domain name news - September 13

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

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DotPH releases 'anonymous' domain
The Domain Registry of the Philippines, DotPH, is
releasing a personalized domain for end-users and
bloggers.
 http://itmatters.com.ph/news/news_09082004h.html

India needs greater Web presence: ICANN
ICANN is looking at engaging the Indian government and
sections of the Indian Internet industry on a new
level, in order to help the country upgrade its role
in the global Internet regime.
 http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2004/104091004.asp

http://www.voicendata.com/content/vndtoday/104091001.asp

Forget dotcom, be Indian, be dot.in
If Dayanidhi Maran has his way, every Indian netizen —
company or individual — will carry a suffix in his
Internet address that will proudly identify him as an
Indian.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040911/asp/frontpage/story_3744710.asp

UN ICT Task Force: Internet Governance: The State of
Play
The Global Forum on Internet Governance held by the
UNICT Task Force in New York on 25-26 March concluded
that Internet governance issues were many and complex.
The Secretary-General’s Working Group on Internet
Governance will have to map out and navigate this
complex terrain as it makes recommendations to the
World Summit on an Information Society in 2005. To
assist in this process, the Forum recommended, in the
words of the Deputy Secretary-General of the United
Nations at the closing session, that a matrix be
developed “of all issues of Internet governance
addressed by multilateral institutions, including gaps
and concerns, to assist the Secretary-General in
moving forward the agenda on these issues.” This paper
takes up the Deputy Secretary-General’s challenge. It
is an analysis of the state of play in Internet
governance in different forums, with a view to
showing: (1) what issues are being addressed (2) by
whom, (3) what are the types of consideration that
these issues receive and (4) what issues are not
adequately addressed.

http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1389

au: Domain Names misled business: court (reg req'd for
some)
The Federal Court has upheld a finding against Domain
Names Pty Ltd and its sole director Chesley Rafferty
following complaints the company was misleading
businesses into re-registering on the internet under
slightly different names.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/10/1094789679474.html

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/10/1094789670920.html

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/10/1094789679474.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10724274%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39158901,00.htm
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/040910/2/qq66.html
 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=18103

au: DNA Appeal Dismissed
Federal Court upholds Justice Finkelstein’s finding
that DNA mail-outs were misleading and deceptive
 http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=22	

VeriSign Implements Rapid Updates to Domain Name
System Files (news release)
VeriSign announced that it has implemented a major
enhancement, called “rapid updates,” to its .com and
.net Domain Name System (DNS) servers. With rapid
updates, it is now possible for domain registrants to
launch Web sites more quickly and to experience
greater continuity in service when changing hosting
providers or modifying their domain name
registrations.

http://verisign.com/verisign-inc/news-and-events/news-archive/us-news-2004/page_015894.html

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=2458

http://news.com.com/VeriSign+speeds+up+registry+changes/2100-1038_3-5359706.html

http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-09-2004/0002246995&EDATE=

.EU: Lucy's Football?
Those of you familiar with the American comic series
"Peanuts" by the late Charles Schultz may be familiar
with the recurring theme of Lucy's football. Lucy
holds a football on her toe for Charlie Brown to
practice a field goal kick. Charlie Brown realizes
that the last 25 times Lucy has held the ball for him
to kick, she pulled the ball out of the way at the
last minute, causing him to trip and fall. Charlie
Brown knows full well that Lucy may not keep the ball
in place for him to kick, yet his determination gets
him running towards that unlikely opportunity each and
every time.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/735_0_1_0_C/

uk: Willie Black resigns as Nominet chairman
Dr Willie Black has resigned as the chairman of UK
domain registry Nominet, citing the need for new
challenges now that the company has settled after nine
years of extraordinary growth. He wil leave on 8
December.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/black_leaves_nominet/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/nominet_chairman/

http://www.netimperative.com/news/2004/09/10/Nominet_Chairman
 http://www.demys.net/news/2004/09/10_black.htm

Confirmed Nominees for Representatives to the ASO
Address Council 2004 - RIPE NCC Service Region
The Confirmed Nominees are: Mada Fatiha; Hans Petter
Holen Expressions of Support; Jordi Palet Martinez
Expressions of Support.

http://ripe.net/ripencc/about/regional/aso2004/nominations2004-index.html

de: eBay Germany domain hijack: No prosecution
imminent
The Internet auction house has no plans at present to
take legal action against the 19-year-old who
confessed to hijacking its Web site
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39166007,00.htm

Cerf sees space network, home servers
When Vint Cerf looks into the not-too-distant future,
he sees a data network stretching across the solar
system and people using home servers to send
multimedia content to friends and relatives -- if
security problems don't swamp us first. It's worth
noting what Cerf sees a few years out, as 30 years ago
he was one of the main researchers who envisioned the
future Internet and came up with TCP/IP (Transmission
Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) to send data
packets across it. He shared some views in a speech at
the Intel Communications Alliance conference taking
place alongside Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco
this week.

http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/72B381C8C58336F848256F0A00249348

Intel CTO: New Protocol Needed For Next-Gen 'Net
Intel's chief technologist called for an overlay
network to be applied to the Internet infrastructure
to allow new protocols and services to be enabled. ...
 The first portion of Gelisnger's speech was devoted
to a conversation with Vint Cerf, largely heralded as
the founder of the Internet, or at least the small
Darpanet that evolved into the Internet as a whole.
Cerf, now the chairman of the board of ICANN,
developed the TCP/IP protocol that itself runs on top
of packet-level protocols that govern the basic
transmission of data around the Internet. TCP/IP
allowed a new level of functionality without the need
to retrofit existing equipment, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040909/tc_zd/134950

Intel sees big changes to the net
The internet will have to be changed to stop it
reaching breaking point, according to chip giant
Intel.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3643902.stm

http://news.com.com/Intel+calls+for+Internet+overhaul/2100-1006_3-5359743.html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3590490

Intels Mission: Das Internet mit neuem Netzwerkkonzept
sicherer machen
Der Chipgigant Intel will das Internet sicherer,
flexibler und "smarter" machen. Intel Technologie-Chef
Pat Gelsinger präsentierte in San Francisco eine
Plattform, bei der leistungsstarke Netzwerk-Computer
eine zusätzliche Schicht über der bestehenden
Infrastruktur des Internets bilden, um Probleme bei
der Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit des Netzes in den
Griff zu bekommen. "Diese Geräte könnten
beispielsweise das Internet in die Lage versetzen,
eigenständig eine Attacke durch einen Computerwurm zu
erkennen und Gegenmaßnahmen einzuleiten", sagte
Gelsinger auf dem Intel-Entwickler-Forum (IDF). "Mit
dieser Arbeit legen wir heute das Fundament für das
Internet von morgen."

http://www.networld.at/index.html?/articles/0437/542/92294.shtml

http://www.dm-euro.de/dmwwwangebot/fn/dmo/sfn/builddm/cn/d/cn_map/0/id/7478!208654/bmt/0/pageid/0/docid/0/ctlink/0/site/SITE_2/strucid/PAGE_2281/home/0/mm/navigation/ct/ct_basic/frame/0/url/0/hdn/0/htype/1/ref/1/subcn/0/notag/0/IsFrame/0/brt/2/SH/0/depot/0/index.html

http://www.zdnet.de/news/business/0,39023142,39125837,00.htm

Asking the questions
ITU secretary-general Yoshio Utsumi should be
congratulated for his candid remark that trade shows
are no long the drawcards they once were. ... The role
of governments at an international level was another
question asked. Officials argued that Internet
governance needs to be brought under the control of a
“legitimizing” inter-governmental grouping – like the
ITU, for example. The opposing group thinks we need
something more flexible: part industry, part
technical, part government – like ICANN, for example.

http://www.telecomasia.net/telecomasia/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=120910

.tel REALLY IS .dead (blog)
The other day I received the official email from ICANN
regarding my recent sTLD application for .tel. The
email reinforced an "update" I received at the end of
July, which at that time said .tel was more or less
.dead.

http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/001131.html

Alternate Registrar New.net Continues Strong Growth
New.net continues to gain traction for its domain
registration service, which operates outside the
traditional ICANN domain system. New.net added nearly
52K hostnames last month, marking its third
consecutive month of strong percentage growth, as
measured by our Hosting Provider Switching Analysis.
The company now hosts more than 130K hostnames.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/09/07/alternate_registrar_newnet_continues_strong_growth.html

IT opportunities, challenges abound in Asia Pacific
Leading names in the information and communications
technology sectors of the Asia-Pacific region are
gathering here to participate in ITU Telecom Asia
2004. The one-week event, which opens today, consists
of an exhibition and forum, attended by industry
leaders such as Intel, Samsung, Lucent and China
Mobile. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the
International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, is an
international organization that is part of the United
Nations system.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200409/06/200409062237596709900092309231.html

CompTIA Welcomes Roger Cochetti as New Director of
U.S. Public Policy; Industry Veteran to Grow U.S.
Policy Outreach on Behalf of Diverse Members, Industry
The Computing Technology Industry Association
(CompTIA) announced today that IT industry veteran
Roger Cochetti has joined the association to direct
its U.S. public policy office. Cochetti will direct
CompTIA's federal and state advocacy programs in order
to deliver optimal value to CompTIA's diverse
membership.
 http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Sep/1071485.htm

A Network by Any Other Name
Last month Wired News, the online service that grew
out of Wired Magazine, decided that it was going stop
using an upper-case 'I' when it talked about the
internet. At the same time Web became web and Net
became net. According to Tony Long, the man
responsible for their style guide, the change was made
because 'there is no earthly reason to capitalize any
of these words'. In fact, he claims, 'there never
was.' ...Forgive me for saying, but those who choose
'internet' over 'Internet' are as wrong as those who
would visit london, meet the queen or go for a boat
trip down the river thames.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/739_0_1_0_C/

Contribución al Grupo de Trabajo sobre Gobernabilidad
de Internet (GTGI)
El IG Caucus ha presentado un documento al GTGI, que
pronto estará iniciando sus labores. LACNIC ha
realizado la traducción al español y al portugues de
dicho documento.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=730&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Deutsche ISPs setzen auf IPv6
Deutsche Internet Service Provider (ISP) setzen
zunehmend auf das neue Internetprotokoll. Laut einem
heute, Mittwoch, veröffentlichten Bericht des
Verbandes der deutschen Internetwirtschaft "eco" haben
bereits mehr als ein Viertel aller ISPs auf IPv6
umgestellt. "Die deutsche Internetwirtschaft
investiert massiv in die nächste Generation des
Datenstandards, damit Deutschland den Anschluss an die
globale Online-Ökonomie nicht verliert", so eco.
 http://zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39125785,00.htm

Erste Gutachterrunde für neue Top Level Domains
abgeschlossen
Zwei Bewerber um neue Top Level Domains (TLD) können
sich nach der ersten Gutachterrunde der "Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" (ICANN)
kaum noch Hoffnungen auf einen Zuschlag machen, obwohl
die ICANN laut Vizepräsident Kurt Pritz noch keine
Bewerbung abgelehnt hat. Bisher habe man nur die von
externen Gutachtern erstellten Beurteilungen in
technischer, rechtlicher und betriebswirtschaftlicher
Hinsicht an die Bewerber weitergeleitet und um
Stellungnahmen gebeten
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/50967

Neues Netzwerkkonzept: Intel will Internet sicherer
machen
Chipgigant Intel will mit einem neuartigen
Netzwerk-Konzept das bestehende Internet sicherer,
flexibler und «smarter» machen.

http://www.news.de/50/06konzept_Intel_will_Internet_sicherer_machen.php

Internet24 ist Registrar für .ws-Domains
Der Qualitätshoster Internet24 ist seit August 2004
Registar für .ws-Domains.
 http://www.webhostlist.de/provider/news/1834/

Nouvelle plainte de Verisign contre l'ICANN
Sa plainte ayant été rejetée au niveau fédéral,
Verisign ne décolère pas et attaque maintenant l'ICANN
devant un tribunal d'état.
 http://www.domaines.info/article.php?art_id=452&z=102

Vol du nom de domaine ebay.de
La version allemande du site de vente aux enchères a
été piratée par un petit malin qui "cherchait
seulement à s'amuser".

http://www.domaines.info/article.php?art_id=456&z=100&PHPSESSID=693f0a1d136aa563421f5ad01ed9930d

François Bayrou, Michel-Edouard Leclerc : même combat
!
Le cybersquatteur qui avait enregistré abusivement
michel-edouard-leclerc.fr vient de récidiver sur
francois-bayrou.fr.
 http://www.domaines.info/article.php?art_id=454&z=101

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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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China and the globalization of ICTs: Implications for
international relations (available free for a limited
time)
As the People's Republic of China (PRC) accedes to the
World TradeOrganization (WTO), much speculation has
been generated about the political impact of the
opening of its telecommunications market to foreign
firms and investors. This article evaluates the
assumptions behind competing views from the West and
China, drawing out the implications for international
politics. It argues that international economic,
technological and security regimes fail to address
human rights concerns that arise from the
globalization of information and communication
technologies (ICTs), despite the fact that serious
problems are generated by the need for cooperation
between liberal-democratic and authoritarian regimes
to preserve state security. To redress the balance, it
is necessary to move away from assumptions of
technological determinism held by policy-makers, in
favour of developing a communication analysis of
security that can embrace broader political issues.
 http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/205

Mutiny on the bandwidth: the semiotics of statehood in
the internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island
and Niue (available free for a limited time)
The internet has evolved to have a complex top-level
domain name system, in which generic top-level domains
such as .com and .org coexist with country-code
top-level domains such as .UK and .JP. In this
article, the history and significance of this hybrid
naming system is examined, with specific attention
directed to the manner in which it simultaneously
reproduces claims to globalism, state sovereignty, and
the presumption of United States hegemony. It is found
that the domain name system affirms the centrality of
the sovereign state while concurrently challenging its
underlying basis in an idealized nexus of nation,
government, and territory. These themes are explored
through case studies of two Pacific island microstate
domains: .PN (Pitcairn Island) and .NU (Niue).
 http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/1/47

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