and Tools for the Trade such as automation and resource tools. http://www.avivadirectory.com/domain/ How to Reduce the Pain of Switching Domains Transferring traffic and popularity to a new domain is a painstaking process that no one on the web appears to be immune to, or so Topix.net has realized. Topix.net is a leading news aggregation resource that has been in the news lately because they are planning to move their site from Topix.net to Topix.com after purchasing the .com for a cool million from a Canadian animation company. http://isedb.com/db/articles/1621/1/How-to-Reduce-the-Pain-of-Switching-Domains/How-to-Reduce-the-Pain-of-Switching-Domains.html Domain Sniffing: Fact or Fiction? Does “domain sniffing”, in which a third party registers domains you’ve searched for, really happen? I’ve always been skeptical that domain sniffing happens on a wide scale. Here’s what domain sniffing is about: you query a whois site or domain registrar for a domain to check its availability. You wait a few days and then go back to register the domain. To your surprise, it has been registered by someone else. Domain sniffing means that someone was able to view (”sniff”) your domain queries and use this information to register the domains. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/19/domain-sniffing-fact-or-fiction/ Domain Management Strategies: Hosted by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine and featuring American Apparel MarkMonitor is holding a complimentary webinar entitled, "Domain Management Strategies." During this live one-hour event, attendees will hear about the latest trends and best practices in domain management on the Internet. The webinar will be moderated by James Nurton, editor of Managing Intellectual Property Magazine, and will conclude with a highly-collaborative Q&A session. For more information see: http://markmonitor.com/seminars/070327.html Domain Scammers Start Calling Just about anyone who has registered a domain has probably gotten one of those phony renewal notices from scammers who try to trick you into sending them a check. And perhaps everyone's gotten wise to those letters, because one reader reports he just got a phone call from someone trying to pull a similar stunt. http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2007/03/domain_scammers.html Vietnam adds tonal marks to website names Vietnamese organizations and companies with websites ending in ‘.vn’ can get fresh domain names in Vietnamese with tonal and spelling marks added to the original names. http://thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=26256 Love and kisses, .XXX Have you heard? There’s naughty pictures on the web. Sssh. It’s a secret. But don’t worry, Richard Cobbett has a plan to stop caring! Really, it’s surprising it’s taken this long for a dedicated .xxx domain to slip its way onto the web - a central holding place for all the filth and depravity that everyone looks down on, but always seems just that little bit too well informed about to get away with it. It’s surprising, because they’ve been talking about it for as long as I’ve been on the web (these two things, I should point out, have nothing to do with each other), but mostly because it’s such a stupid idea. http://www.maxpc.co.uk/opinion/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=37481&subsectionid=732 What about BillGates.com? Given that Microsoft this week launched another round of lawsuits to combat cybersquatting, and says it has reclaimed 1,100 trademark-infringing domain names in the past six months, wouldn't you think the company would be going after the owner of BillGates.com? Not sure who owns the domain, but it's parked with Sedo, which has loaded it with highly relevant ads from bill consolidators and a companies selling folding gates. http://blogs.business2.com/sloan/2007/03/but_what_about_.html .Pro Domain Names Hit Record Prices Four .pro domain names have sold at Afternic for at least $11,000 each. All of the domains are related to video: Movie.pro ($22,000), Video.pro ($35,000), Stream.pro ($11,000) and Streaming.pro ($18,000). http://domainnamewire.com/2007/03/21/pro-domain-names-hit-record-prices/ us: Iowa buys domain names that could criticize coaches (AP) If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. The University of Iowa has come up with a proactive method for fighting Web sites built to criticize its coaches by buying domain names. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2806234 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17710325/ http://dailyitem.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070321/SPORTS/70320007 University of Iowa buys negative domain names Firekirkferentz.com? Notonyour.life. The University of Iowa last fall purchased rights to seven Web sites that school officials hope will head off or curtail negative Internet chatter regarding prominent athletic department employees - Ferentz, the football coach; basketball coaches Steve Alford and Lisa Bluder and athletic director Gary Barta. http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070320/SPORTS0205/703200391 ICA Leveling Playing Field: Combats Registry/Registrar Insider "Tasting" Advantage In a letter to ICANN, the Internet Commerce Association issues including ICA supporting adoption of the Excess Deletions Fee proposed by the Public Interest Registry for .org domain names; domain tasting with ICA supporting experimentation by the registries and registrars with various approaches to this issue; and that ICA members do not support trademark infringement, but they resent having a senior executive of the lead arbitrator of UDRP cases characterising domain tasting as one of “speculative gain”. http://internetcommerce.org/news/ica_leveling_playing_field_combats_registry_registrar_insider_tasting_advantage Secure64 taunts hackers with 'DNS immunity' Like most vendors in the Itanium realm, Secure64 has come to market slowly and with scaled back ambitions. Nonetheless, the start-up’s initial play - a super-fast, super-secure DNS (domain name service) server - looks promising. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/19/secure64_dns_itanium/ Register.com and Web.com Form Strategic Partnership Register.com and Web.com announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership to exclusively offer website design tools, hosting and domain services to their respective customer bases. The two companies have also agreed to a licensing arrangement covering all existing and pending patents for both companies. http://www.hostreview.com/news/press/070320Register.html Ellis bows out of Montco race Montgomery County Commissioner Chairman Thomas Ellis announced Tuesday that he is dropping his bid for re-election and called for the other unendorsed GOP candidates in the race to follow his lead. ... One thing that's already happened in the campaign is that a Republican committeeman acquired Internet domain names that include the names Hoeffel and Damsker. Damsker said she and Hoeffel would like to see all the candidates renounce the practice. She said she'd also like to see the committeeman relinquish the domain names, something Hoeffel said Davis, the GOP chairman, ''has some obligation'' to encourage. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/quakertown/all-b1_2montcomar21,0,4942047.story Hot Market in Virtual Real Estate Puts Venerable Domain Name In Play (news release) One of the oldest 'dot com' domain names on the web, cobb.com, is now for sale, prompted by a hot market in virtual real estate that has seen several seven figure transactions already this year. Examples include tandberg.com and topix.com, which sold for $1.5 million and $1 million respectively. http://prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb512810.htm Usability & Domain Names One of the things I like about usability is that it touches upon literally every aspect of a web business–it’s as much a school of thought as it is a discipline. There are many little offshoots of that fact–tiny parts of your business which are partly governed by usability (which you may often not even realize right away). And before your eyes glaze over, let me remind you that usability always affects profits. http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/03/20/usability-domain-names ICANN Pulls The Plug On RegisterFly; Issues Letter Ordering Them To Transfer Accounts ICANN has terminated RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement, ordering it to cease operating as an internet domain name registrar by March 31. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006805050 ICANN: Anycast and Communication foiled February's root server attack ICANN's evaluation analyzes what happened during the attack on the root servers, which ones were hit the hardest, and what kept them running. http://itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=47925 ICANN entzieht Registerfly die Akkreditierung Die ICANN hat erstmals in ihrer Geschichte einem Registrar die Akkreditierung entzogen. Wie die private Internet-Namensverwaltung mitteilte, verliert der US-Registrar Registerfly zum 31. März das Recht, Domains für Kunden direkt bei den von ICANN zugelassenen Registries zu registrieren. Registerfly wird vorgeworfen, seit Jahren gegen die ICANN-Regeln – unter anderem für Transfers von Kundendomains – verstoßen zu haben. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87052 ICANN möchte Domain-Inhaber besser schützen In der kommenden Woche laufen bei der ICANN erste Gespräche über einen besseren Datenschutz für Domain-Inhaber. Grund sind die immer häufiger werdenden Spam-Attacken auf Domain-Besitzer. http://winfuture.de/news,30754.html Pénaliser le cybersquatting en .fr Plusieurs députés envisagent de créer une infraction spécifique au cybersquatting. Le cybersquatting consiste à déposer un nom de domaine, propriété légitime d’une entreprise, pour tenter d’en tirer profit délibérément. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1159/france-penaliser-le-cybersquatting-en-fr.php Vers des solutions contre le "cybersquatting politique" ? L’AFNIC réagit aux 4 propositions du rapport de "l’Observatoire de la web campagne" contre le cybersquatting des noms de candidats à l’élection présidentielle. Bilan mitigé. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1160/france-vers-des-solutions-contre-le-cybersquatting-politique.php Un site participatif ouvre pour l'ICANN 2007 C'est l'idée originale proposée par l'ICANN à l'occasion de son 28eme meeting prévu du 26 au 30 mars prochain à Lisbonne. Les internautes sont invités à réagir en temps réel aux conférences qui auront lieu à cette occasion. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1157/un-site-participatif-ouvre-pour-l-icann-2007.php L'ICANN retire l'accréditation d’un registrar américain "Registerfly" va perdre son accréditation ICANN fin Mars, faute de ne pas avoir pu trouver de compromis pour régler les milliers de litiges qui exaspéraient ses clients depuis plusieurs mois. http://fr.theinquirer.net/2007/03/17/licann_retire_laccreditation_d.html L'ICANN sospende RegisterFly ICANN ha avvertito il famigerato provider americano che entro il 31 marzo 2007 perderà l'accredito per operare sul mercato. Dopo tale data i domini di RegisterFly verranno trasferiti ad un altro registrar http://webnews.html.it/news/leggi/5640/licann-sospende-registerfly/ ICANN per la prima volta cancella un registrar Non era mai successo: tutti i domini gestiti da RegisterFly passeranno ad altri registrar. Entro 15 giorni l'azienda dovrà cessare ogni operazione sui domini. Una scomunica in piena regola http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1928421 Pornoweb sì, ma solo fuori dalla porta 80 Curiosa iniziativa del CEO di SCO per una messa al bando dei contenuti pornografici in rete che passano attraverso il canale tradizionalmente usato dalle comunicazioni su protocollo HTTP http://punto-informatico.it/p.aspx?id=1928429 Red.es desvela las claves del éxito del dominio «.es» Mañana se celebra en Madrid la primera jornada para fomentar la presencia en Internet de pymes y profesionales autónomos http://www.vnunet.es/Actualidad/Noticias/Comunicaciones/Internet/20070321056 Llamado a comentarios sobre nominados para el Directorio de ICANN Tras un período de llamado público a nominaciones, el Consejo de Direcciones del ASO (ASO AC) ha seleccionado el último grupo de candidatos para ocupar el puesto del ASO en el Directorio de ICANN actualmente ocupado por Raimundo Beca, cuyo término expira en junio de 2007. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1455 Strid om populära adresser På en liten ö, mitt i Stilla havet, förs en kamp mot en amerikansk affärsman, men i konfliktens centrum står svenska internetanvändare. 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