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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for regular updates in between postings. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ China to raise key Internet issues at IGF meeting (IDG) http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/06/China-internet-issues_1.html Latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief Spotlights Growth Indicators for First Quarter of 2007 (news release) http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042169.html A Domain Name Game of Growth http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3681906 au: In sunny Queensland, a domain name empire grows http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html It's time to support a multilingual Web by Michael Geist (Toronto Star) http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/221117 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2000/159/ in: Domain names become hot biz at online auctions http://business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=286911 The Three Letter .com Report http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/06/report-on-3-letter-domain-sales/ http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/06/namebio-releases-3-letter-domain-name-pricing-report/ ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** China to raise key Internet issues at IGF meeting (IDG) China is seeking to put technical Internet management issues on the agenda of the next IGF meeting. China appears poised to raise issues that have put it at loggerheads with the United States, which has been consistently criticized for wielding too much influence over the Internet. However, there are no specific plans for how the issues raised by China may be addressed, said Markus Kummer, executive coordinator for the secretariat of the IGF, on Tuesday in London. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/06/China-internet-issues_1.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132616-c,techindustrytrends/article.html Senior Chinese official promotes "web culture with Chinese characteristics" As China battles with Internet pornography, the country's top propaganda official Liu Yunshan has put forward the idea of "building a web culture with Chinese characteristics". Addressing a national meeting on Internet culture on Monday, Liu called for the molding of the Internet into "the new means of promoting a culture of advanced socialism, the new platform for public cultural services, the new area for spiritual fulfillment and a new channel for China to present itself to the outside world. http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200706/06/t20070606_11619871.shtml uk: Internet best practice contest launched Businesses across the UK are being invited to put themselves forward as examples of internet best practice, after Nominet launched a competition. Nominet wants to establish a UK-specific version of the forum to show the rest of the world how well the UK manages its internet governance. Both private and public-sector organisations are invited to enter. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39287411,00.htm http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2191485/nominet-reaches-internet http://www.itpro.co.uk/internet/news/115000/nominet-kicks-off-web-best-practice-challenge.html Nominet Launches Best Practice Challenge for Internet Governance (news release) Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister for Industry and the Regions, unveiled the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007, as part of an initiative by Nominet, DTI and key parliamentarians to create a UK Internet Governance Forum. The Challenge will recognise organisations, groups or individuals that have worked to deliver a safer, more accessible, diverse Internet experience. http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/20107_Nominet_launches_Best_Practice_Challenge_for_Internet_Governance.pdf http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4036 United Nations to control future of Internet Next month, the ITU "Working Group" on the Information Society will consider whether -- and if so, how -- it will assume the lead policy role for the future growth and development of the Internet. This includes assigning domain names and addresses and related technical matters discussed at two earlier U.N. conferences. While no decision affecting the way the United States -- mainly through its agreement with the Southern California corporation called ICANN -- does business, that all is slowly but surely about to change. http://sddt.com/news/article.cfm?SourceCode=20070605tza ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief Spotlights Growth Indicators for First Quarter of 2007 (news release) Key Industry Stats and Trends for Q1 2007 include: TLD registration growth reached 31 percent year-over-year, and 6 percent over most recent quarter; ccTLD growth of 33 percent year-over-year, and 5 percent quarter-over-quarter; new ccTLD registrations were up 86 percent year-over-year; 10.7 million total new registrations worldwide in Q1 2007; total worldwide base of 128 million domain name registrations and 7 million registrations for new .com and .net domain names in Q1 2007. http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042169.html Domain Name Registrations Reach 128 Million, 31 Percent Increase from Previous Year VeriSign released the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2007. The brief highlights key industry data for worldwide domain name activity. Highlights include the total number of domain name registrations reached 128 million, representing a 31 percent increase over the same quarter in the previous year, and a 6 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2006; 10.7 million new domain names in the first quarter of 2007; ccTLDs grew at 33 percent year over year and five percent quarter over quarter; TLD registration growth reached 31 percent year-over-year, and 6 percent over most recent quarter; new ccTLD registrations were up 86 percent year-over-year and 7 million registrations for new .com and .net domain names in Q1 2007. http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_name_registrations_stats_2007/ A Domain Name Game of Growth More than a dozen years after companies and individuals first began to snap up Internet domains, demand continues to be strong. The latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief reports that in the first quarter of 2007 worldwide, there were a total of 10.7 million new registrations. The lion's share came from 7 million new registrations for the .com and .net TLDs. http://www.internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3681906 au: In sunny Queensland, a domain name empire grows The domain-name market is enjoying a great resurgence, writes Dan Skeen. For years, gleeful capitalists have read about moon-shot domain speculation deals, as when Marc Ostrofsky sold the Business.com domain and turned his $US150,000 ($A183,000) investment into a $7.5 million sale. But the domain name market itself has had a phenomenal revival. Australia is cashing in as well. Last week, jobs.com.au was bought by an obscure internet firm for a reported six-figure sum. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431843.html au: Buyers roll the dice in name grab RoveDaily.com.au editor Kent Valentine ruminates on filthy online capitalism. When my cousin taught me to play Monopoly in 1983, he told me I should buy every property I landed on, even if I didn't want them. While I might not want the Angel Islington, he reasoned, somebody else would, and that would benefit me in two ways: a) I could sell it to them for an inflated price, or b) I could hang onto it, just to ruin their plans. "Sometimes you can win," he said, "just by making the other people lose." http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431807.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431807.html http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/06/04/1180809431807.html It's time to support a multilingual Web by Michael Geist (Toronto Star) Imagine if each time a Canadian Internet user entered an email or website address, they would be required to include a Chinese or Cyrillic character. For millions of non-English speakers around the world, this is precisely what they experience when they use the Internet as the domain name system is unable to fully accommodate their local language. http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/221117 http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2000/159/ http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=c476d026-3000-4c9d-a189-30dde4ab7089 in: Domain names become hot biz at online auctions Cybersquatters may have made their life a tad difficult, but enterprising individuals have managed to make an honest living selling domain names - with auction portal eBay India alone recording one sale every eight hours. http://business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=286911 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Domain_names_become_hot_biz_at_online_auctions/articleshow/2103525.cms The Three Letter .com Report The focus of this report is to analyze and determine the current and future market state of domain names consisting of three consecutive letters within the .com top level domain. The data from this report can be located at NameBio.com and consists of domain sales from Afternic.com, Sedo.com, BuyDomains.com, TDNAM.com, DNJournal.com, SnapNames.com, Pool.com and ClubDrop.com. http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/06/report-on-3-letter-domain-sales/ http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/06/namebio-releases-3-letter-domain-name-pricing-report/ Domain Ads Generating Twice the Conversion Rate of Search Ads by Frank Michlick A case study by Efficient Frontier mentions how using the Google Adsense for Domains network doubled the conversion ratio of search ads for their clients. According to their website, “Efficient Frontier manages more than $400 million in annual PPC spend under management, counts 80 of the top 500 search advertisers as clients and manages over 30 million keywords”. http://www.circleid.com/posts/adsense_domain_ads_twice_conversion_rate/ http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/06/domain-parking-sites-convert-at-twice-that-of-search/ Variable Pricing Hits Yahoo Search Partners Domain name parking programs using Yahoo feeds will see revenue linked to quality. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/05/variable-pricing-hits-yahoo-search-partners/ An Example of Pay-Per-Click Arbitrage Trickery Google cracks down on made-for-adsense sites, but will this extend to domain parking pages? If we don’t police ourselves... http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/05/an-example-of-pay-per-click-arbitrage-trickery/ IPv6 for the Rest of Us by Patrick Vande Walle IPv6 deployment is in a chicken and egg situation. On the one hand, there is no willingness from ISPs and commodity DNS router manufacturers to include IPv6 support in their infrastructure or equipment because "there is no demand". On the other hand, there is no demand because the average Joe Blow could not care less if he accesses a web site under IPv4 or IPv6. It should just work. The equipment and infrastructure should adapt transparently... What we users can do is to stop waiting for the industry to get its act together and work around its limitations. http://www.circleid.com/posts/deploying_ipv6_implementation_rest_of_us/ ICANN Launches Media Registration for San Juan Meeting http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-04jun07.htm Personal IE Domains Available Soon? by Michele Neylon Neylon writes another article on the possibility of individuals being able to register .ie domain names. "Under the current rules you cannot register johndoe.ie if your name is John Doe. You would have to add a number to the name, thus rendering it totally useless eg. johndoe7.ie or something of that style." Further, At the end of last month the IE Domain Registry contacted all of its accredited resellers (registrars) looking for feedback on proposed changes to the way “personal” IE domains are handled. http://www.circleid.com/posts/personal_ie_domains_available_soon/ 90% Chinese Government Bodies Use .CN Domain Names The latest statistics from the China Internet Network Information Center show that more than 90% of China's government departments, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance and some provincial level government bodies have adopted .CN domain names. China's State Council issued an opinion on strengthening of the government's website construction and management in December 2006 in which it said that the Chinese domain names of government websites should end with .CN. Since then, .CN domain names have been widely purchased by government departments of various levels. http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/06/07/5487-90-chinese-government-bodies-use-cn-domain-names/ Two Domain Name Companies Receive Investments Is .travel back? A couple weeks ago Domain Name Wire reported that theGlobe.com, parent company of the .travel registry, was running out of money. On May 29 Dancing Bear Investments, Inc. took out a convertible note with the company. It’s only $250,000 but gives the option to purchase up to $2,750,000 before November 25. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/05/two-domain-name-companies-receive-investments/ Seven Figure Sale Lights Up the Domain Scoreboard After Being Finalized This Week Moniker.com auctioned off Scores.com at the Casino Affiliates Convention last month in Amsterdam. The high bid was a whopping $1,180,000 and that blockbuster deal was closed this week to easily claim the top spot on Domain Name Journal's new Top 20 domain sales chart. In fact that is the third highest sale reported so far in 2007. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales06-12-07.htm ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for .sv (El Salvador) ICANN has announced today an accountability framework with the ccTLD manager for .sv, delegated to SVNet in 1994, a not-for-profit organization based in El Salvador. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement06jun07-english.htm Network Solutions Now Providing .mobi Domains Network Solutions is expanding its offerings with registration services for .mobi domains. http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/Newsroom/Query.aspx?SiteName=NetworkSolutions&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=189214&XSL=PressRelease&Cache=True&Merge= Fight for your domain rights (sub req'd) Navigating your way around the maze of national domain name dispute resolution procedures can be tricky. But it is essential if you want to take on the cybersquatters - and win. Emma Barraclough introduces a survey of eight Asian jurisdictions which considers what rights owners need to know to reclaim their rights http://managingip.com/?Page=10&PUBID=34&ISS=23882&SID=687038&TYPE=3 The most sought-after domain name on the web: John Preston reviews Sex.com by Kieran McCarthy In 1994, Gary Kremen, a Silicon Valley software salesman, set up a website called sex.com and registered himself as the legal owner. It didn't cost him a thing; there wasn't even a registration fee. Kremen was not a pornographer, nor did he intend to become one. Indeed, he took a dim view of pornography; his main interest being in offering free sex education. But swiftly - very swiftly - both Kremen's world and the world around him began to change. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/06/07/bomcca04.xml What's in a name - litigation and profound embarrassment - sex.com book review In the beginning, when the world wide web was void and without form, you could buy an island in it for a song, without having to concern yourself about hostile natives. Some early colonists bought what amounted to whole continents. In 1994, Gary Kremen registered "sex.com", but Stephen M Cohen stole it through devious means. http://ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=3868026 Banks targeted by hordes of cybersquatters More than 10,000 “cybersquatting” domains are infringing on the trademarks of 10 of the top U.S. retail-bank websites, according to CitizenHawk Inc., a provider of digital brand management solutions. http://investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070604/FREE/70604019/1017 DeNIC-Führung: Zurück auf Los Die DeNIC eG wird zum Wochenende ihre Vorstandsposten neu ausschreiben. Die Verträge mit den beiden amtierenden Vorstandsmitgliedern Stephan Deutsch und Andreas Bäß wird man im Wege einer "ordentlichen Kündigung" zum Jahresende auflösen, heißt es beim DeNIC. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90742 ICANN testet Aufnahme von IDN-Domains in die DNS-Rootzone Die ICANN will in einem weiteren Test den Einfluss der Einführung von nicht-englischen TLDs auf die Rootzone testen. Das kündigte die private Netzverwaltung am vergangenen Wochenende an. In zwei kurzen Dokumenten entwirft ICANN die Bedingungen für den Test, bei dem lediglich nicht-operative Dummies in die Rootzone aufgenommen werden und in Bezug auf das durch sie verursachte Datenaufkommen überwacht werden sollen. Bis 22. Juni können Stellungnahmen zu den Entwürfen bei der ICANN abgegeben werden. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90612 ICANN bereitet Test mit IDNs vor Die Internet-Adressverwaltung ICANN hat einen ersten Entwurf zum Testverfahren veröffentlicht, mit dem die Einführung "internationalisierter" Top-Level-Domains in die DNS-Root-Zone geprüft werden soll, die nicht im ASCII-Zeichensatz geschrieben wurden. http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/197619/ Plädoyers für Top Level Domain .berlin im Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus Bei einer Anhörung im Medienausschuss des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses haben sich Experten am heutigen Mittwoch für die Einrichtung einer regionalen TLD .berlin ausgesprochen. Die Erweiterung des Namensraums im Internet sei ein klarer Auftrag der Netzverwaltung ICANN, erklärte Annette Mühlberg, Leiterin des Referats Neue Medien beim Bundesvorstand der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft ver.di und europäische Vertreterin des Gremiums zur Einbeziehung der Nutzerinteressen bei der Netzverwaltung. Berlin sollte sich daher schnellstmöglich in diesen Prozess einbringen, da die nächste Phase zur Einführung neuer TLDs Anfang 2008 starte. Der Senat und Abgeordnete der rot-roten Berliner Regierungskoalition brachten dagegen Bedenken rund um .berlin vor, die sich etwa auf das Zusammenspiel mit dem Stadtportal berlin.de bezogen. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90743 Kidnapping de noms de domaine à Cannes ! Comment se faire remarquer au festival de Cannes quand on est une petite agence débutante ? En kidnappant les noms de ses concurrents! http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1223/kidnapping-de-noms-de-domaine-a-cannes.php .NG : naissance d’un futur registre La Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) vient de prendre en charge la gestion du .NG. Un premier pas vers la création d’un registre officiel. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1224/nigeria-ng-naissance-d-un-futur-registre.php Registro de Nombres de Dominio en America Latina - Estadisticas al 31 de Mayo del 2007 El estudio iniciado por LatinoamerICANN 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, mantiene una recopilación de datos estadisticos de la región, a continuación se presentan los datos recabados al 31 de Mayo del 2007. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1497 Elecciones en el CGI.br Processo eleitoral para a escolha dos representantes de entidades da sociedade civil interessadas em compor o CGI.br, de acordo com o disposto no Decreto nº 4.829, de 03 de setembro de 2003. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1496 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! 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