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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Internet Governance, Global Privacy and IGF-Rio http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/18/internet-governance-global-privacy-and-igf-rio/ E-conference on Internet Governance and Sustainable Development http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/ Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet? by Patrick Vande Walle http://www.circleid.com/posts/79197_developing_internet_standards_engineers/ Report: Attacks on ISP Nets Intensifying http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=133973 Cyberspies Target Silent Victims http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/09/11/cyberspies-raytheon-lockheed-tech-cx_ag_0911cyberspies.html ICANN celebrates ninth anniversary as master of your domain http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/icann_anniversary/ Stalemate Continues on Hiding WHOIS Info http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=302552 ICANN Asia Pacific Meeting in Delhi by Michele Neylon http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/09/17/icann-asia-pacific-meeting-in-delhi/ The lives of country code domains by Kim Davies http://blog.icann.org/?p=195 DENIC Supervisory Board appoints new full-time members of the Executive Board - Sabine Dolderer returns [news release] http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_85.html Russia - one million domain names & 30 million internet users http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2707 USSR alive and kicking on the Internet [Reuters] http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1364669 uk: Nominet plan could trip legit domain name holders, warns expert http://out-law.com/page-8479 uk: Lawyers attack Nominet plan for domain name disputes http://out-law.com/page-8481 Plan approved to retire Yugoslav domain [AP] http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_YUGOSLAV_DOMAINS http://www.thestate.com/technology-wire/story/177733.html ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** Internet Governance, Global Privacy and IGF-Rio The global debate on Internet governance will once again gather people from all over the world at UN's IGF, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The process was started last year in Athens, when more than 1,200 participants focused on discussion of the overarching issues tied to the future of information and communications technologies, including control over the Internet architecture and numbering and naming system, security, intellectual property, openness, connectivity, cost and multilingualism. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/18/internet-governance-global-privacy-and-igf-rio/ E-conference on Internet Governance and Sustainable Development >From September 17 to 28, the International Institute for Sustainable >Development is hosting an e-conference to engage researchers, practitioners >and policy analysts in an open discussion on the intersections between >Internet governance and sustainable development. http://www.iisd.org/infosoc/gov/igsd/ The long goodnight... for television, says Vint Cerf Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But recently the man known as the "godfather of the net" laid out his vision of where our online future might be, including a time when we download entire television series in seconds - and even surf the web from Mars. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881523560.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881523560.html Africa telecoms summit to promote Internet access [Reuters] A U.N.-backed Africa communications summit, "Connect Africa", in Rwanda in late October, will seek to boost high-speed Internet access to match the continent's explosive growth in mobile phones, officials said on Wednesday. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19292140.htm http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN19292140.html Internet's demise is greatly exaggerated The internet is coming under increasing strain from a growing range of sources. More people are using bandwidth-hungry applications, such as video streaming, and the size of files being downloaded is growing all the time. http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2198878/internet-demise-greatly-3460058 http://www.pcw.co.uk/itweek/comment/2198878/internet-demise-greatly-3460058 A call for Net neutrality debate in U.K. The time has come for the United Kingdom to join the growing debate surrounding Net neutrality, the president of the British Computer Society told ZDNet UK. http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6208405.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6208405.html us: Senator: Net neutrality push ain't over yet One of the leading U.S. Senate proponents of Net neutrality laws said Monday that he's not giving up on enacting the divisive antidiscrimination rules. To a standing ovation, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) urged attendees at the Future of Music Policy Summit here to "fight back and say this is something that's important for our country's interests." http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9779815-7.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - DOMAIN SECURITY ********************** Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet? by Patrick Vande Walle There is currently a discussion going on between Milton Mueller and Patrik Föltström over the deployment of DNSSEC on the root servers. I think the discussion exemplifies the difficult relation between those who develop standards and those who use them. On the one hand, Milton points out that the way the signing of the root zone will be done will have a great influence on the subjective trust people and nation states will have towards the system. On the other hand, Patrik states that "DNSSEC is just digital signatures on records in this database". Both are right, of course, but they do not speak the same language. http://www.circleid.com/posts/79197_developing_internet_standards_engineers/ Report: Attacks on ISP Nets Intensifying Increasingly-intense distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on ISP backbones are surpassing providers' capacity and knocking customers offline, according to a new survey of service providers by Arbor Networks. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=133973 http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807099 http://www.circleid.com/posts/botnets_threat_to_isp_backbones/ Arbors Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report Highlights Growing Threats to ISPs [news release] Arbor Networks, a leading provider of network security and operational performance for global business networks, released its third-annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report today in cooperation with the network security and operations communities. For the first time, botnets surpassed distributed denial of service attacks as the top threat identified by service providers. http://arbornetworks.com/en/news-releases/arbor-s-worldwide-infrastructure-security-report-highlights-growing-threats-to-2.html ISPs Try on Anti-Botnet Services Model ISPs, under siege from increasingly more powerful and sophisticated botnet-based attacks, are fighting back -- with an anti-botnet business model. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=134336 Reports: Threats More Sophisticated, More Costly Than Ever Computer crime is becoming good business, and the crooks are becoming increasingly efficient at what they do. The net result: Each attack is hitting victims harder, both in the data center and on the bottom line. These are some of the takeaways from four major studies published in the last few days. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=134338 Cyberspies Target Silent Victims The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed last week that cyberspies have been sifting through some government computer systems. What wasn't said: The same spies may have been combing through the computer systems of major U.S. defense contractors for more than a year. "There's been a massive, broad and successful series of attacks targeting the private sector," says Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute, a Bethesda, Md.-based organization that hosts a response center for companies with cybersecurity crises. "No one will talk about it, but companies are creating a frenzy trying to stop it." http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/09/11/cyberspies-raytheon-lockheed-tech-cx_ag_0911cyberspies.html US Air Force sets up Cyber Command [AFP] The US Air Force established a provisional Cyber Command Tuesday as part of an expanding mission to prepare for wars in cyberspace, officials said. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881559368.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/19/1189881559368.html ********************** - ICANN ********************** ICANN celebrates ninth anniversary as master of your domain Today (18/9) is the ninth anniversary of ICANN as the master of the internet universe, and on that note, the controversial organization that controls the technical standards of internet seems to merit a salutation of sorts. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/icann_anniversary/ Stalemate Continues on Hiding WHOIS Info Proposed changes that would have shielded some of the personal information stored in the Internets WHOIS database from public view were indefinitely shelved last month, after a working group failed to reach agreement on how or even whether to implement the privacy reforms. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=302552 ICANN Asia Pacific Meeting in Delhi by Michele Neylon According to minutes of the ICANN board meeting held last week, the Asia Pacific ICANN meeting will take place in Delhi from 10-15 February 2008. http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/09/17/icann-asia-pacific-meeting-in-delhi/ Partnership to Help Develop Arabic Domain Names: ICANN, UN Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia agree to work together The development of IDNs in Arabic will get a boost thanks to a Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the UN Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-22aug07.htm ********************** - (cc)TLD NEWS ********************** The lives of country code domains by Kim Davies ICANN made a little piece of history in three countries a few days ago when it approved the delegation of the .KP domain for North Korea, the .RS domain for Serbia, and the .ME domain for Montenegro. For the former it marks a further step in their efforts to connect their country to the Internet. For the latter, it gives these two new countries the ability to shrug off their historical designation of .YU, and use something that better reflects their countries on the net. http://blog.icann.org/?p=195 DENIC Supervisory Board appoints new full-time members of the Executive Board [news release] Sabine Dolderer and Dr. Jörg Schweiger will manage the business of DENIC eG as of 1 October as CEO and CTO respectively: The Supervisory Board of DENIC has filled the two full-time posts in the Supervisory Board of the German domain registry with new Board members. Sabine Dolderer and Dr. Jörg Schweiger will assume the positions of CEO and CTO respectively as of 1 October 2007. The current full-time members of the Executive Board, Andreas Bäß and Stephan Deutsch, will continue to manage the business of DENIC until the end of September, and they have the full confidence of the Supervisory Board in doing so. The Supervisory Board thanks both for their long years of extremely valuable work with the Cooperative. They have brought about great progress for DENIC by their excellent technical work and their tireless commitment. Their work as members of the Executive Board has had a decisive positive impact on the Cooperative, so Elmar Knipp, chairman of DENICS Supervisory Board. http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_85.html ie: Joining the dots A promotional story about what is a domain name, whether to register a name under a gTLD or ccTLD, important factors to consider such as security and other issues a new registrant may want to consider. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9219 Montenegro, Serbia get new domain names ICANN has approved separate domain names for Montenegrin and Serbian websites, the news service Balkan Insight and the Serbian news agency B92 reported on September 14. http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/09/4-see/see-180907.asp ru: One Million .Ru Addresses and Counting The Russian Internet passed a milestone on Monday as the millionth .ru domain name was registered, which effectively means there are now 1,000,000 web sites ending with the .ru suffix. A company called Cyberbox Ltd. registered "Hanti.ru" just after 1 a.m. Monday, reaching the million mark, said Andrei Vorobyov, a spokesman for Ru-Center, the nonprofit organization in charge of registering .ru domain names. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/09/18/003.html http://eng.cnews.ru/news/line/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/17/266299 http://upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/09/18/millionth_russian_domain_name_registered_/8156/ http://imedinews.ge/en/news_read/65388 ru: Cybersquatters make Runet millionaire A million second level domain has been registered in Runet by the famous cybersquatter company Cyberbox Limited. At present 500 thousand sites fall to every million registered domains in Russian. Other domains are either misused, or not used at all. http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/17/266484 http://economie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/72444/ Russia - one million domain names & 30 million internet users The one millionth .ru domain name has been register according to a report in C-News. The name, hanti.ru, was registered on 17 September, with even the exact time give - 01.02.33 Moscow time. In another story, C-News also reports there are around 30 million internet users in Russia with 40 million internet users expected sometime in 2008. http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2707 http://domainpulse.com/2007/09/17/russia-one-million-domain-names-30-million-internet-users/ http://domainnews.com/general/2007091723/russia-one-million-domain-names-30-million-internet-users/ USSR alive and kicking on the Internet [Reuters] Russian Internet enthusiasts are locked in a tussle with an international body over a relic of the Soviet past -- the .su domain name assigned to the country just before the Soviet Union collapsed. ICANN says the name is out of date and wants to kill it off. But thousands of Internet users still use the suffix -- in part for its nostalgia value -- and are fighting to save it. http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL19864807.html http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1364669 http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2891&iArticleId=5020826 http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL1986480720070919 ICANN dukes it out with the USSR in cold war rematch smackdown The Internet Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Numbers - that's ICANN to you, Boris - has had enough, and decided to stick it to those godless pinko commie automotons once and for all, nukes be damned. For those readers who thought the cold war had vanished in rhetorical smoke years ago, Reuters has news for you. ICANN has decided to jettison once and for all the .su country code domain originally assigned to the Soviet Union. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/icann_ussr/ http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/14232/yugoslavia_fades_ussr_keeps_on_ticking uk: Nominet plan could trip legit domain name holders, warns expert The registry for .uk domain names has proposed a major change in the way disputes over domains are handled. One disputes expert has warned that a vital safeguard must be put in place before the system is changed. http://out-law.com/page-8479 uk: Lawyers attack Nominet plan for domain name disputes The registry for .uk domain names has proposed a change in the way that name disputes are handled, but the proposed fast-track system faces criticism for not being radical enough. http://out-law.com/page-8481 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/nominet_domain_dispute_plan/ Plan approved to retire Yugoslav domain [AP] Internet decisions aren't always made at Internet speeds. ICANN has approved a plan to phase out the domain name for Yugoslavia, four years after the country dissolved following civil war. It'll take two or three more years for ".yu" users to fully transition to ".rs" for Serbia and ".me" for Montenegro. Politics played a big part in the delay. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/09/19/plan_approved_to_retire_yugoslav_domain/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070919.wgtSoviets0919/BNStory/Technology/ http://www.thestate.com/technology-wire/story/177733.html ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** in: Trademark & patent fights sign of healthy consumer market ... In the Buffalo Networks Ltd Vs Manish Jain, the Delhi High Court awarded Rs 1 lakh to the plaintiff as the defendants deceptively used the word tahelka as its domain name, which was deceptively similar to the registered domain name tehelka.com. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Debate/Trademark__patent_fights_sign_of_healthy_consumer_market/articleshow/2384914.cms Microsoft sues cybersquatters [Bloomberg] Microsoft has filed three lawsuits in the US against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of website addresses containing its trademarked terms. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22433016-15322,00.html Bobcats Finally Get Rights To Preferred Domain Name From Breeder The Charlotte Bobcats finally have a simple Web address. For its first three years, the team used the domain name www.bobcatsbasketball.com because the rights to www.bobcats.com belonged to a bobcat breeder in Montana. http://www.wsoctv.com/sports/14144709/detail.html http://domainpulse.com/2007/09/19/199/ http://domainnews.com/general/2007091912/bodog-launches-new-domain-as-dispute-continues/ http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/282634.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/09/18/bc.bkn.bobcats.campaign.ap/ Bodog's New Domain is bodoglife.com High stakes, hot women and killer parties in exotic locales - Bodog has always known how to roll. It's all part of the company's play hard philosophy and now it's all part of the Bodog life, as the digital entertainment giant is pleased to announce the launch of www.bodoglife.com http://www.allinmag.com/article.php?article=1057 Bodog Life after domain hijacking! Bodog Life after domain hijacking!We have more bad news for the patent trolls over at 1st Technology, Point-Spreads.com has learned that Bodog Entertainment will be rolling out a new and improved domain name called BodogLife.com. The new website will replace the NewBodog.com domain name and is currently live and accepting bets. The new domain name BodogLife.com will be heavily marketed going forward while the legal battle continues against 1st Technology. http://point-spreads.com/industry/091807-bodog-life-after-domain-hijacking.html ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** Domain Pricing - What's Going On? by Michele Neylon In recent discussions among Nominet members it came up as part of a discussion on drop-catching and domaining. Some people feel that the fees are too high, while others feel that they need to be increased significantly in order to discourage domainers. Within the Irish internet community the upcoming change to policy regarding "personal domain names" has led to some discussion on how registrars set their pricing. While at an ICANN level there's been a lot of mixed messages flying about. http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/09/18/domain-pricing-whats-going-on/ Sonus Networks Streamlines Number Portability for Network Operators Worldwide Sonus Networks Inc. has announced at the on-going Number Portability 2007 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, that it is helping network operators worldwide streamline regulatory compliance with its new standards- based Electronic Number Mapping (ENUM) enhancement for Number Portability (NP). http://wirelessdesignasia.com/article-6866-sonusnetworksstreamlinesnumberportabilityfornetworkoperatorsworldwide-Asia.html ********************** - DOMAINING ********************** Mobile Messages Make AdSense to Google Google is taking its act on the road, offering up its AdSense program for delivering advertising to mobile phones and other devices. The program converts Web-based advertising into text that includes links to follow to the advertiser's site. The messages are targeted to users contextually, meaning the content of the site they are viewing helps determine what ad is delivered. http://ecommercetimes.com/story/Jple3RqRBE4tnq/Mobile-Messages-Make-AdSense-to-Google.xhtml http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201807325 ********************** - DOMAIN SALES ********************** Televisions.com Sells for Six Figures Domain name parking and sales company NameDrive has brokered the sale of Televisions.com for a substantial six figure price tag, Domain Name Wire has confirmed. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/09/17/televisionscom-sells-for-six-figures/ Sedo Live Auction: 50 Internet Addresses Reach Total sum of Over $350,000 Sedo announced that over 50 domain names were sold at Sedos Live Auction at the Domainvermarkter Forum in Hamburg, Germany. Total sales of the three-hour long auction, powered by Sedo, reached US$360,400. http://webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=22310 http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/091807_Sedo_Germany_Auction_Tops_360k.cfm Southie.com for sale A Dublin native living in Florida is hoping theres money in Southie - Southie.com that is. Hes putting the Web domain name on the auction block on Thursday, and its expected to sell in the high five-figure to low six-figure range, according to Sedo.com LLC, a Cambridge company that buys, sells and appraises domain names. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1032224 Salesforce.com Buys Force.com Domain Name Salesforce.com, known for its CRM application, changes brand to Force.com with domain purchase. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/09/19/salesforcecom-buys-forcecom-domain-name/ ********************** - NON-ENGLISH NEWS ********************** DENIC-Aufsichtsrat beruft neue hauptamtliche Vorstandsmitglieder [Pressemitteilungen] Sabine Dolderer und Dr. Jörg Schweiger führen ab 1. Oktober 2007 die Geschäfte der DENIC eG als CEO und CTO: Der Aufsichtsrat der DENIC eG hat die beiden hauptamtlichen Vorstandspositionen bei der deutschen Domainverwaltung neu besetzt. Sabine Dolderer und Dr. Jörg Schweiger werden ab 1. Oktober 2007 als CEO bzw. CTO Verantwortung übernehmen. Bis Ende September führen die beiden bisherigen hauptamtlichen Vorstandsmitglieder Andreas Bäß und Stephan Deutsch die Geschäfte mit dem vollen Vertrauen des Aufsichtsrats fort, der beiden für ihre langjährige und außerordentlich wertvolle Arbeit für die Genossenschaft dankt. Sie haben die DENIC durch hervorragende fachliche Leistungen und unermüdlichem Einsatz sehr weit vorangebracht und durch ihre Tätigkeit als Vorstandsmitglied maßgeblich positiv geprägt, erklärte Elmar Knipp, der Vorsitzende des DENIC-Aufsichtsrates. http://www.denic.de/de/denic/presse/press_85.html de: Dolderer zurück an Denic-Spitze Die Denic eG hat ein neues Führungs-Duo. Auf den Posten des CEO berief der Aufsichtsrat der .de-Registry die erst im März entlassene langjährige Vorstandsfrau Sabine Dolderer. Als CTO fungiert künftig der nicht aus dem Domain-Geschäft kommende Jörg Schweiger. "Wir glauben, dass die unruhigen Zeiten bei der Denic jetzt vorbei sind," erklärte der Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats, Elmar Knipp, gegenüber heise online. Knipp hatte sich nach der vom damaligen Denic-Aufsichtsrat hinter verschlossenen Türen gefallenen Entscheidung gegen Dolderer im Frühjahr aus dem Gremium zurückgezogen, um bei der turbulenten Aufsichtsratswahl im Mai gegen seine Kollegen anzutreten. Dabei wurde der Aufsichtsrat mit Ausnahme von Knipp komplett ausgewechselt. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/96180 de: Neue alte Führung für die DENIC Die Domainverwaltung DENIC bekommt zwei neue hauptamtlich Vorstände, darunter auch ein bekanntes Gesicht: Sabine Dolder, die die DENIC im März 2007 im Streit verließ, soll zum 1. Oktober 2007 als CEO die Leitung der Genossenschaft übernehmen. Dr. Jörg Schweiger wird CTO. http://internet-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=54431 http://golem.de/0709/54847.html http://pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=54431 http://www.portel.de/nc/nachricht/artikel/16010-sabine-dolderer-und-dr-joerg-schweiger-fuehren-ab-1-oktober-2007-die-geschaefte-der-denic-eg/ Denic-Aufsichtsrat beruft Sabine Dolderer und Jörg Schweiger in den Vorstand Der Denic-Aufsichtsrat hat die beiden hauptamtlichen Vorstandspositionen neu besetzt. Sabine Dolderer, die bereits in der Vergangenheit hauptamtliches Vorstandsmitglied der Domainverwaltung war, übernimmt ab 1. Oktober als CEO vorwiegend die nicht-technischen Arbeitsbereiche http://www.internetworld.de/home/news-single/article/wer-wohin-menschen-und-karriere-c400fc5c95.html ch: Internet-Namensstreit beendet Es war eine Zangengeburt, aber es hat doch noch geklappt: Der Schwyzer Ständerats- Kandidat Alois Kessler ist endlich im Besitz der Internet-Domäne aloiskessler.ch. http://www.bote.ch/page/zeitung/aktuell/artikel_detail.cfm?id=111482 Arcor sperrte zahlreiche Websites [Update] Weit übers Ziel hinausgeschossen ist Arcor bei der jüngsten Sperrrunde. Das Unternehmen sperrt einzelne Porno-Websites, die in Deutschland gegen Jugendschutzbestimmungen verstoßen. Dazu verwendet Arcor offensichtlich die IP-Adresse der Server. Am Wochenende erweiterte Arcor die Sperrung auf die Adresse 64.202.189.170, ist inzwischen aber offenbar eilig zurückgerudert, nachdem sich zahlreiche Kunden über nicht erreichbare Seiten beschwert hatten. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/96100 Anwalt Gravenreuth zu Haftstrafe verurteilt (Update) Der für seine Abmahnungen bekannte Münchener Rechtsanwalt Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth wurde in einem Prozess gegen die Berliner Taz zu einer Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt, berichtet die Zeitung. Laut Taz verhängte das Amtsgericht Berlin-Tiergarten eine Strafe wegen versuchten Betruges, gegen die Anwalt Gravenreuth aber noch in Berufung gehen kann. http://golem.de/0709/54703.html Netzwerk-Management mit vollem IPv6-Support Darin werde jetzt auch der IPv6-Standard unterstützt, teilte der Hersteller mit. Zu den neuen Lösungen gehört der 'IPv6 Availability Manager' eine Software für das Management von IPv6-, IPv4- und hybriden Netzwerken. Die Lösung baut auf dem semantischen Datenmodell von 'EMC Smarts' auf und funktioniert über verschiedene Domains hinweg. http://www.silicon.de/enid/storage_network/29748 Zentrale Berichte über die Infrastruktur Der Informationsspezialist EMC erweitert sein Lösungsangebot zur Automatisierung des Rechenzentrumsbetriebs und unterstützt ab sofort auch den neuen IPv6-Standard. Zu den neuen Lösungen gehört der Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager als, so betont ein Sprecher des Unternehmens, erste Management-Software für IPv6-, IPv4- und hybride Netzwerke. http://computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=112268 Google macht AdSense mobil Google bietet sein Werbesystem AdSense ab sofort auch offiziell für mobile Websites an, bereits seit geraumer Zeit tauchte es im AdSense-Setup auf. Mobile Internetdienste sollen sich so leicht mit Textanzeigen bestücken lassen und ihren Betreibern Werbeumsätze bescheren. http://golem.de/0709/54828.html Symantec-Report: Identitätsdiebstahl immer raffinierter Symantec hat seinen zwölften, halbjährlich erscheinenden Sicherheitsreport veröffentlicht. Die aktuelle Ausgabe deckt den Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 2007 bis zum 30. Juni 2007 ab. http://www.zdnet.de/security/news/0,39029460,39157783,00.htm Diskussion über Internetneutralität bald auch in Großbritannien Nach Ansicht von Professor Nigel Shadbolt von der britischen Computer Society könnte Großbritannien schon sehr bald gezwungen sein, an der Diskussion um die Internetneutralität teilzunehmen. Da ein großer Teil des Contents aus den USA stamme, würden sowohl das Königreich als auch der Rest von Europa von einer US-Entscheidung in Sachen Netzneutralität betroffen sein. http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39157766,00.htm Erfolgsbilanz der Sedo Live-Auktion: 50 Internetadressen erzielten einen Gesamterlös von 260.000 Über 50 Domainnamen wurden am Freitag während der Sedo Live-Auktion auf der Fachtagung "Domainvermarkter Forum" in Hamburg erfolgreich versteigert. Der Gesamterlös lag bei über 260.000 Euro. Die etwa dreistündige Auktion wurde von Sedo, der weltweit größten Handelsplattform für Domainnamen durchgeführt. http://www.sedo.de/presse/presse_160907.php4 Les nations sans Etat cherchent leur indépendance sur internet Faute dune indépendance politique réelle, plusieurs nations sans Etat ont vu ces derniers temps fleurir des initiatives dindépendance virtuelle. Grand nombre dassociations dÉcosse, Pays des Galles, Bretagne, Galice ou Flandre ont mis en place chacune dans son pays des dynamiques en faveur de la création dune extension "nationale" des noms de domaine internet. Lextension, la dernière partie de ladresse dun site web, est en quelque sorte semblable à lindicateur dorigine dune plaque dimmatriculation dun véhicule : elle permet de connaître la nature et la source du nom de domaine. http://lejournal.euskalherria.com/idatzia/20070920/art204428.php "Une certaine liberté anime lattribution des .ASIA" Les représentants du .ASIA étaient à Paris la semaine dernière pour rencontrer INDOM, registrar officiel et fonctionnel, et Domaines.Info pour une séance de questions/réponses. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1303/asie-une-certaine-liberte-anime-l-attribution-des-asia.php Réseaux : l'ère du sans fil et du tout IP ? L'épine dorsale des SI doit faire face à un contexte sécuritaire tendu. IPv6, P2P, Wi-Fi... les évolutions sont néanmoins de taille. Expériences et conseils. http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dossiers/reseaux/sommaire.shtml LALgérie à la traîne LAlgérie accuse un retard considérable dans le domaine de la production de linformation via internet. Le constat fait par des providers nationaux est sans appel : il y a à peine 5000 noms de domaine (site web) dans notre pays dont certains sont hébergés à létranger. http://www.elwatan.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=76646 De bodog.com à newbodog.com Laffaire "Bodog" fait couler beaucoup dencre outre-atlantique. Si elle porte principalement sur la contrefaçon en ligne dun logiciel breveté, elle invite également à sinterroger sur le rôle du nom de domaine dans la lutte contre la contrefaçon en ligne. http://domainesinfo.fr/chronique/159/de-bodog-com-a-newbodog-com.php Réunion du Conseil d'administration de lICANN Le Conseil d'administration de lICANN sest réuni le 11 septembre dernier. Synthèse des points clefs de cette réunion. http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1306/reunion-du-conseil-d-administration-de-l-icann.php 1 million de .RU Le millionième nom en .RU a été enregistré le 17 septembre par lorganisme RU-Center. Lextension russe devient la 10eme extension géographique à dépasser le cap des 1 million de noms. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1305/russie-1-million-de-ru.php Delanoë les pieds dans le net ? Le maire de Paris a-t-il oui ou non déposé l'adresse internet "delanoe2012.fr" ? Lui dément. Nouvelobs.com apporte ses pièces au dossier. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/politique/20070919.OBS5639/delanoe_les_piedsdans_le_net_.html L'Unione Sovietica? Su Internet è ancora viva [Reuters] I patiti russi di Internet sono alle prese con una controversia con l'organismo internazionale che regola i domini, visto che il suffisso dell'ex Unione Sovietica ".su" assegnato poco prima che l'Urss collassasse è ancora attivo. http://today.reuters.it/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-09-19T151539Z_01_BON952815_RTRIDST_0_OITIN-LUNIONE-SOVIETICA-SU-INTERNET-VIVE-ANCORA.XML Forum internazionale sui diritti di internet Si terrà a Roma il 27 settembre prossimo il Forum internazionale sui diritti di Internet il Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights organizzato dal Governo italiano su iniziativa del Ministro Nicolais e del Sottosegretario Magnolfi. http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Ministeri/dettaglio.asp?d=36386 Si quiere quedar bien, regale un .es a su hijo o a su pareja ¿Busca un regalo para toda la vida? ¿Que no se estropee, que no pase de moda, que sea original y que le salga por entre seis y nueve euros? Pues regale un dominio en Internet. Registrar dominios a nombre de un hijo recién nacido o de la pareja sentimental es el obsequio más cool en Estados Unidos. De allí viene esta moda que ha convertido al registro y reventa de dominios en un verdadero negocio de más de 600 millones de euros al año. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/quiere/quedar/bien/regale/hijo/pareja/elpeputec/20070917elpepieco_8/Tes La URSS todavía está viva en Internet y no se quedará callada [Reuters] Los entusiastas rusos de Internet están envueltos en un altercado con un organismo internacional por una reliquia del pasado soviético: el dominio .su asignado al país antes de que la Unión Soviética colapsara. http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070919/tbs-internet-urss-a0280fe.html La TV de aire pierde espacio entre los consumidores de medios Resulta complicado hablar de la TV en la actualidad, porque uno no sabe si referirse al aparato televisivo o a los contenidos que aparecen cuando se enciende. Esta distinción, absurda para cualquier consumidor medio, está comenzando a ganar un nuevo significado. Es que a medida que aparecen nuevos medios o formas de consumo de contenidos audiovisuales, la ecuación televisor=televisión deja de tener sentido. http://ar.news.yahoo.com/s/16092007/44/n-business-tv-aire-pierde-espacio-consumidores-medios.html CGI.br participa do IGF 2007 - Fórum Mundial sobre Governança da Internet no Brasil O Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil - CGI.br, além de ser o responsável pela organização do evento, será também um dos participantes do IGF 2007 Fórum sobre Governança da Internet (Internet Governance Forum), que acontece no Rio de Janeiro, entre os dias 12 e 15 de novembro. O foco do encontro será A Governança da Internet para o Desenvolvimento e cinco grandes temas estarão em discussão: acesso, diversidade, abertura (openess), segurança e recursos críticos. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1547 Gobernanza de Internet y los principios multistakeholder de la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información Artículo de Alejandro Pisanty en la Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1546 Dialogo a los 9 años de iniciado el ICANN A un articulo de Antulio Sanchez denominado "El Gobierno" que comenta el inicio del ICANN, el 18 de septiembre de 1998, responder Alejandro Pisanty bajo el titulo "Se equivoca Antulio". Un interesante, y por demas enriquecedor, responder. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1545 URSS ainda vive na Internet e não desaparecerá sem luta [Reuters] Internautas russos estão lutando contra um órgão internacional de gestão da Web sobre uma relíquia do passado soviético: o domínio .su atribuído ao país pouco antes do colapso da União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas. http://br.noticias.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070919/tecnologia/internet_tech_urss_web_pol_1 Sovietsky zväz na internete existuje a nechce sa vzdat Ruskí internetoví prívrenci sa nechcú vzdat domény .su, ktorá preíva ete z cias Sovietskeho zväzu, oznámila tlacová agentúra Reuters. http://www.sme.sk/c/3494929/Sovietsky-zvaz-na-internete-existuje-a-nechce-sa-vzdat.html Stories mentioning .su and ICANN in Russian http://lenta.ru/news/2007/09/17/dotsu/ http://lenta.ru/articles/2007/09/19/dotsu/ http://lenta.ru/news/2007/09/19/sudomain/ http://itar-tass.com/level2.html?NewsID=11885148 Story on .tk in Russian http://www.izvestia.ru/news/news148689/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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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