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internet news - 14/5

Domain Name news
UK Government Consultation On The Management Of Internet Addresses
(DTI news release)
ICANN, the US based organisation that co-ordinates the Internet's
Domain Name System, announced in February 2002 a review of its
mission, funding and relationship with Governments. The UK
Government, along with many other Governments, is working with ICANN
on this programme of reform.
The consultation seeks the views of the UK internet community -
businesses, internet companies and domain name users - on how ICANN
should be reformed and how Governments can best support the important
work of ICANN.

http://www.nds.coi.gov.uk/coi/coipress.nsf/2b45e1e3ffe090ac802567350059d840/9fab5a16a5ba591080256bb8004a2613?OpenDocument
 http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/ecommerce/icann.shtml (consultation paper)

Reworking of domain-name system another step closer to completion
(Canberra Times)
The slow process of renovating the regulatory system that governs
Australia's Internet domain names will click over a new leaf next
month when AusRegistry takes over from auDA as the wholesale supplier
or registry of com.au, net.au, org.au, asn.au and id.au top-level
domain names. Who cares? The small minority of Internet users and
organisations who maintain Internet domains.

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=features&subclass=techno&category=industry%20news&story_id=148184&y=2002&m=5

VeriSign Used False Ads, Suit by Rival Asserts (Reuters)
Internet domain-name seller VeriSign Inc. was hit with a lawsuit
filed on Monday by a rival that charged VeriSign with using false
advertising to steal customers. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=953704
 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-912668.html

http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1021383148&REQSESS=YSB44A61&REQHOST=site1&690REQEVENT=&CARTI=112440&CARTT=14&CCAT=2&CCHAN=28&CFLAV=1&CPAGEN=Article%20Page&CPAGET=-99999&CSEARCH=&CSESS=5157833&CTOPIC=
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25264.html

BulkRegister Sues VeriSign Over Marketing Campaign (Washtech.com)
Internet domain name seller BulkRegister.com today sued addressing
giant VeriSign Inc. over a controversial direct-mail marketing
campaign that VeriSign used to lure customers away from its smaller
competitors.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10813-2002May13.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176551.html

Web community puts price on head of super highwayman VeriSign
(Register)
Domain registrar VeriSign has infuriated the Web community by wrongly
transferring a New York writer's domain to an unchecked person in
Germany.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25270.html

E-store loses domain dispute (Australian IT)
THE World Intellectual Property Organisation has found that online
retailer e-store may have breached the Trade Practices Act - and
ordered it to give three domain names to a Sydney-based computer
retailer. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4310152%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0069.html

RealNames shutdown threatens Asian naming market
(Register/ComputerWire)
The closure of RealNames Corp yesterday threatens the ability of
Chinese and Japanese speakers to easily address web sites in their
own languages. Microsoft Corp's Asian units are said to be under
pressure from local naming authorities to urge their parent to
reconsider its position on RealNames' closure. 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25261.html

RealNames to Shut Down as Microsoft Deal Scuttled (Reuters)
The president and chief executive of RealNames Corp said on Monday
his company is shutting down because Microsoft Corp has refused to
renew a contract to use RealNames technology in the Internet Explorer
browser to allow people to find Web sites using simple words instead
of long Web addresses. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=955008
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/400640p-3189582c.html
 http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000034017may14.story

Internet News
ISPs Seek to Void Ruling on Police Searches (Reuters)
Web giant Yahoo! Inc. and several Internet trade associations filed
papers Monday seeking to overturn a court ruling which they said
could fill the offices of Internet companies with police officers
overseeing the execution of search warrants. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=954448
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-912734.html

EC, ASEAN plan to fight Asian piracy (Australian IT)
A NEW five-year plan to fight technology piracy in Asia has been
launched by the European Union and ASEAN. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4309675%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Supreme Court: More Review of Web Porn Law (Reuters)
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that community standards may
be used to shield minors from Internet pornography, but said other
free-speech problems must be resolved before the restrictions in the
federal law can take effect. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=954233
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1987000/1987099.stm
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11465-2002May13.html
 http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/01pdf/00-1293.pdf (decision -
pdf)
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176545.html
 http://www.nando.com/technology/story/400110p-3186444c.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000034121may14.story

Justices Give Reprieve to an Internet Pornography Statute (New York
Times)
The latest effort by Congress to shield children from pornography on
the Internet barely survived an initial Supreme Court test today in a
fractured decision suggesting that the court may ultimately find the
law unconstitutional.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/14/national/14SCOT.html

Supreme Court Volleys on COPA (Wired)
The justices send the Child Online Protection Act back to an appeals
court, but their views on Web porn give the Justice Department little
to go on.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52504,00.html

War on cybercrime--we're losing (ZDNet)
The Internet has bred an elite class of criminals who are organized,
well funded and far more technologically sophisticated than most law
enforcement officials.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-912780.html

Two Virginia Universities To Join Forces Against Cybercrime
(Washtech.com)
Two Virginia schools on Tuesday will launch a $6.5 million project to
help sort out the myriad legal, technical and policy challenges
involved in steeling the nation's most vital computer systems against
cyber-attack.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10820-2002May13.html
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176552.html

Turkey Mulls Strict Net Bill (Wired)
The Turkish parliament is faced with a bill on Tuesday that Internet
observers fear could devastate the Web as they know it.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52477,00.html

"Convergence and the Information Society" (EC news release/RAPID)
Conference on Media Convergence: Opportunities for a closer
relationship between Europe and the Americas. Speech by Mr Erkki
Liikanen Member of the European Commission, responsible for
Enterprise and the Information Society.

http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=SPEECH/02/200|0|RAPID&lg=EN&display=

Telstra SPEWs over spam list (Australian IT)
TELSTRA has hit back at anti-spam groups for abusing their power to
block IP ranges. Telstra spokesman Stuart Gray said many websites had
black-lists of alleged spammers, but the sites were often impossible
to contact, their management "highly variable" and their decisions
arbitrary and frequently "irresponsible".

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4309672%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Mouse you use to vote may get caught in a privacy trap (Sydney
Morning Herald)
Imagine a future when, instead of trundling all the way down to a
polling booth on election day, you could save time and effort by
voting on your home computer, at a cafe or even by mobile phone.
A not-too-distant future where electors living or on holiday on the
other side of the world could register their preferences via the
Internet, and where the result would be known within minutes or even
seconds of the close of polling.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/13/1021002431556.html

Latest privacy threat: monitor glow (CNET)
Law enforcement and intelligence agents may have a new tool to read
the data displayed on a suspect's computer monitor, even when they
can't see the screen.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1001-912785.html

Driver who ran down officer 'was re-enacting computer game' (Sydney
Morning Herald)
The driver of a stolen car who killed a highway patrol officer during
a police chase was re-enacting one of his PlayStation computer games,
The Need for Speed - Hot Pursuit, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/13/1021002431568.html

Cisco Offers Software to Protect Networks (Reuters)
Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O , the No. 1 maker of gear that directs
Internet traffic, on Tuesday announced new software designed to
protect against network failures on its high-end routers. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=957559

Microsoft battle continues with EU regulators (Financial Times)
Microsoft may be about to jump out of the US antitrust fat and into
the European regulatory fire. During the past two months, the world's
largest software group appears to have made a compelling case during
the remedy hearings of the anti-trust case brought by nine US states
and the District of Columbia. But now, the company is under attack
from European antitrust regulators who may want to force the company
to separate its Windows Media Player from the Windows operating
system.
 ft.com view
The suspicion is that European competition authorities are flexing
their muscles in an attempt to establish precedent. What is clear is
that even if Microsoft triumphs in Washington, its anti-trust
troubles will be far from over.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3BR8PH61D

Nintendo announces online plan (Australian IT)
NINTENDO has announced its first tentative steps towards online
gaming, but is unexcited about the potential for profits.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4315779%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Nile and Co get top billing as Baise Moi meets the usual suspects
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Familiar faces led a campaign to have the sexually explicit French
film banned
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/05/13/1021002431577.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4317489%255E421,00.html

Broadband threatened by road digging charges (ZDNet)
A £500 daily charge for occupying roads when installing equipment
could mean a significant hike in the cost of broadband installation,
MPs fear.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110126,00.html

Game industry girds for battle (ZDNet/CNET)
As the game industry's biggest trade show approaches, the console war
is hotting up.
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110154,00.html

Alierta dice que aún queda "un gran trecho" para avanzar en la
convergencia de medios (5Dias.com)
El presidente de Telefónica, César Alierta, reconoció hoy que, aunque
en los últimos tiempos se han dado muchos pasos hacia la convergencia
de medios "todavía hay un gran trecho para avanzar y progresar".

http://www.5dias.com/articulo.html?xref=20020513cdscdsemp_18&type=Tes&anchor=cdssec

Terra Lycos Launches New Paid E-Mail Service (Reuters)
Terra Lycos Inc. on Tuesday said it was launching a new subscription
e-mail service free of ad banners and with increased storage
capabilities as the Spanish Internet media giant seeks to generate
revenue that does not depend on advertising. 

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=956309
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176561.html

Online trade for stolen credit cards flourishes (International Herald
Tribune/New York Times)
Tens of thousands of stolen credit card numbers are being offered for
sale each week on the Internet in a handful of thriving,
membership-only cyberbazaars, operated largely by residents of the
former Soviet Union, who have become central players in credit card
and identity theft.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/57617.html

Online fraud hits ACT business (Canberra Times)
Canberra businesses are limiting online sales, having been hit by
Internet fraudsters using stolen credit-card numbers.
Robbo's Motorcycles and radio and satellite-phone specialist Watts
Communications have both been stung, leaving the Fyshwick companies
owing their banks thousands.

http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=features&subclass=techno&category=industry%20news&story_id=148185&y=2002&m=5

'Experimental' Online Ads Take On Obnoxious Tone (Newsbytes)
Surfing the Web can be so much work these days - pop-up ads and
animated graphics are beginning to obscure content. In some cases,
clicking a button closes the ad, but sometimes readers simply must
wait until the pitch is complete before they are allowed to move on.
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/176553.html


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