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The domain name news is supported by auDA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ US loosens grip on running of internet http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1886298,00.html http://out-law.com/page-7355 A domain by any other name http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_zittrain/2006/10/jonathan_zittrain.html US government steps back from internet control http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/02/icann_doc_jta EU welcomes autonomy plan for Internet governance (Reuters) http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13660822 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/03/1159641326546.html Neither safe nor secure on the Internet http://news.com.com/2010-7345_3-6122351.html US internet 'highly resilient' to terror attack http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37786 uk: Nominet rides election storm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/02/nominet_board_election_results uk: Cameron blog hit by cybersquatters http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1886541,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5402358.stm ***************** GOVERNANCE ***************** US loosens grip on running of internet The EU has hailed a decision by the US government to back down and grant full autonomy by 2009 to ICANN. Viviane Reding, EU information society and media commissioner, said "The European commission will follow closely Icann's transition to full independence in the next three years. With our advice, we will contribute to this transition to ensure that it takes place transparently, reflecting the interests of industry and civil society alike." http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1886298,00.html http://out-law.com/page-7355 A domain by any other name The public's dislike of Icann comes partly from the opinion that it exercises too much control over the internet, but that's not the case. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_zittrain/2006/10/jonathan_zittrain.html US government steps back from internet control Analysis: The US government has taken a step back from control of the internet with a new contract between it and overseeing organisation ICANN that came into effect yesterday. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/02/icann_doc_jta Keep the United Nations's Hands Off the Internet Last week, the Commerce Department and Icann signed a memorandum of understanding that would continue for at least three years our federal government's oversight of Icann. Ironically, but not coincidentally, later this month the United Nations will convene for the first time the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), in Athens. That forum will look at a wide range of Internet governance issues that may not closely align with the views of either the American government or Icann. http://www.nysun.com/article/40706 European Commission welcomes move towards full private-sector management by 2009 (news release) The United States government's decision to give more autonomy to ICANN was welcomed by the European Commission. On 30 September, a highly prescriptive Memorandum of Understanding between the US Department of Commerce and ICANN expired. It has now been replaced by lighter arrangements intended to end definitely by 2009. The European Commission has been working for several years on a system of internet governance entrusted fully to the private sector without government interference in the internet's day-to-day management. The Commission cooperated in 1998 with the US in setting up ICANN and hosted, until 2006, the Secretariat of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN. Completing the transition of internet governance to the private sector also had been the explicit request by the EU and its partners at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in November 2005. http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1297&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en EU welcomes autonomy plan for Internet governance (Reuters) The European Commission welcomed a U.S. government moves to make ICANN independent by 2009, but said it would monitor the process carefully. http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13660822 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/10/03/1159641326546.html http://eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2023038,00.asp http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39162896,00.htm http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6121673.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39283774,00.htm http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=193101241 http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?from=rss_IOLTechHome&iSectionId=2883&iArticleId=3468992 http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193101222 E.U. welcomes moves to reduce U.S. control of ICANN (IDG) The European Commission welcomed moves in the U.S. to free ICANN from its historic ties to the U.S. government on Monday. http://infoworld.com/article/06/10/02/HNcontroloficann_1.html http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;51467274;fp;2;fpid;1 EU Pleased with New ICANN Agreement The EU applauded the United States government's moves to make ICANN independent, but said it would monitor the process. On Friday, ICANN said it had signed a three-year extension with the U.S. Department of Commerce. http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3635371 http://www.betanews.com/article/EU_Pleased_with_New_ICANN_Agreement/1159801247 Web of deceit The problem begins with the acronym, especially a consonant that sits in the centre of it. For all the talk about making it more like the United Nations, the “c” in ICANN stands for corporation, and anyone interested in the regulator's autonomy should ever forget it. http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=40769 ICANN may go fully private ICANN will soon be moving away from U.S. government control and into the private realm, according to American officials. http://pcworld.ca/news/article/0965156c0a01040801c7c7c369f08997/pg0.htm ITAA Applauds ICANN Agreement (news release) The Information Technology Association of America applauded the Department of Commerce for its Joint Project Agreement with ICANN. http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/101419 ICANN Beginning to Smell Control The U.S. Department of Commerce agreed to relax its control over ICANN as part of a new contract to replace the "highly prescriptive" one that expired Saturday. http://news.earthweb.com/xSP/article.php/3635371 Baby Steps for ICANN Responding to criticism (and a slew of lawsuits), the new “Affirmation of Responsibilities” lists ICANN's top three priorities as “Security and Stability”, “Transparency” and “Accountability”. Though the contract signals a “light at the end of the tunnel”, it’s mostly a bunch of compromised ambitions. The most significant change is that ICANN will have full control over their own operations. ICANN will still hold regular meetings with the Department of Commerce, but the government will no longer have authority to dictate key operations. The outlined agreement will be reviewed in 18 months for further recommendation. http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/10/baby_steps_for.php ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Neither safe nor secure on the Internet The National Academies recently completed a report titled "Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation," sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the National Science Foundation. The report’s final recommendations advise that ICANN strengthen its agreements with the TLD operators and call for further steps to improve the security of the DNS. http://news.com.com/2010-7345_3-6122351.html uk: Web of hate On the rightwing website Redwatch, hosted in the US but registered and run from the UK, hundreds of photographs of anti-war and anti-fascist activists are posted - with the message that they will 'pay for their crimes'. And now a number of those people have been attacked. So why hasn't the site been closed down? The story notes "The racists and fascists behind Redwatch are not deterred by the campaign to close the site. A notice on the homepage reads: "Due to a hysterical campaign by Marxist moaners against Redwatch, we use several domain names and multiple servers for this site."" Matthew Taylor of The Guardian investigates. http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1887102,00.html US internet 'highly resilient' to terror attack The Internet infrastructure in the US would still be able to function even if terrorists were able to knock out key physical network hubs, researchers have claimed. http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37786 uk: Nominet rides election storm UK registry owner Nominet has dismissed requests for a re-election of two of its Board members, announcing that the two incumbents, Gordon Dick and Fay Howard, would return to their positions. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/02/nominet_board_election_results uk: Cameron blog hit by cybersquatters David Cameron's video blog has been targeted by cybersquatters supporting the UK Independence party who are directing users to a spoof Armando Iannucci video set to David Bowie's Changes. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1886541,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5402358.stm ICANN Accepts Meeting Proposals from Portugal and Puerto Rico (news release) ICANN has announced that it has accepted proposals for the first two rounds of ICANN Meetings scheduled in 2007. The ICANN Meeting in March 2007 shall be held in Lisbon, Portugal and the ICANN Meeting June 2007 shall be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-03oct06.htm .eu opens regional office in Stockholm (news release) Following the success of new Internet top level domain .eu, EURid – the Brussels based registry for all Internet addresses ending with “.eu” – has opened a regional office in Stockholm, Sweden to support Northern Europe. As a next step, offices are also planned for the Czech Republic and Italy. http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/eu-opens-regional-office-in-stockholm mobi: Cell Phone Cyberspace The mobile web is about to receive a major shake-up with the start of open registration for cell phone-specific website addresses. http://allafrica.com/stories/200610030378.html Strong Start for Mobile Internet: Global Community Shows Demand for .mobi Domains (news releases) Individuals and businesses in more than 100 countries around the world registered more than 100,000 .mobi domains in the first four days of the domain’s general availability, demonstrating a strong demand for the next evolution of the Internet. In contrast, it took ten years for the general public to register 100,000 PC-based domain names in the early days of the Internet. http://www.circleid.com/posts/mobi_mobile_internet_global_community_demand/ http://webhosting.info/news/1/100%2C000-.mobi-domains-registered_1002069108.htm Spells.com Conjures Up $36,000 Sale at GreatDomains to Lead This Week's Top 20 GreatDomains got busy this week, logging two of the top three reported sales, as well as a package deal that would have given them three of the first four on our new Top 20 Chart if the included domains had been priced individually. Officially, the #1 domain is Spells.com, purchased through GreatDomains for $36,000 by the owners of Gadget.com. http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales10_03_06.htm ******************* OTHER INTERNET NEWS ******************* uk: Web of hate On the rightwing website Redwatch, hosted in the US but registered and run from the UK, hundreds of photographs of anti-war and anti-fascist activists are posted - with the message that they will 'pay for their crimes'. And now a number of those people have been attacked. So why hasn't the site been closed down? Matthew Taylor of The Guardian investigates. http://www.guardian.co.uk/farright/story/0,,1887102,00.html us: N.Y. Proposal Would Designate Lawyer Blogs as Advertising The storm was set off by a proposal that "computer-accessed communications" such as blogs be included in New York’s definition of legal advertising, and therefore require state scrutiny. The proposal, by a committee created by the state’s Administrative Board of Courts, also suggests the state code of professional responsibility extend court jurisdiction to out-of-state legal advertising that appears in New York. http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/s29blog.html us: Judge sides with Google in dispute over keywords A federal court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Google over its practice of allowing companies to buy search-related ads that are displayed when people type in the name of a competitor. http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6121483.html Cyber-spies tracking terror on Web (CNN) There is an unconventional war being waged on the Internet. The battles here know no boundaries; and are fought from homes and offices from small Midwestern towns to Europe and the Middle East. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/28/internet.spying eu: Intel likely to face EU antitrust charges European Union antitrust regulators are close to issuing formal antitrust charges against Intel, alleging that the world’s biggest chip manufacturer is abusing its dominant market position. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7ec07504-532b-11db-99c5-0000779e2340.html us: In Washington, a Net protector or predator? Mark Foley, who abruptly resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives last week after disclosures of inappropriate conversations with a teenage page, had spent years positioning himself as Congress' leading defender of children on the Internet. http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6122045.html Broadband line growth hits new low Even though the second quarter of 2006 saw the steepest drop in DSL prices in four years, it was also the quarter with the lowest broadband growth rate ever. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;987146517;fp;2;fpid;1 us: Newspaper Web site readership grows 31 pct - study (Reuters) The average number of monthly visitors to U.S. newspaper Web sites rose by nearly a third in the first half of 2006, a study released on Wednesday said, though print readership at some larger U.S. newspapers fell. http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13683182 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2006 --------- 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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