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Headlines from today's edition of the news include: ICANN goes native, as new TLDs proliferate | ICANN Mulls Registrar Changes | After Registerfly meltdown, ICANN mulls registrar contract changes | InternetNZ’s Farrar steps down from Council 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/ ********************************************************** Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118248076104444461.html Helping the web become world wide http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6230426.stm Hackers to hit Internet core, Wi-Fi and digital homes http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=9235 Austrian domain registrar 'aids' phishers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/austrian_registrar_phishing_row/ Elections bring new blood to InternetNZ http://m-net.net.nz/1714/latest-news/latest-news/elections-bring-new-blood-to-internetnz.php ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** Drezner Muffs Internet Governance by Milton Mueller Tufts political scientist Daniel Drezner has produced an appealingly simple model to explain the typology of global economic governance. You can get a quick summary of his position at Cato Unbound. His basic thesis is that global governance is still driven by the power of states -- well, not states exactly, but "Great Powers." There are at the moment only two Great Powers, the US and the EU. From this, he derives a useful typology. When the US and EU interests are congruent, and the rest of the world isn't adamantly opposed, we will get harmonized and effective global governance. When the EU and US agree, but the rest of the world won't go along, the Great Powers will avoid universal institutions and forum shop, and we will get "club" standards. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3031995.html Meeting of High-Level Experts on "Competitive Platforms for the Delivery of Digital Content" The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are jointly organizing a meeting of high-level experts to identify key trends and to address the new technological and policy challenges in the digital content delivery environment. This meeting is being held under the "Shaping Tomorrow's Networks Initiative" and in line with the stated objectives of the WSIS Geneva Declaration of Principles (Dec 2003), which affirms “…the common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life...”. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stn/digitalcontent/ ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing US$7.5 million on a single domain name -- business.com -- back in 1999. It was the single highest price paid for a domain name at the time. Now look who is having the last laugh. The company that grew out of business.com -- a search engine used by businesses to find products and services -- is now on the auction block, and could fetch anywhere between $300 million and $400 million, according to people familiar with the matter. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118248076104444461.html http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSN2241706220070622 http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5475 Helping the web become world wide Although the web has permeated almost 250 nations, everywhere from Ascension Island to Zimbabwe, the language of online life is by no means as diverse. ... China has been at the forefront of the efforts to use international domain names. In 2006 it started seriously promoting three Chinese language domain names: gongsi (.com), wangluo (.net) and zhongguo (China). "China has a long term vision for the project, they are very persistent and they know what they want," said Subramanian Subbiah, co-founder of I-DNS.net, who has worked with China on the native language domains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6230426.stm McAfee: attacks coming for infrastructure, digital home Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee's AVERT labs said last week. McAfee offered its take on the top security trends for 2007, at a press event in San Francisco, saying that well-known problems like phishing, spam, bots and rootkits are on the rise. http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/64B07B0E689B9D39CC25730400796D28 http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=9235 http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=9811 Austrian domain registrar 'aids' phishers Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has taken the unusual step of putting an entry for Austrian Domain Registrar Nic.at on its Spamhaus Block List (SBL). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/21/austrian_registrar_phishing_row/ Squeegee Domains by John Levine When I was growing up, one of the annoyances of life in New York City was squeegee men. When your car was stopped at a light, these guys would run up, make a few swipes at your windshield with a squeegee, then look menacing until you gave them a tip. It occurs to me that domain “monetizers’’ are the Internet’s squeegee men. If I make a minor typing error entering a domain name, they run up and offer to sell a link to the place I wanted to go (well, they sell the place I wanted to go a click from me, but close enough.) http://www.circleid.com/posts/squeegee_domain_monetization/ .berlin TLD Awarded the German Internet Award 2007 Just to inform the people who are interested in news about the prospective TLD candidate dotBERLIN: At the ceremonial awards for the eco Internet Awards, dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG won the special award of the German Internet industry. dotBERLIN aims to create a new domain ending .berlin (a top-level domain), which will result in a local identity for Berliners in the Internet, providing an alternative to addresses such as .de and .com. .berlin has become a trailblazer, setting a trend which has since been followed by other large cities such as New York and Paris. http://www.circleid.com/posts/berlin_german_internet_award_eco/ ISPs, Universities Struggle from Social-Networking Sites Using High DNS Queries and Bandwidth Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Facebook are accounting for such huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption that carriers, universities and corporations are scrambling to keep pace. The trend is prompting some network operators to upgrade their DNS systems, while others are blocking the sites altogether. http://www.circleid.com/posts/social_networking_using_high_dns_bandwidth/ nz: Cyber storm warning! In March next year, New Zealand will be the target of an unprecedented cyber security attack on the country's critical infrastructure including utilities, central government and telecommunications networks. Experts say it will be unprecedented in terms of the severity, prolonged duration, co-ordination of minds behind it, and international collaboration surrounding the attack. Thankfully, it will just be a simulation. http://m-net.net.nz/1715/latest-news/latest-news/cyber-storm-warning.php Hundreds Take Stand on YouChoose.net Against Domain Name Parking Domain name parking, also known as cybersquatting, prevents millions of the top-quality website domain names from being used by businesses who can best benefit from them. Instead, individuals or companies with no association with the domain names use sophisticated software to grab all available names, and keep those deemed most valuable with the intent of reselling them to the highest bidder. http://ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=4557 http://www.circleid.com/posts/youchoose_against_domain_name_parking/ http://blog.clickz.com/070621-171233.html ICANN RegisterFly update: 24 June 2007 The last update on the RegisterFly situation covered the deal struck between RegisterFly and GoDaddy that saw all the registrar’s domains transferred over to GoDaddy. That deal has seen the vast majority of domain issues sorted out. However, as far as ICANN is concerned, RegisterFly and Kevin Medina were in breach of their contract and ICANN has continued to prosecute its case against the company. http://blog.icann.org/?p=150 ICANN Posts Draft Management Operating Principles for Community Consultation In conjunction with the Joint Project Agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN, the ICANN Board of Directors approved an Affirmation of Responsibilities for ICANN's Private Sector Management. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-23jun07.htm cNSO Regions Working Group Report of the ICANN Geographical Regions Posted for Public Comments Based on the feedback received, the draft report and its recommendations have been further amended. As the next step in the process, the Working Group would appreciate input from ccTLD managers and other stakeholders, including the GAC, on the report generally and on the following questions in particular: 1. Do the concerns as described in Section B of the report adequately represent the concerns? If not, please indicate what needs to change; and 2. Do you support the recommendations (Section D) of the Working Group? http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-22jun07.htm Direct navigation a boon for owners Why are generic domain names such as such as Wine.com, Weddings.com, Catering.com, Greetings.com or LowCarbs.com so hot? It has to do with direct navigation where users can skip searching well-known engines such as Google or Yahoo and find things on the Internet directly. Thus sites with easy-to-find and easy-to-remember domain names will draw large numbers of Internet users and attract advertisers. http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_6218716 'Squatters' cash 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." http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070624/BUSINESS/706240316 Introducing Premium Domain Names by Adam Eisner In my last blog entry, I wrote that a domain name suggestion tool was the “tip of the iceberg” in re-thinking the domain name search process. Today we’re pleased to introduce what we think is another important step in the evolution of domain name search: Premium Domain Names. http://blog.tucows.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/19/3032776.html Real journalism hard to find on Iraqi websites This article concludes "And of course there has to be a prize for the most terrible Iraqi website - if we can make sure Iraqis made it. This is a problem in Iraq because no one seems to trust the National Communication and Media Commission that has the legal right to distribute domain names and should have a decent server. There is not one Iraqi news website ending with iq." http://www.newsabah.com/look/english.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=2&NrIssue=886&NrSection=26 Elections bring new blood to InternetNZ Nominees for the 2007 InternetNZ Council elections are already beginning to role in, with just over three weeks until entries close on July 6th. http://m-net.net.nz/1714/latest-news/latest-news/elections-bring-new-blood-to-internetnz.php au: auDA Foundation opens second round of grants (news release) The auDA Foundation is calling for submissions from eligible applicants to receive funding in the second round of grants http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-20062007/ New rules on the assignment, registration and administration of .dk names Effective July 1, Danish Registry will be able to suspend typosquatted domain names (new paragraph 8.3.6 of its rules). The registrant of a domain name which is subject to active public use who discovers that a nearly identical domain name has been subsequently put into active use may notify DK Hostmaster. http://domaine.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-rules-on-assignment-registration.html A new 'initiative' carried out by "Registro Italiano in Internet per le imprese (Italian Registry in Internet for businesses)" (news release) The ccTLD .it Registry has received numerous reports regarding a group that is posing as a "Registro Italiano in Internet per le imprese (Italian Registry in Internet for businesses)". This group is sending letters to assignors of Italian domains asking the recipient to "verify the correctness" of some data relating to the domain name itself. http://www.nic.it/en/novita/comunicazioni.html Nic LC Launches SUNRISE Period (news release) Nic LC announces a SUNRISE period designed to allow Trademark Owners and Intellectual Property (IP) owners to register their domain names. The SUNRISE period, which will extend until June 30, 2007, will allow all Trademark owners and IP owners to reserve and/or register their marks and Intellectual property in the .lc registry prior to the full opening up of the registry to worldwide registrations. http://www.nic.lc/news-05282007-1.htm Nic.LC re-opens the .LC Internet registry (news release) After being essentially closed for the past two (2) years, on 21 May 2007 Nic LC re-opened the .LC Internet registry. http://www.nic.lc/news-05212007-1.htm .my Price Promotion In conjunction with the 50 years Merdeka Celebration, MYNIC will be having 3 months price promotion for customers starting from 5th June 2007 to 5th September 2007. During this period, the maximum cap for registration and renewal fees of .com.my, .net.my, org.my, .gov.my, .edu.my and mil.my will be RM80 and RM32 for .name.my. http://mynic.net.my/newhp/announcements/mynic-30may07.html no: Smooth transition to numerical domains As from Tuesday June 19th at 10am the application system was reopened after the transition to a domain name policy which includes numerical domain names. The transition has been carried out without problems. http://www.norid.no/nytt/nummerovergang-status.en.html Live Domain Auction Sells over $10M in Domains Domain Name Wire lists most/all of the domain names that were sold at the recent Moniker auction in New York. Sales totalled over US$10m. The article notes "Many .mobi domains didn’t sell due to very high reserve prices." There are 218 domains listed, some of which did not sell. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/21/live-domain-name-auction-results-seniorscom-18m/ Sedo Acquires Industry Pioneer, GreatDomains (news release) Sedo’s top executives have just completed a three- Sedo announced that it has purchased GreatDomains from VeriSign, Inc. Sedo.com is the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names, and GreatDomains is an established marketplace focused exclusively on the trading of high-quality, generic domain names. The acquisition provides a tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the growth of the secondary domain name market. http://www.sedo.com/presse/presse_1_220607.php4?tracked=1&partnerid=21172&language=us A name with high net worth What's in a name? Big bucks, if you're talking about tags like 1800cocaine.com, BeautifulHookers.com and AirplaneCrashLawyer.com. Those Internet domain names and a lot more will be up for sale Thursday at a Manhattan auction that promoters hope will bring in a fortune. http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2007/06/18/2007-06-18_a_name_with_high_net_worth.html LeaseThis.com and NameMedia's AfternicDLS Partner to Make Additional 700,000 Premium Domains Available for Leasing (news release) NameMedia’s Afternic Domain Listing Service (DLS) and LeaseThis.com announced a strategic marketing partnership that will expand LeaseThis.com inventory by 700,000 premium domains names. http://domaininformer.com/news/press/070621LeaseThis.html Websites with short names score higher - study (sub req'd) http://telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=172901 nic.at vs spamhaus.org: der streit geht weiter Die lautstark geführte Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem österreichischen Domain-Verwalter nic.at und dem Anti-Spam-Projekt Spamhaus.org geht in die nächste Runde: Spamhaus hat nun einen der beiden Einträge bezüglich nic.at entfernt - nur um den anderen umgehend zu verweitern. http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2932402 "Es ist noch genügend Platz im Internet" Die Frage nach dem Umgang mit Spam, die Internationalisierung der Domainnamen und die Diskussion, wer künftig Einfluss auf das Internet haben soll, sind die Hauptthemen, die die Webgemeinschaft in den nächsten Jahren beschäftigen werden, meint Richard Wein, Geschäftsführer der österreichischen Domainvergabestelle nic.at. Im Interview mit pressetext erklärt Wein zudem, warum es noch genügend Platz im Web gibt, IPv6 in den nächsten fünf Jahren ein Randthema bleiben und welche Lehre aus der Spamhaus-Affäre gezogen wird. http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2931931 Nic.at weist Spamhaus-Darstellung zurück Der Spamjäger Spamhaus.org hat im Konflikt mit der österreichischen Domainregistrierungsstelle nic.at sein Schweigen gebrochen. In einem Statement bedankt sich Spamhaus.org bei nic.at für die Löschung von Domains. Tatsächlich hat nic.at aber gar keine Domains gelöscht und beabsichtigt das auch nicht. Der Konflikt ist damit um ein kurioses Kapitel reicher. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91547 Österreichs Provider kritisieren Spamhaus Großes Unverständnis herrscht in Österreichs Provider-Szene über die Sperre des Mail-Servers der heimischen Registry nic.at durch Spamhaus.org: Von "Wildwest-Methoden" und "radikalen Weltverbesserern" ist die Rede. Obwohl Blacklists wichtig seien, wächst die Skepsis. http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/201527/ Österreichischer Providerverband empfiehlt Verzicht auf Spamhaus.org-Liste Der österreichische Internetprovider-Verband ISPA rät seinen Mitgliedern, bei der Spambekämpfung auf die Spamblock-Liste (SBL) von Spamhaus.org zu verzichten. Anlass für die aktuelle Empfehlung ist ein Listing der österreichischen Registrierungsstelle nic.at, ohne dass diese selbst Spam-Mail verschickt hätte. Spamhaus.org möchte mit dem Listing, das zwischenzeitlich den Mail-Verkehr von nic.at weitgehend blockiert hatte, Druck ausüben. Nic.at soll dazu gebracht werden, 15 .at-Domains zu löschen, weil Subdomains dieser Domains dazu verwendet worden sein sollen, auf Phishing-Websites zu verweisen. Die Registrierungsstelle weigert sich jedoch, die Domains ohne gerichtlichen Auftrag zu löschen, da das der österreichischen Rechtslage widerspreche. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91606 ISPA warnt vor Spamhaus-Listen Die ISPA kritisiert die "Überreaktionen" von Spamhaus und warnt ihre Mitglieder davor, die Blacklist dieses Anbieters einzusetzen. Spamhaus schreibt ORF.at, den Fall "eskalieren" lassen zu wollen. http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/201924/ ICANN soll rasch Rootzone mit DNSSEC signieren Die europäische IP-Adress-Registry Réseaux IP Européen (RIPE) hat die ICANN aufgefordert, rasch für die Signierung der DNS-Rootzone mit Sicherheitsprotokoll DNSSEC zu sorgen. Das geht aus einem Brief von RIPE-Direktor Rob Blokzijl, RIPE-NCC-CEO Axel Pawlik und von einem der Vorsitzenden der DNS-Arbeitsgruppe beim RIPE, Jim Reid, an den ICANN-Vorsitzenden Vint Cerf und ICANNs CEO Paul Twomey hervor. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91501 400 millions pour un nom ! Business.com serait-il le nom de tous les records ? Acheté au prix de USD 7,5 millions en 1999, le nom serait bientôt proposé aux enchères. Estimations du montant de la vente : de USD 300 à 400 millions. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1241/400-millions-pour-un-nom.php Les dépenses publicitaires sur Internet vont doubler en cinq ans. Les dépenses concernant la publicité en ligne sur le marché américain devraient pratiquement doubler en cinq ans selon l'institut Jupiter Research . Elles passeront de 19,9 milliards en 2007 à 35,4 milliards de dollars en 2012. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1240/les-depenses-publicitaires-sur-internet-vont-doubler-en-cinq-ans.php L'EURid affichera son .EU en Europe Le registre de l'extension européenne s'engagera cet été dans une campagne destinée à promouvoir l'usage de son extension. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1237/europe-l-eurid-affichera-son-eu-en-europe.php Menaces web et cybercriminalité: comment faire face en entreprise Les politiques de sécurité des entreprises doivent s'adapter à l'évolution des menaces informatiques, tant du point de vue de leurs parades technologiques que de leur gestion humaine. Première partie de notre revue des 4 principaux types de menaces. http://fr.news.yahoo.com/21062007/7/menaces-web-et-cybercriminalite-comment-faire-face-en-entreprise.html La historia de Internet - la experiencia latinoamericana Se presenta el primero de una serie de podcasts que cubren la historia de Internet, contada por las personas que ayudaron a desarrollar la red, entrevistadas por Pablo Hinojosa, enlace de ICANN para América Latina, quien pregunta a los administradores de los ccTLDs regionales cómo fue la primera conexión a Internet en sus países. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1502 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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