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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/ Sponsored by EuroDNS and AsiaDNS - for your domain name registration http://www.eurodns.com/ ********************************************************** Internet Governance Forum in November to address access, security issues, UN official says (news release) http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22658 IGF Preparatory Meeting: A Score Draw in Geneva http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_preparatory_meeting_geneva/ Sex.com and a web of intrigue - book review http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1844511.ece RegisterFly domain transfer imminent, ICANN reports http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/registerfly_icann_litigation_transfer/ ICANN Says Registerfly Domains Moving to Another Registrar http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_registerfly_domains_another_registrar/ Owning millions of addresses and thousands of sites http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/27/business/ecom28.php *************** RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Jefferson Rebuffed: The United States And The future Of Internet Governance by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Malte Ziewitz (Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev) Abstract: When the WSIS concluded in Tunis in November 2005, it was hailed as a great achievement. There is, however, another yet untold story about the WSIS negotiations and the subsequent outcome. It focuses on the ill-fated European proposal to internationalize Internet governance and to curtail the policy-making power of ICANN. It is the story of a missed opportunity for what could have become a “constitutional moment” in international Internet governance. With its Constitution arguably being the oldest and most enduring worldwide, the United States traditionally has been at the forefront of fostering and advancing constitutional governance structures, at times even through the use of force. Why then, has the United States vigorously opposed the European proposal, with its concept of self-constrained governance in the important context of global information flows? The aim of this article is to offer an answer. http://www.stlr.org/html/volume8/schoenbergerintro.php The Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy – Meaning of the operative facts by Dirk Schneider Aim of this work is merely to display the nature of the UDRP and to analyse the operative facts of the sec. 4 of the policy to find out the meaning of the terms used to make the result of the proceeding under the UDRP more predictable and more comprehensible. By doing so I will spot out some weak points and uncertainties in the policy and ambiguous interpretations by the panels. Therefore after an introduction dealing with the particularities of the Policy I will analyse decided and published cases with the focus on the findings dealing with the elements of sec. 4 (a) of the UDRP. Since the WIPO is the provider with the biggest amount of decided cases per year, I will concentrate on its decisions. http://lawspace.law.uct.ac.za:8080/dspace/handle/2165/306 IDNs: Straightforward Technical Problem or Machiavellian Nightmare? by Greg Goth Three of the leading figures trying to solve the technical aspect of internationalized domain names have been alternately hopeful and pessimistic recently. Vint Cerf, chairman of the ICANN board, says he’s more optimistic about finally deploying a globally workable IDN solution than he’s been in a year. Cary Karp, director of Internet strategy and technology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, paints a darker picture of disingenuous and cynical maneuvering by parties with axes to grind. And John Klensin, former chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), says his outlook on one of the global Internet community’s most vexing and longest-running problems depends on the developments on any given day. http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/ic/2007/01/w1011.pdf ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** Internet Governance Forum in November to address access, security issues, UN official says (news release) The next meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in November will focus on access, openness, security and diversity, a top United Nations official said today at a press conference in Geneva. Speaking after today’s preparatory consultations for the Forum’s second meeting, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro from 12 to 15 November, Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator of the Forum’s secretariat, told reporters that the Rio meeting would advance the discussion that had taken place at the first Forum meeting in Athens last November. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=22658 http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/11166 http://newsblaze.com/story/20070524144737tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-239/0705243005194515.htm IGF Preparatory Meeting: A Score Draw in Geneva Wednesday was the open public consultation preparing for the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, which will take place in Rio de Janaeiro on 12th-15th November. Although the inaugural Athens meeting was widely deemed a success, having largely stayed off the dread topics of wresting control of DNS from ICANN and IP addressing from the RIRs, the usual suspects were back demanding that these topics be added to the agenda. http://www.circleid.com/posts/igf_preparatory_meeting_geneva/ U.S. Government to Spend Up To US$10M on Internet Redesign, aka GENI As reported by the Associated Press this week, the National Science Foundation has announced that BBN Technologies Inc. will receive up to $10 million over four years to oversee the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI. http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_global_environment_network_innovations_geni/ CoE: Round table discussions on "The Internet and public service: do they go together?" Council of Europe experts Karol Jakubiowicz and Christian S. Nissen will be leading round table discussions on "The Internet and public service: do they go together?" on the occasion of UNESCO follow-up to the implementation of World Summit on the Information Society principles and work regarding the media (action line C-9). http://www.coe.int/t/e/human_rights/media/Links/Events/RTGeneva2007Homepage_en.asp PINA convention looks at regional internet issues (news release) PINA convention delegates encouraged to participate in regional Internet issues. Christina Kuper-Wini Chair of the local organisation committee of PacINET 2007 addressed attendees of the 2007 Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) Convention in Solomon Islands. She encouraged them to actively participate in PacINET 2007 in late August in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Lynnold M Wini, Secretary of the local organisation Committee of PacINET 2007 went to describe PacINET as the success story of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) and encouraged PINA members to establish links of common interests with PICISOC. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0705/S00440.htm DNS-Management kommt ins Hauptprogramm des nächsten IGF-Treffens Meldung vorlesen Das Internet Governance Forum will sich bei seinem zweiten Treffen vom 12. bis 15. November in Rio de Janeiro nicht nur mit dem DDOS-Angriff auf die Root Server befassen, sondern auch mit dem Management von Kernressourcen des Internets, also der DNS- und IP-Adressverwaltung. Das sagte heute bei einem Vorbereitungstreffen Nitin Desai, soeben vom neuen UN-Generalsekretär bestätigter Sonderbeauftragter für das Thema Internet Governance und das beim Weltgipfel der Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) beschlossene IGF. Desai sagte nach Beratungen mit Regierungen, Unternehmensvertretern und NGOs, es gebe ganz offensichtlich bei vielen Delegationen ein starkes Bedürfnis, das umstrittene Thema Verwaltung der Kernressourcen des Internets in eine der Plenarsitzungen in Rio aufzunehmen. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90151 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Sex.com and a web of intrigue Two men’s battle over a domain name shows how far the net has come It is not the pornography that has landed Cohen in court, but the theft of something with no physical existence. That something was a website, more precisely a domain name that a geeky 31-year-old called Gary Kremen registered back in 1994 simply because he could: sex.com. It turned out to be worth a fortune. Except that it was Cohen who made the fortune, and for more than 10 years Kremen has been fighting to get it back. The case has cost millions of dollars, involved a trashed mansion, a phantom gunfight between bounty hunters, forgery and disappearing bank accounts and forever altered the development of the internet. Kremen vs Cohen finally established that property in cyberspace can be at least as valuable as in the real world. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1844511.ece RegisterFly domain transfer imminent, ICANN reports ICANN has finally found a registrar with a track record to take over renegade registrar RegisterFly's domains reports The Register. But, it doesn't say who the registrar is. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/registerfly_icann_litigation_transfer/ http://www.gadgetell.com/2007/05/registerflys-customers-will-soon-get-a-transfer/ ICANN Says Registerfly Domains Moving to Another Registrar In an entry in the ICANN blog, Paul Levins says they’ve arranged to move Registerfly’s domains to another registrar. They won’t say who the other registrar is beyond “an existing accredited Registrar with a demonstrated record of customer service” which could be just about anyone other than Registerfly. They have “most” of the registrant data. http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_registerfly_domains_another_registrar/ RegisterFly Update 25 May 2007 United States District Court Judge Manuel L. Real issued a Permanent Injunction against RegisterFly. The Court held Registerfly and Kevin Medina personally to be in contempt of the Court’s earlier Preliminary Injunction Order. So the Court has has ordered Kevin Medina and RegisterFly to publish on its website, within 48 hours, a notice telling people about the termination of it’s accreditation as the Court had set forth in the earlier Preliminary Injunction. http://blog.icann.org/?p=131 ICANN Opens Public Comments on Proposal from the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) to Become a UDRP Provider ICANN has received a proposal and expression of interest from the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) to be recognized as one of the official dispute resolution providers under the UDRP. The basis for this proposal was statement on the ICANN website which notes that ICANN would consider statements from interested parties. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-25may07.htm .za DNA shall assume responsibility of the .za domain name space The Minister of Communications declares that the .za DNA shall assume responsibility of the .za domain name as of 18 May, 2007. http://zadna.org.za/documents/Section59notice18052007Gazette29903.pdf AFNIC reinforces protection against illegal use of its Whois database (news release) As a registry, the AFNIC manages a database that can be accessed by everybody through different channels (DNS, Whois...). For any domain name, this access allows to find the details concerning the holder, the creation and anniversary dates, the details of the administrative and technical contacts and the servers on which it is installed. This is what is commonly called the "Whois". Using this database can also help knowing if a .fr domain name is available. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/general/CP20070516 .SE launches domain names in Swedish minority languages (news release) .SE (the Internet Infrastructure Foundation - responsible for the top-level Internet domain for Sweden, .se), has launches the possibility to register domain names in all the official minority languages, as stated by Swedish law. In addition to the minority languages Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami, Romani and Yiddish, it will be possible to use the special characters of all the other Nordic countries, i.e. Danish, Norwegian, Faroe and Icelandic, in .se domains. The sunrise period for the new IDN (Internationalised Domain Names) starts July 4, 2007. http://iis.se/english/nyheter/news/2007-05-14?lang=en fi: Annual report online has been published FICORA's trilingual annual report online contains the essential points of its activities in 2006 and changes in the operational environment. http://www.ficora.fi/en/index/viestintavirasto/uutiset/P_9.html Owning millions of addresses and thousands of sites Think you have a good handle on the Internet economy? Try this one: What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the past year, owns 725,000 Web sites and has as its chief executive a former leader of Primedia and International Data Group? If you guessed NameMedia, a privately held owner and developer of Web sites based in Waltham, Massachusetts, you take the prize. Otherwise, consider reading on. According to Kelly Conlin, chief executive of NameMedia, the company's business is best seen as an online property developer. http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/27/business/ecom28.php http://nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28ecom.html Exploiting Russian Backwardness ... Domain names are another means of earning money with the Internet. Generally this involves selling, either directly or by auction, registered names in the secondary market. According to Pavel Khramtsov from RUcenter, head of the project stat.nic.ru., the highest price paid for a .ru domain name (travels.ru) was $19,000, paid at the beginning of this year. http://www.times.spb.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=21769 register.com customers' credit cards compromised Register.com sent an email to its customers saying a notebook containing credit card information was stolen. The firm said that around two per cent of its customers were affected. The data on the laptop was password protected and the credit card number encrypted. In a letter it said: "We also believe that the laptop was stolen for its inherent value and not the data itself." http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39883 Guide to chinese domains for foreign companies (news release) The cn-domain is the ccTLD for the People's Republic of China. Like most countries, people can register for second-level domain names, e.g.mercedes.cn. However, there are preset ones for certain types of organizations and geographic locations. The third-level registrations at cn-domains were available before second-level registrations became available in 2004, and third-level registrants were given first shot at getting their name at the second level when this was opened up. http://www.businessportal24.com/en/Guide_198865.html http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/secura/boxid-108061.html LIPS.COM Domain Name To Be Auctioned Off At TRAFFIC Domain Expo NY The Lips.com domain name will be offered at the live Moniker domain auction from the TRAFFIC Domain Conference and Expo from New York City on 21 June. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/5/prweb529208.htm Auction.com, How.com Among Domains at TRAFFIC NYC Auction Moniker just released an initial list of domains to be auction in June at the TRAFFIC auction in NYC. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/05/25/auctioncom-howcom-among-domains-at-traffic-nyc-auction/ Cashing in on human error There's still money to be made in mistyping. Internet surfers who stumble when typing an address into their browser can find themselves at sites that look vaguely like their intended destination but are actually the domain of "typo squatters." Errant visits and confused clicks on the sites' assorted links can mean cash – likely just pennies or less for each, but big money over time – for the squatters from pay-for-clicks providers such as Google Inc. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/052407dnbussquat.36d3ea8.html Real estate boom transfers to the Internet Daniel Nussbaum is making what seems to be a painless transition from the real estate boom into what he hopes will be the next Internet boom. The former dentist, who grew up in Long Beach, N.Y., has spent the last four years buying up Web domain names by the virtual truckload. http://www.presstelegram.com/cartoon/ci_5886974 Barclays.mobi is launched to provide mobile banking for personal customers (news release) Barclays is helping its customers stay in touch with their money with the launch of mobile banking. The free service will enable customers with a web-enabled mobile phone to access Barclays Online Banking from wherever they are, 24 hours a day. http://www.newsroom.barclays.co.uk/content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=1068&NewsAreaID=2 Daily.co.uk Announces Discounts on TLD's Daily.co.uk, a domain name provider, yesterday announced a price drop for generic TLD names. The company announced that for a limited time only, .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info domains for £4.99/year. Daily.co.uk is also offering free features with domain name registrations, including POP3/IMAP email box, Google adwords search voucher credit, one page website and DNS management via our easy-to-use control panel. http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/daily.co.uk-announces-discounts-on-tlds_0525076730.htm RFC gegen Spam Meldung vorlesen Die IETF hat im RFC 4871 ein Anti-Spam-Protokoll veröffentlicht. Es stützt sich auf eine Technik namens Domainkeys Identified Mail (DKIM), die als Vorschlag seit dem Jahr 2005 von der IETF diskutiert wurde. DKIM entstand aus dem Domainkeys-Vorschlag von Yahoo und dem Entwurf von Cisco zu Internet Identified Messages – an der Entwicklung sind außerdem weitere Firmen wie Sendmail und PGP Corporation, Strongmail, Tumbleweed, VeriSign beteiligt. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90281 Enquête sur les milliardaires du nommage C'est un homme de l'ombre. Personne ne le connaît et pourtant, c'est l'un des domainers les plus prolifiques du web avec des revenus annuels estimés à USD 70 millions ! Enquête sur une star de la négoce de noms de domaine. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1213/enquete-sur-les-milliardaires-du-nommage.php F-Secure répond aux critiques contre le .SAFE Si l’intention de créer une extension protégeant les banques du phishing était au départ séduisante, la proposition du .SAFE (ou .BANK) de F-Secure n’a pas fait l’unanimité. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1214/f-secure-repond-aux-critiques-contre-le-safe.php Comunicado Evento Seguridad en Redes Con la participación de más de 320 participantes provenientes de 29 países se realizó este miércoles 23 de mayo el “Segundo Evento de Seguridad en Redes para América Latina y el Caribe”. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1491 Conclusiones del Foro Publico de LACNIC X A continuación encontrarán un resumen de cada una de las propuestas presentadas en el Foro Público el primer día de sesión y el resultado de cada presentación. Enviaré un resumen similiar correspondiente a cada día. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1490 +Raices: Acuerdo para Instalacion de Copia de Root Server F en Panama Isla Margarita, Mayo de 2007.- Continuando con el esfuerzo para el desarrollo y estabilidad de Internet en América Latina y el Caribe, LACNIC conjuntamente con la Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá NIC Panamá, realizaron hoy la firma del Acuerdo que permitirá instalar en Panamá en el mes de julio una nueva copia anycast del Root Server F en el marco del proyecto +Raices. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1489 Proponen interconexión regional de América Latina y el Caribe Con la participación de más de 320 participantes provenientes de 29 países se inició esta mañana el Foro de Interconexión Regional NAPLA 2007 que reúne a los representantes de los puntos de interconexión nacionales de toda América Latina y el Caribe. El importante evento internacional fue transmitido a todo el mundo utilizando la moderna tecnología webcasting mediante el cuál personas de cualquier region pueden asistir con imagen y sonido en tiempo real e inclusive hacer preguntas a los conferencistas. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1488 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. For archives of postings to the list, see http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/pipermail/technewsreview/. Also see http://technewsreview.com.au/ for recent updates. 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