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GNSO recommends new anti-domain tasting solution | Judge
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GOVERNANCE
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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-governa
nce-forum-and-best-practice-challenge/
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DOMAIN NAMES
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- ICANN
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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/marketwat
ch/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_
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- (cc)TLD NEWS
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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://onemil
liondomains.ca/media-e.php
http://www
.domainpulse.com/2008/03/18/canada-kicks-off-countdown-to-on
e-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.domainne
ws.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).
h
ttp://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-commercial
s/
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
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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/uksecu
rity.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.co
m/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903125.html
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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.ht
ml
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
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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.g
cn.com/blogs/tech/45996.html
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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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-tren
d/
http://www.aa.com/content/amrcorp/pressRel
eases/2008_03/11_aacom.jhtml
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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.as
p?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.forbe
s.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/tec
hnology/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/
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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
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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/schwer
punkt/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-domain
s-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.do
main-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/14
55/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-polit
ique.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/14
60/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/rep
ublique-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/archiv
es/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/3-5
9318-2005-11-17.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_2
00803170245.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.
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ttp://www.domisfera.com/los-dominios-pa-de-panama/
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