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Headlines from the January 10 edition of the news include: New Delhi Meeting Hotels Information | ICANN GNSO Initial Report on Domain Tasting | ICANN and the Root Server Operators by Bret Fausett | Reforming the DisGrace Period by Larry Seltzer | Phishing at the Top Level by Larry Seltzer | Competition May Be Driving Surge in Botnets, Spam | DDOS Botnets Thriving, Threatening | Storm Botnet Turned Toward Phishing Attacks | Ponting hits fake website for six | ca: Ed Stelmach, Alberta premier, takes on cybersquatter | Registrar denies 'front-running' Net registration | Network Solutions Accused of Domain Front Running | ICANN fights naming loophole And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Kremlin eyes internet control... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship Watching the web grow up with Tim Berners-Lee http://economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8766093 in: "Free flow of information to open up": Sir Tim Berners-Lee http://www.ciol.com/content/1108102536.aspx Chairman Welcomes ICANN Community to a Celebration of Exciting Ten Years of Working Together http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.htm 'Ragtag' Russian army shows the new face of DDoS attacks http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/04/changing_face_of_ddos/ How to Protect Yourself from Domain Hijacking by James Koole http://about.tucows.com/2008/01/02/how-to-protect-yourself-from-domain-hijacking/ IPv6 reality check http://www.cpilive.net/v3/inside.aspx?scr=n&NID=1906&cat=FEATURES&pub=COMPUTER%20NEWS%20MIDDLE%20EAST&k=IPv6 IPv6: coming to a root server near you by Iljitsch van Beijnum http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-icann-to-add-ipv6-addresses-for-root-dns-servers.html IPv6 Set for Root Adoption? http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3719876 Happy 25th, TCP/IP: TCP/IP marks 25 years since the ARPANET switchover http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2008/1231lan2.html ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** Kremlin eyes internet control... The growing cold war with Russia has a new front besides oil fields and undersea territorial claims: the internet. Russia's government is pushing for greater control over the Russian-language part of the net - and its aim seems to be to create a web that operates in Cyrillic, completely independent from the wider web. The problem for Russia is that its top-level domain - with the ASCII suffix .ru - translates into Cyrillic as .py, the domain name of Paraguay. That could pose security problems for Russian users. Kim Davies, who controls the domain names at the international domain naming agency Icann told the Guardian: "Russia has a second top level domain name of .ru in Ascii code, but is pushing for .rf in Cyrillic." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/03/internet.censorship Russia can't wait for IDNs Russian Internet users seem eager to be able to use their own Cyrillic characters. So much so that some people are already talking about a 2008 launch for .RU IDNs. http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/152/russia-can-t-wait-for-idns.php Russia threatens to build a separate Internet In the latest issue of FP, I wrote (subscription required) about the efforts of ICANN, the group that gives out Internet domain names, to "internationalize" the Web. Starting this year, ICANN will allow users to use non-Roman characters in top level domain names. For example, Arabic-speaking users will no longer have to end Web addresses in ".com"—they can register the last part of their Web address in their own native language. http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/7563 Russia wants Cyrillic web The Russian government wants greater control over the Russian language part of the internet, threatening to create a separate web that operates using Cyrillic rather than Latin, ascii characters. http://www.itpro.co.uk/information-management/news/151512/russia-wants-cyrillic-web.html Don't Hand Over the Internet to the U.N. by U.S. Senator Fred Thompson ... The notion of surrendering management of the Internet – a global, strategic infrastructure for communications and commerce – to the UN is just a plain dumb idea. We shouldn’t be handing over something that works right to an institution that has difficulty doing anything right. http://fred08.com/NewsRoom/Commentary.aspx?ID=d01e7c2b-dc56-4bd3-b29c-980e3f247b29 Watching the web grow up Tim Berners-Lee created the web in 1991. Now people are talking about Web 2.0—but he is more excited by other things: In 1994, when Tim Berners-Lee left CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva where he created the world wide web, to move to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his children were toddlers—just like the fledgling information-sharing system he had released onto the internet three years earlier. Since then the web has grown up fast, expanding from around 10,000 websites in the world at the end of 1994 to over 100m today. After this rapid growth spurt the web is now, like Sir Tim's children, in its teenage years. The painfully self-conscious “Web 2.0” movement—a label which encompasses a range of technologies such as blogs, wikis and podcasts—represents the web's adolescence. It has all the hallmarks of youthful rebellion against the conventional social order, and is making many traditional media companies tremble. http://economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8766093 in: "Free flow of information to open up": Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim Berners -Lee, inventor of the Web, shares his vision for the future and his take on the present in this exclusive interview: In an extensive interaction with Shashwat DC, Sir Tim talks about different issues be it India’s limited role on a global scale or how could what he thinks of Web 3.0. ... Finally, there comes the infrastructure. There is little governance of the underlying infrastructure like domain names, etc. But that is relatively small part of the social governance. What really drives or rather regulates the Web is more of social laws of the land, laws regarding copyright and libel and contracts and these differ from nation to nation. India has always been a part of the Web; I expect it to play a bigger role in the coming years. http://www.ciol.com/content/1108102536.aspx http://www.chennaionline.com/technology/details.aspx?sectid=itnews&linkid=%2Fcontent%2F1108102536.aspx ng: The National Internet Gateway of Controversy Naturally a very warm person, but on the day of this interview one could feel the bitterness and the feeling of betrayal in his voice. Any one in his shoes will feel the same. He was successful professional in the United States of America when a call from the home government encouraged Nigerians in the Diaspora to come and invest back home and help move the country to the next level. http://allafrica.com/stories/200801030203.html http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=99335 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** Chairman Welcomes ICANN Community to a Celebration of Exciting Ten Years of Working Together The Chairman of ICANN welcomed the beginning of its tenth year of operations. "Happy New Year to all those involved in the work that ICANN does," said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of ICANN. "I extend my personal best wishes to you all, and thank you in advance for the contributions I know you will be making to ICANN's mission in 2008." http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.htm Milestone Agreement Reached Between ICANN, and F Root Server Operator, Internet Systems Consortium ICANN and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) are today announcing the signing of a Mutual Responsibilities Agreement for the operation of the F-root nameserver. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-04jan08.htm F Root Server Makes its Peace with ICANN by Milton Mueller ICANN has announced some kind of an agreement with the Internet Systems Consortium, operator of the F root server complex. We can’t say much about it yet, because the actual agreement hasn’t been published, and the agreement hasn’t been ratified by either organization’s Board. But any formalized agreement would represent an important step toward further institutionalization of the ICANN global governance regime, and the agreement could serve as the template for agreements with other root server operators. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/1/5/3448889.html Domain Name Front Running? When you think of that perfect domain name and go to find out whether it’s been taken or not, do you ever get feeling that somebody could be listening in? It’s so difficult to find a domain name these days as pretty much anything that makes sense will display some kind of holding page or worse a page full of useless links pretending to be a search engine. If you do find something that makes sense and is available then you had better register it right away or you could lose it to anyone who might have noticed your query. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=417 Kenya and ICANN's 2008 Annual Meeting by Bret Fausett The news from Kenya is troubling enough by itself, but it also may have an impact on ICANN's choice of location for its annual meeting, now scheduled for November 2nd-7th, 2008. http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2008/1/3/3445388.html A.WEB In Your Future? Future Registrations of Single-Letter and Double-Digit Domain Names Being Considered by ICANN http://www.moderndomainer.com/ ICANN’s Name Game [sub req'd] Get ready to go native. Beginning this year, ICANN, the international body that doles out Web addresses, will allow nonLatin characters in toplevel domain names, the bits of a Web address found to the right of the “dot” in, for instance, .com. Domain names will be allowed in characters from 11 nonLatin alphabets, including Arabic, Chinese, Persian, and Russian. ICANN executive Tina Dam, who is overseeing the change, says it will allow people to communicate in their native alphabet, removing language as a barrier to access for millions. But ICANN has a second goal; it hopes to keep China from “splitting the root,” techspeak for essentially creating a second Internet. Beijing unilaterally began allowing people to register Chineselanguage domain names in 2006, a move that threatened to confuse the Internet’s core servers, which direct all traffic. ICANN’s new policy should hold the Internet together, for... http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4088 ********************** - (cc)TLD NEWS ********************** Indonesian internet charges may drop by half in 4 years The telecommunications regulatory body is preparing a number of policies in order to gradually lower Internet charges, currently among the highest in the world, by 50 percent within four years reports The Jakarta Post. Aside from introducing new regulations and holding tenders for the development of the network, the government also plans to make a number of technical improvements next year, including better Internet protocol (IP) address and Internet exchange (IX) management, improved domain-name service administration, and migration from IP version 4 to IP version 6 the report in The Jakarta Post concludes. For more information, see the article in The Jakarta Post. The article may be available from http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailbusiness.asp?fileid=20071226.G01, otherwise go to the archive for the date of December 26, 2007. http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailbusiness.asp?fileid=20071226.G01 Spanish characters for .INFO Registry Afilias adds Spanish characters to the list of localized character sets which can be registered in .INFO. http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/153/spanish-characters-for-info.php .com, .net, .mobi. What’s in a name? ... It’s estimated that 1.3 billion people will connect to the internet via mobile phone during 2008 and .mobi is the first top level domain name (tld) formulated exclusively for delivering the internet to portable devices. With the .mobi tld, websites may be optimized for mobile users, allowing a variety of devices to become more effective internet tools, providing companies with direct access to mobile users as means of generating new business. http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56458&Itemid=28 sg: Launch of SME Domain Name Reservation Programme [news release] From 28 December 2007 till December 2010, all ACRA-registered businesses will save up to S$30 for the first-year registration of their first domain name. This promotion is valid for a limited period, so hurry and register now with any of the participating registrars! http://nic.net.sg/newsroom/20071228165724.html 700,00th .SE domain name registered The 700,000th .SE (Sweden) domain name was registered this week with glasbruketcafe.se reportedly the lucky domain name to reach this round figure. http://www.domainpulse.com/2007/12/31/70000th-se-domain-name-registered/ http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2007122051/70000th-se-domain-name-registered/ ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** 'Ragtag' Russian army shows the new face of DDoS attacks In late April, a Russian-speaking blogger upset with recent events in Estonia posted a series of dispatches calling on like-minded people to attack government servers in that country. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/04/changing_face_of_ddos/ http://www.crime-research.org/news/04.01.2008/3104/ Gmail exploit aids domain hijack Web designer David Airey has succeeded in recovering his domain after hackers exploited flaws in Gmail to trick his hosts into authorising a fraudulent transfer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/28/site_hijack_gmail_exploit/ http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=23593 ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** US mogul foils £500 web name hijack scheme An American multi-millionaire has come to the rescue of a Leith businessman whose website was hijacked by a hacker. Internet mogul Bob Parsons owns the domain registry firm GoDaddy.com which web designer David Airey used to log his own site. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/US-mogul-foils--500.3627599.jp http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/US-mogul-foils--500.3627599.jp Bob Marley's "WAILERS" Win Cybersquatting Lawsuit Bob Marley's Wailers, who eventually became known simply as the "Wailers" after Bob Marley's death, successfully argued for dismissal of this cybersquatting and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by band members of another Wailers musical group who started using the band name 10 years before Bob Marley named his group in 1969. The only evidence which could potentially have saved Plaintiff's claims against Bob's protégées would have been that the band used the mark the "Wailers" and registered wailers.com in bad faith. No evidence of bad faith was introduced by plaintiffs. http://tcattorney.typepad.com/domainnamedispute/2008/01/bob-marleys-wai.html How to Protect Yourself from Domain Hijacking by James Koole Over Christmas there was a well-publicized case of domain-hijacking that gained some worldwide media attention when David Airey had his domain, www.davidairey.com, stolen. The story was a familiar one – a domain thief gained access to a domain holder’s email account (in this case, a Google GMail account) and then used that account to gain control of the domain name and transfer it to himself. http://about.tucows.com/2008/01/02/how-to-protect-yourself-from-domain-hijacking/ Resolve to keep your domain names resolving As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about how to protect your domain names from theft, I’ll point you to a blog post by Bill Sweetman, our General Manager, Domains Portfolio, over at the Canadian Marketing Association’s blog. In that post Bill suggests a domain name related New Year’s Resolution. http://about.tucows.com/2008/01/03/resolve-to-keep-your-domain-names-resolving/ A New Year's Resolution That's Easy to Keep by Bill Sweetman I'd like to suggest a New Year's resolution to you: Don't "lose" your domain name. What am I talking about? Well, every day my colleagues at Tucows deal with business owners who are in a panic because they "lost" their all-important domain names. And by "lost" this (upon further investigation) usually means the business owners forgot to renew their domain name on time. http://canadianmarketingblog.com/archives/2008/01/a_new_years_resolution_thats_e_1.html us: Reverse Cybersquatting in Las Vegas: Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino goes after owner of CosmopolitanResort.com. Las Vegas has always been a high stakes town. A recent lawsuit suggests it’s also high stakes for domain names. In an obvious case of “reverse cybersquatting”, a new resort and casino in Las Vegas is going after the owner of CosmopolitanResort.com. Ryan Gile, a Las Vegas trademark attorney, writes about the saga on his blog. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/12/28/reverse-cybersquatting-in-las-vegas/ us: Falun Gong activists make appeals ... A regional chapter in New York threatened a lawsuit against a domain name provider that hosted an anti-Falun Gong Web site. Samuel Luo of San Francisco, who runs the Web site www. exposingthefalungong.org, sought help from the American Civil Liberties Union in 2005 after his domain provider received a letter demanding they reveal the identity and contact information of Luo. http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_7840683 http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_7840130 ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** IPv6 reality check Despite the gradual depletion of IPv4 address space, experts say there is no urgency to adopt IPv6. What this means is that we'll be living in a mixed IPv4/IPv6 environment until well past 2013. http://www.cpilive.net/v3/inside.aspx?scr=n&NID=1906 IPv6: coming to a root server near you by Iljitsch van Beijnum Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it." The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is mostly responsible for the global Domain Name System, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the part of ICANN. That means that as of February 4, 2008, it will (theoretically) be possible for two IPv6 hosts to communicate across the IPv6 Internet without having to rely on any IPv4 infrastructure. It's been a long journey to get to this point. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-icann-to-add-ipv6-addresses-for-root-dns-servers.html IPv6 Set for Root Adoption? IPv6 adoption has a key adoption deadline looming this year, but is still facing plenty of barriers to adoption. Key among them is this: IPv6 address information is not included in most of the root DNS servers that power the Internet. This makes IPv6 to IPv6 connections a difficult proposition. http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3719876 http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3719936 ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** NeuStar's Nifty Numbers Game From Forbes Investor: You would think that as the only provider of a set of essential services relied on by thousands of communications service providers (CSPs), NeuStar, also the sole operator of the authoritative registry for the dot-us and dot-biz domains, would hold up fairly well in this weak-handed market, especially when the company has displayed impressive growth in recent periods. Yet the stock has fallen more than 20% since mid-October and ended down 11% for 2007. However, according to our quantitative model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor, the stock is due for a rebound. ... Demand for NSR's services has been strong, boosted not only by its legacy number portability business but also from the proliferation of e-commerce (which has increased demand for Ultra Services and its dot-us and dot-biz domains) and strong growth of CSCs, as network clients and marketers find new ways to exploit their use. http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/2008/01/04/neustar-verizon-microsoft-pf-ii-in_ty_0105soapbox_inl.html Happy 25th, TCP/IP: TCP/IP marks 25 years since the ARPANET switchover Believe it or not, it has been a mere 25 years since TCP/IP walked into our lives and changed them forever. It was Jan. 1, 1983, when Internet precursor ARPANET switched over fully to TCP/IP. TCP/IP is so well-known that it's one of those acronyms we no longer spell out at Network World, but in honor of the date, we should address this underappreciated and taken-for-granted bit of engineering by its full name, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/lans/2008/1231lan2.html Remarkable Internet History: Equifax Invented .COM in 1975 by John Berryhill Once in a while, one comes across a new take on history that challenges everything you thought you knew. If you’re the type who engages in bar bets with geeks, then this one is a certain gem. http://www.circleid.com/posts/81023_internet_history_equifax_invented_dot_com/ At .mobi, find sites made for mobiles As we move toward becoming a wireless nation, manufacturers and consumers alike are increasingly looking for mobility in their technologies. Wichitan Marc Zwygart hopes to be at the forefront of the mobility demand by capitalizing on the rising popularity of .mobi, the first and only top-level domain dedicated to users who access the Internet with their mobile phones. http://www.kansas.com/101/story/269299.html Netcraft December 2007 Web Server Survey In the December 2007 survey we received responses from 155,230,051 sites. This is an increase of 5.4 million sites since last month, continuing the very strong growth seen during this year; the web has grown by nearly 50 million sites since December 2006. This once again breaks the record for growth of the web in one year; the previous highest growth was 30 million sites in 2006. The growth is also impressive in percentage terms, with the web growing by 48% since last December — although this remains far less than the runaway growth of 160% seen back in 2000. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/12/29/december_2007_web_server_survey.html ********************** - AFTERMARKET ********************** Who Is Really Monitoring Your Domain Searches? ... Last week an associate of mine was bulk-checking 200+ generic typo domains through a software that shall remain unnamed for now. All of the domains were available. But less than 2 minutes later, more than 50 of the domains had been registered by a number of different offshore companies from the Bahamas. http://www.dailydomainer.com/2007173-who-is-monitoring-your-domain-searches-update.html iran.com auction cancelled There is currently an announcement on the Sedo page providing information on the auction of iran.com stating “This auction has been cancelled. If you are interested in making an offer on this domain, please click here.” http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/01/05/irancom-auction-cancelled/ http://www.domainnews.com/aftermarket/2008012097/irancom-auction-cancelled/ Iran.com currently being auctioned With just over four days to go for the auction of iran.com at Sedo, the current asking price is US$735,000. http://www.domainpulse.com/2007/12/31/irancom-currently-being-auctioned/ http://www.domainnews.com/aftermarket/2007122065/irancom-currently-being-auctioned/ Iran.com May Sell for $735,000 The domain Iran.com is up for grabs at Sedo after receiving a $735,000 offer. The auction runs through January 4 and the reserve has been met. If the sale closes this will be a heck of a way to kick off the 2008 year in the domain industry. According to DNJournal, Iran.com sold for $400,000 in June of 2007. http://domainnamewire.com/2007/12/31/irancom-may-sell-for-735000/ Oversee.net buys domain name firm Moniker Moniker, the Pompano Beach company that made history selling Internet domain names like Porn.com and WallStreet.com, has been sold to Oversee.net, a Los Angeles online marketing company. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/366487.html Oversee buys Moniker Domain name services firm Moniker said it has been bought by Los Angeles' Oversee.net. http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2007/12/31/daily14.html Moniker.com Brings Adult Domain Name Auction to Internext Expo in Las Vegas [news release] Moniker, the leading provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, will host another exciting live domain name auction of premium adult domain names at Internext Expo, the world’s largest business-to-business online and digital media adult conference, on Tuesday, January 15 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/01/04/monikercom-brings-adult-domain-name-auction-to-internext-expo-in-las-vegas/ Gents.com Claims A Spot on Our Final Year-To-Date Top 100 Chart After Six Figure Sale Our final YTD Top 100 for 2007 is now set. Gents.com became the last name to crack the elite list after selling for $100,444 through MissDomain.com this past week. 2007 was the first year that every name on the year's Top 100 chart reached at least six figures. By comparison only 70 names broke that barrier in 2006. We also saw 9 seven-figure sales in 2007, compared to only three the year before. http://dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm Biggest Austrian ccTLD Sale Ever Reported Clocks in at #1 On Our Weekly Top 20 ... A pair of country code domains head our next to last Top 20 chart of 2007 and the #1 name is a real blockbuster. In fact, at €408,000 ($590,949) Job.at is the biggest Austrian country code sale ever reported. ... The #2 domain was another generic ccTLD gem - Veiling.nl ("auction" in Dutch), that chalked up a nice €46,000 ($66,627) sale for the Netherlands extension at Sedo.com. Sedo put three more country codes on the Big Board and wound up with ten entries overall to lead all venues. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales01-02-08.htm Trio of Six-Figure Deals Rise to the Top of This Week's Domain Sales Chart Three six-figure sales rule the roost on our weekly Top 20 Chart. Two of the headliners are high quality geo domains - #1 Perth.com at $200,000 and #3 Zimbabwe.com at $130,000. Fittingly enough, Perth.com sold in Moniker's live auction at last month's GeoDomain Expo in San Francisco where Kevin Ham made the purchase. Sedo.com handled the Zimbabwe.com sale as well as the $157,500 sale of #2 Via.com. Sedo had more sales than any other venue this week, sweeping 11 of the the 20 openings on the Big Board. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales12-26-07.htm ********************** - NON-ENGLISH NEWS ********************** Berlin soll Internet-Adresse werden Bei Internet-Adressen steht die Endung .de für Deutschland. Ein Unternehmer will erreichen, dass es künftig eine Adress-Endung gibt, die für die Hauptstadt steht: .berlin soll sie heißen. Doch Berlins Senat ist dagegen. Nicht zuletzt aus Angst vor Sex-Angeboten. Geht es nach Dirk Krischenowski, kann bald jeder Berliner auch Berlin heißen. Zumindest im Internet. Der Geschäftsführer des Unternehmens Dotberlin will erreichen, dass die Hauptstadt eine eigene Endung für Internet-Adressen bekommt, eine sogenannte Top-Level-Domain. Dann könnte, zum Beispiel, die Homepage des Regierenden Bürgermeisters unter www.klauswowereit.berlin erreichbar sein, der Zoo könnte die Adresse www.zoo.berlin bekommen und Dirk Krischenowski hätte die Möglichkeit, Emails über die Adresse [EMAIL PROTECTED] zu verschicken. "Berliner Unternehmen und Institutionen sollten einfacher und intuitiv zu finden sein", sagt der Dotberlin-Chef. http://www.welt.de/berlin/article1518568/Berlin_soll_Internet-Adresse_werden.html http://www.morgenpost.de/content/2008/01/05/berlin/940064.html Erster Vertrag über DNS-Root-Server Die dreizehn Root-Server sind das Herzstück des DNS: Wenn ein anderer DNS-Server zum Beispiel die zum Namen www.heise.de gehörige IP-Adresse nicht in seinem Cache findet, beginnt die Abfrage bei den Root-Servern. Nur sie teilen authoritiativ mit, welcher untergeordnete Server für die Toplevel-Domain (im Beispiel .de) zuständig ist. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101331 ICANN erwartet betriebsames Jahr 2008 Die ICANN ruft in einer Mitteilung zu den Plänen für 2008 alle Interessengruppen dazu auf, sich an der Konsultation der US-Verwaltung zur privaten Netzverwaltung zu beteiligen. Im Konsultationstext bittet die National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) um Stellungnahmen dazu, inwieweit ICANN ausreichend für Sicherheit und Stabilität von IP-Adressen und Domainnamen und dem darunter liegenden System der Rootserver gesorgt hat. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101316 randomainer.com – Tool zur Domain-Suche Letzte Woche haben wir Ihnen an dieser Stelle den Dot-o-mator vorgestellt, ein kostenloses Tool zur Suche nach freien Domains. Mit randomainer.com macht sich auch diesmal ein Werkzeug auf, zum unentbehrlichen Domain-Helferlein zu werden. http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/randomainer-com-tool-zur-domain-suche-id667119.html Russland: Kyrillisches Domain-System bedroht internationale Kommunikationswege Die russische Regierung will die Nutzung der russischen Sprache und kyrillischer Schriftzeichen im Internet ausbauen. Dadurch sollen die Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten im größten Land der Welt verbessert werden. Gleichzeitig entstünde aber voraussichtlich ein Bereich des Netzes, der weitgehend von der globalen Infrastruktur abgekoppelt ist und sich vom Staatsapparat leicht kontrollieren lässt. Das berichtete die britische Tageszeitung 'The Guardian' (Freitagsausgabe) unter Berufung auf Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Berater des Internet Governance Forum, einer Plattform zum globalen Austausch über die Entwicklung des Internet. http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2053789 Un nom volé grâce à une faille dans Gmail Un trou de sécurité dans le système d'email de Google a permis à un pirate habile d'obtenir le transfert en sa faveur du principal nom de domaine d'un designer anglais. Inquiétant. http://www.domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1389/un-nom-vole-grace-a-une-faille-dans-gmail.php Weitere Sturm-Wurm-Mails zum Jahreswechsel Mit immer neuen Domains und ständig variierten Programmdateien hat die Storm-Gang auch über die Feiertage die Antivirus-Hersteller auf Trab gehalten. Die Sturm-Flut vorgeblicher Neujahrsgrüße hält weiter an. http://www.pcwelt.de/start/sicherheit/antivirus/news/141564/ Non, les russes ne vont pas sortir des IDNs dès demain ! Nous avons enquêté sur des rumeurs Internet faisant état d'une sortie imminente d'IDN en .RU. Si les Russes s'intéressent effectivement à cette technologie, rien n'est encore décidé. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1390/russie-non-les-russes-ne-vont-pas-sortir-des-idns-des-demain.php Le .INFO s’ouvre aux caractères multilingues espagnols Afilias, le gestionnaire du .INFO, annonce l'arrivée de caractères espagnols courant janvier. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1391/information-le-info-s-ouvre-aux-caracteres-multilingues-espagnols.php Fiscalité : le Luxembourg, futur paradis des noms de domaine Le Luxembourg veut devenir l’un des pays où, fiscalement, il fait bon vivre lorsqu’on se lance dans le commerce de noms de domaine. Le projet de loi 5801, voté par la Chambre des députés le 19 décembre dernier, permet de développer à partir du Luxembourg le commerce des noms de domaine à une échelle européenne sans trop entamer ses gains en charges fiscales. Un des articles prévoit ainsi l’exonération de certains droits intellectuels à hauteur de 80%. http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/40971-luxembourg-nom-de-domaine-exoneration-paradi.htm http://fr.news.yahoo.com/pcinpact/20080102/ttc-fiscalite-le-luxembourg-futur-paradi-c2f7783.html Régime fiscal luxembourgeois en faveur des domainers La chambre des députés du Luxembourg a voté le projet de loi 5801, le 19 décembre 2007. Cette loi prévoit l’exonération de certains droits intellectuels à hauteur de 80% dont les noms de domaine. L’objectif du grand duché du Luxembourg est de créer au sein de l’Union Européenne un régime fiscal favorable aux détenteurs de portefeuilles de milliers de noms de domaine. http://mailclub.info/article.php3?id_article=684 2008 déjà dans vos noms de domaine L’année 2008 n’a pas de secret pour les titulaires de noms de domaine. 410 000, c’est le nombre de noms de domaine génériques (.COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO...) enregistrés contenant le terme « 2008 » dans leur composition. 1 400 .FR ont aussi opté pour des noms de domaine marqués 2008. Tout le programme de l’année y passe : élections municipales françaises, JO à Pékin, Euro 2008, élections présidentielles aux Etats-Unis. tu-fais-quoi-en-2008.fr? http://mailclub.info/article.php3?id_article=686 Domaine.info : visite guidée en vidéo des locaux de l'ICANN Une visite guidée des locaux de l'ICANN avec Tina Dam, Directrice du Programme IDN (vidéo réalisée en anglais) : c'est ce qu'on peut retrouver sur le site de la société niçoise Domaine.info. Service d'information éditorial fourni par Domaine.fr, filiale de French-Connexion, une société née en 1996 à Sophia Antipolis, Domaine.info est en quelque sorte la première Net Télévision sur le monde plutôt secret des noms de domaine. http://www.sophianet.com/wtm_article46150.fr.htm Les cybersquatteurs à l'assaut de Google Après avoir annoncé la création de Google Knol, le concurrent de Wikipedia, Google se voit envahi par des cybersquatteurs. http://www.zataz.com/news/16060/Apres-avoir-annonce-la-creation-de-Google-Knol_-le-concurrent-de-Wikipedia_-Google-se-voit-envahi-par-des-cybersquatteurs.html ¿Verá la luz en el 2008 el canon al dominio.ar? La medida, de gran importancia para afrontar el problema de la ciberocupación en la Argentina, no tiene una resolución final y es poco probable que rija a partir de marzo de este año, como se había anunciado http://www.canal-ar.com.ar/Noticias/NoticiaMuestra.asp?Id=5294 http://blogdedominios.blogspot.com/2008/01/arancelamiento-de-dominios-ar-sin.html 'Okupas' en la red que viven de los dominios más conocidos Cualquier usuario se ha equivocado alguna vez al escribir la dirección de una página web. Pues de esos errores ortográficos viven los okupas de la red. Si por ejemplo teclea www.terrra.com, con tres erres en vez de las dos de la original, aparecerá un sitio sin relación con el portal español. Esta web sobrevive gracias a los anuncios alojados en ella relacionados con chats, juegos o música. http://www.cincodias.com/articulo/empresas/Okupas/red/viven/dominios/conocidos/cdscdi/20080107cdscdiemp_19/Tes/ En apenas 3 años Internet colapsará, pero América Latina estaría a salvo El creciente uso de Internet y la falta de inversión en infraestructura podrían saturar la Red en tan sólo 3 años, sobre todo en los Estados Unidos, de no elevarse drásticamente la inversión. Sin embargo, hay expertos que aseguran que los países de Sudamérica "no necesitan grandes inversiones" para enfrentar este problema. ¿A qué llamamos drástico aumento de la inversión? Hay quienes calculan que se trata nada menos que de alrededor de 55.000 millones de dólares, algo así como un 65% más de lo que se había estimado previamente. http://mx.news.yahoo.com/s/01012008/77/apenas-3-internet-colapsar-am-rica-latina-salvo.html Aranceles a los sitios web, el próximo paso en el país Ultimo país de América sin aranceles para sitios en internet, Argentina analiza la posibilidad inminente de empezar a cobrar los dominios "punto ar". El organismo a cargo de esta decisión, el ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, si bien reconoce estar evaluando la medida, mantiene todavía en reserva cuál sería la tarifa y el momento en que se implementaría. Mientras tanto, a falta de información oficial, el tema crece semana tras semana en la propia web, donde se debaten los beneficios y riesgos de lo que constituye un cambio radical en la política aplicada hasta ahora por nuestro gobierno. http://www.eldia.com.ar/edis/20080106/informaciongeneral18.htm Latinoamérica frente al colapso de Internet Expertos en la materia aseguran que los países de Sudamérica "no necesitan grandes inversiones" de cara a un posible desborde de capacidad de la Red. Un estudio de la consultora norteamericana Nemertes Research aseguró que el creciente uso de Internet y la falta de inversión en infraestructura podrían saturar la Red en tan sólo tres años causando cortes en el servicio, especialmente a usuarios estadounidenses, de no elevarse drásticamente la inversión. http://www.siliconnews.es/articles/printView/es/silicon/special-report/2007/12/14/latinoamerica-colapso-red Los servidores raíz de Internet pasarán a usar IPv6 El 4 de febrero los organismos ICANN/IANA comenzarán a usar direcciones IPv6 en sus cuatro servidores raíz, los más importantes en Internet y que permitirán que máquinas que usen este tipo de direcciones se comuniquen independientemente de la tradicional infraestructura IPv4. http://www.internautas.org/html/4701.html http://www.hackhispano.com/home/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=262 Número de lecturas: 42 El reporte de la industria de dominios en Internet, se dio a conocer por parte de VeriSign, para el tercer trimestre de 2007, además el informe muestra que 12 millones de nuevos nombres de dominios fueron incorporados en el último trimestre, totalizando 146 millones de dominios registrados entre todos los Dominios del Primer Nivel. http://www.infochannel.com.mx/portada.asp?id_nota=14874 Glasbruketcafe.se blev 700 000:e se-domänen Intresset för toppdomänen .se bara växer. Nu har den 700 000:e se-domänen registrerats. http://internetworld.idg.se/2.1006/1.138431 Russerne vurderer eget internett Russiske myndigheter vurderer å opprette et separat kyrillisk-basert internett for å skjerpe kontrollen med russiskspråklige nettsider. Vestlige sikkerhetseksperter er kritiske. http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=502034 http://www.dagsavisen.no/utenriks/article329353.ece Russland vil skjerpe nettkontrollen Russiske styresmakter vurderer å opprette eit separat kyrillisk-basert internett for å skjerpe kontrollen med russiskspråklege nettsider. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/utenriks/1.4425214 Venemaa püüab piirata pääsu ülemaailmsesse internetti Venemaa kavatseb luua kirillitsa baasil toimiva interneti, mis oleks ülemaailmsest internetist täiesti eraldatud. http://www.postimees.ee/040108/esileht/olulised_teemad/tarbija24/tehnika/304413.php http://www.delfi.ee/news/paevauudised/valismaa/article.php?id=17854029 Story in Vietnamese mentioning DNS http://tintuc.timnhanh.com/the_gioi_so/20080102/35A6D2BD/ Story in Vietnamese mentioning ICANN http://vietnamnet.vn/cntt/2008/01/762462/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2008 --------- David Goldstein address: 4/3 Abbott Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David @yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 (mobile); +61 2 9665 5773 (home) "Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. 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