domain name, WSIS & governance news - 13 June

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

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ICANN Board Designates VeriSign to Retain Control of
.NET Registry (news release)
ICANN?s Board has named VeriSign as the designated
.NET successor registry. ICANN has also approved
entering into a new agreement with VeriSign for their
continued management of the .NET registry for six
additional years. This announcement is the culmination
of the .NET RFP and successor registry process that
began on 6 March 2004 and included an independent
evaluation of VeriSign and four other applicants.

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jun05.htm

VeriSign to manage .net Web registry 6 more yrs
VeriSign will keep control of Internet addresses that
end in .net for six more years, ICANN said on
Thursday. 

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=8750887
 http://internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3511751

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15569427%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html

http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/VeriSign-to-run-net/2005/06/10/1118123968973.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/09/icann_decides_net/
 http://lenta.ru/news/2005/06/10/verisign/ (Russian)

VeriSign reste maître du .net
Le registrar américain obtient la gestion du .net pour
six années supplémentaires.

http://www.01net.com/editorial/272066/nom-de-domaine/(mise-a-jour)-verisign-reste-maitre-du-.net/

Le '.net' restera sous la houlette de Verisign...
L'Icann a renouvelé à Verisign sa confiance pour la
gestion du domaine '.net' -malgré un certain
dossier... Pour six ans encore
 http://www.silicon.fr/getarticle.asp?ID=10240

Los dominios '.net' serán gestionados por VeriSign
hasta el 2011
La Corporación de Internet para Asignar Nombres de
dominio, ICANN, informó que la compañía estadounidense
VeriSign ha ganado el concurso para gestionar los
dominios '.net', al superar con su propuesta a otros
cuatro solicitantes.
 http://ar.news.yahoo.com/050610/14/iej2.html

http://www.cadenaser.com/articulo.html?xref=20050610csrcsrtec_1&type=Tes

http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276253583.html

VeriSign garde le contrôle du ".net" jusqu?en 2011
La société américaine chargée du lucratif ".com",
vient d?obtenir de l?ICANN le renouvellement de ses
droits de gestion des noms de domaine en ".net".

http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20050610160422

.net bleibt bei VeriSign
VeriSign wird auch weiterhin die Top-Level-Domain
".net" als Registry verwalten, das entschied jetzt die
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN). Das Ergebnis kann wenig überraschen, lag
VeriSign doch bei einer Bewertung der Bewerber vorn.
 http://www.golem.de/0506/38539.html

Pornography on the internet
The .xxx web domain raises questions about internet
rules

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4066536

ICANN Creating Virtual Red-Light District
A red-light district tentatively cleared for
construction on the Internet - the ".xxx" domain - is
being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion
online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up
its act.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INTERNET_PORNOGRAPHY
 http://iht.com/articles/2005/06/12/yourmoney/mctk.php
 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=842880
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8173372
 http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67829,00.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/12/tech/main701176.shtml

http://www.winktv.com/x466.xml?URL=http://localhost/APWIREFEED/d8ames4g0.xml

Nya porrdomänen .xxx får besk kritik
Icanns beslut att godkänna domänen .xxx för porrsajter
får mothugg. Karl Auerbauch, tidigare styrelseledamot
i Icann, kallar det obscent.

http://idg.se/ArticlePages/200506/09/20050609164933_CS/20050609164933_CS.dbp.asp

http://www.winktv.com/x466.xml?URL=http://localhost/APWIREFEED/d8ames4g0.xml
(Russian)

Tratan de controlar pornografía en la internet
Los sitios pornográficos de internet podrían de ahora
en adelante llevar el sufijo ".xxx" y los partidarios
de la iniciativa dicen que eso permitiría confinar a
la industria pornográfica online a un lugar donde no
pueda afectar al resto de los usuarios.
 http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/050612/1/10zp8.html

Rotlichtbezirk im Internet.	
Die Internet-Verwaltung Icann billigte die
Domain-Endung «.xxx» für Pornografische Websites.
 http://www.nzz.ch/2005/06/10/em/articleCVVCC.html

au: auDA clampdown deemed unfair
The Australian domain name regulator has been accused
of indiscriminately deleting domains belonging to
Empius Interactive, a claim the administrator denies.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39195908,00.htm

eu: Registrar Accreditation News
EURid has announced details of registrar accreditation
procedures and the registrar agreement.

http://www.eurid.eu/news/archive/registraraccreditationnews

ca: Pickton judge imposes unique media ban
The judge at Robert Pickton's first-degree-murder
trial has imposed an innovative media ban, prohibiting
publication of Internet addresses that include
information from the pretrial hearings.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050609/BCPICKTON09/TPNational/Canada
 http://p2pnet.net/story/5154

uk/us: Motel owner bites back as Sandwich war
intensifies
THE Earl of Sandwich wants to use the Sandwich name on
the internet, but a Cape Cod hotelier has beaten him
to it. Brian Clifford, innkeeper of The Earl of
Sandwich Motel on route 6A, claims that he is fighting
for America?s pride in a second war of independence
and won?t give it up. Lawyers for the 11th Earl, for
their part, say that they are protecting the family
name and accuse Mr Clifford of ?cybersquatting?.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1648513,00.html

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=86966

uk: Welsh web war on radio
WAR has broken out between one of Wales' top radio
presenters and the young pretender to his crown. Cult
Radio Wales DJ Chris Needs was furious to find someone
had snapped up his internet domain name and set up a
site claiming to be him.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15620765&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=-welsh-web-war-on-radio-name_page.html

us: Trademark holders continue to dominate domain
names
Many people think that by simply registering domain
names they have ownership rights to those domains, and
can fend off anyone else asserting rights.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/ericjsinrod/2005-06-08-trademark-holders_x.htm

UAEnic to give domain names for 50 years
The United Arab Emirates Network Information Centre
(UAEnic) has launched a 50-year registration of .ae
domain names to encourage companies and individuals in
the country to register their specific address on the
internet.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/BusinessNF.asp?ArticleID=168454

us: Investor makes play for Register.com
After agreeing in 2003 not to pursue control of
Register.com Inc. for two years, investor James
Mitarotonda is offering to buy the domain name
services provider for $174 million.

http://thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hpa&c=TDDArticle&cid=1118184110254&p=M4YD5AR1

ICANN call for public comments on updated Proposed
Review Procedure for ASO Policy Proposals
ICANN has called for a second round of public comments
on the "Review Procedure to Handle Policy Proposals
Submitted by the ASO Address Council in Line with the
ASO MoU"

http://nro.net/archive/news/20050531-icann-call-2.html

uk/au: Nominet wins again in data mining case
Nominet UK, the national registry for all .uk domain
names, has obtained an Australian court order freezing
the assets and bank accounts of two men behind a scam
that targeted thousands of Nominet registrants with
misleading domain name notices.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=nominetwinsagaini1118234954

Overall Domain Name Registrations at 76.9M Names
(VeriSign Quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief)
Global Registrations Rise Eight Percent Over Q4 2004;
Growth Driven by Strong Global Economy, Growing Base
of Internet Users, and online Advertising; China,
Japan and South Korea Among Leaders in Worldwide
Domain Registrations

http://verisign.com/verisign-inc/news-and-events/news-archive/us-news-2005/page_030825.html
 http://internetnews.com/stats/article.php/3511486

http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=5685&mhnews_page=1

Web to put all its pornography in one basket
The internet is to get a new domain devoted entirely
to pornography. Adult sites will be encouraged to move
from their current .com or .co.uk sites to new
addresses ending with .xxx.

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-1637919,00.html

A Plan for when Changing your Domain Name
Whether you're launching a new site design, changing
your directory structure, or - gasp - changing your
domain name, your site traffic and search engine
rankings will, in one way or other, be affected.
 http://www.isedb.com/news/article/1196

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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Proposed methodology for composite "digital
opportunity index" released
There are lots different indices which rank the
world's countries according to their level of
penetration of ICTs, or their e-readiness. But until
now there has been no agreement on what indicators to
include, or what methodology to use. Now, in the
framework of the implementation of the WSIS Plan of
Action, a new methodology, prepared by Michael Minges
of TMG Inc on behalf of ITU, has been released for
developing a composite "Digital Opportunity Index".
This new methodology is based on the core list of
indicators agreed by the "Partnership for Measuring
ICT for Development" of UN agencies at their meeting
on 7-9 February 2005.

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Proposed+Methodology+For+Composite+Digital+Opportunity+Index+Released.aspx

WSIS Regional Conference for Latin America and the
Caribbean, 8 - 10 June 2005, Brazil (news release)
The High Level Regional Conference in preparation for
the Tunis phase of the WSIS will be held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, from 8-10 June 2005.

http://www.itu.int/wsis/newsroom/press_releases/wsis/2005/6jun.html

Representante brasileiro pede democratização da
governança da internet
De qualquer forma, porém, Bicalho esclareceu que a
consciência é de que hoje a Icann se restringe a
cuidar de alguns assuntos específicos da Governança da
Internet, o que sinaliza que devem existir mecanismos
para tratar de outros assuntos, como spam (mensagens
enviadas sem controle do receptor) e segurança, por
exemplo, onde não há nenhum mecanismo global para que
os países possam sentar e discutir essas questões.

http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/economia/2005001-2005500/2005178/2005178_1.xml

Cúpula da Informação: quem administra a internet?
Ano passado, a administração da internet pela Icann
foi criticada durante a Cúpula da Sociedade da
Informação, em Genebra. Alguns países exigiram que a
rede fosse gerida por uma nova entidade internacional,
que seria ligada à Organização das Nações Unidas
(ONU). Entre os vários governos que pediram a mudança,
estavam China, Brasil, Índia e Quênia.

http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/economia/2005001-2005500/2005126/2005126_1.xml

http://www.radiobras.gov.br/materia.phtml?materia=228517&q=1&editoria=

Brasil defende democratização da internet, em Genebra
O conselheiro da Anatel José Alexandre Bicalho, membro
do Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil, pretende levar
na semana que vem a posição brasileira sobre a
administração global da intermet, questionando a
centralização das decisões pela Icann (Corporação para
a Atribuição de Nomes e Números na Internet),
vinculada do Departamento de Comércio dos EUA. Alguns
governos, diz Bicalho à Agência Brasil, questionam a
estrutura da entidade justamente pela proximidade que
ela tem com um governo.

http://advillage.uol.com.br/adCmsDocumentoShow.aspx?documento=13070&Area=727

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CONFERENCE
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First International Conference on Information and
Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) -
call for papers
The goal of the ICTD conference is to provide a forum
for academic researchers working with ICT applied to
development. The conference will be scientifically
rigorous and multi-disciplinary ? papers reporting
high-quality original research are solicited.
Submitted papers will be subjected to double-blind
peer review, and a full proceedings will be published
at the time of the conference. The conference will
bring together researchers in both the social and
technical sciences, with anticipated representation
from anthropology, sociology, economics, political
science, computer science, electrical engineering,
industrial design, and so on. We expect this to be the
first of an ongoing series of conferences to occur
every one or two years, and moving from country to
country.
 http://sims.berkeley.edu/events/ictd2006/

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