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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily 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/ ********************************************************** China aims to top U.S. in cyberspace: U.S. general http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6190819.html Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/dos_security_cyberwarfare/ Fancy buying Scotland for £2m? http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=914992007 us: YouTube - uTube showdown stays alive in federal court http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/youtube_utube_alive/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/utube_youtube_domain_names_case/ Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1782 California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903450 Yellow legal fight erupts in NZ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://stuff.co.nz/4092469a13.html .nz offers IPv6 connectivity (news release) http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/nzipv6 New Zealand takes first steps to IPv6 http://itwire.com.au/content/view/12848/127/ http://m-net.net.nz/1700/latest-news/latest-news/billions-upon-billions-of-addresses-now-available-to-nz-inter.php http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inane/3115 ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** IGF 2007: Rio here we come The first UN Internet Governance Forum, held in Athens in November last year, was widely hailed as a success. It was an undeniably huge achievement to get the Chinese government in the same room as Amnesty International, and then to get them talking. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/igf_nominet_2007/ China aims to top U.S. in cyberspace: U.S. general (Reuters) China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday. "They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that,'" 8th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert Elder told reporters. http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-6190819.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN1335835020070613 http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903969 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. ... The almost unanswerable question is whether it was the Russian government that launched the attack or whether it was Russian hackers. Estonia, it seems, provoked the attack when the Estonian government removed a statue (in Tallinn) that commemorates Soviet troops who were killed fighting the Nazis. Estonian officials claim some of the attacking computers had Kremlin IP addresses, but - and I'm sure the Russians would suggest this - such computers could have been infected by viruses and used as bots by Russian hackers. That's what you call plausible deniability. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/dos_security_cyberwarfare/ Fancy buying Scotland for £2m? Scotland will go on sale at an auction in New York with a price tag of offers over £2 million, The Scotsman can reveal. But it is not the whole country up for grabs - just the internet domain name of scotland.com. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=914992007 http://upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/06/12/scotlandcom_goes_on_the_block/9671/ http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/52270/ us: YouTube - uTube showdown stays alive in federal court For the Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation, operator of uTube.com, its domain name means cash - and with a federal court's recent refusal to dismiss the company's suit against YouTube, the possibility of even more cash in the future. The company has operated uTube.com as a means to sell used pipe and tube mills and rollform machinery since 1996. After YouTube's launch in 2005, the sleepy little Ohio website went from around 1,500 visitors a month to roughly 70,000 per day. The company alleges that this caused its web host's servers to crash, which disrupted its business and sullied its reputation. It also claims that bandwidth overages bumped its hosting fees from $100 a month to $2,500. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/12/youtube_utube_alive/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/utube_youtube_domain_names_case/ Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe When Estonia suffered a series of cyber attacks in recent months, US official John Negroponte told the Financial Times: “We need to prepare ourselves because this is likely only to become more of an issue in the future.” Well, the future is here. And the wave of cyber attacks has moved from Eastern to Western Europe. It has recently been disclosed that around the time Estonia was under cyber attack, an important Spanish domain-registration company was also waging a battle against unknown cyber pirates. The Cyber Terrorism Division of the Spanish Police is investigating the incident. If identified, the hackers involved could be prosecuted for blackmailing a company to prevent the disclosure of confidential information. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1782 California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing Jeffrey Brett Goodin faced a maximum of 101 years behind bars but received only 70 months during his sentencing for e-mail fraud Monday afternoon. http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903450 Yellow legal fight erupts in NZ Telephone directory group, Yellow Pages, is suing Brisbane university student Emmanuel Khoury in a dispute partly over the right to trademark the colour yellow in New Zealand. Yellow is seeking to prevent Mr Khoury's company Yellow Book trading under its present name in New Zealand and using the domain name yellowbook.co.nz, on the grounds that it would cause confusion for the public. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414254498.html http://stuff.co.nz/4092469a13.html .nz offers IPv6 connectivity (news release) NZRS (.nz Registry Services) announces that a core component of the New Zealand Internet infrastructure is being geared up to accommodate huge potential increases in the number of networked devices connected to the Internet. http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/nzipv6 New Zealand takes first steps to IPv6 NZRS (.nz Registry Services) has upgraded is .nz name servers - ns8.dns.net.nz and ns9.dns.net.nz, located in Wellington and Albany respectively - to support IPv6 addresses. Both are connected to the NZ IPv6 Internet Exchange. NZRS has also introduced an IPv6 capable Whois server accessible at whois.ipv6.srs.net.nz. http://itwire.com.au/content/view/12848/127/ http://m-net.net.nz/1700/latest-news/latest-news/billions-upon-billions-of-addresses-now-available-to-nz-inter.php http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inane/3115 cz: Proposal Suggests Changes to Domain Name UDRP Ask any large company or small time domainer and each will tell you that the UDRP domain name dispute process is flawed. But UDRP doesn’t have much reason to change. Between WIPO, National Arbitration Forum and the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre, UDRP dispute providers don’t need to do much to win competition. They just need to court large companies to their services in the cyber version of “venue shopping”. So it’s refreshing to see a proposal by an organization to provide UDRP services and suggest changes to existing practices. Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), which handles .eu disputes, filed a proposal with ICANN to offer services. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/12/proposal-suggests-changes-to-domain-name-udrp/ Domain registrations forshadow climate initiative A few weeks ago Google registered some new domain names that were open to speculation — these were along the lines of ClimateSaverPC.com. Today Google, along with over 25 other organizations, announced their involvement in the Climate Savers Computing Initiative aiming to reduce emissions 50% by 2010. This translates into an estimated cost savings for end users of $5.5 billion. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=606 ICANN Advisory Regarding Venue for October 2007 Meeting ICANN advises that the Los Angeles Airport Hilton has been selected as the venue for the third public meeting of 2007, scheduled for 29 October through 2 November. ICANN is serving as the local host for this meeting and the website with information regarding booking of guest rooms will be available during the upcoming San Juan public meeting. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-12jun07.htm ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6 (news release) On 7 May 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees passed a resolution advising the Internet technical community that migration to a new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will be necessary to allow continued growth of the Internet. http://arin.net/media/releases/070521-v6-resolution.pdf What's Wrong wth .biz Domain Names Question: I have a .biz website that ranks well in some of the major search engines for a few keywords, but does not rank as well as I would like for many other keywords. Should I consider switching to a .com domain name? Answer: In the long run I think it is worth moving away from .biz if you are creating a real long-term business. The web was created to share information, and businesses are generally viewed less admirably than the individuals that work in them. As long as relevancy algorithms are based largely on links, then a .biz extension could hurt your exposure in most fields. http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/11/whats-wrong-wth-biz-domain-names Domain Name Transaction Firm, Reports Over $1.2 Million Silent Auction Sale (news release) Moniker.com reported that over $1.2 million worth of domain names were sold during its silent auction, held at the Casino Affiliate Convention Amsterdam 2007. http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-transaction-firm-reports-over-1-2-million-silent-auction-sale-3115.html 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 our new Top 20 domain sales chart. In fact that is the third highest sale reported so far in 2007. Moniker also had the number two slot with Mozambique.com at $82,500. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales06-12-07.htm Rick Latona Lights Up the Top 20 With Three Charted Domains Including Iran.com at $400,000 Rick Latona of DigiPawn.com went on a spending spree this week and more than half a million dollars later he was the proud new owner of Iran.com ($400,000), TrackAndField.com ($57,000), Territory.com ($30,000) and Gutter.com ($12,500). http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales06-19-07.htm Deutsche YouTube-Domain wechselt den Besitzer Das Videoportal YouTube erfreut sich auch hierzulande großer Beliebtheit. Inzwischen ist der Suchmaschinen-Tochter auch im Besitz der passenden .de-Domain. Die Adresse youtube.de gehörte bis zum Monatswechsel noch einer englischen Limited und verwies auf das Portal VideoTube des Landshuters Rudi Singer. Bereits Ende vergangenen Jahres hatte Google die Domain beansprucht und angekündigt, diesem "Markenmissbrauch ein Ende zu machen". http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91121 Progression de 6% des enregistrements en un trimestre Le gestionnaire du .COM publie les chiffres du marché des noms de domaine du 1er trimestre 2007 et révèle une progression de 33% du marché sur un an. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1229/progression-de-6-des-enregistrements-en-un-trimestre.php .NU: l’ouverture aux noms courts Le registre du .NU autorise désormais l’enregistrement de noms en .NU à 1 ou 2 caractères, incluant les termes uniquement composés de chiffres. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1232/ile-de-nuie-nu-l-ouverture-aux-noms-courts.php Hausse de 15,4 % des abonnements à l'internet en 2006 Le chiffre d'affaires d'internet atteint 3,7 milliards d'euros dont 276 millions pour l'hébergement et la publicité en ligne selon l'observatoire annuel du régulateur des télécoms. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1230/hausse-de-15-4-des-abonnements-a-l-internet-en-2006.php .IT: les whois bientôt anonymes ! Après l’AFNIC (.FR) et l’EURID (.EU), c’est au tour du registre du .IT de rendre anonyme les whois des noms de domaine enregistrés au nom de particuliers. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1231/it-les-whois-bientot-anonymes.php +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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