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Aust domain services up for grabs
Australia's domain name regulator, auDA, has issued a
request for tender (RFT) for the provision of registry
services for so-called "second-level" .au domains --
such as .com.au and .gov.au -- for four years from
mid-2006.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Aust_domain_services_up_for_grabs/0,2000061791,39209334,00.htm
http://www.optusnet.com.au/news/story/zdnet/20050831/09/tech/0,2000061791,39209334,00.inp
http://auda.org.au/tender/tender/
ph: Court wants ?peaceful? settlement to PLDT.com
domain dispute
AN interesting twist has developed in the
long-standing dispute between the Philippine Long
Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and Gerry Kaimo, owner
of the PLDT.com domain.
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=48617
kp: North Korea's baby steps for the Internet
A story on North Korea's limited forays on the
internet that finishes with "Still, North Korea's
isolation from the rest of the world can be felt even
in cyberspace. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers, has not yet authorized a
domain name for the country, even though the
government has repeatedly asked for the site of
".kp"."
http://www.physorg.com/news6109.html
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050830-022157-5111r
IGP Asks You to Weigh in on the USG's .xxx
Intervention By Milton Mueller
Responding to the .xxx intervention by the US Commerce
Department, the Internet Governance Project has
produced a "STATEMENT OPPOSING POLITICAL INTERVENTION
IN THE INTERNET'S CORE TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATIVE
FUNCTIONS." You can view the statement here and add
your name as a signatory at the bottom. Over 60 people
have endorsed it.
http://www.circleid.com/article/1180_0_1_0_C
xxx: The Internet again in the political crosshairs
Social conservatives helped to re-elect President Bush
last year. Now his administration is returning the
favor with a crackdown on sexually explicit material.
http://news.com.com/The+Internet+again+in+the+political+crosshairs/2010-1071_3-5843843.html
Podcast on .xxx by Bret Fausett
A podcast by Bret Fausett should be available here
soon.
http://blogs.opml.org/bretfausett/
The .iq Debacle
Ali Uzri, an Iraqi technology consultant, has been
waiting for his country to get on the information
superhighway for a long time. ?Near my house in
Baghdad, there?s an Internet cafe called Dreamnet.iq,?
says Uzri. ?The sign has been up for over a year?even
though for most of that time it was the .iq part that
was just a dream.? That?s because, despite the fact
that Iraq has been a sovereign nation for some 15
months, its top-level Internet domain, .iq, has been
in a legal limbo.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3207
de/us: Network provider censors gory website
Level 3 Communications is denying German web surfers
access to Ogrish, a website displaying graphic images
that many consider distasteful.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2141588/provider-censors-web-content
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/63223
The World of .ORG
The inaugural issue of The World of .ORG, a quarterly
e-newsletter with information and resources for the
.ORG community.
http://www.pir.org/Publications/eNewsletter.aspx
New rules for museum-domains
The museum-domain is an exclusive domain. It is open
for registration by museums, organization of museums
and friends of museums. The notion of museum is
understood very generously, e.g. a zoological or
botanical garden belongs to it. A proof to be a museum
is necessary for registering museum-domains.
http://www.selfseo.com/story-7385.php
us: Mashantucket Pequots take Web site owner to court
The Mashantucket Pequots are arguing in federal court
that a Massachusetts man's Web site is confusing
Internet surfers looking for the home page of the
tribe's Foxwoods Resort Casino.
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--websitelawsuit0830aug29,0,5767351.story
http://www.rgtonline.com/Article.cfm?ArticleId=59493
http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=3782307
http://www.wpri.com/Global/story.asp?S=3781321
us: Front porch opens door to porn
When Mike Zoglio launched
www.doylestownsfrontporch.com earlier this month, he
didn't consider the possibility that someone might
come along and, by dropping just one letter, create a
very different Internet connection.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-08312005-534746.html
Now .travel Net IDs for travel firms
Travel-oriented entities will now have their own
address on the Internet: .travel (dot travel).
http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/aug/30tra.htm
http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=100936
us: National Arbitration Forum Issues Decision on AARP
Web Address
A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator rules in favor
of AARP regarding the Internet domain name
aarppharmacyservices.com
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prwebxml278400.php
ca: Webnames.ca to Sponsor INTA Trademarks in
Cyberspace Forum
Webnames.ca is sponsoring the upcoming International
Trademarks Association?s (INTA) Trademarks in
Cyberspace Forum in Vancouver, in September.
http://www.canadait.com/cfm/index.cfm?It=106&Id=23079
Unraveling the mystery of how domain name servers work
Domain name servers (DNS) are an important but
invisible part of the Internet, and form one of the
largest databases on it. Each machine on an Internet
is assigned a unique address, called an Internet
Protocol or IP address, which is a 32-bit number and
is expresses as 4 octets.
http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/monthly/art.php/1637
Fun With DNS: Three Useful Commands
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed,
hierarchical database where authority flows from the
top (or root) of the hierarchy downward.
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=12939
Domain Name Slamming
Today I received a notice in the mail claiming that my
domain name was about to expire. The letter was
written in extremely alarming terms, as if my entire
world would be destroyed forever if I was stupid
enough to allow the name to expire. The letter made it
clear that I could renew immediately and should,
because if the domain expired I would, of course, lose
it and thus life as I knew it would come to a close.
http://www.selfseo.com/story-7368.php
The In's and Out's of Pre-Owned Domain Names
I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like
all of the best domain names have already been taken.
On more than one occasion, I've come up with a great
domain name for a site, only to find that someone else
had already purchased it. I can live with that, but
sometimes I've found that it has been purchased by
some scum domain scavenger, and that's really
annoying.
http://www.selfseo.com/story-7373.php
us: Jerry Falwell Loses Bid to Shut Down 'Gripe' Site
The Rev. Jerry Falwell cannot use federal trademark
law to shut down a Web site at www.fallwell.com that
is critical of his views about homosexuality, a
federal appeals court has ruled.
http://news.findlaw.com/andrews/bt/cmp/20050830/20050830lamparello.html
9 million domain names in .DE ccTLD
DENIC received the request to register the nine
millionth .DE domain.
http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=6035&mhnews_page=1
Drei DNS-Rootserver für Indien
Die indische Regierung hat die Inbetriebnahme von drei
DNS-Rootservern in Dehli, Mumbai und Chennai bekannt
gegeben.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/63408
EURid lâche du lest sur les revendeurs
Le gestionnaire du .EU a finalement décidé de tolérer
les revendeurs, sous certaines conditions.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?cahier=eu&vde_id=702
Les américains rendent le .IQ aux iraquiens
Depuis sa création en mai 1997, l'extension iraquienne
n'a jamais été active. En la confiant à une entité
proche du nouveau gouvernement, l'ICANN espère la voir
enfin mise en service.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?cahier=national&vde_id=703
Los dominios .cat para sitios en catalán y .xxx para
webs pornográficas tendrán que esperar
En una resolución hecha pública el martes, el ICANN ha
anunciado que pospone al menos un mes la aprobación de
los dominios .cat para los sitios web relacionados con
la lengua y cultura catalana y el .xxx para las webs
de contenido adulto. El ICANN ha pedido tiempo para
decidir el impacto y el precedente que supondría la
activación de estos dominios.
http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276259601.html
http://www.hispamp3.com/noticias/noticia.php?noticia=20050831131644
Ya se pueden registrar dominios ".jobs"
La firma española Nominalia ha iniciado ya el resitro
de dominios .jobs, destinados a empresas relacionadas
con los procesos de selección de personal y con la
gestión de los recursos humanos en general.
http://www.noticiasdot.com/publicaciones/2005/0805/3108/noticias/noticias_310805-07.htm
Anadilde internet dönemi
Günümüzde kullanilan Internet isimlendirme protokolü
IPv4 ile türetilen adres sayisindaki azalma nedeni ile
yeni arayislara giren Internetteki alan adlarinin
yönetimini yürüten ICANN (Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers), kisa bir süre önce IPv4
yerine yeni nesil Internet protokolü olan IPv6?ya
geçisi baslatmisti.
http://www.evrensel.net/05/08/31/toplum.html#2
.pa: se especifican políticas sobre pago de renovación
de nombres de dominio
El ccTLD .pa ha establecido como fecha limite para el
pago de renovaciones pendientes para dominios bajo
dicho ccTLD, el día 30 de septiembre, y a partir del 1
de Octubre plantea de una política estricta sobre el
pago de renovaciones de dominios. Decisiones a tomar
en cuenta por otros ccTLD's de la región.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1044&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
,mx: Novedades en el Sitio de NIC México
El NIC Mexico ha realizado una diversidad de
modificaciones a su website, dichos cambios se
realizan para un mejor servicios de los usuarios de
dominios bajo el ccTLD .mx
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1043&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
.ni: ¿política de resolución de disputas en el ccTLD
.ni?
En la pagina web del ccTLD .NI aparece un enlace a la
traducción en español de la UDRP. El enlace se
encuentra bajo el acapite de "Políticas de solución de
controversias de nombres de dominio", y la primera
pregunta que nos hacemos es: ¿de que disputas se estan
hablando?
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1042&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Cerca de 83 millones de nombres de dominio registrados
en internet
Casi 83 millones de nombres de dominio estaban en
circulación en internet hasta fines de junio, un
aumento de 28% respecto al año pasado, según cifras
publicadas el jueves en el sitio especializado francés
domaines.info.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1041&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
LACNIC IPv6 Tour
Como parte de los esfuerzos de LACNIC para la difusión
y promoción de IPv6,hemos organizado una serie de
eventos en diferentes ciudades de América Latina y el
Caribe el cual hemos denominado IPv6 Tour. La primera
serie de eventos se realizará en Buenos Aires
Argentina, Santiago de Chile y Montevideo Uruguay, los
días 26, 29 y 31 de Agosto respectivamente.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1040&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
De un tirón Grupo Televisa recuperá 82 nombres de
Dominio.
Ada L. Redondo Aguilera, unica panelista del
procedimiento UDRP, dio la razón al Grupo Televisa en
contra de LaPorte Holdings, en relación a 82 nombres
de dominio, que incluian alguna marca del Grupo
Televisa o sus subsidiarias.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1039&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
.pe: Se constituye Comisión Multisectorial de
Políticas del Sistema de Nombres de Dominio
El día sabado 13 de Agosto la Presidencia del Consejo
de Ministros del Perú emitió la Resolución Ministerial
285-2005-PCM en la que se establece la creación de la
Comisión Multisectorial de Políticas del Sistema de
Nombres de Dominio.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1038&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
La Administración Bush pone objeciones al dominio .xxx
Parece ser que ve con reservas lo relativo a legitimar
un dominio que sea exclusivo para websites que
pretendan publicar pornografía en Internet. El dominio
tenía fecha prevista de aprobación hoy martes.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1037&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Dominios XXX deberán esperar
La ICAAN retrasará la puesta en marcha del sufijo
pensado para identificar los sitios pornográficos,
presionada por que el Departamento de Comercio de
Estados Unidos recibió más de 6.000 mensajes
contrarios a la idea de crear un barrio rojo en la
red.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1036&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
.cl: Chile incorporará ''Ñ'', acentos y diéresis en
dominios de internet
En concreto, se trata de siete caracteres que se
incorporarán al conjunto de símbolos que utiliza NIC
Chile, administradora de los dominios en Chile, para
la inscripción de nombres: las cinco vocales
acentuadas, la "u" con diéresis y la eñe.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1035&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Regional Civil Society Forum on the Information
Society for the Middle East and West Asia unexpectedly
banned by government authorities (statement from
Arabic Network for Human Rights)
A regional civil society forum in Iran, grouping 40
Iranian and international delegates to talk about the
Internet and information society was banned a few
hours before the start of the event.
http://hrinfo.net/en/reports/2005/pr0825.shtml
ph: Information Society summit slated in Manila
THE COMMISSION on Information and Communications
Technology (CICT) will host a Philippine summit on the
Information Society next month in Manila.
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=48291
http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2005082943021.html
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