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********************************************************** Don't forget to check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/ for today's edition of the complete domain news, already online! Headlines from the edition of the news include: What Were They Thinking ? DC Think Tank Proposes to Let Registries and Registrars Run ICANN While Tilting UDRP | Pentagon should establish fourth military service to wage cyberwars | Conficker time bomb ticks, but don't expect fireworks | CIRA working with international partners to counter Conficker C | Will PC worm turn nasty on April Fool's Day? | WIPO Proposes to “Compliment” UDRP at New gTLDs With New RPMs That Will Accelerate Trademark Rights And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** Cyber-safety, or global censorship? by Milton Mueller http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/3/17/4125801.html Save the children? ICANN opens debate on CyberSafety charter http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/save-the-children-icann-opens-debate-on-cybersafety-charter.ars African TLD issue sparks heated debate http://computerworld.co.ke/articles/2009/03/20/african-tld-issue-sparks-heated-debate Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space Ratified by ICANN Board http://nro.net/news/ICANN-global-policy-IPv4.html Consumer Pressure Drives ISOC Members IPv6 Deployment http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=7591 No business case for IPv6, survey finds http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032009-ipv6-business-case.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** Community Comment Forum Period Extended for New GNSO Stakeholder Group Petitions and Charters The Public Comment Forum regarding new GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Charters has been extended from 5 April 2009 to 15 April 2009. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-19mar09-en.htm SSAC Review: Public Comment Period to the Independent Reviewers’ Draft Report ICANN appointed JAS Communications as the consultants for the independent review of SSAC, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee. The consultants released their draft final report, which was presented and discussed at the ICANN Mexico City meeting. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-20mar09-en.htm Cyber-safety, or global censorship? by Milton Mueller ICANN has encouraged new constituencies to get involved in the GNSO. Now it has got what it asked for. This month, Cheryl Preston filed a petition with ICANN to form a new “Cyber-safety Constituency.” It turns out that this constituency is nothing more than an extension of the CP80 Foundation. CP80 is devoted to systematic, global censorship of internet content in order to eradicate pornography. http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2009/3/17/4125801.html Save the children? ICANN opens debate on CyberSafety charter The group behind the campaign to take porn off of port 80 is now lobbying ICANN to create a new "Cybersafety Constituency" to assist in the formulation of domain name system policy. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/save-the-children-icann-opens-debate-on-cybersafety-charter.ars ICANN Asked to Remake the Internet in Joseph Smith's Image? If there's one thing that scares the bejabbers out of me, it's when organized religion—either directly or via proxies—attempts to nose its way into technology policy issues. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090318_icann_asked_remake_internet_joseph_smith/ IANA: A Tale of Two Fails The IANA—Internet Assigned Numbers Authority—is, functionally, the boiler room of the Internet. Every protocol in use to shovel data from Tallahassee to Timbuktu? Listed there. IP addresses? They are the root from which all addresses flow. Domain names? They are the Source. The entire operation is chock-full of magic numbers, numbers that form and fuel the digital world we use daily. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090320_a_tale_of_two_fails/ African TLD issue sparks heated debate African countries struggling to take over management of their ccTLDs should invest in servers and training engineers to operate registries before complaining, said Ann Rachel Inne, Africa region liaison at ICANN. http://computerworld.co.ke/articles/2009/03/20/african-tld-issue-sparks-heated-debate Who's in charge here? There isn’t really anyone in charge of the internet and no one runs it in a conventional sense ... So the internet’s only real global “leaders” are a set of three technical governing bodies: the Internet Society; Icann; and the W3 (world wide web) Consortium. These three bodies set – or often, mainly encourage – specifications that nobody can be forced to follow. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0320/1224243120941.html Yarro, Anti-Porn Crusaders Want More ICANN Clout Anti-pornography activists, led by SCO Group chairman Ralph Yarro III, have been busy over the last few years trying to purge the 'net of smut. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Yarro-AntiPorn-Crusaders-Want-More-ICANN-Clout-101450 ********************** - ccTLD & gTLD NEWS ********************** Fi-domain names for five years Finnish government seeks to extend the validity of fi-domain names according to the proposal on the amendment of the Domain Name Act submitted on 19 March. The time of restraint of the domain names is also proposed to be shortened. http://www.ficora.fi/en/index/viestintavirasto/uutiset/2009/P_11.html fr: AFNIC Consultative Committees affirm their interest in EPP AFNIC Consultative Committees took place on March 12th and 13th 2009, after a semester rich in events, such as the call for bidders to manage the .fr domain, made by the French Department of Economy, Industry and Employment, or the implementation on March 30th of a new registration interface, based on the EPP protocol. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/213/afnic-consultative-committees-affirm-their-interest-in-epp.html .gp domain names now available medical.gp, iscm.gp, indianapolis.gp, shop.gp, japanese.gp, nippon.gp, f-1.gp, casino.com.gp http://www.nic.gp/ nl: Amendment of SIDN’s constitution SIDN, the .nl registry, has made a number of changes to its constitution, which are described below. http://www.sidn.nl/ace.php/c,728,6033,,,,Amendment_of_SIDN_s_constitution.html .PR IDNs now available The NIC.PR announces that Internet users can now register .pr domain names using Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). The introduction of these new domain names now enables Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese speakers to establish web sites using words commonly used in those languages such as muñeca.pr, teléfonos.pr, garçon.pr, schön.pr, or amanhã.pr. http://www.nic.pr/ Scottish Parliament backs dotSCO campaign The Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee today formally endorsed the dotSCO campaign, after receiving assurances from the Government that it was doing all it could to help ensure an application could be submitted to ICANN later this year. http://dotsco.org/2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=2 http://www.domainpulse.com/2009/03/21/scottish-parliament-backs-dotsco-campaign/ http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/dotsco-campaign-receives-backing-of-scottish-parliament.html New gTLD Update - Scottish Users Prefer .scot The campaign for a TLD for Scotland announced a small change of tack earlier today on their facebook presence. While previously the campaign had been focussed on setting up the .sco tld for Scottish culture etc., they are now pressing ahead with .scot instead. http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2009/03/16/new-gtld-update---scottish-users-prefer-scot/ .Tel Domains Could Be Subject to Cybersquatting Warns Company LCN, an ICANN accredited domain registrar, is warning of the potential for cybersquatting when premium fees attached to .TEL domain names are removed and the domains become generally available (on a first-come, first-served basis) March 24, 2009. http://hostsearch.com/news/lcncom_news_8420.asp Airtel, Tata Show Interest as .tel Goes Live On the 133rd anniversary of the telephone's first use, Telnic, the company behind .tel, said tens of thousands of .tel domains went live yesterday, creating the world's first global directory. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Airtel_Tata_Show_Interest_as_tel_Goes_Live/551-100237-643.html World's First Global Directory Service Goes Live Telnic has announced that it had achieved a milestone in the delivery of a new internet service, with tens of thousands of .tel domains going "live", creating the world's first global directory. The registry operator for the new .tel domains, which provide individuals and businesses with a unique way of sharing all types of contact information with any device connected to the internet, successfully launched its new service. http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Worlds_First_Global_Directory_Service_Goes_Live/551-100321-643.html .Tel Domains Opening to All Next Week Telnic Limited announced this week that it will finally be making available top-level .tel domains available to the masses. The TLD, which has been tied up with ICANN for more than eight years, will finally be available to the public at 3.00 P.M. GMT on March 24th. http://www.appscout.com/2009/03/tel_domains_opening_to_all_nex.php The dangers of triple-X domains The proposal of a triple-X domain for Internet pornography is being negotiated. Pat Trueman, special counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, notes ICM Registry has failed in the past, largely due to public pressure, but the idea is being reconsidered. http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=456768 ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Conficker Worm An extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle is taking place between computer security groups around the world and the brazen author of a malicious software program called Conficker. http://nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/19worm.html http://iht.com/articles/2009/03/19/technology/19worm.php The Conficker Worm: April Fool’s Joke or Unthinkable Disaster? The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world’s biggest April Fool’s joke or is it the Information Age equivalent of Herman Kahn’s legendary 1962 treatise about nuclear war, “Thinking About the Unthinkable”? http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/the-conficker-worm-april-fools-joke-or-unthinkable-disaster/ Worming Our Way Out of Trouble by Bill Thompson The Conficker worm will be active again on April 1st, according to an analysis of its most recent variant, Conficker.C, by the net security firm CA. This malicious piece of software, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, spreads among computers running most variants of the Windows operating system and turns them into nodes on a multi-million member 'botnet' of zombie computers that can be controlled remotely by the worm's as yet unidentified authors. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090320_worming_our_way_out_of_trouble/ US Power grid is found susceptible to cyberattack [IDG] An emerging network of intelligent power switches, called the Smart Grid, could be taken down by a cyberattack, according to researchers with IOActive, a Seattle security consultancy. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130178 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032109-power-grid-is-found-susceptible.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/161727/.html A bill to shift cybersecurity to White House Forthcoming legislation would wrest cybersecurity responsibilities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and transfer them to the White House, a proposed move that likely will draw objections from industry groups and some conservatives. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200710-38.html us: Rockefeller promises to address threats to cybersecurity Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller will make cybersecurity a committee priority this year because he regards threats to the government's networks and infrastructure as "a profoundly and deeply troubling problem to which we are not paying much attention." http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090320_3129.php AT&T Talks Cybersecurity With Congress Congress is a tech-savvier place today than it was when Edward Amoroso, AT&T’s chief security officer, started making trips to Washington more than 20 years ago. Back then, he says, he would discuss virus threats at length before a lawmaker would raise his hand. “You’re expecting some question that might impress you, and they’d ask, ‘Can you tell me what a virus is?’” http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/20/att-talks-cybersecurity-with-congress/ US Senator plans to promote cybersecurity education The U.S. economy is suffering massive losses every year due to cyberattacks, yet most Americans are not aware of the gravity of the problem, cyber experts told Congress Thursday. Without more federal funding for educational reforms and basic research to promote cybersecurity, the nation will regularly suffer from attacks of serious consequence, they said. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10200280-38.html Report: Cybercriminals Working Faster Than Ever Malware exploits moved at unprecedented speed and volume this past year but 2009 may bring increasing cooperation among security vendors and law enforcement agencies to bring down criminal enterprises, according to the annual Trend Micro Threat Roundup & 2009 Forecast. http://www.mitechnews.com/articles.asp?id=10135 ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** WIPO Cybersquatting Report Ignores Real UDRP Trends The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) asserted on Monday that new gTLDs from ICANN would unleash a global crime wave. This dire warning was bolstered by an astonishing statistic: a whopping eight per cent (8%) increase in UDRP complaints from 2007 to 2008! http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090318_wipo_cybersquatting_report_ignores_real_udrp_trends/ Cybersquatting American International Group DomainFight.net reports the following Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy Proceeding brought by American International Group, Inc. (AIG), on October 8, 2006. DomainTools.com reports the following typographical variations of “AIGInsurance”, most of which are cybersquatted WIPO typographical variations of the AIGInsurance.com domain. These results don’t include the typosquatting on American International Group’s primary website, AIG.com. http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2009/03/cybersquatting-american-international-group.html Cybersquatting: A brief legal overview by Rima Bhardwaj & Dushyant Upadhyay Cybersquatting is a crime against the laws and regulations of cyber law. It can be defined as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith i.e. mala fide intent to make profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. http://www.indlawnews.com/display.aspx?4555 ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space Ratified by ICANN Board On 6 March 2009, the ICANN Board ratified the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space. The policy requires ICANN to reserve one /8 for each RIR from the IANA free pool. This has been done. The remainder of the implementation will be done once the once the IANA free pool has been fully allocated to RIRs. There are currently 32 unallocated unicast IPv4 /8s. 27 are in the IANA free pool and five are reserved under the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space. http://nro.net/news/ICANN-global-policy-IPv4.html Consumer Pressure Drives ISOC Members IPv6 Deployment In a survey of members on the transition to IPv6, the Internet Society (ISOC) found the main driver for moving to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) was customer demand. In a study of the operational characteristics of IPv6 in its organisation members’ networks, ISOC found that while customer pressure motivated IPv6 deployment, specific business-case drivers did not yet exist. http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=7591 http://www.domainpulse.com/2009/03/21/consumer-pressure-drives-isoc-members-ipv6-deployment/ http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/consumer-pressure-drives-isoc-members-ipv6-deployment.html No business case for IPv6, survey finds Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, according to a survey of network operators conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC). In a new report, ISOC says that ISPs, enterprises and network equipment vendors report that there are "no concrete business drivers for IPv6." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032009-ipv6-business-case.html http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/networking/protocols/news/index.cfm?newsid=13984 http://computerworld.com.au/article/296408/ ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** Netcraft March 2009 Web Server Survey In the March 2009 survey, we received responses from 224,749,695 sites. This has brought the total up by more than 9 million sites, with QQ and Microsoft making the most significant contributions. Apache remains in the lead with a total of 104 million sites, while Microsoft-IIS's gain of 3.3 million sites (mostly consisting of new Windows Live blogs) brings its total up to 66 million. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/03/15/march_2009_web_server_survey.html ********************** - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET ********************** FlatRate.de Flattens the Competition - $200,000 Sale Vaults to the Top Spot of This Week's Sales Chart In the biggest country code sale of the year to date, Sedo has completed the €160,000 ($200,000) sale of FlatRate.de. That transaction takes the top spot on our new weekly all extension Top 20 Chart, outdistancing the $80,000 sale of runner-up Claim.com at the AfternicDLS. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2009/03-10-09.htm Domain names a ticket to riches? Cyber squatting is making a comeback. Recent domain name sales of Toys.com and Auction.com have seen combined sales of $US7 million despite the gloomy economic outlook. http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/140384,domain-names-a-ticket-to-riches.aspx Domain Name Search Gets Powerful with Domize Last year we reviewed Domize, a slick and fast service for finding unregistered domain names. It’s an incredibly simple service: just start typing in any word or phrase. The system will come up with domains based on that name and shorter versions. It then displays whether those suggestions are available on popular top-level domains (.com, .net. org, .biz, .info, and .us) At the time, we called it “the fastest domain name search ever.” http://mashable.com/2009/03/22/domize-power-search/ New Sedo Transfer Overview Page Sedo is happy to announce a new transfer overview page and communication tool for domain transfers. In an effort to make the domain transfer process more efficient and secure, Sedo Transfer Specialists will no longer be corresponding through email updates. Instead, transfer details will be accessible exclusively through Sedo’s Transfer Overview page. When you have a transfer taking place, you are now able to reach your Transfer Specialist directly through one-on-one messaging, upload related documents, update and review technical transfer details and track your billing information. http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=2351 http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=2352 ********************** - NON-ENGLISH NEWS ********************** ********************** - German News ********************** Conficker - Was passiert am 1. April? Computerschädling verbreitet sich ungehindert weiter - Aktivierung für 1. April geplant - Von April-Scherz bis zur Katastrophe alles möglich http://derstandard.at/?id=1237228031390 Schläfer vor dem Erwachen Mindestens vier Millionen Computer sind inzwischen von dem Computerwurm Conficker befallen. Noch ist alles ruhig. Doch am 1. April wird der Schädling zum Leben erweckt. http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/zuerich/schlaefer_vor_dem_erwachen_1.2237540.html Neues Sedo Transfer Center ist online Sedo präsentiert das neue Transfer Center mit all seinen Vorteilen. Ab sofort brauchen Sedo-Kunden keine Fax-Formulare mehr verschicken oder ihr Postfach nach Transfer-E-Mails durchsuchen. Alle Informationen findet man jetzt zentral im Transfer Center und behält so den Überblick. http://www.sedo.de/links/showhtml.php3?Id=2350 Neue TLDs – Live-Start frühestens 2010 Die Internet-Verwaltung ICANN hat sich dem Druck gebeugt: nach heftiger Kritik von Regierungen, Unternehmen und Organisationen aus aller Welt sind die Pläne zur Einführung zahlreicher neuer Top Level Domains (TLDs) vorerst aufgeschoben. Ein Live-Start neuer Endungen noch in diesem Jahr ist somit ausgeschlossen. http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2009/neue-tlds-live-start-fruehestens-2010-id667401.html .eu vor EuGH - Sunrise-Domains auf dem Prüfstand Gut drei Jahre nach der Sunrise Period für die Einführung der europäischen Domain-Endung .eu hat mit einer aktuellen Entscheidung der österreichische Oberste Gerichtshof eine Vorlage zum EuGH eingereicht. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob Domain-Namen, die im Zuge der .eu-Einführung aufgrund von neu registrierten Marken mit Sonderzeichen, die bei der Domain-Registrierung nicht berücksichtigt werden können, rechtens erworben sind. http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2009/eu-vor-eugh-sunrise-domains-auf-dem-pruefstand-id667402.html http://www.123recht.net/article.asp?a=39759 Neue Top-Level-Domains und mehr Mitbestimmung In diesem Herbst läuft der Vertrag aus, der die Internetbehörde ICANN an die Entscheidungen des US-Handelsministeriums bindet. In Mexiko diskutierte der "Erste Weltgipfel der Internetnutzer" bessere Mitbestimmungsmöglichkeiten, aber auch die Einführung neuer Top-Level-Domains. VDI Nachrichten, Düsseldorf, 20. 3. 09, pek http://www.vdi-nachrichten.de/vdi-nachrichten/aktuelle_ausgabe/akt_ausg_detail.asp?cat=1&id=42468&source=homepage ********************** - French News ********************** La francophonie veut ses noms de domaines en '.fra' A l'occasion de la journée internationale qui lui est consacrée, la francophonie réclame une extension de nom de domaine en '.fra'. http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/breve/france/37347/la-francophonie-veut-ses-noms-de-domaines-en---fra.shtml Entretien avec Stéphane Van Gelder du conseil GNSO de l'ICANN L'un des projets phares de l'ICANN, l'organisation en charge de réguler les noms de domaine sur Internet, reste certainement l'ouverture des extensions aux noms génériques. http://www.neteco.com/265330-entretien-stephane-van-gelder-conseil-gnso-icann.html http://www.lexpansion.com/economie/actualite-high-tech/entretien-avec-stephane-van-gelder-du-conseil-gnso-de-l-icann_177399.html Le .eu à l'assaut des villes européennes L'usage des .eu diffère d'un pays à un autre. Je me suis intéressé à l'utilisation que les grandes cités du Vieux Continent font de l'extension européenne. Et si l'exemple venait d'en haut? http://www.01net.com/editorial/406049/le-.eu-a-l-assaut-des-villes-europeennes/ tel: La "sunrise" : une cerise sur le gâteau des noms de domaine Trente mille grandes entreprises, de Google à Sony en passant par Vuitton ou Fedex, ont demandé l’enregistrement de leur nom de domaine sous la nouvelle extension ".tel", en profitant de la période préférentielle de soumission dite "sunrise". De quoi s'agit-il? http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/expert/37263/la--sunrise----une-cerise-sur-le-gateau-des-noms-de-domaine.shtml Nom de domaine : Le « .tel » débarque Lancé officiellement le 24 mars, l’extension « .tel » fait déjà l’objet de 30 000 demandes d’enregistrement par les entreprises. Ce nouveau nom de domaine fonctionnera comme un annuaire mis à jour en temps réel et permettra de présenter des informations sur le particulier ou l’entreprise concerné. http://www.innovationlejournal.com/spip.php?article4054 Internet : 20 ans après, l’Afrique observe toujours la Toile de loin L’Afrique a-t-elle profité de la révolution Internet, un médium qui fête en 2009 ses 20 années d’existence ? Le continent serait resté un simple observateur en ne l’intégrant pas comme un facteur de développement. Y résoudre le problème de la connectivité à Internet passe par une solution économique. http://www.afrik.com/article16454.html Les comités de concertation confirment leur intérêt pour EPP Les comités de concertation de l’AFNIC se sont réunis les 12 et 13 mars 2009, à l’issue d’un semestre extrêmement riche en événements, comme l’appel à candidatures pour la gestion du .fr lancé par le Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et de l'Emploi ou la mise en place le 30 mars prochain, au sein de l’AFNIC, d’une nouvelle interface d’enregistrement basée sur le protocole EPP. http://www.afnic.fr/actu/nouvelles/213/afnic-consultative-committees-affirm-their-interest-in-epp.html Lancement des noms en .AR en caractères multilingues A partir du 23 mars prochain, le registre argentin ouvrira à tous la réservation de .AR en caractères portugais et espagnols selon la règle du "1er arrivé, 1er servi". http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1837/argentine-lancement-des-noms-en-ar-en-caracteres-multilingues.php ********************** - Italian News ********************** Mormoni contro il pornoweb CP80.org, la lobby degli attivisti anti-pornografia-in-rete che da tempo chiede a gran voce il confinamento degli affari intimi su Internet su una porta differente da quella standard per il traffico web (la porta 80, appunto), torna a proiettare la propria ombra sulla rete. http://punto-informatico.it/2582119/PI/News/mormoni-contro-pornoweb.aspx ********************** - Spanish News ********************** Le .PE se modernise DomainesInfo a rencontré Rolando Toleda Vega, directeur général de la Red Cientifica Peruana, le registre péruvien. Synthèse des nouveautés sur cette extension en pleine phase de modernisation. http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1838/perou-le-pe-se-modernise.php Consejos para proteger su dominio en Internet para evitar fraudes y robos Cada vez son más los reclamos de PYMES que han visto cómo empresas inescrupulosas de servicios Web se han quedado con el control de su dominio, o les han hecho la vida imposible con tal de no entregárselos. Por ello, se debe estar alerta y saber actuar a tiempo. http://www.lasegunda.com/ediciononline/ciencia_tecnologia/detalle/index.asp?idnoticia=473675 MODIFICACIÓN DE LAS POLÍTICAS DE NOMBRES DE DOMINIO PARA NIC MÉXICO REGISTRAR NIC México Registrar ha realizado modificaciones en las Políticas de Nombres de Dominio, mismas que entrarán en vigor a partir del 2 de Abril de 2009. http://www.nic.mx/es/Noticias_2?NEWS=321 ********************** - Portuguese News ********************** Especialistas se unem em caça ao Conficker Especialistas do mundo todo estão unidos em uma caçada pelo criador do verme Conficker, segundo o New York Times. http://info.abril.com.br/aberto/infonews/032009/19032009-42.shl ********************** - Flemish News ********************** Haalbaarheidsstudie voor .vla Het kabinet van Kris Peeters gaat een haalbaarheidsstudie bestellen voor .vla. De Vlaamse minister-president wil laten nagaan of de introductie van het internetachtervoegsel steek houdt en niet voor onnodige problemen zal zorgen. Drie adviesverleners zouden een voorstel hebben ingediend. http://www.datanews.be/nl/news/90-5-23113/haalbaarheidsstudie-voor--vla.html ********************** - Dutch News ********************** NU.nl lanceert Duitse nieuwssite NU.nl is van start gegaan met Dnews.de, een nieuwssite voor de Duitse markt. Het format van Dnews.de is vergelijkbaar met dat van NU.nl en is er op gericht in één oogopslag een overzicht te bieden van het belangrijkste nieuws. http://www.nu.nl/internet/1935112/nunl-lanceert-duitse-nieuwssite.html NU.nl presenteert Duitstalige versie Onder de naam Dnews.de steekt het Nederlandse nieuwsbedrijf NU.nl donderdag de grens met Duitsland over. De Duitsers krijgen voortaan in hun eigen taal een handzaam overzicht gepresenteerd van het laatste Duitse nieuws. De Duitstalige website ziet er bijna hetzelfde uit als de populaire Nederlandse versie en wordt in Amsterdam gemaakt. http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/30/ECONOMIE/article/detail/221710/2009/03/19/NU-nl-presenteert-Duitstalige-versie.dhtml Mysterieus internetvirus kan hele landen offline halen Een mysterieus virus dat al maanden over het internet waart, is inmiddels zo wijdverbreid en geavanceerd dat het door de makers gebruikt kan worden om complete landen offline te halen. Het is zelfs mogelijk dat het internet ontregeld raakt. Dat stellen computerwetenschappers van het Amerikaanse SRI International. http://www.volkskrant.nl/multimedia/article1166986.ece/Mysterieus_internetvirus_kan_hele_landen_offline_halen ********************** - Polish News ********************** Mormoni chcą kategoryzacji internetu Mormońska grupa zwalczająca pornografię złożyła do ICANN petycję, w której domaga się uznania w ramach GNSO (organizacja doradcza Korporacji). Grupa działa w ramach CP80.org, kampanii mającej na celu ocenzurowanie internetu. http://e-biznes.pl/2009/03/mormoni-chca-kategoryzacji-internetu/ 2009 r.: czekają nas wojny cybergangów Trend Micro, producent oprogramowania antywirusowego, opublikował nową wersję corocznego raportu podsumowującego skalę cyber-zagrożeń czyhających na użytkowników komputerów i Internetu. http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1009785,title,2009-r-czekaja-nas-wojny-cybergangow,wid,10960091,wiadomosc_prasa.html?ticaid=17b37 http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1009785,title,2009-r-wojny-cybergangow-plaga-ransomwareu-zniszczone-DNS-y,wid,10960091,wiadomosc_prasa.html http://www.securitystandard.pl/news/342301/2009.r.wojny.cybergangow.plaga.ransomware.u.zniszczone.DNS.y.html http://www.mspstandard.pl/news/342301/2009.r.wojny.cybergangow.plaga.ransomware.u.zniszczone.DNS.y.html ********************** - Hungarian News ********************** 177 millió domainnév a legfelső szintű domaintartományokban A távlati cél az Internet nemzetközivé tétele, a megbízhatóság és a könnyű hozzáférhetőség megtartásával. http://www.domainabc.hu/domainpiac/domain-statisztika-domain-tortenelem-history-kimutatas-hetfoi-linkajanlo/1371/ ********************** - Hebrew News ********************** ההינדים והוותיקן לא רוצים להכניס דת ללינקים תוכנית ליצירת שמות דומיין עם שמות דתות כמו hindu. ו-buddhist. מעוררת ביקורת בקרב הכנסייה הקתולית ומוסדות הינדים http://news.haaretz.co.il/captain/spages/1072456.html ********************** - Russian News ********************** Открыта бесплатная доменная зона PP.UA Украинский сервис регистрации доменных имен NIC.UA открыл для бесплатной регистрации новую доменную зону PP.UA, которая в первую очередь ориентирована на пользователей с низким уровнем доходов. PP.UA расшифровывается как "Private Person" и является идеальным выбором для тех, кому нужен домен, но нет денег на его приобретение. http://itnewsonly.com/novosti/0tkryta-besplatnaya-domennaya-zona-pp.ua155.html ********************** - Chinese News ********************** 电脑专家联手对抗Conficker蠕虫病毒 当前一场非常特别的幕后战争在电脑安全团队和Conficker蠕虫病毒作者之间进行。该病毒开始引起 人们的注意是在去年，当时它通过恶意代码迅速感染了数百万台电脑，这些机器很快被控制成僵尸网络。之后该病毒作者在和全世界的安全公司和网络管理机构ICANN进行的“躲猫猫”游戏中，对病毒进行了更新。 http://soft.ccw.com.cn/virus/htm2009/20090320_605609.shtml http://safe.it168.com/a2009/0320/269/000000269149.shtml http://news.newhua.com/news1/Safe_news/2009/320/0932093946G9GIFB7297K9408K898D054C59786I95A77C5GEI1F3GG.html http://xiazai.zol.com.cn/article_topic/126/1264879.html http://info.secu.hc360.com/2009/03/201556152936.shtml 冠群金辰：警惕！Conflicker蠕虫愚人节发起攻击 日前，冠群金辰公司的全球反病毒监测网再次截获了一种新型蠕虫病毒——Win32/Conficker.C病毒。该病毒来头不小，它的前身就是曾让法国空军的“飓风”战斗机因感染而导致武器系统瘫痪，最终停飞的Conflicker蠕虫病毒，Win32/Conficker.C病毒是这一病毒的最新变体。 http://news.zdnet.com.cn/zdnetnews/2009/0319/1357598.shtml http://www.enet.com.cn/article/2009/0319/A20090319448165.shtml tel: 全球首个联系信息目录服务.tel启动 C114 3月18日消息 北京消息，2009年3月17日：Telnic 宣布他们在提供新型互联网服务方面取得重要里程碑，数以万计的 .tel 域名终于全面启动，创造了首个联系信息目录。 http://www.c114.net/news/212/a396354.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The domain name news is supported by auDA For information on subscriptions to the domain name and/or general internet news please contact me. 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