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domain name news - September 27
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Nominet wins UK domain scammers case in Australia
An Aussie judge has branded the actions of two
internet domain conmen as "nothing less than
deceitful" after they sent out 50,000 fake invoices to
domain name holders in the UK.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/23/nominet_legal_win/
http://www.audomainnews.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=342
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=nominetwinsdatami1095945490
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2004/1244.html
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1158310
au: Pair misled UK companies over domain names (sub
req'd)
The man behind the scheme that misled 10,000
Australian businesses into buying domain names they
didn't need was yesterday found to have engaged in
misleading conduct with a similar scheme in the United
Kingdom.
http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/09/22/1095651394633.html
Nominet victorious in copyright court battle (news
release)
Nominet, the .uk Internet domain name registry, is
today celebrating success in its Australian court
battle against several parties accused of copyright
infringement and breaches of Australian fair trade
laws by issuing misleading notices.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/News/PressReleases/2004PressReleases/NominetVictoriousInCopyrightCourtBattle.html
Public 'left out' as governments plot Internet
regulation
Individual Internet users are being frozen out of a
key debate on the future governance of the Internet,
Web visionary Esther Dyson warned on Friday.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39167851,00.htm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040924/152/f39vh.html
uk: VisitScotland lets chance of website name slip
through net
VISITSCOTLAND, the body responsible for tourism, spent
£7.4 million developing its website but failed to buy
up one of the most popular web versions of its name -
visitscotland.co.uk.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1113072004
UK schools get .sch.uk domain
Every standard curriculum primary and secondary school
in the UK now has its own .sch.uk Internet address,
following the completion of a five year project by
Nominet.
http://www.netimperative.com/news/2004/09/23/UK_schools_domain
When domain names (.VN) to be explosive?
As of September 2004, 8,103 domain names(.VN) have
been registered. Despite rapid growth, this figure is
not corresponding with numbers of enterprises and
organizations in Vietnam.
http://bvom.com/news/english/news/index.asp?.sequence=24805&.this=64
us: House ups prison time for Domain fraudsters
The US House of Representatives this week passed a
bill that would boost prison time for scammers who
register websites under false pretences.
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=3&Art_ID=21739
http://internetweek.com/allStories/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=47901164
Clues may point to Google browser
The Google franchise could be coming to a Web browser
near you--if all the recent clues add up, that is.
Evidence is growing that may support rumors that the
preeminent search company plans to introduce a
Google-branded Web browser down the road. Among the
clues are a domain-name registration, a patent
application and several recent hires.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5380695.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3680942.stm
Icann considers Africa move
Reflecting Africa’s expanding role in the internet,
the International Corporation for the Assignment of
Names and Numbers (Icann) is planning to establish an
African presence, probably in South Africa.
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=133686
UDRP decision on lapsed .biz domain name
WIPO found nationwide.biz was not registered in bad
faith by a domain name reseller when the owner failed
to renew the registration, however it did order the
domain name be cancelled.
http://ipandit.practicallaw.com/jsp/article.jsp?item=44120
Domain Name Infringement?
Where does blatant mimicry stop and similarity start?
It is very fair for Henry Ford to get upset if some
nerd tries to register another car called FORD or
AFFORD or even FOARD. He might get not quite so upset
if they call it PORD or DORD but he has absolutely no
reason or legal right at all if a budding car designer
is set on calling his new car, with Spanish flavour,
an ESPORD. It might imply similarity but no expert or
even amateur car buyer is going to confuse it with
dear old Henry's mass produced range.
http://webpronews.com/ebusiness/smallbusiness/wpn-2-20040921Domainnameinfringement.html
MARID is Dead
As long suspected by some, the IETF is going to be
closing up the Mail Transfer Agent Authentication in
DNS (MARID) Working Group according to today's post by
Ted Hardie, co-AD for Applications. Larry Seltzer of
eWeek was right on target about this: "The rest of the
SID standards process will now be a waste of time
thanks to Microsoft, and the other participants will
afterwards pick up the pieces and get the job done
with another spec."
http://www.circleid.com/article/765_0_1_0_C/
WebHosting.Info To Publish Performance Reports On
Domain Registrars Worldwide
WebHosting.Info announced that it has officially
started publishing comprehensive statistical reports
on the performance of all Domain Name Registrars
worldwide.
http://tophosts.com/articles/?001216.html
$25,500 Tab For UniqueHotels.com Puts Afternic in the
Sales Penthouse
After last week's blockbuster market performance
(which included a trio of six-figure sales), a step
back was almost inevitable this week. Still, with
seven five-figure transactions reported, the new sales
crop would stack up well by any standard measure.
Afternic.com ascended to the summit of our new Top Ten
chart after one of their clients ran up a $25,500 tab
for UniqueHotels.com.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/domainsales09_28_04.htm
DomainNesteggs.com Offers Tomorrow’s Robotic Domain
Names Today (news release)
If you go to your Internet connection today and type
in www.Robot-Rentals.com, you won’t be directed to a
thriving Internet company that rents out personal
robots by the month. At the present, such a business
doesn’t even exist. But that fact didn’t stop a
farsighted Nashville futurist from registering 200
robot-related Internet domains earlier this year, and
then listing them for sale at www.DomainNesteggs.com.
http://emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw161092.htm
.Pro Domains Open to Canadian Professionals (news
release)
RegistryPro, the .Pro TLD registry, recently announced
that the .Pro TLD will expand on September 27 to serve
qualified professionals in Canada offering the
security and identity-verification benefits of the new
domain to doctors, lawyers and public accountants.
http://news.webhosting.info/t-2614/
Significant Domain Name Registration Growth (news
release)
.TM Domain Names are part of the general registration
growth. Their SPAM fighting mechanisms and
anti-Phishing DNSSec system are perfect for companies
serious about e-Commerce and Consumer protection
http://emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw160986.htm
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prwebxml160986.php
Direto de Genebra: Brasil defende internacionalização
da gestão da Internet
Entidade quer desvincular web dos EUA e ter atuação
internacional
http://www.softwarelivre.org/news/3064
O domínio da internet é de quem registra primeiro
A inscrição da marca junto ao INPI assegura os
direitos de divulgação. É ilegal o uso de nome ou
marca em domínios na internet sem a autorização do
proprietário da referida marca, que a registrou
primeiro junto ao Instituto Nacional da Propriedade
Industrial (INPI), por contrariar a lei de propriedade
industrial.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=744&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Tribunal de Alçada de Minas Gerais decide que marca em
domínios da internet é de quem a registrou primeiro
junto ao INPI
É ilegal o uso de nome ou marca em domínios na
internet sem a autorização do proprietário da referida
marca, que a registrou primeiro junto ao INPI -
Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial -, por
contrariar a lei de propriedade industrial.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=743&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Nominaciones LAC al WGIG
A continuación el mensaje de propuesta de candidatos
LAC al Grupo de Trabajo sobre Internet Governance.
Este grupo será dirigido por Markus Kummer. Nota:
Mensaje enviado por Olinca Marino a la WSIS CS-Plenary
y al Governance Caucus
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=742&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Entidade quer desvincular web dos EUA e ter atuaçao
internacional
A entidade privada americana Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Number (Icann), que gerencia a
internet mundial, informou ontem, em meio a um
afrontamento diplomático sobre a governança da web,
que vai completarem novembro de 2006 sua desvinculaço
do governo dos Estados Unidos.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=741&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Internet Governance Has Become a Non-Issue
It's funny, but I recall the battle cry that the WWW
was "free" back in its early days. When contributing
game concept to the early and great gaming pioneers
like Infocom, there was such a great esprit-du-corps
amongst our team regarding the fun as well as utility
that the WWW offerred. In retrospect, we were so
naive. I recall the days when guys like Bill Gates
prided themselves on being such a great "hackers" - it
was a noble term back then.
http://www.circleid.com/article/768_0_1_0_C/
UN ICT Task Force Series 5 - Internet Governance: A
Grand Collaboration
Realizing the World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS) vision of constructing Internet governance
arrangements that are multilateral, transparent and
democratic with the full involvement of all
stakeholders is a noble challenge. Meeting it will
require goodwill among all parties, as well as good
information on which to base decisions. The papers
contributed to the United Nations Information and
Communication Technologies Task Force (ICT TF) Global
Forum on Internet Governance contain a lot of useful
information on how many different organizations are
already governing the Internet and its effects on
society. At the same time the papers suggest that a
number of important issues are not being addressed
effectively, and that in some areas there is an urgent
need to put in place new arrangements to counter real
and present threats to the stability and utility of
the Internet. These contributions helped participants
in the Forum begin the process of building a global
consensus on Internet governance – a process that
hopefully will continue beyond the second phase of the
WSIS. As a result of these contributions, the vision
of a “grand collaboration” on Internet governance is a
step closer to reality.
http://unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1392
Gobiernos de todo el mundo se plantean el futuro de
Internet
Más de 250 representantes de países de todo el mundo
se han reunido en Ginebra (Suiza) durante los dos
últimos días para conformar un grupo de trabajo de
Naciones Unidas sobre el Gobierno de Internet, una de
las premisas surgidas de la Primera Fase de la Cumbre
Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información (WSIS), que
tuvo lugar en la ciudad helvética en diciembre de
2003.
http://www.vnunet.es/Actualidad/Noticias/Comunicaciones/Internet/20040923009
http://www.clminnovacion.com/actualidad/noticias/articulo.htm?REG=2680
http://hispamp3.com/noticias/noticia.php?noticia=20040923090355
Zivilgesellschaft will den Chef für UN-Arbeitsgruppe
Netzverwaltung stellen
Der Vorsitzende der UN-Arbeitsgruppe zur Zukunft der
globalen Netzverwaltung (Working Group on Internet
Governance, WGIG) soll aus dem Kreis der
Zivilgesellschaft, also der Gruppen jenseits von
staatlichen Organisationen, Parteien und
Lobbyverbänden, oder aber aus der Privatwirtschaft
kommen. Diesen Vorschlag unterbreitete die Berliner
Sozialwissenschaftlerin Jeanette Hofmann bei den
Vorbereitungstreffen für die WGIG in Genf Kofi Annans
Informationsgesellschafts-Berater Nitin Desai und dem
Schweizer Diplomaten und WGIG-Sekretär Markus Kummer.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/51331
Beim Weltgipfel zur Informationsgesellschaft geht es
um die Kronjuwelen des Internet
250 Internet-Experten aus aller Welt saßen vergangene
Woche wieder einmal in Genf zusammen, um über den
Start der "Working Group on Internet Governance" zu
diskutieren, die vom jüngsten Weltgipfel zur
Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) beschlossen worden
war. Zwar geht es nun voran, aber langsam.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/18411/1.html
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