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domain name & governance news - 1 May
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Big holes in net's heart revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4954208.stm
eu: Commission seeks global partnership on Internet
governance, freedom of expression and the combat
against cyber-repression (news release)
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/542&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Wall Street Journal Article on Whois Privacy
http://www.circleid.com/posts/wall_street_journal_whois_privacy/
Should owners of Web sites be anonymous?
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06117/685630-96.stm
Internet domain names go multilingual
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw983248380932B232
The Web's Million-Dollar Typos
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042900279.html
Internet Domain Names as Ubiqutous as Social Security
Numbers
http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_names_social_security_numbers/
Lesbian.com up for sale for $2 million
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060424-051636-6148r
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GOVERNANCE
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The net fought the law - and the law won
A new book challenges the myth of the ungovernability
of the internet. John Naughton commends a thoughtful
study on the fatuity of technological determinism.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1764405,00.html
eu: Commission seeks global partnership on Internet
governance, freedom of expression and the combat
against cyber-repression (news release)
To keep up the momentum of the successful World Summit
on Information Society (Tunis, 16-18 November 2005),
the European Commission has set out today its
priorities for implementing the international policy
commitments made at the Summit. These priorities
include safeguarding and strengthening human rights,
in particular the freedom to receive and access
information. Information and communication
technologies (ICTs) should be used to contribute to
open democratic societies and to economic and social
progress worldwide. The Commission calls for
continuing international talks to improve Internet
governance through the two new processes created by
the Summit: the multi-stakeholder Internet Governance
Forum and the mechanism of enhanced cooperation that
will involve all governments on an equal footing.
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/542&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Global Internet Task Force Meeting Focuses on
Advancing Freedom on Web
The second meeting of the Global Internet Freedom Task
Force (GIFT) "discussed practical and constructive
strategies to advance Internet freedom," said Under
Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural
Affairs Josette Shiner, who chaired the April 3
meeting.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/64149.htm
Internet Governance Forum Substantive Agenda Setting
WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus Contribution
The WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus (HR Caucus)
has been active in the WSIS framework since its
creation in 2002. Its more than 65 members,
international and national civil society organizations
from all around the world, have decided to remain
involved, as a caucus, in post-WSIS developments. The
Caucus involvement in WSIS follow-up concerns both the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) activities and the
post-WSIS Action lines developments.
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/hris-igfagenda310306-en.html
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/smsi/hr-wsis/hris-igfagenda310306-en.pdf
conference: Information Society: Governance, Ethics
and Social Consequences (22-23 May 2006)
'Information Society : Governance, Ethics and Social
Consequences' is a two-day conference that pays
tribute to and builds on the work of Professor Jacques
Berleur of the University of Namur, Belgium. Two of
the key institutions with which Jacques has worked
closely over the years, the University of Namur and
the International Federation for Information
Processing, are joining together to celebrate his
commitment to their endeavours in a very dynamic,
pro-active, and future-looking way. The purpose of the
conference is to dedicate academic reflection on the
issues, challenges and problems posed by the
Information Society, and also to focus on applied
approaches. The Conference intends to bring together
actors from institutions, organisations and companies
as well as representatives of the International
Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in an
animated discussion.
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/informationsociety/Introduction.html
Intel Backs 'Net Neutrality'
Intel has waded into the debate over the future of the
internet, joining major web companies in supporting
legislation that would force internet service
providers to treat all traffic equally.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,70756-0.html
us: Tech Giants' Internet Battles
A host of tech outfits, from Google to Intel, suffered
a setback in a battle over access to the Internet on
Apr. 26. At issue is whether telcos like AT&T and
cable operators such as Comcast, which maintain the
country's vast broadband networks, can favor one
provider's Web traffic over another's. A measure that
would bar the practice was shot down by a
Congressional committee.
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2006/tc20060426_553893.htm
Tunisian Commitments Unfulfilled Following WSIS II
(news release)
The following is a 24 April 2006 press release by
three members of the IFEX-TMG who participated in a
mission to Tunisia: Freedom in Tunisia remains well
below international standards five months after the
WSIS was held in Tunis in November 2005, in spite of
commitments made by Tunisian authorities to uphold
guarantees to free expression enshrined in
international conventions and treaties, to which
Tunisia is a signatory.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604270343.html
tn: Free Expression Still Under Siege
Five months after the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) focused international attention on the
host country Tunisia's poor human rights record,
freedom of expression remains well below international
standards, a fact-finding mission by the IFEX Tunisia
Monitoring Group (TMG) has found.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200604260725.html
Diplomatie zum Informationsweltgipfel: Dichtung und
Wahrheit
Den "Ausbau der Menschenrechte, insbesondere im
Hinblick auf den freien Empfang von Informationen und
den Zugang zu ihnen", hat die EU-Kommission zur ersten
Priorität im Nachfolgeprozess zum Weltgipfel der
Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) erklärt.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72531
La gouvernance américaine du Net continue à irriter
Bruxelles
La Commission rappelle que le gestion du Net doit se
dérouler "sans interférence de la part d'un
gouvernement quelconque"
http://www.silicon.fr/getarticle.asp?id=14959
http://technaute.lapresseaffaires.com/nouvelles/texte_complet.php?id=81,12399,0,042006,1264504.html&ref=nouvelles
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/28042006/7/bruxelles-relance-le-debat-sur-la-gouvernance-de-l-internet.html
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DOMAIN NAMES
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Big holes in net's heart revealed
Simple attacks could let malicious hackers take over
more than one-third of the net's sites, reveals
research. The finding was uncovered by researchers who
analysed how the net's addressing system works.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4954208.stm
http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/04/27/215668/DNSnetworkattacksmaybeimminent.htm
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1726414791;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/26/77800_HNdnsbugs_1.html
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/7C89121FC101F208CC25715D0010F327
au: Review of the relationship between trade marks and
business names, company names and domain names
The Australian Advisory Council on Intellectual
Property recently released a report on the issue of
the relationship between TM and business names,
company names and domain names.
To the Council, "the two most significant issues
regarding domain names are: bad faith registration of
domain names, whereby one party deliberately and
unlawfully benefits by registering a domain name
containing the other?s trade mark, business name or
company name; and a public misconception that domain
name registrars check for existing prior rights, such
as registered trade marks, when registering a domain
name."
http://domaine.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_domaine_archive.html
Wall Street Journal Article on Whois Privacy
Today?s Wall Street Journal discusses the fight over
Whois privacy. The article on the front page of the
Marketplace section starts by discussing how the
American Red Cross and eBay use the Whois database to
track down scammers:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/wall_street_journal_whois_privacy/
See the Wall Street Journal article here (subscription
essential):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114609925357637113.html
Should owners of Web sites be anonymous?
Last fall, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the
American Red Cross used an Internet database called
"Whois" that lists names and numbers of Web-site
owners to shut down dozens of unauthorized Web sites
that were soliciting money under the Red Cross logo.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06117/685630-96.stm
Internet domain names go multilingual
Now, speakers of Euskara and Tibetan can register
their Internet domain names in their native tongues.
In a move that further opens up the Internet to
non-native English speakers, VeriSign Incorporated on
Monday opened up registrations for Internet domain
names in more than 70 additional, mostly-European
languages.
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw983248380932B232
The Web's Million-Dollar Typos
Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the
Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by
filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads. In many
instances, these ad-filled pages appear when users
mistype an Internet address, such as "BistBuy.com."
This new form of advertising is turning into a booming
business that some say is cluttering the Internet and
could be violating trademark rules. It also has
sparked a speculative frenzy of investment in domain
names, pushing the value of some beyond the $1 million
mark.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042900279.html
Internet Domain Names as Ubiqutous as Social Security
Numbers
Jim Croce?s famous song ?I got A Name? may one day
need to be changed to ?I got A Domain? if current
Internet growth rates remain the same. Today there
over 70 million registered Internet domain names
across the globe, according to Dotster, Inc., a
leading provider of Internet domain name and hosting
services.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_names_social_security_numbers/
Lesbian.com up for sale for $2 million
The domain name Lesbian.com, registered in 1995 by a
Texas woman who wanted to protect it, is up for sale
for $2 million.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060424-051636-6148r
au: BEWARE: DomainName.com.au ?invoices? (Blair
Rafferty + Chesley Rafferty)
Blair Rafferty?s DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd has been
sending out marketing notices which look like invoices
- according to recipients. DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd
notice (Blair Rafferty + Chesley Rafferty)
DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd notice (Blair Rafferty +
Chesley Rafferty). Registrants have reported that the
notices give the impression that they are renewing
their existing ?com.au? domain name (eg mybiz.com.au),
when in fact they are purchasing a brand new ?.com?
domain name (eg mybiz.com).
http://domainwatch.org/archives/2006/04/27/beware-domainnamecomau-invoices-blair-rafferty-chesley-rafferty/
Red Letter Days loses domain name claim
The UK pioneer of giving an experience as a gift has
failed in a bid to confiscate the domain name
redletterdays.com from a Swiss seller of "special
envelopes for special days" whose site advertises
another seller of experience vouchers.
http://www.out-law.com/page-6875
First decision for .eu?s dispute resolution published
(news release)
The first .eu dispute has been settled via the .eu?s
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Policy. Currently
there are a handful of disputes being processed and
just over 100 cases have been initiated. All verdicts
are published by the Czech arbitration Court who
facilitates the .eu dispute resolutions.
http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/first-decision-for-eu2019s-dispute-resolution-published
Dot-eu domain name confirmed in first case
The Czech Arbitration Court has published its first
decision in a .eu domain name dispute
http://www.managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=627131&ISS=21649&LS=EMS72764
What Makes GoDaddy Go?
On the Internet, real estate is cheap, but there's a
lot of it. Can you make money collecting a few
dollars' rent from millions of tenants? Investors may
get a better sense of how the Internet real estate
business works if GoDaddy.com, the Web's biggest
landlord, decides to go public. The company, which
declined to comment for this story, has reportedly
hired Lehman Brothers to conduct an IPO.
http://www.forbes.com/home/digitalentertainment/2006/04/21/godaddy-google-yahoo_cx_rr_0424godaddy.html
Internet domain names: Don't get caught in a rival's
web (sub req'd)
Businesses need to be wary of other companies trading
under similar internet domain names
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/sme/article360343.ece
70 Million Internet Domain Names Have Been Registered
says Web Hosting Provider and Domain Registrar Dotster
Web hosting provider and domain registrar Dotster
recently announced the likelihood that over 70 million
Internet domain names have now been registered.
According to the company, the rapid growth of domains
may have a number of social consequences.
http://www.hostsearch.com/news/dotster_news_4398.asp
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/042806_Domain_Names_Hit_70_Million_Mark.cfm
ICANNs Whois-Problem
Das Wall Street Journal sieht die Internet-Verwaltung
ICANN vor einer neuen Identitätskrise stehen. Das
aktuelle Problem: Der GNSO Council hat nach Vorlage
seines lange erwarteten Whois-Berichts in einer
Abstimmung mit 18 zu 9 Stimmen dafür votiert, künftig
weniger Whois-Angaben von den Inhabern einer
gTLD-Domain zu verlangen.
http://www.intern.de/news/7908.html
Streit um Datenschutz bei Whois dauert an
Der Streit darum, wieviel Information in der
Whois-Datenbank eines Domainregistrars stehen soll,
dauert an. Im Whois werden Informationen zu den
Domaininhabern, den Ansprechpartnern und den
zuständigen Technikadministratoren festgehalten.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72512
Webseiten-Anmelder werden anonymisiert
Die Abfrage der Besitzer oder Anmelder von Domains
wird in Zukunft etwas schwieriger. Firmen wie Ebay und
Microsoft sind von der Meinung der Icann-Direktoren
nicht begeistert: Diese haben sich dafür
ausgesprochen, die beliebte Domain-Datenbank 'Whois'
zu anonymisieren. Dann können nur noch die technischen
Betreiberdaten abgerufen werden.
http://silicon.de/enid/0,754ac86d6f6465092d09093a09636f6e5f6964092d093139303532/storage_und_network_38.html
Neue Domain für mobile Inhalte: .mobi
In rund einem Monat beginnt die Sunrise-Period für die
neue Domain .mobi. Zielgruppe sind Website-Besitzer
mit Angeboten für die immer zahlreicheren mobilen
User. Registrieren kann man seine Wunschnamen bei dem
Unternehmen Mobile Top Level Domain (mTLD). Am 22. Mai
geht?s mit der mehrteiligen Sunrise Period für
Markenrechts-Inhaber los, die allgemeine Registrierung
beginnt Ende August 2006.
http://www.computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=103303&n=5
La revente de noms de domaine, nouvel Eldorado de
l?Internet ?
Avec Sex.com revendu 14M$ cash à Escom, société d?
entertainment pour adulte, le secteur de la revente
des noms de domaine explose. Le point sur un
engouement spéculatif grandissant.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/article.php?art_id=905
Le contrat IANA de l'ICANN prolongé
Le gouvernement américain a prolongé le contrat
accordé à l'ICANN pour la gestion de la fonction IANA,
soit la racine Internet. Cette fonction devrait, à
terme, être renégociée. La prolongation du contrat
porte sa date de renouvellement au 30 septembre 2006.
Cette date coïncide avec l'expiration de l'actuel MoU
liant l'ICANN au DoC. Coïncidence?
http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=891
Nom de domaine: Milka.fr revient définitivement au
chocolatier Kraft Foods
La couturière Milka Budimir perd définitivement le
droit d'utiliser, pour la promotion de ses propres
boutiques de couture, le nom de domaine Milka.fr.
Selon l'AFP, la cour d'appel de Versailles lui a
enjoint de le restituer à la multinationale américaine
Kraft Foods, propriétaire de la marque de chocolat
Milka.
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/multimedia/20060427.ZDN9343899.html
Nom de domaine: un bureau d'enregistrement condamné
pour "typosquatting"
Dans une affaire de détournement du nom de domaine du
site marchand Rueducommerce, le bureau
d'enregistrement qui a validé l'achat des noms
frauduleux, pour le compte d'un tiers, a été condamné.
Contrairement à ce que prévoit la loi.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/24042006/7/nom-de-domaine-un-bureau-d-enregistrement-condamne-pour-typosquatting.html
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