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domain name, governance & WSIS news - December 6
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to get feedback on the news - what you like, dislike,
new ideas, issues I don't cover, issues I cover too
much.
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developing the news, so while it has grown, it has
also covered a wider range of news issues.
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David
au: Exchange - Chris Disspain
Meet the man in the front line of the battle against
domain name fraud. Thousands of Australians have lost
money to Internet domain name scams, particularly
those who registered domains through Domain Names
Australia (DNA). We put some of the most common
complaints to Chris Disspain, CEO of the Australian
Domain Name Authority (auDA).
http://apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/print/8CE35FCC8C60D151CA256F4D002752BD
nz: ICANN has just announced that its March 2006
meeting will be held in Wellington, New Zealand (no
link yet!)
The meeting will be held from the 27th to the 31st of
March 2006, and will primarily be at the Wellington
Convention Centre and the Duxton Hotel.
uk: easyGroup wins easyejt.com domain name dispute
The Panel of the World Intellectual Property
Organisation's Arbitration and Mediation Center, which
administers the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy and rules, has found in favour of easyGroup IP
Licensing Limited (easyGroup) in a dispute over the
domain name easyejt.com. From:
http://practicallaw.com/jsp/article.jsp?item=46171
New Berkman Amici Brief In Domain Name Case
The Berkman Center's Clinical Program in Cyberlaw this
week filed another amici curiae brief in a trademark
appeal involving an allegedly infringing domain name.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=626
Russian Internet Domain Turns 10
Over 200,000 domain names are registered in the
Russian Internet domain (Runet), Mikhail Seslavinsky,
head of the federal press and mass communications
agency, reported on Tuesday.
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5153298&startrow=1&date=2004-11-30&do_alert=0
Website registration reaches record levels
Over five million new domain names were added to the
internet in the third quarter of this year - the
highest growth in registrations ever.
http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39126277,00.htm
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/news/38566.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/11/29/daily28.html
http://www.pcmag.co.uk/news/1159779
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159779
Rekord: 66,3 Millionen Domains weltweit
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53915
http://zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39128271,00.htm
Netcraft December 2004 Web Server Survey
In the December 2004 survey we received responses from
56,923,737 sites. The gain of 808,722 sites continues
the Internet's powerful growth as a medium for
communications and commerce, which has continued at
near-record pace in 2004 despite a steady drumbeat of
security threats.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/01/december_2004_web_server_survey.html
Bidders line up for .net domain names registry
The role of US corporations in managing domain name
registries is destined to provoke heated debate as
various companies submit and defend their respective
bids for the .net domain name registry.
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93460,00.html
Big Turn Out At ICANN Conference
Over 600 delegates are attending the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a
meeting has been held in Africa.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030564.html
za: ICANN conference under way in Cape Town
ICANN is holding a major conference in Cape Town as
part of its commitment to reach out to internet users
around the world. Theresa Swinehart, ICANN's general
manager for global partnerships, said the organisation
is doing its best to engage the world by holding its
tri-annual meetings in it's five different regions
(Africa, Asia, North America, Latin America and
Europe) on a rotational basis.
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93422,00.html
ICANN to unveil internet strategy at meeting
ICANN will be holding its annual meeting from the
1st-5th December in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93186,00.html
za: ICANN: Affordable Access the Key
The main African Internet issue is that of affordable
access, CEO Paul Twomey said at the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
meeting in Cape Town this morning.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020629.html
za: Minister, Internet Community Rift 'Healed'
The South African Internet community has praised
communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri for her
speech at the ICANN conference, saying it heals the
rift between the community and government. The speech
earned the minister a standing ovation this week.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030422.html
Conference explores Africa's Internet options
More than 600 delegates are attending the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a
meeting has been held in Africa.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063453797I250
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93323,00.html
ICANN works Harry Potter magic on net
Internet overseeing organisation ICANN has a difficult
task ahead persuading people to let it run the whole
network when its contract ends in 2006. And it is
willing to try anything to get there - including, it
would seem, magic.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/icann_harry_potter_magic/
ITU head: Arabic domain names coming to a computer
near you
Internet domain names may soon be available in Arabic,
according to Yoshio Utsumi, the secretary-general of
the International Telecommunications Union.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=4722
African Languages to Be Recognised Internationally
Africans wishing to use local languages in Internet
domain names and content can now do so, courtesy of a
new movement to internationalise domain names.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020002.html
Finding Our Roots On the Internet - ICANN Conference
Brings Hope to Africa
Imagine exploring cyberspace and wading through
mountains of information in Kiswahili, Amharic or the
Ghanaian language Twi efficiently and as easily as you
would in English.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020001.html
za: New Language for South Africa?
Is there a twelfth official language in South Africa?
If you are in Cape Town this week you would be
forgiven for thinking so. It is acronyms galore in the
Mother city as a new language invades and wreaks havoc
inside the International Convention Centre where the
annual ICANN conference is being held.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020003.html
Cornucopia: A Radically Different Approach to TLDs
Much of the discussion about proposed TLDs centres
around domain names as a form of classification:
".mobi" for mobile device content, ".kids" for
child-safe content, language codes for
language-specific content, ".museum" for
museum-related entities, and so on. Notoriously little
activity has been forthcoming in actually implementing
these proposals, and the select few that have been
allowed out into the world are, shall we say, a tad
arbitrary.
http://www.circleid.com/article/819_0_1_0_C/
ICANN selects its wardens
ICANN has selected the two independent wardens of its
activites after a two-year delay.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/icann_selects_wardens/
ICANN Posts Ombudsman Framework for Public Comment
http://icann.org/ombudsman/ombudsman-framework-03dec04.htm
Internet Governance: ICANN pitches the internet's
future
ICANN, which oversees the Internet in all its
manificent lunacy, has just published a Strategic
Plan, in which it has outlined what its direction and
goals are for the next three years.
http://www.markle.org/weekly_digest/weeklydigest_vol.3_issue45.pdf
TJ is Tajikistan Internet Address!
Last year the redelegation process over .TJ domain
initiated by present Manager and supported by Internet
Community of Tajikistan and ICANN took place. The
process was successfully finished on July 2, 2003.
Unfortunately all the attempts (both ours and ICANN)
to establish any contacts to the previous domain
administration regarding the names, which had been
registered before failed. In this connection the
decision was made to cancel them all. So for those
companies and individuals who had the names registered
before July 2003 and are still interested in them the
solution is to register them again.
http://www.nic.tj
Travel industry to have its own web address
Companies in the travel and tourism industry are to
have their own internet address. The '.travel' top
level domain (TLD), which should launch in the second
quarter of 2005, will provide a new variation to the
continuing demand for new web addresses.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041203/175/f7u2v.html
Travel domain will make Web surfing easier
Are you facing the agony of locating an ideal hotel or
travel agent over the Internet? You can brace yourself
for better times because the International Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered
into technical and commercial agreements on a proposed
.travel domain name registry.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=iol1102174231146T614
ICANN wirbt für das "Multistakeholder-Modell"
Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Regierungen und der ICANN
habe sich merklich belebt. Das betonten gestern bei
der Auftaktpressekonferenz zum Treffen der privaten
Netzverwaltung in Kapstadt ICANNs Vorsitzender Vint
Cerf und ICANN-Präsident und CEO Paul Twomey. Twomey
verwies auf ein noch nicht veröffentlichtes Communique
der Organisation, in dem die ICANN-Spitze den
ICANN-Regierungsbeirat, Government Advisory Committee
(GAC), um Stellungnahmen zu mehreren anstehenden
Entscheidungen bitte, darunter, so Twomey, vor allem
zu den künftigen Vergaberegeln neuer Top Level
Domains, auch komplett nicht englischer Adresszonen.
Gleich mehrere afrikanische Minister, darunter ein
Vertreter der sudanesischen Regierung, nähmen am
Treffen in Kapstadt teil, betonten Cerf und Twomey.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/53851
La stratégie de l'Icann expliquée
Dans son "plan stratégique", le régulateur de
l'Internet donne la direction qu'il entend suivre pour
les trois prochaines années. La feuille de route du
nommage sur Internet, en quelque sorte.
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=522
de: German Domain Registry DENIC to submit competitive
bid for .net (previously included in German)
DENIC eG is to submit a bid to take over the
administration of the .net Top Level Domain (TLD),
which is currently the object of a competitive bidding
process.
http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_63.html
Thawte Secures International Domains
SSL security certificate provider thawte (thawte.com)
announced Tuesday at the ICANN conference in Cape
Town, South Africa that it had become the first
certificate authority to offer SSL certificates that
fully secure internationalized domain names.
http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/tha120204.cfm
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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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OECD: Meeting on Economic and Social Implications of
ICT, Antigua, Guatemala from 18-Jan-2005 to
19-Jan-2005
As part of the preparatory process of the second phase
of the World Summit on the Information Society (to be
held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005) the OECD is
collaborating with UNCTAD, ILO and the ITC in
organising a WSIS Thematic Meeting on the Economic and
Social Implications of ICT. OECD's work on the links
between ICTs and economic growth, social development
and performance of enterprises that has been carried
out under the aegis of ICCP and WPIE will provide some
of the fundamental arguments presented at this
meeting.
http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_37409_33938223_1_1_1_37409,00.html
The Accountable Net: Who Should Be Accountable? By
Esther Dyson
Two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission held a
summit on e-mail authentication in Washington, DC; the
community of people who handle bulk mail came together
and agreed on standards and processes that should help
reduce the proliferation of spoofed mail and
fraudulent offers. This was a big, collective step in
the right direction.
http://www.circleid.com/article/820_0_1_0_C/
za: Internet Body Must Include All - Minister
The international governing structure of the internet
had to be made more inclusive to allow for greater
participation by underdeveloped and developing
countries, Communications Minister Ivy
Matsepe-Casaburri says.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030414.html
za: Governments Should Have Voice in Internet
Governance, Says South African Minister
South African Communications Minister, Dr. Ivy
Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities
to allow governments of developing countries to have
more of a say in how the Internet is governed.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030609.html
za: Matsepe-Casaburri Lobbies for Wider Internet
Access
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has
challenged the international community to allow wider
access in the governance of the Internet.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020128.html
za: 'We need to create affordable Web access'
South African communications minister, Dr Ivy
Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities
to allow governments of developing countries to have
more of a say in how the Internet is governed.
Matsepe-Casaburri was officially welcoming delegates
attending the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (Icann) conference in Cape Town on
Thursday.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1101989711770O545
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html
za: Speech by South African Minister of
Communications, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, to ICANN
meeting
http://www.info.gov.za/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2E%2E%2Fdata%2Fspeech04%2F04120309451002%2Etxt&DocOffset=9&DocsFound=4624&Collection=speech04&SortField=TDEDate&SortOrder=desc&ViewTemplate=gov%2Fdocview%2Ehts
za: Internet in Africa to be more accessible and
affordable
African internet service providers (ISPs), struggling
to survive in Internet Protocol registries based in
the US and the UK, can hold their breath until April
2005, when the African Network Information Centre
(AfriNIC) will be fully recognised and operational.
AfriNIC, the first registry to exclusively serve the
African market, will not ask them to justify why they
should be allocated IP addresses.
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html
za: Govt wants more say over web
Governments, "as the true representatives of their
country", should have an increased voice in the
governance of the internet, Communications Minister
Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Thursday.
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/396546.htm
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5475319.html
za: África quer maior controle do governo sobre a Web
A governança da Internet é distorcida em favor dos
países desenvolvidos que inicialmente criaram a
estrutura da rede mundial de computadores. A afirmação
foi feita hoje pela ministra das Comunicações da
África do Sul, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
http://informatica.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI432825-EI553,00.html
Africans need to join the global arena
A Sudanese delegate at the ICANN conference in Cape
Town stands and speaks about his home country. "In
Sudan we started what is called the Free Internet
system where Internet users only paid for local call
costs and not ISP costs," he began, "The number of
Internet users tripled impressively. Then the numbers
stopped growing and we found out it was because many
Sudanese people did not have access to computers to
enable them to connect to the Internet in the first
place."
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063487465R252
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93308,00.html
WGIG Too Focused on Negative Side of the Internet? By
Susan Crawford
The following is a report by Susan Crawford at the
ICANN meeting in Cape Town where a workshop was held
yesterday for increasing awareness and understanding
of United Nation's World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) and issues that directly impact ICANN.
("WSIS" is defined as a process in which governments
intend to address a broad range of international
legal, regulatory, economic, and policy issues related
to the Internet. Some governments have proposed that
an intergovernmental organization be responsible for
"Internet governance," a phrase that remains undefined
and some consider to include and/or mean the
administration and coordination of the domain name
system (DNS).)
http://www.circleid.com/article/815_0_1_0_C/
Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had Final Meeting
The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its final
meeting at UNDP headquarters in New York on 29
November. Rik Panganiban (CONGO), who was allowed to
participate as an NGO observer, reports.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/698.htm
Geneva informal meeting on financial mechanisms
disappointing
The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) held an
open meeting in conjunction with the WSIS Group of the
Friends of the Chair meeting in Geneva last week.
Chantal Peyer from the Swiss NGO coalition
Communica.ch was there and reports about a
disappointing discussion, but also about a possible
strategy for civil society.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/697.htm
Civil Society processes in WSIS Phase II
Civil society groups involved in the World Summit on
the Information Society had some difficulties
concerning the transparency and inclusiveness of their
overall coordination structures. A review of the
structures and decision-making procedures was started
at PrepCom 1 in June and was finally kicked off at
last week’s meetings around the UN ICT Task Force in
Berlin.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/691.htm
Proposal for formation of CS Working Methods Working
Group
Draft “Rules and Procedures for NGO Representation at
UN Conferences”
http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.rtf
http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.pdf
WSIS PrepCom2 will be “stormy”
The UN Information and Communication Technology Task
Force (UN ICT TF) met in Berlin last week, and civil
society groups had a number of meetings around this
event. The conflicts and coalitions in the second
phase of the WSIS are becoming clearer now. One major
dispute is to be expected over financing.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/689.htm
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Die Working Group on Internet Governance, die die
künftige Verwaltung des Internet klären soll, ist
abgeflogen
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18943/1.html
Ghana to host preparatory conference of WSIS
Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, chief executive of the
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO),
has met with the secretariat of the African Regional
Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) in Accra to examine the
preparations so far made towards the hosting of the
summit scheduled for Accra in February next year.
http://www.accra-mail.com/story.asp?id=11751
RSF says repressive regimes gaining foothold ahead of
WSIS
Several countries that have cracked down on the use of
the Internet are members of the Working Group on
Internet Governance (WGIG), charged a world media
watchdog Wednesday.
http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=301138
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