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2008 ICANN Nominating Committee Issues Invitation for
Statements of Interest in ICANN Leadership Positions
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14dec
07.htm
auDA board accepts 2007 Names Policy Panel's final report
ht
tp://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-13122007/
Cracking open the cybercrime economy
http:
//news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6222896.html
Job.at sells for €408,000
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=3458
Australian city domain name sales highlight sales last week
http://www.dom
ainpulse.com/2007/12/17/australian-city-domain-name-sales-hi
ghlight-sales-last-week/
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GOVERNANCE
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Solution in Sight for Internet Governance
Regional Liaison of ICANN Africa, Anne-Rachel Inné says the
solution to the debate on Internet governance can only be
achieved by considering different options available to
stakeholders. "There cannot be one answer to it all but
in the meantime we must take whatever solution is available
and make it workable." She was speaking at a workshop
on the topic Multi-Stakeholderism in Internet Governance (a
look at ICANN and IGF).
http:/
/allafrica.com/stories/200712131225.html
Canadian Tech History: Internet Pioneers
When it comes to online pioneers, the names of Americans
like Vinton Cerf, creator of transfer protocols, Tim
Berners-Lee, father of hypertext, and Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg are often bandied about, and deservedly so. But
what about Canadians? Surely some enterprising Canucks must
have turned their creativity online. And, in fact, they
have. From the first modern search engine to websites that
changed the way we surf and interact, Canadian innovators
have left their mark on the net. (Be sure to read our
articles on Celebrating Canadian invention and innovation.)
So, to give props to these cunning Canucks, here's a rundown
of some notable Canadian innovations. And, if you feel like
someone is missing from our list, please let us know in the
comments.
http://www.pcworld.ca/news/column/cf4e
bda70a01040800397d4e9df7754e/pg1.htm
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DOMAIN NAMES
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- ICANN
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2008 ICANN Nominating Committee Issues Invitation for
Statements of Interest in ICANN Leadership Positions
ICANN's Nominating Committee invites Statements of Interest
from the Internet community as it seeks qualified candidates
to assist in ICANN's technical and policy coordination role.
Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of
Interest to this year's Committee for the following
positions:
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14dec
07.htm
UNECA Champions Local Language On Net
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
recently launched the Academic Network of African
Researchers on Languages to undertake research on how
"Internet language" can be simplified and
translated into local languages. "We want to link
computer sciences closer with languages with an objective of
bridging the language digital divide that does hinder our
local people from using ICTs especially in the use of
Internet," said UNECA's Director of ICT, Science and
technology Division Aida Opoku-Mensah.
http:/
/allafrica.com/stories/200712131227.html
Making the Internet truly local
IDNs are the Internet's real star at the moment. But why do
they matter? And why is ICANN putting so much effort into
them? We asked Tina Dam, Director of ICANN's IDN program, to
enlighten us.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/145
/making-the-internet-truly-local.php
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- (cc)TLD NEWS
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auDA board accepts 2007 Names Policy Panel's final report
The auDA board has accepted the final report of the 2007
Names Policy Panel, which recommends a number of changes to
the .au policy framework. The Panel reported that, overall,
it believes the current .au policy rules strike an
appropriate balance between allowing people to register the
domain names they want whilst protecting the integrity and
usability of the .au domain. However, the Panel identified
some ways in which the policy rules might be clarified or
enhanced to ensure they are workable and effective.
ht
tp://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-13122007/
New key Top Level Domain launch: .rs (Serbia)
Melbourne IT Corporate Brand Services would like to
highlight new activity in regards to the launch of the
Serbia ccTLD name, .rs.
http://www.melbournei
tcbs.com/news.php?article=1&title=New%20key%20Top%20Leve
l%20Domain%20launch%3A%20.rs%20%28Serbia%29&year=2007&am
p;month=12
Shorter .my Internet Addressing for Priority Customers
MYNIC are making available registration of domain names at
the second level for companies and organisations that
already have registered a com.my, edu.my, org.my and net.my
name. If eligible, applicants can apply up until December
31.
http://mynic.net.my/newhp/announcements/mynic-12dec07.
html
Serbian .RS Domains to Be Launched January [news release]
Serbian Registry of Domain Names (RNIDS) adopted on October
26, 2007 new regulations on .rs ccTLD. .rs stands for the
Republic of Serbia. It was previously .yu ccTLD, which stood
for Yugoslavia. According to the new regulations, both
foreign and domestic individuals and legal entities are now
eligible to register an unlimited number of .rs domains in
Serbia.
http://www.domainpulse.com/2007/
12/16/serbian-rs-domains-to-be-launched-january/
http://www.domainnews.
com/registries/2007121996/serbian-rs-domains-to-be-launched-
january/
.travel to make policy changes
The Travel Partnership Corporation (TTPC), the company that
oversees the .travel top level domain registration process,
has approved some very important policy changes to take
effect December 21, 2007 that may affect the companies and
organizations of .travel names. According to TTPC, these
changes are being made to improve and speed up the
registration process for use of .travel Internet addresses.
http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/23786
http://www.
ttpc.travel/announcements.html
Nominet registrant satisfaction survey results [news
release]
We conducted our fifth registrant satisfaction survey in
September 2007 and the results of this are now available. We
are pleased to report that the responses that our customers
gave resulted in an overall customer satisfaction index
rating of 83.5%. This is a slight decrease of 0.7% when
compared against our last survey that was conducted in
February 2007. Whilst this is slightly disappointing, it is
worthwhile to consider we still remain in the top quartile
on the Satisfaction Index League Table.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=3494
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- DNS SECURITY
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Cracking open the cybercrime economy
"Over the years, the criminal elements, the ones who
are making money, making millions out of all this online
crime, are just getting stronger and stronger. I don't think
we are really winning this war." As director of
antivirus research for F-Secure, you might expect Mikko
Hypponen to overplay the seriousness of the situation. But
according to the Finnish company, during 2007 the number of
samples of malicious code on its database doubled, having
taken 20 years to reach the size it was at the beginning of
this year.
http://w
ww.news.com/2100-7349_3-6222896.html
http:
//news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6222896.html
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- DOMAIN DISPUTES
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Defendants Respond to Dell’s Anti-Tasting Suit By John
Levine
The defendants in Dell’s domain tasting suit responded
last Friday. It looks like a pretty feeble response to me.
Their main argument is that they’re just the registrar,
and deny Dell’s claim that the registrants are fakes made
up by the registrar. They also argue that they’re not
infringing, they didn’t use the names in question in
commerce, they were just acting as helpful search engines,
you know, like Google or Yahoo. (The comparison to Google
and Yahoo is theirs.)
http://www.circleid.com/posts/712141_d
efendants_respond_dell_anti_tasting/
Dell v. Belgium Domains et al: Potential Damages of
$110,000,000.00
Dell, Inc and Alienware Corporation filed the federal
complaint against Belgium Domains, LLC, CapitolDomains, LLC,
DomainDoorman,LLC, Netrian Ventures, LTD, IHoldings.com,
Inc., Juan Pablo Vazquez adn Joe Doe Defendants on October
7, 2007. The complaint was filed under seal until Dell
could get its request for injunctive relief heard by the
court, asking for an order that the domains get locked down
and evidence be preserved, among other emergency ex parte
relief.
http://tcattorney.typepad.com
/anticybersquatting_consum/2007/12/dell-v-belgium.html
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- IPv4/IPv6
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RIPE NCC Makes Record Number of IPv6 Allocations [news
release]
The months of October and November 2007 set new records for
the number of IPv6 allocations made in a single month by the
RIPE NCC. 24 allocations were made to RIPE NCC members in
October, a record immediately broken by the 31 allocations
made in November. The previous peak was 19 allocations in a
single month, which was achieved on three separate occasions
in 2003, 2004 and 2007.
htt
p://ripe.net/news/ipv6-allocation-reccord.html
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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Domain names show sustained growth
With a 31% increase year over year, the domain name market
remains buoyant. There are now 146 million names registered
worldwide.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/english/
146/domain-names-show-sustained-growth.php
au: NetRegistry deploys open source e-commerce
Domain name and hosting company NetRegistry has selected the
locally-developed Freeway open source e-commerce system to
resell to its customer base.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;6
54815026;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;65481
5026;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;6548150
26;fp;2;fpid;1
http://w
ww.cio.com.au/index.php/id;654815026
NeuStar launches recursive domain name system services
US-based NeuStar has launched its DNS Advantage service,
which is a managed recursive domain name system service for
connectivity providers and enterprises to offer reliable
internet service.
http://www.cbronline.com/arti
cle_news.asp?guid=EF33A132-AA03-4BCA-88D2-6895CDEBE8E0
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- DOMAINING
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Second DOMAINfest Global Event Offers Information-Intensive
Industry Agenda [news release]
DomainSponsor, the domain monetization business of
Oversee.net, today announced that the conference agenda for
theDomainSponsor logo second annual DOMAINfest Global,
taking place January 21-23, 2008 in Hollywood, CA, has been
finalized.
http://www.domainpulse.com/2007/12/13/second-domainfest-gl
obal-event-offers-information-intensive-industry-agenda/
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- AFTERMARKET
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Job.at sells for €408,000
Job.at sold for €408,000 this week, the highest value of
any .at domain name sold to date, and second highest value
of any domain name sold in a German-speaking country. The
highest known sale prior to this was Mozart.at for €70,000
in the .AT ccTLD and US$695,000 for poker.com, bought by a
German company. There have been other unreported .AT sales,
but it is not believed any of these were above €200,000.
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=3458
http://www.domainpulse.com/2007/12/15/jobat-sells-
for-e408000/
http://www.domainnews.com/aft
ermarket/2007121992/more-on-jobat-selling-for-e408000/
Trio of Six-Figure Sales Including a Pair of Top Notch
Australian City Domains Lead This Week's Sales Parade
Rick Latona's DigiPawn.com closed two blockbuster deals this
week, selling a pair of blue chip Australian city domains;
Melbourne.com for $700,000 and Brisbane.com for $100,000.
Latona also personally sold this week's #5 domain,
Lowell.com to Elliot Silver's Top Notch Domains, LLC for
$50,000, giving Latona a hand in three of the week's top
five reported sales. The Melbourne.com sale is the 11th
highest sale reported year to date.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/20
07/domainsales12-12-07.htm
Australian city domain name sales highlight sales last week
Melbourne.com sold for US$700,000 and Brisbane.com for
$100,000 and are first and third in last week’s listing of
Ron Jackson’s top domain name sales with ui.com second for
$275,000.
htt
p://www.domainnews.com/aftermarket/2007121998/australian-cit
y-domain-name-sales-highlight-sales-last-week/
http://www.dom
ainpulse.com/2007/12/17/australian-city-domain-name-sales-hi
ghlight-sales-last-week/
Why Dot Mobis are Overvalued
Astonishing to read about recent domain sales in general,
but what caught my eye was the recent feeding frenzy over
the humble dot mobi extension (.mobi). Most eyepopping,
music.mobi was recently sold for $616,000 to domain media
mogul Alvaro Albarracin who also snapped up games.mobi for
$405,500.
http://metropost.com/why-dot-mobis-are-overvalued/20
07/12/14
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- NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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NATO soll sich gegen Cyberattacken rüsten
Bei der Verteidigung des Cyberspace soll künftig die NATO
eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Das unterstrichen der
Präsident des Atlantic Council, Fred Kempe, und der
estnische Botschafter in Washington, Väino Reinart, bei der
Vorstellung eines Berichts des Atlantic Council und des
British North American Committee (BNAC) zum Thema
Netzsicherheit. Das US-Verteidigungsministerium habe bei
einem Treffen von NATO-Vertretern in Washington gefordert,
dass die NATO die Cybersecurity zu einem zentralen Thema
ihrer Arbeit machen solle, erklärte Kempe. Botschafter
Reinart verwies auf die Rolle der NATO als Garant für die
Sicherheit seiner Mitgliedsstaaten seit 60 Jahren. Auch wenn
er bei Cyberattacken nicht gleich den
"Bündnisfall" eintreten sieht, erwarte man die
Erarbeitung von Strategien gegen Angriffe auf die Netze der
Länder.
http://
www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/100550
Gaetano: "ICANN muss offen sein"
Im September 2009 läuft der gegenwärtige Vertrag der ICANN
mit dem US-Handelsministerium über die
Internet-Adressverwaltung aus. ORF.at hat ein Gespräch mit
ICANN-Vizedirektor Roberto Gaetano über die Zukunft der
Organisation und ihre zentralen Werte geführt.
http://fu
turezone.orf.at/it/stories/237675/
Finjan warnt vor neuer Trojaner-Generation
Das Sicherheitsunternehmen Finjan warnt in seinem "Web
Security Trends Report" vor einer Trojaner-Generation
"Trojan 2.0". Deren Botnetze würden über
populäre Server und Social-Networking-Sites und nicht wie
üblich mithilfe von IRC oder IRC über HTTP gesteuert.
"Angriffe werden zunehmend ausgefeilter: Sie
kombinieren verschiedene Dienste, um die Infektionsrate zu
erhöhen", sagt Finjan-CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak.
http://www.zdnet.
de/security/news/0,39029460,39159685,00.htm
Domain-Geschäft wird immer lukrativer
Die Preise für Top-Domains erreichen immer höhere
Rekordwerte. So wechselte in Österreich die Domain Job.at
dieser Tage für 408.000 Euro den Besitzer und gilt damit in
der Branche als höchstdotierter Deal im Land. Der
Verkaufswert von Job.at ist knapp sechsmal so hoch wie jener
der bisher teuersten österreichischen Domain Mozart.at.
http://dersta
ndard.at/?url=/?id=3150597
Österreichs teuerste Domain verkauft
Dass ein unverwechselbarer Name im Domain-Geschäft sehr
wertvoll ist zeigte der diese Woche besiegelte Verkauf der
österreichischen Domäne Job.at. Der Verkaufserlös von
408.000,- Euro ist fast sechsmal höher als der Verkehrswert
der bisher teuersten österreichischen Domäne Mozart.at,
die im Jahr 2000 für rund 70.000 Euro den Besitzer
wechselte.
http://www.bar
ebonecenter.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&am
p;id=6054&Itemid=139
Update – Neues von .travel, .fr und .nl
Still ist es geworden um die Reise-Domain .travel.
Offensichtlich zu still, findet die Domain-Verwaltung, und
hat daher die Änderung der Vergabebedingungen beschlossen.
Ausserdem gibt es Neues aus Frankreich und den Niederlanden.
http://www.do
main-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2007/update-neues-von-trav
el-fr-und-nl-id667115.html
Iron Mountain Digital sichert Registrierungsdaten von 90
Mio. Internet-Domains [news release]
Iron Mountain Digital, Anbieter von Software und Services
für die Sicherung, Archivierung und Wiederherstellung
digitaler Informationen, wurde von der ICANN als
Treuhanddienstleister für die mehr als 900 von der ICANN
zugelassenen Registrierungsstellen für Domainnamen
ausgewählt. Im Rahmen des vereinbarten Treuhandprogramms
mit Iron Mountain Digital werden die Registrierungsdaten der
90 Millionen von der ICANN verwalteten Domains auf sicheren,
von Iron Mountain Digital verwalteten Treuhandkonten
hinterlegt und geschützt.
http://www.portel.de/nc/nachricht/artikel/1707
6-iron-mountain-digital-sichert-registrierungsdaten-von-90-m
io-internet-domains/
IPV6 dessine le futur de la communication
La plate-forme de test ANEMONE basée sur le protocole
Internet IPV6 permet aux acteurs de la recherche et
développement en mobilité de tester leurs dernières
innovations. Ce programme devrait contribuer au
développement des prochaines technologies de communication.
http://www.atelier.fr/mobilite/17/13122007/anemone-plate-for
me-test-reseaux-ipv6-presentation-rennes-35705-.html
IPv6, una breve overview (4/4)
Benché in fase avanzata di sviluppo (l'implementazione è
quasi ultimata), IPv6 non ha riscontrato grande fermento
circa la sua installazione. Ciò è dovuto al fatto che
nuove tecniche per la gestione di reti private (su tutte la
tecnica NAT) hanno allontanato il reale bisogno di IPv6, che
ad oggi è usato soprattutto in centri di ricerca, che ne
stanno testando le reali bontà.
http://www.programmazione.it/index.php?entit
y=eitem&idItem=38083
IPv6, una breve overview (3/4)
Quali sono i miglioramenti e le novità apportate da IPv6?
Uno su tutti riguarda il fattore user-friendly delle nuove
tecnologie e terminali, che accedono e accederanno a
Internet: dai laptop ai computer desktop, dai palmari ai
telefonini. A questi si richiede una sorta di
autoconfigurazione per l'accesso a Internet, cioè
automatizzare le procedure di configurazione parametri quali
indirizzo IP, maschera di rete, indirizzo di un server DNS e
poco altro. La versione 4 del protocollo IP prevede una
sorta di autoconfigurazione tramite l'uso di un server DHCP,
per la versione 6 è in studio un meccanismo che sarà privo
di server. Non si conoscono ancora i dettagli.
http://www.programmazione.it/index.php?entit
y=eitem&idItem=38051
L’ICANN à la rencontre des registrars et des registres
Je suis à Prague depuis deux jours, pour assister à la
troisième réunion organisée par l’ICANN pour ses
registrars européens. Ces réunions furent lancées en 2005
à l’initiative de Tina Dam, alors en charge des relations
avec les registres (aujourd’hui, Tina supervise le
programme IDN de l’ICANN), et Tim Cole, qui s’occupe des
registrars. La première a eu lieu en Belgique, à
Bruxelles.
http://blog.icann.org/?p
=257
Cataluña puede tener un Estado propio en Internet gracias
al PP
En el plazo máximo de seis meses, el Gobierno debe proponer
que Cataluña tenga el dominio .cat en Internet, es decir,
que tenga rango de Estado. Así ha quedado aprobado tras el
paso de la Ley de Impulso a la Sociedad de la Información
por el Senado, con los votos a favor del Partido Popular y
los votos en contra de Esquerra Republicana de Cataluña, en
una de las votaciones más complicadas que se recuerdan en
la Cámara alta. En la Red, sólo los Estados tienen
dominios formados por dos letras, como España tiene el .es
y Francia el .fr, por ejemplo.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantallas/Ca
taluna/puede/tener/Estado/propio/Internet/gracias/PP/elpepir
tv/20071214elpepirtv_4/Tes
Registro de Nombres de Dominio en America Latina -
Estadisticas al 30 de Noviembre del 2007
LatinoamerICANN presenta el reporte de estadisticas de
nombres de dominio en LAC al 30 de Noviembre del 2007. Dicha
recopilación es parte del estudio iniciado por
LatinoamerICANN para medir la incidencia de políticas de
Sociedad de la Información en el desarrollo de los ccTLD's
de la región, así como analizar el impacto de las
políticas de los ccTLDs en las politicas de Sociedad de la
Informacion nacionales.
http://www.lati
noamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&fil
e=article&sid=1574
nl: Uitnodiging 3e ENUM Consultatiebijeenkomst [news
release]
Hierbij nodigen we u uit voor deelname aan de 3e (en tevens
laatste) Consultatie bijeenkomst van het ENUM
InnovatiePlatform Nederland.
http://www.sidn.nl/ace.p
hp/c,727,5467,,,,Uitnodiging_3e_ENUM_Consultatiebijeenko
mst.html
Article includes story on .su mentioning ICANN
http://www.smi.ru/go/908204237/www.smi.ru/07/12
/03/908170069.html
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