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domain name news - 2 August
au: TPP breached domain registrars' code: auDA
The .au Domain Administration (auDA) has found that an
accredited registrar, TPP Internet, breached the
Domain Name Suppliers' Code of Practice by sending
emails containing inaccurate and misleading renewal
advice to domain name registrants.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/30/1091080415504.html
http://www.audomainnews.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=333
uk: Nominet warns of .co.uk 'invoicing scam'
If you have received what appears to be an invoice for
a .co.uk domain name from an organisation called
Domain Registry Services, watch out. It could be a
scam, warns Nominet.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39161910,00.htm
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156960
http://www.businesseurope.com/newsfeed/document?id=BEP1_News_0000067578
http://www.pickering.uk.net/news/news_vault/july_dec_2004/07/domain_scam.shtml
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=usersofukdomains1091009754
DNS opens networks to data attacks
The same technology that allows Web surfers to locate
and connect to computers on the Internet can be used
to create covert communications channels, bypass
security measures and store distributed content, a
security researcher said Saturday.
http://news.com.com/DNS+opens+networks+to+data+attacks/2100-1002_3-5291874.html
Beware of bad-faith registration of domain names
The recent legal decision by the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) in Ticketmaster
Corporation v. Bill Hicks helps establish that it does
not make prudent sense for people to register domain
names that incorporate trademarks belonging to others.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/ericjsinrod/2004-07-28-sinrod_x.htm
Net Needs a More Effective ICANN
Who runs the Internet? There's no simple answer to
that question. The Web is a collective enterprise, but
several players have key roles. One of those players
is ICANN which is responsible for IP address space
allocation and other important technical ground rules
by which the Net's participants must abide.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040726/tc_zd/131789
ICANN Preps First IPv6 Domains
Japan (.jp) and Korea (.kr), followed later by France
(.fr), will be among the first recipients of domain
names based off the new IPv6 standard. The IP of a
connection governs a systems online identity; most of
the world is still IPv4 based (e.g: 123.10.93.201):
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?id=EpApAEuupEnIsSyIht
GNSO Council Teleconf (28 July 2004)
Agenda: GNSO Council Teleconf
http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-05aug04.htm
Your domain name dollars at work
AS RECENTLY as six years ago, the business of handing
out domain names and assigning IP addresses ultimately
rested on the desk of one man: the late Jon Postel.
His replacement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, has a budget of $15.8 million for
the coming year (doubled from 2003), and is proposing
to increase its current 30 staff by 50 percent. What
do they all do all day? But asking that question
wasn't why law professor Michael Froomkin and I
decided in a moment of madness to drop by ICANN's
offices in a spare hour last week when we happened to
be in the neighborhood. We found out pretty promptly
what one of those 30 people does: she answers endless
phone calls asking about domain name problems.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17551
UK government unprepared for domain emergency
The UK government has introduced a new initiative to
inform citizens about major incidents; however
preparingforemergencies.gov.uk provoked its own domain
name emergency when civil servants failed to register
the public variants.
http://www.demys.net/news/2004/07/gov_27.htm
ie: Face to Face: David Curtin, CEO, IE Domain
Registry
This time two years' ago, the non-profit organisation
charged with running Ireland's dot-ie domain was
headed for trouble as an internal clash between the
organisation's former CEO and its board would erupt
into a 13-month legal battle. The situation did the
IEDR -- already a favourite target of criticism --
little good. Now, the problems that started in 2002
are all but gone and new challenges, such as proposed
government regulation, are on the horizon. The IEDR's
new boss David Curtin spoke face to face with Matthew
Clark detailing the firm's status and future goals,
and noted several times that efficiency and
effectiveness are top priorities.
http://www.electricnews.net/ffocus.html?code=9545663
in: Of patriotism and Web addresses
Union IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran has urged Indian
companies to be patriotic and register their domain
names with .in or co.in addresses.
http://newsonweb.com/chennaionline/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B80B767A8-56AF-4C42-B240-8F589E94587A%7D&CATEGORYNAME=TECH
Registration Now Open for RIPE 49
The RIPE 49 Meeting will take place from 20 - 24
September, 2004 at the Renaissance Hotel in
Manchester, the United Kingdom. Registration is now
open.
http://ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/index.html
As names run out, cos. make new '1s'
Shakespeare conjectured that a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet, but he might have thought
differently if a tech company were put in charge of
the naming.
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/national_intl_business/article/0,1713,BDC_2464_3077490,00.html
Musikgruppe Rammstein lässt Rammsteinfan.de schließen
Die Site Rammsteinfan.de, die sich nach eigenen
Angaben seit vier Jahren um die Belange der Anhänger
der deutschen Musik-Combo kümmert, ist auf Betreiben
des Rammstein-Managements geschlossen worden. Das geht
aus einer Mitteilung auf Rammsteinfan.de hervor. Die
"Fan-Community" bleibe aber erhalten und sei künftig
unter der neuen Adresse Rfan.de erreichbar.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49620
IETF will Network Address Translation Benehmen
beibringen
Das Thema Internettelefonie gehört beim Treffen des
Standardisierungsgremiums Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF), das am Sonntag im kalifornischen San
Diego startet, zu den zentralen Themen. Eine neue
Arbeitsgruppe mit dem Titel Behave will etwa die
Probleme angehen, die Internettelefonie mittels
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) mit der weit
verbreiteten Network Address Translation (NAT) haben.
"Der Mangel an Standardisierung beim Verhalten von
Network Address Translators hat sich zu einer Krise
ausgewachsen", heißt es in der Ankündigung des
Behave-Auftakttreffens.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49607
IPv6: USA wollen nicht zurückfallen
Adressmangel wird in den USA nicht für eine rasche
Einführung des neuen Internetprotokolls IPv6 sorgen.
Im Gegenteil: Die USA sind bestens mit IPv4-Blöcken
versorgt. IPv6-Befürworter sind daher eher besorgt,
dass die Internetnation Nummer eins ins Hintertreffen
geraten könnte. Bei einem Expertentreffen von National
Telecommunication and Information Agency (NTIA) und
National Institute of Standards and Technology in
Washington wurde daher unter anderem darüber
diskutiert, inwieweit es öffentlicher Förderung
bedarf, vergleichbar den Anstrengungen in der
Europäischen Union.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49590
Domini .it: nuovo regolamento di assegnazione e
gestione dei nomi a dominio
Le nuove regole per l'assegnazione dei domini .it che
entreranno in vigore dal 2 agosto 2004, sono le prime
varate sotto il nuovo assetto relativo alla
regolamentazione dei suffissi .it, passata dalla
Naming Authority alla "Commissione per le regole"
istituita d'accordo con IIT-CNR e le altre parti
interessate dalla gestione del cctld ".it".
http://www.altalex.com/index.php?idnot=7590
LIBERALIZZAZIONE DEL SUFFISSO "IT": IL PARERE
DELL'ESPERTO
Suffissi "it" per tutti. ITnews ha incontrato Daniele
Vannozzi, responsabile dell’Unità operazioni del
Registro italiano dei nomi a dominio, a proposito
della recente decisione della stessa commissione di
permettere a ciascun cittadino italiano di registrare
a suo nome più di un dominio col suffisso ".it".
http://www.itnews.it/news/2004,248,rss,0728,,,181854
'.GOV' Registry Grows to Full-Fledged, Fee-for-Service
Program (news release)
Starting on Saturday, the U.S. General Services
Administration's (GSA) ".GOV." Internet Domain
Registry, which has exceeded initial expectations and
resources, will ask government entities to pay $125 a
year to cover registration and renewal costs, starting
July 31, 2004.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040729/dcth018_1.html
Your domain name dollars at work
AS RECENTLY as six years ago, the business of handing
out domain names and assigning IP addresses ultimately
rested on the desk of one man: the late Jon Postel.
His replacement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, has a budget of $15.8 million for
the coming year (doubled from 2003), and is proposing
to increase its current 30 staff by 50 percent. What
do they all do all day?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17551
uk: All Businesses have Intellectual Property: Part 1
(reg req'd)
An all too common statement made by businesses is that
they ‘do not possess any intellectual property’.
However, even the smallest of businesses usually owns
at least four of the six key intellectual property
rights (‘IPRs’), namely copyright, trade marks, domain
names and know-how – failure to identify your IPRs
means you may be over-looking valuable company assets.
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=27563&e=on
uk: All Businesses have Intellectual Property: Part 2
(reg req'd)
All businesses have a trading name. Most modern
businesses also have a website domain name and more
often than not, one that is the same as the trading
name. The importance of these two names cannot be
stressed enough – both underpin your business by
clearly identifying it so customers can find you and
your products, which increases the value of your
business by developing its goodwill and reputation.
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=27565&e=on
de: New Developments in German Domain Name Case Law
(reg req'd)
Germany has had, for several years now, a vital case
law development in domain name matters. Almost a
hundred decisions are published every year. Others
remain unpublished and are known only to the parties.
Although many of the published decisions are finally
decided by the instance courts, some of them have
reached the Federal Supreme Court which took the
chance to provide guidance. In the past, the Federal
Supreme Court allowed generic domain names under
certain requirements in view of Unfair Competition Law
(mitwohnzentrale.de = housing-cooperative.de) and
ruled on domain name constellations where identical
names were in question (shell.de).
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=27573&e=on
br: Planning director of RITS, Carlos Afonso, takes
seat on body which governs .br (from Association for
Progressive Communications (APC) newsletter -
Carlos Afonso of RITS has been elected to the
Brazilian committee which manages the internet in
Brazil and controls .br. The election results were
announced on July 15. He is one of four
representatives from civil society. Other sectors
represented are the scientific community, the business
and telecommunications sectors, and internet service
providers. It is the first time in Brazil that
internet governance has been opened up to the public.
br: Conteúdo central
A situação que se criou em Hammamet evidencia a
urgente necessidade de superar o desafio da
participação das organizações da sociedade civil do
hemisfério sul. A concentração de papéis de liderança
no processo da CMSI nas organizações do norte cria
argumentos – nem sempre legítimos – para que sejam
questionados processos preparatórios e mesmo a atuação
durante os eventos, como ocorreu na Tunísia. Foi muito
"conveniente" a argumentação das organizações
pró-governo tunisianas de que os procedimentos durante
a PrepCom estariam tendenciosos, por conta da efetiva
liderança de representantes europeus de entidades como
a Amarc, a APC e o caucus de direitos humanos. A
liderança de ativistas latino-americanos na última
reunião da plenária da sociedade civil mostrou que faz
diferença, nos momentos de divergência, que a
discussão não se polarize entre organizações do Norte
e do Sul, e sim que seja baseada em valores, idéias e
posturas.
http://www.infoinclusao.org.br/conteudo.asp?conteudo_id=592
Nuevo servicio de Renovación Anticipada de Nombres de
Dominio (NIC .MX)
NIC México te ofrece a partir del mes de Julio del
2004, el servicio de Renovación Anticipada de Nombres
de Dominio. Con este servicio, podrás extender el
período de cobertura de los nombres de dominio con
terminación .MX que tengas registrados, renovándolos
hasta con un año de anticipación a su fecha de
vencimiento.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=694&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Nos fuimos de Vacaciones.... LatinoamerICANN
Si ccTLD's y oficinas gubernamentales pueden, pues
nosotros tambien. Despues de la reunión del ICANN en
Malasia, el equipo de LatinoamerICANN esta de
vacaciones, bueno hasta el día 1 de Agosto que
volvemos. (Es por ello que hemos andado con poco
material en estos días).
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=693&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
CENTR New Website
We have commenced the process of rolling out our new
website.
http://www.centr.org/docs/2004/07/news-200407-website.html
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