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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/ ********************************************************** ICANN wants your comments on the Registry Failure Report http://blog.icann.org/?p=134 Building Towards a Comprehensive Registry Failover Plan http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm ICANN Moves Forward Towards Introduction Of Internationalized Top Level Labels in the DNS http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02jun07.htm Security Through Obscurity as an Institution by Kurtis Lindqvist (on .bank proposal) http://www.circleid.com/posts/tld_registry_security_financial_institution/ ENUM service launches in Ireland http://electricnews.net/frontpage/news-10080159.html ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** Discussion at the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva by Patrik Fältström While travelling home from Geneva, I was thinking quite a lot on the relationship between a ccTLD (registry) and a Country. This is because many countries are starting to talk louder and louder about the responsibilities Countries have on critical infrastructure, or (possibly more important) the management of the critical infrastructure. Will for example any (none?) of ccTLD operators (servers) sustain a denial of service attack of a scale similar to the attack on the root servers? What can ccTLD operators do to resist the malicious attacks? Should this be discussed? http://www.circleid.com/posts/discussion_internet_governance_forum_geneva/ Nominet launches UK web best practice challenge The UK's internet movers and shakers will descend on the Houses of Commons next week as part of Nominet's best practice challenge. http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/114461/nominet-launches-uk-web-best-practice-challenge.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ICANN wants your comments on the Registry Failure Report ICANN has posted a detailed report titled Building Towards a Comprehensive Registry Failover Plan. This ICANN’s first study of registry failure, and represents a significant document with information for existing registries, future registries, registrars and registrants. The report will be discussed at the 29th ICANN International Public Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico as part of a public forum on protections for registrants. http://blog.icann.org/?p=134 Building Towards a Comprehensive Registry Failover Plan The 2006-2007 ICANN Operating Plan describes the series of projects and deliverables based on the ICANN Strategic Plan. According to the Operating Plan, ICANN is to “establish a comprehensive plan to be followed in the event of financial, technical or business failure of a registry operator, including full compliance with data escrow requirements and recovery testing”. This report is being prepared as part of the registry failover project to provide guidance to ICANN and the Internet community in the event of a registry failure. This is not intended to be a policy document. The registry failover project poses a complex set of issues that involve ICANN’s mission in both ensuring DNS stability and promoting competition. Following the 29th ICANN International Public Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, ICANN will synthesize a best practices document describing registry failover mechanisms. These mechanisms will also provide guidance or be incorporated into ICANN’s new gTLD process potentially as a best practices contractual requirement. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-4-01jun07.htm ICANN Moves Forward Towards Introduction Of Internationalized Top Level Labels in the DNS ICANN posted a set of draft procedures describing how IANA will manage the insertion, administration and removal of internationalized top-level labels (as delegated A-records) in the DNS root zone. These procedures are intended to guide an evaluation plan providing for the insertion and monitoring of sample IDNs into the root zone later this year. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02jun07.htm New Domain Names Increase E-Business Risks (reg req'd) In May 2007, ICANN announced its intention to release new general-use domain names in 2008. This is the first expansion of general use domain names since 2000. Domain names that have been added since have been limited to specific regions or industries (for example .aero, .travel and .jobs). While it is customary for Australian businesses to reserve the .com and .com.au extensions, it has not been common practice for businesses to also protect themselves by securing other available general use domain names – .net, .biz, .info and .org. Their risk exposure will increase when new general use names emerge next year. The argument for securing all available domain names is compelling. Not doing so could result in cyber squatters holding you to ransom at a later date. Worse still, a competitor could register a domain before you do, causing brand confusion and directing customers away from your business. http://mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=48930 Security Through Obscurity as an Institution by Kurtis Lindqvist One of my staff members pointed me to an article by Mikko Hyppönen in Foreign Policy. In this article Mikko argues that a new TLD like .bank for some reason would prevent on-line fraud, at least partially. Mikko seems to be arguing that with a dedicated TLD registry for financial institutions and a fee high enough to act as an entry barrier you would have a trustworthy bank domains that would be immune against today’s phising attempts. I don’t believe in this for a second. http://www.circleid.com/posts/tld_registry_security_financial_institution/ Russian domain expropriated by foreign "name owner" One of Moscow's city courts satisfied a non-resident company's claim for its right for a domain name in .RU which spells the same as the company's name. We know many cases when domain names were legally returned to the trademark owners, but this is the first story about the plain word name. http://webplanet.ru/english/2007/05/31/domain_en.html ENUM service launches in Ireland An ENUM service, which makes it possible to link commonly-used internet addresses with traditional telephone numbers, has been launched in Ireland by (IEDR) and Internet Privatstifung Austria and provided the first commercial ENUM registry service in the world. http://electricnews.net/frontpage/news-10080159.html Mergers and Acquisitions in Domain Industry Increasing at an Impressive Rate by Michele Neylon As the year progresses the number of mergers and acquisitions in the domain industry is increasing at an impressive rate. Hot on the heels of GoDaddy's acquisition (saving?) of RegisterFly another media company acquires a domain company. Is anyone beginning to see a pattern emerging? Oversee.net has acquired SnapNames... It's an interesting acquisition for Oversee.net which already owns DomainSponsor as well as a very interesting portfolio of domains. http://www.circleid.com/posts/mergers_acquisitions_in_domain_industry/ Update Regarding ICANN's Registrar Data Escrow Request For Proposals In advance of the 8 June 2007 deadline for submission of Registrar Data Escrow proposals, ICANN is soliciting questions regarding the terms of the RFP and technical specifications of the RDE program from potential applicants. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-01jun07.htm ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Mongolia ICANN announced today that it has signed an accountability framework with the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .mn--Mongolia, Datacom LTD http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-01jun07.htm How to get the best de-domains (news release) Who is visiting www.domainregistry.de/de-domain.html will be surprised: One can see live the deletion of de-domains. Visitors, who come to the website www.domainregistry.de/de-domain.html of ICANN accredited Registrar Secura, will have a big surprise: They can watch live the deletions of de-domains. http://verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=52691&pm=1 Domain buyer to be acquired Oversee.net, which manages more than 2.5 million bare-bones websites, plans to acquire a company that specializes in buying Web domain names the second they become available. Los Angeles-based Oversee expects the deal for Portland, Ore.-based SnapNames to close later this month, Oversee Chief Executive Lawrence Ng said. He declined to disclose the price. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oversee1jun01,1,3054930.story http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/01/overseenet-to-acquire-snapnames/ US authorities net 'top spammer' Web users worldwide could notice a welcome reduction in unsolicited emails offering penis enlargements and other dubious services after a man described as one of the globe's top 10 most prolific spammers was arrested. ... It is the first time federal prosecutors have used identity theft laws to prosecute a spammer for taking over someone else's internet domain name, theoretically leaving Mr Soloway facing a long prison sentence. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2091938,00.html How Much is a Three Letter Domain Name Worth? Prices range from a couple thousand to millions Domain Name Wire was just scrolling through Sedo’s auction page and came across a listing for a three letter domain, Pat.com, which has a bid of $62,000 with its reserve met. Sedo sold a number of three character domains over the past couple weeks at a wide variety of prices. A quick search at NameBio shows that recent .com three character domain sales range from a couple thousand dollars up to millions depending on a number of factors. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/05/31/how-much-is-a-three-letter-domain-name-worth/ In Cannes Bid, Reverse Agency Domain Names Stolen. No One Cares It's not often we find anything remotely resembling an original thought in this industry but we think we've found one in The Kidnapping Campaign, an effort by an unnamed interactive agency to hold other interactive agencies' reverse domain names captive until they pay a ransom. Once the ransom is paid, the agency can have its reverse domain name back and the identity of the agency behind the stunt will be revealed at Cannes only if it wins an award. http://adrants.com/2007/05/in-cannes-bid-reverse-agency-domain-names.php us: Geiger wins suit to control Web sites Geiger, an 18-year-old singer and songwriter from Pittsford, alleged in a lawsuit that a Minnesota man violated the trademark status of Geiger's name by claiming ownership of the Web domain names www.teddygeiger.com and www.teddygeiger.net. http://democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS01/705310352/ Why to register md-domains? (news release) The md-domain is the web address that identifies you, your company or your organization with the healthcare industry. http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/secura/boxid-108891.html http://verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=52607&pm=1 Aero-domain: it's all in the name (news release) The web address nafa.aero provides a case book example of the benefits of using the aero-domain as a means of providing the essential differential among domains. http://openpr.com/news/21534/Aero-domain-it-s-all-in-the-name.html Why coop-domains? (news release) Co-operatives around the world can benefit from using a coop-domain name. Whether you have a web site or not or whether your cooperative is large or small, .coop provides many benefits to co-operatives. These are some of the reasons that organizations have bought coop-domains. http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/secura/boxid-109039.html GoDaddy.com Takes Over RegisterFly Domains Names and Customers This week marked a big week for two major domain registrars, GoDaddy.com and RegisterFly. With the ICANN approval, GoDaddy.com this week obtained all 850,000 gTLD names previously held by RegisterFly. Existing RegisterFly customers will be able to access and manage their domain names from GoDaddy's website. http://dailytech.com/GoDaddycom+Takes+Over+RegisterFly+Domains+Names+and+Customers/article7514.htm .ASIA : règles d’attribution des noms "réservés" Près de 4 noms sur 5 iront aux gouvernements et organismes publics rattachés à la communauté DotAsia. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1221/asie-asia-regles-d-attribution-des-noms-reserves.php Un français représentant des utilisateurs d'Internet européens Sébastien Bachollet vient d'être choisi par l'association des utilisateurs européens de l'ICANN. Il va donc les représenter pendant un an. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1215/un-francais-representant-des-utilisateurs-d-internet-europeens.php Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur sex.com sans jamais avoir osé le demander Mais quel nom ! sex.com. Un nom de trois lettres. En .com. La requête la plus fréquente sur les outils de recherche. Celui qui détient sex.com est comme le propriétaire de centaines de mètres carrés au centre de Tokyo, la ville où le foncier est le plus cher au monde. http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/05/tout-ce-que-vous-avez-toujours-voulu.html .ar: Un tribunal para marcas.com Es para dirimir disputas por la titularidad de los dominios ".com.ar". También estudian cobrar la inscripción. De esta forma buscan frenar prácticas especulativas. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1495 El Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio lanza el programa "Ninguna Empresa sin Web" La iniciativa NEW está dotada de un presupuesto de 1.560.000 euros y pretende estimular al núcleo del tejido empresarial español para que disponga de una página web con dominio propio http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1494 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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