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domain name & governance news - 13 February
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Net control at question
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060208-062823-2265r
au: Pest gives himself a sporting chance
http://theage.com.au/news/business/pest-gives-himself-a-sporting-chance/2006/02/08/1139379572320.html
Europe?s new Internet domain ?.eu? today got 71 235
new applications in one hour (news release)
http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/eurid-is-now-receiving-sunrise-2-applications
eu: Second phase of .eu registrations gets underway
http://www.netimperative.com/2006/02/09/Second_eu
Cybersquatters develop taste for .ch
http://swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=6459290&cKey=1139650736000
uk: Nominet flip-flops on industry code of conduct
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/09/nominet_code/
uk: Nominet takes lead on raising standards in UK
Internet industry (news release)
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/4583_Industry_standards.pdf
uk: Firms tricked in web address scam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4689704.stm
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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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Net control at question
Born in the United States, the Internet has long since
become global -- but tensions have also grown over
U.S. control of the core infrastructure and governance
of the Net.
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060208-062823-2265r
http://www.physorg.com/news10730.html
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au: Pest gives himself a sporting chance
NOTORIOUS cybersquatter Brad Norrish, certainly has a
never-say-die attitude. After having his deceptive
antics reined in by several Australian courts,
Perth-based Norrish has taken on US sporting channel
network ESPN.
http://theage.com.au/news/business/pest-gives-himself-a-sporting-chance/2006/02/08/1139379572320.html
Europe?s new Internet domain ?.eu? today got 71 235
new applications in one hour (news release)
EURid opened its systems to receive applications for
.eu domain names from anyone within the EU claiming
prior rights to a certain domain name. During the
first 15 minutes after 11:00 today EURid received 27
949 applications. After an hour, at 12:00, the number
was 71 235.
http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/eurid-is-now-receiving-sunrise-2-applications
eu: Second phase of .eu registrations gets underway
Following the opening of the second sunrise period for
the new .eu domain name on 7 February, domain
registration firm Hostway is warning companies that
they only have two months until the floodgates for
general registration open on 7 April.
http://www.netimperative.com/2006/02/09/Second_eu
http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2150012/eu-enters-2nd-sunrise
http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=65461
http://www.newsfactor.com/news/EU-Internet-Domain-Open-for-Business/story.xhtml?story_id=02300243AEU9
http://www.out-law.com/page-6619
Cybersquatters develop taste for .ch
Cybersquatting disputes involving Switzerland's .ch
domain name are among the highest of all country
codes, according to a United Nations agency.
http://swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=6459290&cKey=1139650736000
Vint Cerf condemns two-tier internet
Vint Cerf told Congress yesterday that ideas proposed
by telecoms companies for a two-tier internet were
fatally flawed and, if necessary, legislation should
be passed to make it impossible.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/08/cerf_calls_for_neutral_net/
uk: Nominet flip-flops on industry code of conduct
Nominet UK, the outfit that administers the .uk
domain, says it's committed to "raising standards in
the UK internet industry" four years after insisting a
code of conduct was "not feasible".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/09/nominet_code/
uk: Nominet to take domain sector temperature
A survey of internet businesses by Nominet, the .uk
domain name registry, has found that two-thirds agree
with the need for improved self-regulation in the
domain name industry and over 80 percent support a
code of conduct for domain name registrars.
http://www.netimperative.com/2006/02/10/nominet
uk: Nominet takes lead on raising standards in UK
Internet industry (news release)
A survey of registrars by Nominet, the .uk domain name
registry, has revealed that two-thirds agreed with the
need for improved self-regulation in the domain name
industry and over 80 per cent supported a code of
conduct for registrars.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/4583_Industry_standards.pdf
uk: Firms tricked in web address scam
A man has admitted 24 charges of obtaining money by
deception in an internet domain name scam.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4689704.stm
The Latest ICANN-VeriSign Agreement: Too Little, Too
Late?
VeriSign and ICANN have posted a proposed agreement to
settle their legal differences and renew VeriSign's
contract as a registry. The last proposed agreeement
raised quite an uproar, including an attempted
temporary restraining order. Is this revised agreement
a real improvement, or just window dressing? If you're
a web host and a registrar, you owe it to your
business to find out.
http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-News/The-Latest-ICANN-VeriSign-Agreement-Too-Little-Too-Late/
Major website blackout blamed on massive attack
Some of the world's most popular internet sites
suffered blackouts on Tuesday following a co-ordinated
and distributed online attack. ... Technical experts
said the incident was consistent with an attack on its
DNS servers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5113
What To Do About Those Troublesome New gTLDs?
Bret Fausett podcast on ow will new registries roll
out new gTLDs in a way that will expand the usable
name space and bring in new registrants, not just
sunrise registrants and speculators?
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/9/1752650.html
Fee Hikes for .com Domains May Be Coming
ICANN and Verisign have had lawsuits pending against
each other for some time now. At issue are a number of
things, not the least significant of them being that
ICANN would like to increase the base cost of a domain
name.
http://htmlfixit.com/?p=892
Domain name provider turns users on to 'mobile web'
The international dot.mobi top-level domain provider
headquartered in Dublin has published the first in a
series of its Switch On guides for web developers
aimed at ensuring the best possible internet
experience for the mobile user.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single6031
Domain Market Continues to Boom With Quartet of
Six-Figure Sales Including Macau.com at $550,000
A gigantic private transaction sent a very nice
geographical domain, Macau.com, to Ben Freischmidt for
$550,000.
http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm
Chinesische Websites unter Schweizerischen Domains
Die Schweizer Registrierungsstelle Switch will
chinesische Webauftritte unter der Top Level Domain
.ch registrieren. Eine Umfrage unter Schweizer
Unternehmen mit Engagement in China habe ein
"statistisch signifikantes Interesse" gezeigt, sagte
Roland Eugster von Switch beim Treffen der drei
deutschsprachigen Registries Denic, Nic.At und Switch
auf dem "Domainpulse" in Berlin.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69466
Domain Pulse: Deutschsprachige Registrierungsstellen
diskutieren Zukunft des Internet
In Berlin startete gestern, Donnerstag, die Fach- und
Expertentagung Domain pulse, die sich ? vor allem im
deutschsprachigen Raum ? als eine der bedeutendsten
Veranstaltungen für aktuelle Themen, Trends und
Tendenzen rund um das Internet etabliert hat.
http://www.computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=101167&n=5
Die Internet-Verwaltung und die Netzpolitik:
Machtfrage ungelöst
Der Auseinandersetzung um die Machtverteilung im Netz
geht in die nächste Runde. Eine direktere
Einflussnahme aller Regierungen und nicht allein der
USA forderte Michael Leibrandt vom Bundesministerium
für Wirtschaft (BMWi).
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69431
Großer Ansturm auf eu-Domain
In den ersten 15 Minuten der zweiten
Registrierungsphase gingen fast 28 000 Anträge ein.
http://www.testticker.de/news/netzwerke/news20060208005.aspx
de: ".berlin": Eine eigene TLD für die Hauptstadt?
Das Berliner Unternehmen dotBerlin Gmbh und Co. KG
will bei der Internet-Verwaltung ICANN einen Antrag
für eine Top Level Domain ".berlin" stellen. "Berlin
ist die erste Stadt, die einen entsprechenden
Vorschlag angestoßen hat. Aber auch Städte wie London
und New York sind an einer solchen Top Level Domain
interessiert", erklärte der Geschäftsführer der
Gesellschaft, Dirk Krischenowski, dem Berliner
"Tagesspiegel".
http://www.net-tribune.de/article/060206-14.php
.mobi: Mobiles Internet nimmt Formen an
Die Top Level Domain ".mobi" nimmt langsam konkrete
Formen an. Das Unternehmen mTLD hat letzte erste
Handbücher für Webentwickler veröffentlicht, die
Inhalte unter .mobi veröffentlichen wollen. Diese
Inhalte sollen sich gezielt an mobile Nutzer richten
und den entsprechenden Gegebenheiten angepasst sein.
http://golem.de/0602/43280.html
Publican manual para desarrolladores web con garantia
de acceso desde dispositivos móviles
mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD) lpublicó hoy día la
primera de una serie de Switch On! Guides, un manual
para desarrolladores web cuyo objeto es asegurar la
mejor experiencia posible de Internet a los usuarios
de dispositivos móviles.
http://ar.news.yahoo.com/060209/7/op6w.html
Convocatoria Moderador Foro Publico
Este es un llamado abierto a nominación de candidatos
provenientes del área de cobertura de LACNIC, para
ocupar el cargo de Moderador del Foro Público de
LACNIC.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1211&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
La grande messe de l'Internet germanophone
L'évènement phare du nommage sur Internet germanophone
s'appelle Domain Pulse. L'édition 2006 s'ouvre demain
à Berlin.
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=841
Les sites .travel s'en viennent
Internet est menacé d'embouteillages. Pour prévenir le
problème, les responsables d'ICANN, l'organisme qui
gère les adresses sur le Web, ont décidé d'attribuer
un nouveau nom de domaine aux entreprises et aux
organisations reliées au voyage et au tourisme.
http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,022006,1241180.html
Afilias devient l'opérateur du .AERO
SITA, le gestionnaire de l'extension du secteur
aéronautique, se cherchait un nouvel opérateur
technique. Afilias a été retenu suite à un appel
d'offre.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=822
La première extension régionale lancée le 13 février
Fundacion PuntCAT, registre du .CAT, a annoncé qu?il
sera possible de réserver son extension régionale dès
le 13 février prochain. L?ouverture se fera en 3
phases.
http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=838
Le chantage au nom de domaine menace
DomainesInfo vient de publier un article en forme
d'alerte pour les détenteurs de domaines sur la Toile.
Le danger : le chantage à l'enregistrement
http://www.silicon.fr/getarticle.asp?id=13680
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