Vietnam, China & domain news

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Vietnam Government To Consider New Internet Rules
The Vietnamese government may be set to open the Internet sector with
draft proposals advocating fewer restrictions on Internet service
provision, while laws punishing hackers and virus-spreaders also are
on the table.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166797.html

Country domain chiefs prefer jaw-jaw to war-war
Breakway county code chief Willie Black, chief of the UK registrar
Nominent, sounded a conciliatory note towards ICANN today. Having
read the riot act to ICANN in Los Angeles, and with the ccTLDs
unanimously voting to withdraw from the key DNSO support
organisation, Black thinks ICANN is much more prepared to do business
now. However he staked his claim for formal representation on the
main ICANN board for the country code registrars, and representation
as a fully fledged support-organisation status. 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19712.html

China Closes Internet Cafés
China is conducting the largest crackdown on Internet cafés since the
Web came to the country, the Internet edition of the Shenzhen Legal
Daily reported Thursday.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/22928.html

German domain registry warns against .de billing scam
German domain registry DENIC eG has issued a warning about "an
attempt to extract money from customers for a senseless and dubious
service." This, the second such scam to come to DENIC's notice this
year, takes the form of a letter apparently designed to convince
people they have to cough up DM270 in order to keep their .de domain
for another year. 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19666.html

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