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internet news - 23 Sept
ICANN extended--with more controls
The U.S. Commerce Department extends for one more year its
contract with the organization that governs the Internet's
infrastructure.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-958801.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958801.html
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1465601
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43976-2002Sep20.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup21.6sep21(0,3008755).story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/4117286.htm
Domain-Name Regulator Is Given a Year to Improve
The Commerce Department announced that it would give the
group that manages the Internet's address system another
year to demonstrate it is up to the task.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/technology/21DOMA.html
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55290,00.html
http://money.cnn.com/2002/09/20/technology/net_icann.reut/index.htm
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,10801,74438,00.html.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/544006p-4298672c.html
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1476790
Commerce Department, ICANN Amend Internet Domain Name
System Management Agreement (news release)
The Commerce Department today announced that it is
extending for one year its Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN). The current MOU is set to expire on
September 30. The Department's agreement to extend the MOU
comes at the end of a thorough examination of ICANN's
performance of the transition responsibilities to date, as
well as of ICANN's ongoing reform efforts.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2002/icann_09192002.htm
ICANN and US Commerce Department Extend Agreement Through
September 2003
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep02.htm
Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of
Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers
Amendment 5
WHEREAS, the U.S. Government supports the policy of
privatizing the technical management of the Internet domain
name and addressing system (DNS) now performed by or on
behalf of the U.S. Government or by third parties under
arrangements or agreements with the U.S. Government; ...
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/Amend5_09192002.htm
Domain fraudsters in .eu con
Domain name registrar Internetters is warning people not be
fooled into pre-registering for .eu domain names.
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1135196
http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1135196
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/News/1135196
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=12703
Registries wanted for .eu domain
The European Commission is calling on potential registries
for the new .eu top level domain to send in their
applications before October 25.
http://www.legalmediagroup.com/default.asp?Page=1&SID=11056&CH=6&CN=Tech%20and%20telecoms&CountryName=&Type=NewsInBrief
The strangest domain-name squabble ever
Girl Scouts, domestic violence awareness, charges of racism
and censorship -- this Web site fight is a train wreck!
For six years, California's Santa Clara County paid a
53-year-old webmaster named Douglas Dailey to post
government documents on his Web site, the Domestic Violence
Project of Santa Clara County. But in early September, says
Dailey, county officials told him, without giving an
explanation, that they would no longer fund his operation.
Then, on Sept. 13, Kristin Baker, an attorney for the
county, sent him a curt two-line e-mail message ordering
him to shut down the entire site.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/09/19/domestic/index.html
June 2003 ICANN Meeting to Be Held in Montreal, Canada
Montreal, Canada has been selected at the site for the June
2003 meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN). The meeting is scheduled for Sunday,
22 June, through Thursday 26 June, with an ICANN Public
Forum to be held on Wednesday, 25 June, and the ICANN Board
to meet on Thursday, 26 June. Further details of the
meeting will be announced as arrangements are finalized.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-20sep02-2.htm
Domain name overload
Domain names--a hot topic for Australian enterprises trying
to brand themselves online. But do we really understand the
ownership issues behind the name?
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000024981,20268376,00.htm
Netherlands Domain Authority to de-restrict .nl
The Netherlands Foundation for Internet Domain Name
Registration has reported that the formerly restricted .nl
country code top level domain name will be opened to
applicants from all over the world.
http://www.demys.net/news/02_sep_20_nl.htm
auDA goes to Court over "deceptive" domain mailer
auDA, the Australian not for profit corporation which
operates the .au domain, has announced that it has taken
Court action in respect of a direct mail campaign which it
claims was misleading or deceptive to domain name
registrants.
http://www.demys.net/news/02_sep_20_auda.htm
PNC Scores In Stadium Name Case - from
http://www.udrplaw.net
In a new decision released today, a WIPO Panel found in
favor of PNC Bank in its case against the registrant of
PNCPark.com. PNC, which owns a 20-year lease on the stadium
name rights for the new Pittsburgh Pirates baseball
stadium, scored a home run with the Panel by demonstrating
that the registrant had been using the site to redirect
visitors to Ticketsnow.com and internet gambling sites.
Although the Panel's opinion failed to fully explain the
registrant's bad faith, it was clear that the use of the
domain in connection with links to casino pop up ads and
ticket sales contributed to PNC's easy victory.
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2002/d2002-0701.html
NY Yankees Step Up To Plate in Second Case Against Domain
Name - from http://www.udrplaw.net
In 1999, Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees
filed one of the first lawsuits under the
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act against the
domain name NewYorkYankees.com. See Major League Baseball
et al. v. Brian McKiernan, 99-CV-8449 (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 23,
2001) and an article about the case from Wired. MLB
received a consent judgment permanently enjoining the
registrant from purchasing or using any domain names with
MLB marks.
The Yankees have now filed a new case under the UDRP with
WIPO against a different registrant of the same domain
name, this time against Atlanta-based ticket broker
Webhouse, Inc. The case is pending, but a decision is
expected soon. New York Yankees v. Webhouse, Inc., WIPO
Case D2002-0813.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33435,00.html
VeriSign tidies records after ICANN rebuke
VeriSign Inc. said this week that it has corrected database
inaccuracies flagged by the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this month,
after the regulatory body threatened to strip the leading
U.S. registrar of its ability to sell ".com" domain names
unless it cleaned up its act.
http://www.itworld.com/Net/3499/020920verisignicann/
http://virus.idg.net/ic_950928_1773_1-3921.html
Gain Fame Playing The Domain Name Game
As of June 2001, over 22.7 million ".com" top level domains
(or "TLDs") have been registered. In other words, the
Internet consists of close to 23,000,000 dot-coms,which,in
turn, are 76% of all TLDs. It means that you're more likely
to win the lottery than find a good domain name.
Due to their increasing scarcity, domain names that are
short, memorable and suggestive have become "hot"
commodities. As an example, domain names acquired at
exorbitant prices include:
http://www.stickysauce.com/articles/domainarticles/domaingame.htm
Greek net cafes face ruin
The Greek Government is accused of using Taleban tactics to
enforce a controversial law banning computer games.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2271130.stm
WorldCom ordered to shield Internet subscribers from child
porn sites
A judge's order requiring WorldCom to block five
child-pornography Web sites is the first use of a
Pennsylvania law that raises concerns about turning
Internet service providers into government censors.
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/543842p-4297681c.html
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/9-20-2002/20020920140005_24.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-958579.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55248,00.html
NPA establishes system to tackle child porn on Net
The National Police Agency has set up an automated system
to find child pornography on the Internet.
The system is based on an NPA host computer that "patrols"
the Internet periodically, checking sites for child
pornography and cross-checking their images against an NPA
database of images confiscated across the nation.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20020920a4.htm
Parents' TV concerns grow
Protecting children from harmful material on TV and the
internet is becoming more worrying for UK parents, a report
suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2271777.stm
The cost of China's web censors
China steps up internet censorship, but the economic costs
are high, BBC News Online finds in the first of three
articles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2264508.stm
Filtering the plague
COMMENTARY--If the number of e-mails rises as quickly as
predicted, we’ll soon be doing nothing else than managing
our e-mail.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20268365,00.htm
A cybersage speaks his mind
For a law professor specializing in the Internet, David
Sorkin takes a pretty dim view of cyberlaw.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-958576.html
Who Invented Hyperlinks? Summary Judgment for the Defendant
in the BT Case (reg req'd)
As discussed in our April 17, 2002 Internet Alert, British
Telecommunications plc (BT) sued an Internet service
provider (ISP), claiming that use of hyperlinks infringes a
BT patent. On August 22, 2002, the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment
to the ISP, ruling that, as a matter of law, the ISP's
actions do not infringe the BT patent.
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17874&p=5&c=1138&e=on
Federal Trade Commission and Trademark Owners Call for
Changes to Pay-for-Placement Search Engines (reg req'd)
In a June 27 letter to Alta Vista, AOL Time Warner, Direct
Hit Technologies, iWon, LookSmart, Microsoft and Terra
Lycos, the Federal Trade Commission recommended that the
companies provide clearer disclosure to consumers of their
pay-for-placement search engines. Prompted by a complaint
filed by consumer advocacy group Commercial Alert in July
2001, the FTC's letter states that current disclosures by
pay-for-placement search engines regarding the fee-based
ranking of their search results may not be sufficiently
clear. Spokespersons from Alta Vista, Terra Lycos and AOL
publicly responded to the letter, stating that they believe
that their search engines adequately disclose paid results.
Alta Vista and Terra Lycos representatives also added that
they would take the FTC's recommendations seriously
nevertheless.
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=17878&p=5&c=1138&e=on
Computer Recycling Bill
California may become the first state requiring computer
makers and sellers of television sets to charge buyers to
recycle the machines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/technology/21PCS.html
Hotmail clamps down on spam
The email provider has signed up Brightmail to try and free
its users from inboxes full of unwanted refinancing offers
and body part-enlargement emails.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2122630,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2268680.stm
Microsoft to barricade e-mail sites against spam
Disappointment looms for those selling larger breasts,
cheap Viagra and low, low, low-cost mortgages on the
internet: Hotmail users are about to be barricaded against
the deluge of "spam", or junk electronic mail, that
cascades into their electronic mailboxes.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=334877
Why We'll All Scream for Wireless
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte explains how
Wi-Fi "lily pads and frogs" will transform the future of
telecom.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html
Project puts rural schools on the net
Students as young as 7 at rural schools west of Hamilton
are surfing the internet thanks to a pilot project which
may be repeated in the South Waikato and then throughout
rural New Zealand.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2847721
Hollywood vs. the Internet
In the US, the battle to protect the copyright of movies
and TV is threatening the usefulness of the PC as we know
it
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/20/1032054954195.html
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