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Martin [ICTConsulting, Gingins (VD), Switzerland] | ICANN GNSO recommends new anti-domain tasting solution | Judge Says We Can't Look Inside US .XXX deliberations by Milton Mueller | .cn passes 10 million registrations | SIDN Releases Numerical Domain Name Investigation Results | VeriSign Expands Project Titan to Strengthen Internet Infrastructure | Network Solutions pulls plug on Dutch politician's anti-Qur'an film | Domain Name Registrars: The Weakest Link in Online Free Speech | Get a good name on the web | Name That Firm: What should you call your business? And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** OECD Resources on Policy Issues related to Internet Governance This site, www.oecd.org/InternetGovernance, presents the OECD's contributions in several critical public policy areas related to the Internet; such as security, privacy, telecommunication policy, universal access, consumer protection, e-commerce, and broader information economy issues. It provides links to the relevant OECD resources on public policy issues related to Internet governance. The OECD prepared a report as an input to the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance in 2005, available as a user-friendly e-book or as a PDF document. This report i) presents an overview of the major benefits that the developments of the Internet and ICTs provide to both OECD economies and non-OECD countries’ economies; ii) briefly reviews the evolution of the Internet and the parallel evolution of Internet governance from the 1960s until today; iii) provides the OECD’s perspective on the factors that were instrumental to the successful development of the Internet; and iv) finally, provides information on the relevant work conducted by the OECD on policy issues related to Internet governance as per the “Internet governance” public policy areas identified by the U.N. Working Group on Internet Governance. http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,3343,en_21571361_34590630_34591253_1_1_1_1,00.html UK Internet Governance Forum and Best Practice Challenge Recently, the UK Internet Governance Forum was launched at an event in Parliament attended by over 100 people from industry, government, parliament, academia and civil society. The launch event featured a report from the Internet Governance Forum in Rio last November; a plan of action up until the next IGF meeting in India and beyond; the launch of Nominet’s Best Practice Challenge 2008 and a debate on the future of the Internet. http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/nominet/2008/03/17/uk-internet-governance-forum-and-best-practice-challenge/ ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** ICANN proposes new anti-domain tasting solution ICANN could stop any domain name registrar from processing refunds on more than 10% of its domains in any given month in a new bid to stop domain name tasting. Domain name tasting exploits the fact that someone registering a domain can keep it for up to five days and then return it for free. Unscrupulous operators are using that grace period to test domain names to see if their advertising income exceeds their registration costs for a year. http://out-law.com/page-8956 ICANN Proposes Anti-Domain Tasting ICANN has reportedly proposed a new policy that could stop individuals from domain name tasting by preventing domain name registrars from processing refunds on more than 10 percent of its domains in any given month. http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/031908_ICANN_Proposes_Anti_Domain_Tasting.cfm Porn-friendly .xxx domain backer loses suit against federal agencies The company behind the proposed .xxx top-level domain, which was rejected after the Bush administration intervened, has been trying to dig up embarrassing government documents through a federal lawsuit. http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9896922-38.html http://reason.com/blog/show/125582.html New Languages Added to ICANN’s IDN Wiki Hebrew and Amharic speakers now have dedicated wiki pages to share their experiences as a part of the global evaluation of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) being done by ICANN. "Since its launch in October 2007, the IDN wiki has helped ICANN and the Internet community look at exactly how IDNs operate in the root, and how different software handles domain names in characters from different scripts," said Tina Dam, ICANN’s IDN Program Director. "We’re hoping that Internet users who understand Hebrew and Amharic will access these wiki pages and share their experiences." http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar08.htm Should ICANN Open up? This week, The Register ran a story on how the US supposedly had given up its 'control' over ICANN. ICANN, the body which assigns IP addresses and domain names worldwide, currently falls under the US Commerce Department via a contractual agreement; this means the US government can control ICANN. El Reg claimed the US had given up this control; Ars was quick to respond, stating that "the existing arrangement was likely to continue, at least for another year." Since the US had stated that it wanted to fully privatise ICANN by 2000, we'll have to wait and see what ICANN looks like in a year. In the meantime, do we really want the US to open up ICANN? http://www.osnews.com/story/15331/Should_ICANN_Open_up_ ********************** - (cc)TLD NEWS ********************** Canada kicks off Countdown to One Million Internet Domain Names [news release] The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) today launches its campaign to celebrate the registration of one million dot-ca domain names with the unveiling of a campaign website at onemilliondomains.ca. CIRA expects to reach the one million milestone in early April 2008 after passing 750,000 registrations just 18 months prior in October 2006. The campaign showcases the growth of dot-ca domain names, dot-ca websites and the Canadians behind them. http://onemilliondomains.ca/media-e.php http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/18/canada-kicks-off-countdown-to-one-million-internet-domain-names/ http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2008032853/ .es Marches Towards One Million Registrations .es, Spain’s ccTLD, is well on the way to its one millionth registration and will pass the nine hundred thousandth domain registration this month. It is expected the one millionth registration will occur in May. http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2008032835/es-marches-towards-one-million-registrations/ http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/17/one-millionth-es-registration-imminent/ AFNIC's consultative committees agree on the implementation of EPP [news release] AFNIC's consultative committees have convened on the 13th and the 14th of March 2008, following an intense semester when AFNIC has passed one million registrations in .fr. A number of important changes have been outlined, like the new distinction made between .fr registrars and AFNIC members. As .fr registrars are no more automatically AFNIC's members, it was a success to note that over 70 of the registrars are now voluntarily members, along with 12 users representing legal entities, 11 users representing natural persons and 32 members from the International College of AFNIC. 946 registrars are currently registered as AFNIC customers. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/general/CP20080317 French domain name registry to move to EPP [sub req'd] French domain name registry AFNIC's consultative committees have decided to migrate the registration system to Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP). http://telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=207960 Dot TK Domains Now Free of Commercials [news release] Dot TK, the registry for .TK Internet domain names, today announced the launch of Dot TK 3.0 - a new version of Dot TK without any mandatory commercial advertisements. Dot TK is the world's leading provider of free domain names. Dot TK domains are often used to rename long and hard to remember URLs into easy to remember domain names with a .TK extension. http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/19/dot-tk-domains-now-free-of-commercials/ http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2008032865/dot-tk-domains-now-free-of-commercials/ uk: Nominet strengthens UK Dispute Resolution Service with appointment of 14 new independent experts Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, today announces that it has appointed 14 new independent experts to join its renowned Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). The independent experts will provide binding decisions in resolving domain name disputes. Nominet's DRS provides individuals and businesses with a cost-effective and efficient alternative to the courts. http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/releases/?contentId=4846 ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** uk: Climate change and cyber attacks among security threats Gordon Brown this week is expected to reveal a long-delayed national security strategy setting out a wide range of threats facing Britain and how the government intends to tackle them. His proposals will include a national security council on which security, intelligence, and military chiefs could sit as well as senior ministers and top civil servants, Whitehall officials said yesterday. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/17/uksecurity.climatechange European Security Awareness Day #2 - April 8, Brussels Following on from the inaugural European Security Awareness Day which was held in Brussels last year, this year's event will once again bring together top-level policy makers and senior executives from service and software companies to address some of the information security challenges that technology providers are facing today and look forward at possible problems in the coming years. Participants will address security, safety and privacy issues, and discuss roles that need to be played by governments, security providers and users. Discussions will be held on the issue of safeguarding security whilst protecting users and maintaining the growth of ICT sector, and breakout sessions during the afternoon will focus on 'Cybercrime', 'Consumer Protection' and 'Privacy & Security' respectively. http://eusecurityday.org/ us: Feds Get Guilty Plea From Operation Bot Roast Federal law enforcement agencies have received a guilty plea from one of the botmasters nabbed last year under Operation Bot Roast. Robert Matthew Bentley, 21, of Panama City, Fla., has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud and computer fraud, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148801 NZ key member of FBI cyber specialists New Zealand has been revealed as a member of a specialist American led anti cyber crime group. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement today that the newly formed Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group was one of its most promising initiatives to fight cyber crime. http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4447003a28.html us: White House Taps Tech Entrepreneur For Cyber Defense Post The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new inter-agency group charged with coordinating the federal government's efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyber attacks. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903125.html ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** Kellogg is abusing the UDRP in its effort to secure Eggo.com. A recent NAF decisions illustrates a problem which domainers have been griping about for years: The UDRP can be used by overly aggressive corporations and their attorneys in order to hijack domain names in which they have no rights. http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/ us: Arbitrator sides with Baylor in domain dustup The owner of five Web sites with names related to Baylor University has been ordered to transfer them to the school because the domain names are confusingly similar to Baylor's sites and the owner has no legitimate interest in the names. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5626604.html How Can I protect My Company’s Domain Name? Trademark based-Domain Names have become a precious corporate asset that both large and small companies are willing to protect against unauthorized use or abusive registration. Yet, protecting those domain names at an international level may prove costly and complicated. For these simple reasons ICANN wisely implemented two documents that have been crucial for companies engaged in protecting their domain names. The first document is the called "Dispute Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Policy") and the second document is called "Rules for Uniform Domain Name Disputes Resolution Policy" ("Dispute Rules"). This article briefly explains these two international measures to solve domain name controversies. http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=2015 ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** IETF douses IPv4 At the Internet Engineering Task Force's 71st meeting, held in Philadelphia last week, the organizers temporarily pulled the plug on all Internet access at the event. The organizers then offered wireless Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-only access for a few hours. The IETF wanted to show the engineers in attendance, as well as the rest of the world, that accessing the Internet by IPv6 was possible. http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/45996.html ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** American Airlines bucks the .mobi trend American Airlines have announced they are making their website accessible via mobile devices, but not via a .mobi domain name as many companies are doing these days. Rather, when accessing AA.com on a mobile phone or device their system recognises when customers are accessing AA.com via mobile devices and directs them to the mobile version of AA.com. http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/17/american-airlines-bucks-the-mobi-trend/ http://www.domainnews.com/registries/2008032831/american-airlines-bucks-the-mobi-trend/ http://www.aa.com/content/amrcorp/pressReleases/2008_03/11_aacom.jhtml ********************** - DOMAINING ********************** Kazakhstan Belongs to the Domainer It has been reported that over 16,000 .KZ domains have been registered since early 2007, over 60% of that number held by a dozen or so domainers. http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=24911 Yahoo! Cozies Up To Its Click-Fraud Critics In the war to win clicks on the Web, a critic of Google is a friend of Yahoo!--even, it seems, when that friend is a critic of Yahoo!, too. http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/17/click-fraud-yahoo-tech-security-cx_ag_0317click.html ValueClick to Pay $2.9 Million in Spam Case [AP] Online advertiser ValueClick Inc. will pay $2.9 million to settle charges that it made deceptive claims in e-mails and online ads, a government agency said Monday. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-ValueClick-Spam-Settlement.html Domaining & Address Bar-Driven Traffic First up is Matt Bentley, Chief Strategy Officer, Sedo.com. Matt talks about the economics of domain traffic. He talks about the old way versus buying traffic versus PPC and Adwords. An example is wifi.com. If wifi.com has 15,000 visitors you could buy that traffic; talks about 10 percent conversion ratio, and PPC. Advertisers could cut out the middleman (wifi.com and Google) and go directly to SEDO or the domain owner for the traffic. Cutting out the middleman, advertisers could pay less for the traffic, and in the case it could be as cheap as $1500 for 15,000 visitors. http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016590.html The Zen and Art of Domain Flipping Lately there has been a lot of buzz in the domain industry over developing vs. parking your domain. For domain owners with large portfolios, development just isn’t an option and parking is essential to monetize their domain names. Some domainers pick a segment of their portfolio to develop and then park the rest. However you choose to monetize your domain names there is one question you need to ask yourself, “Is my domain name appreciating?” http://www.dotsauce.com/2008/03/19/the-zen-and-art-of-domain-flipping/ ********************** - AFTERMARKET ********************** SS.com Sold For US$1.25 Million SS.com the domain that has been on everyone’s wish list has finally been sold to the team at Geaney.com for US$1.25 million dollars. http://domainingtips.com/sscom-sold-for-125-million-usd.html ********************** - NON-ENGLISH NEWS ********************** Mehr als 700.000 österreichische Webseiten Seit zwanzig Jahren gibt es österreichische Internetseiten. 1998 wurde die österreichische Top-Level-Domain .at in den USA offiziell registriert. Damals, als die Domainverwaltung noch der Universität Wien unterstand, gab es erst eine Hand voll .at-Seiten - heute sind es mehr als 700.000. Die rasante Entwicklung der heimischen Internetlandschaft ist auch geprägt von der Gründung der österreichischen Registrierungsstelle , die heuer ihr zehnjähriges Jubiläum feiert. http://www.wirtschaftsblatt.at/home/schwerpunkt/itnews/318935/index.do Fusu – Premium-Domains für jedermann Erstklassige Domains für jedermann: die slowakische Domain-Börse Fusu bietet über ein neuartiges Konzept ab sofort jedermann die Möglichkeit, Mitinhaber einer Premium-Domain zu werden. Die Idee ist dem klassischen Aktienhandel entliehen: statt alleine eine Domain zu halten, erwerben viele Inhaber einen Anteil. http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/fusu-premium-domains-fuer-jedermann-id667157.html TLD-Update – Neues von .eu, .rs und .cr Dominierten vergangene Woche noch die generischen Top Level Domains das Geschehen, hat sich das Blatt diesmal wieder gewendet: mit .eu, .rs und .cr haben gleich drei Länderkürzel Neues zu vermelden. Abgerundet wird das Bild mit zwei Kurzmeldungen zu .jp und .se. http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/tld-update-neues-von-eu-rs-und-cr-id667158.html Le .PRO veut s'ouvrir L'extension réservée aux professionnels reste aujourd'hui relativement confidentielle. Son gestionnaire, RegistryPro, veut l'ouvrir. Les professionnels français pourraient bientôt être éligibles. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1455/professionnels-le-pro-veut-s-ouvrir.php L'usurpation d'identité d'un adversaire politique Assigné en référé devant le TGI de Saint Malo, un candidat à l’ élection municipale, qui avait usurpé le nom de son adversaire politique sous la forme de noms de domaine, a dû supprimer les noms concernés. Il engageait sa responsabilité personnelle. http://domainesinfo.fr/chronique/188/l-usurpation-d-identite-d-un-adversaire-politique.php Un projet d’ouverture du .UY ? Dans une interview accordée sur un blog d'Uruguay, Sergio Ramirez membre du registre du .UY, évoque un projet d’ouverture à l’enregistrement de noms sous l’extension principale, le .UY, pour l'instant fermée. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1460/uruguay-un-projet-d-ouverture-du-uy.php 400 000 .CZ CZNIC, registre de l’extension géographique de la République Tchèque, vient de dépasser les 400 000 enregistrements. Pavel Tuma, du CZNIC, a bien voulu commenter cette progression. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1459/republique-tcheque-400-000-cz.php Les comités de concertation de l'AFNIC entérinent la décision de s'orienter vers EPP [Communiqué de presse] Les comités de concertation de l'AFNIC se sont à nouveau réunis les 13 et 14 mars 2008, à l'issue d'un semestre riche en évolutions et en événements, comme le franchissement de la barre du millionième .fr le 11 janvier 2008. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/general/CP20080317 Nouvelle vente record : casino.de Une annonce faite hier par la société danoise Balslev Media ApS, nouvellement propriétaire du nom casino.de, dévoile l'une des transactions les plus élevées sur une extension nationale. Casino.de a été acheté 400 000 euros. http://stephanevangelder.com/archives/42-Nouvelle-vente-record-casino.de.html Policía del mundo, también en Internet Con el argumento de garantizar la libertad de expresión, Estados Unidos mantendrá el poder en la web pese a los intentos democratizadores en la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información, celebrada bajo el auspicio de la ONU. De todos modos, Europa logró que ese país aceptara un foro internacional para seguir discutiendo el tema, con lo que se evitó el fracaso del encuentro. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-59318-2005-11-17.html Internet va difeso e tutelato Sabato 15 marzo è calato il sipario sull'Idc Innovation Forum 2008 con il convegno: "Internet come bene comune. Proposta di diritti e doveri per una cittadinanza telematica" http://www.vnunet.it/it/vnunet/news/2008/03/17/internet_va_difeso_e_tutelato La sirena española amplía sus dominios Que a Gemma Mengual no le han regalado nada en su vida se sabe cuando se le oye decir que «para ganar no hay más secretos que el trabajo, la disciplina, creer en el proyecto e implicarse en él». Incluso se puede comprobar viendo cómo son sus días. «Me levanto a las siete de la mañana. Desayuno y me dirijo al CAR de Sant Cugat. Allí paso entre ocho y once horas, dependiendo de los días». Cuando la competición se aproxima no hay ni domingos. http://www.abc.es/20080317/deportes-natacion/sirena-espanola-amplia-dominios_200803170245.html Los dominios .pa de Panamá Panamá tiene unos 3 millones de habitantes. Su idioma es el castellano y su moneda el Balboa, equivalente al dólar estadounidense. Es una economía totalmente dolarizada y sin banco central. Su famoso canal fue inaugurado en 1914 y estuvo en manos de Estados Unidos hasta que fue transferido completamente a Panamá el 31 de diciembre de 1999. El peaje medio es de 54.000$ y el más caro 313.000$, que fue pagado por el crucero Norwegian Pearl. Desde su apertura lo han cruzado 700.000 barcos. http://www.domisfera.com/los-dominios-pa-de-panama/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! The domain name news is supported by auDA For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. For archives of postings to the list, see http://lists.technewsreview.com.au/pipermail/technewsreview/. 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