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Headlines from the most recent edition include: au: Crikey, it's official | Small claims court for .co.za domains | za: Domain name registrations: what is considered offensive or abusive? | cn: Ministry recalls private domain name consisting of "Olympic torch" | Movie Academy sues Oscarwatch Web site | Profiteers snap up shooting domain names | Some Profit Off Va. Tech Domain Names | The Phisher King | Cerf seeks acolytes to carry the ICANN torch | Vint Cerf Says: ICANN Needs You! And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates in between postings. ********************************************************** Sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ Asia Registry - Protect your identity in Asia and beyond. Asia Registry - globally accredited providing reliable, secure, centralised domain management for all country codes. http://www.asiaregistry.com/ ********************************************************** Criminal Checks Needed For Tasting, Kiting, Spying http://ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=607&res=1024_ff&print=0 Apster - APNIC's newsletter for the Asia Pacific Internet community http://www.apnic.net/docs/apster/index.html hk: Views sought on domain name administration http://news.gov.hk/en/category/infrastructureandlogistics/070504/html/070504en06011.htm 55,000 .iran and .ir domain names registered so far http://payvand.com/news/07/may/1054.html uk: Nominet board vote passes off without cockups http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/nominet_election_result_07/ 'Squatters' nab names of victims for Web http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/115514 Mapping the Internet, one node at a time by Kim Davies http://blog.icann.org/?p=115 Welcome to the Internet .ASIA http://blog.icann.org/?p=119 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Criminal Checks Needed For Tasting, Kiting, Spying International organisations should step in to prevent the “tasting,” “kiting” and “spying” related to Internet domain names, say representatives from the US telecommunications and trademark industries. These new activities are dramatically altering online commerce and impacting legitimate businesses, and the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), WIPO and ICANN should take action, they say. The US Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) had too many loopholes given the actual trends in the domain name secondary market, said Sarah Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel for Verizon, and Marilyn Cade, former AT&T lobbyist and now consultant on Internet and technology issues. http://ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=607&res=1024_ff&print=0 Apster - APNIC's newsletter for the Asia Pacific Internet community For those interested in internet developments in the Asia Pacific, issue 21 of Apster was published in February. Apster is the quarterly journal of APNIC, one of five Regional Internet Registries in the world. Issues covered include the Internet in Indonesia; an economic and social perspective on a future Internet - Geoff Huston’s view of a recent workshop held by the National Science Foundation and the OECD exploring possible futures for the Internet; AAAA in the roots - IPv6 and the DNS; and the installation of the Philippines’ first root server and Philippine OpenIX - the economy’s first local common exchange point. For those interested in this edition of Apster, and the previous 20 issues dating back to 2001, go to: http://www.apnic.net/docs/apster/index.html hk: Views sought on domain name administration Views are being sought on the administration of Internet domain names in Hong Kong. The Government Chief Information Officer's Office says the management and administration of ".hk" Internet domain names is undertaken by the non-statutory and non-profit making Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation. http://news.gov.hk/en/category/infrastructureandlogistics/070504/html/070504en06011.htm 55,000 .iran and .ir domain names registered so far Official in charge of .ir registrations at Theoretical Physics and Mathematics Research Center in Tehran said on Tuesday 55,000 .iran and .ir Internet domains have been registered in the country, according to Payvand's Iran News reports. Of the total, 2030 domains are .iran and the rest are .ir domains. The article notes "applicants can add a .iran suffix to their .ir domain name, so that they would not have to change their keyboards to one with Persian alphabet." http://payvand.com/news/07/may/1054.html http://taliyanews.com/en/archive/2007/05/55k_iran_ir_domains_registered.php uk: Nominet board vote passes off without cockups Nominet has elected two new non-executive directors to its influential board. At the not-for-profit's AGM in Manchester this week, Sebastian Lahtinen, who founded adslguide.org.uk (now thinkbroadband.com), and Angus Hanton, who runs a domain registrar, were granted the jobs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/04/nominet_election_result_07/ Nominet 2007 Board election result Nominet has announced the results of their 2007 Board election. Angus Hanton and Sebastien Lahtinen have been elected to serve on the Board of Nominet UK for a period of two years. http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3829 'Squatters' nab names of victims for Web The families and friends of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings are learning the hard way that the "com" in dot-com stands for "commercial." Not only have domain names related to the tragedy been bought by the dozens -- everything from vtmassacre.com to remember416.com -- but the names of the victims have as well. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/115514 Mapping the Internet, one node at a time by Kim Davies In the foyer of the ICANN head office, Kim Davies reports they have hung on the walls a number of interesting maps of the Internet. There are various takes on displaying the Internet on charts and in diagrams. They range from the mind-bogglingly complex to the almost comically simple. One map of the Internet they have not hung on the wall, but derived amusement when passed around in email, was one person’s interpretation of IANA’s IPv4 address space registry. In this registry, IANA coordinates the IP address space - primarily by assigning large blocks to Regional Internet Registries for further allocation. Kim then goes on to write; “given this, I got to thinking - what if we took the same algorithm used in the hand-drawn map, but plugged in the true allocation data and graphed it to a much more detailed level? After a little time spent fussing around…” well, you can see what he came up with, as well as the rest of the maps by going to: http://blog.icann.org/?p=115 Welcome to the Internet .ASIA The first gTLD located in Asia has been added to the root zone reports ICANN Blog. .ASIA was added to the root overnight (2 May), becoming the 16th gTLD under contract with ICANN to be delegated. http://blog.icann.org/?p=119 IANA Report on the Delegation of the .ASIA Top-Level Domain This report provides the findings and conclusions of the IANA on the delegation of the .ASIA TLD. ... 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 .ASIA sTLD should be established and delegated to DotAsia Organisation Limited. http://www.iana.org/reports/asia-report-12apr2007.html Domain Name with that Latte? Starbucks founder’s VC firm hedges its Internet bets. Is Starbucks chairman and founder Howard Schultz a typosquatter? Or is he a typosquasher? Apparently, he’s both. Mr. Schultz, through his venture capital firm, has made a strategic investment decision that is rare, if not unprecedented. He put money into two companies with opposing missions: one that promotes so-called typosquatting, the buying of Internet domain names that closely resemble big brand names, and another that combats it. http://redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22184 Cannabis website wins dogfight over stealth jet brand It can build aircraft that are invisible to enemy radar and travel at three times the speed of sound, but Lockheed Martin met its match when it took on a small shop in Bexleyheath that sells cannabis paraphernalia. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article1749930.ece http://upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2007/05/05/smoke_shop_bests_lockheed_martin/ http://economie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/45981/ Netcraft May 2007 Web Server Survey In the May 2007 survey we received responses from 118,023,363 sites, an increase of nearly 4.4 million sites from last month. The Internet has added 12.8 million web sites thus far in 2007, roughly on pace with growth in 2006, when the Web gained a record 30.9 million sites. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/05/01/may_2007_web_server_survey.html Where You Can Get Domain Name Traffic The traffic statistics a domain name attains is often one of the factors that will make or break a deal between the domain name seller and the domain name purchaser. Various websites on the Internet are set up for the purpose of allowing you to amass more traffic, but knowing which types of traffic you can acquire is just as important. Missing out on a possible source of traffic, while it may not make an enormous difference, might be regrettable, as every hit makes your domain name that much more valuable. http://domainnews360.com/2007/05/where-you-can-get-domain-name-traffic.html Los Angeles Has Its Own Domain Name (news release) LA Names and CentralNic, Ltd. have completed the transfer of the .LA domain name to the CentralNic system. Dot LA has been available as the domain name designation for Los Angeles since 2001 and is now available on a wide scale. This means that businesses and organizations can now register domains like "MyBusiness.LA" or "MyName.LA." http://redorbit.com/news/technology/923153/los_angeles_has_its_own_domain_name/ http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070503/0244922.html http://marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=244922 za: Domain On Demand Internet Solutions has become the only network service provider in Africa with the power to register domains directly with ICANN. http://allafrica.com/stories/200705030279.html Late Breaking Domain Name Additions to Moniker's Silent Auction at the Casino Affiliate Convention Amsterdam 2007 (news release) Moniker announced additional premium domain names that will be up for auction at the first online silent auction of gaming and casino industry domain names. The auction opened today as a part of the Casino Affiliate Convention 2007 (CAC 2007), in Amsterdam through May 5, at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky Hotel. The auction will continue after the conference is completed until Thursday, May 10. http://www.pr-inside.com/late-breaking-domain-name-additions-to-r113995.htm http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-03-2007/0004580689 Demand Media Sees Uptick In .TV Registrations Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this afternoon that its recent release of .TV domain names resulted in $500K in .TV domain names sold in the first 24 hours. http://socaltech.com/demand_media_sees_uptick_in_tv_registrations/s-0008938.html Cobb.com Goes to Auction: Hot Domain Market Puts Venerable Name in Play (news release) One of the oldest 'dot com' domain names, cobb.com, will go up for sale next week in an auction conducted by Sedo, a global leader in domain marketing. The auction commences 12PM EDT, May 7 (sedo.com). http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-03-2007/0004580394 http://www.pr-inside.com/cobb-com-goes-to-auction-hot-domain-r113679.htm Denic-Mitglieder wählen Aufsichtsrat ab Der Aufsichtsrat der Denic ist über die Trennung von Vorstandsfrau Sabine Dolderer gestürzt. Bei der Generalversammlung am heutigen Donnerstag in Frankfurt wählten die in großer Zahl angereisten Mitglieder ihren langjährigen Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden Sebastian von Bomhard ab. Auch die Aufsichtsratsmitglieder Angela Wilson und Ulrike Jendis erhielten kein neues Mandat. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/89247 Denic noch ohne Dolderer Zügig, aber nicht übereilt, will der frisch gebackene Aufsichtsrat der Denic eG die wichtigeste anstehende Personalentscheidung fällen: die Besetzung des dritten hauptamtlichen Vorstandspostens. Johannes Loxen von der SerNet GmbH und Tom Keller von 1&1 der Internet AG wollten allerdings noch nichts dazu sagen, ob man der vom abgewählten Aufsichtsrat ins Aus gedrängten Sabine Dolderer erneut den Vorstandssitz antragen will. Beide betonten, man werde nach der besten Lösung für die Denic suchen. Die Personalentscheidung sei zwar der Ausschlag gebende, nicht aber der einzige Grund für die Abwahl des Aufsichtsrats mit Sebastian von Bomhard an der Spitze gewesen, sagte Keller. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/89310 L'accès à la base Whois du .FR interrogé Dans la perspective de formaliser sa politique en matière d’accès aux données Whois, l’AFNIC publie le résultat d’une consultation publique lancée le 27 février dernier sur ce sujet. Des mesures devraient suivre. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1194/france-l-acces-a-la-base-whois-du-fr-interroge.php L’ICANN supervise le transfert des noms Registerfly Dernière étape dans l’affaire Registerfly, la cour de justice américaine vient d’autoriser l’ICANN à initier le transfert de l’ensemble des noms de domaine détenus par Registerfly. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1195/l-icann-supervise-le-transfert-des-noms-registerfly.php L'accès à la base Whois du .FR interrogé Dans la perspective de formaliser sa politique en matière d’accès aux données Whois, l’AFNIC publie le résultat d’une consultation publique lancée le 27 février dernier sur ce sujet. Des mesures devraient suivre. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1194/france-l-acces-a-la-base-whois-du-fr-interroge.php Registro de Nombres de Dominio en America Latina - Estadisticas a Abril del 2007 LatinoamerICANN continua con su 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. Se presentan los resultados recabados a Abril del 2007. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1477 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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