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Net's ruling body renews US links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4799137.stm
Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/business/icann.php
Can US Control Over the Web be Untangled?
http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,524,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
ICANN: Comments Sought on Technical Checks Used for
DNS Root Zone Changes
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm
cn: Chinese domain name sells for $160,000
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/18/china.domain.name.reut/
Domain Name, wrestling.com, Sells for $500,000
http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-wrestling-com-sells-for-500-000-2305.html
HomeImprovement.com Hammers Out $166,000 Sale To Head
This Week's Top 20
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales08_15_06.htm
au: Rafferty's rules at work again in domain
registration
http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Rafferty_s_rules_at_work_again_in_domain_registration/0,2000061791,39266688,00.htm
au: Qld Labor wins website shutdown
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20169330%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
au: auDA's members overwhelmingly approve
constitutional changes (news release)
http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-15082006/
DNS could slow broadband service
http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6106936.html
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Net's ruling body renews US links
The US looks set to maintain its role as ultimate
supervisor of the net's addressing systems until 2011.
The US Department of Commerce has signed a five-year
deal with administrative body Icann that renews the
body's role overseeing net domains.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4799137.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/icann_awarded_iana/
http://www.out-law.com/page-7206
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6106417.html
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/A3D3E47AD68CCE5BCC2571CD0019A8EB
Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract
The agency that supervises Internet domain names,
Icann, has renewed its contract with an arm of the
United States Department of Commerce to administer the
technical workings of the global computer network.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/business/icann.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/technology/17icann.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/technology/16cnd-icann.html
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3627026
http://www.silicon.com/0,39024729,39161586,00.htm
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/060816usgov/
NTIA Aawards contract for management of key internet
functions to ICANN (news release)
The Commerce Department?s National Telecommunications
and Information Administration today announced the
award of a sole source contract to ICANN to perform
technical functions supporting the Internet Domain
Name system.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2006/icanncontract_081406.htm
Can US Control Over the Web be Untangled?
The US government has renewed its contract with the
Internet overseeing company ICANN to manage technical
functions for the Internet's DNS. ICANN has been
granted exclusive rights, for no consideration, to run
the so-called IANA function until 2011, although the
contract is subject to annual review and renewal.
http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,524,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html
ICANN: Comments Sought on Technical Checks Used for
DNS Root Zone Changes
When performing its IANA Root Zone Management
function, ICANN staff performs a series of tests on
supplied name server technical data beforethey are
entered into the root. We are seeking to review the
tests, and comments are sought on what technical
requirements are suitable for this service in the
future.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm
cn: Chinese domain name sells for $160,000
A sale of Chinese Internet domain names netted more
than $160,000 on Friday in what organizers said was
the biggest such auction yet in the computer-crazy
country.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/18/china.domain.name.reut/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/20/content_668940.htm
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060818-0723-internet-china.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13232175
Domain Name, wrestling.com, Sells for $500,000
Communicate.com Inc. has sold the domain name,
wrestling.com, for US$500,000, in a private
transaction.
http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-wrestling-com-sells-for-500-000-2305.html
HomeImprovement.com Hammers Out $166,000 Sale To Head
This Week's Top 20
This was quite a day (August 8) at Moniker.com. The
company announced the $166,650 sale of
HomeImprovement.com and CEO Monte Cahn told us they
also had a sale above $750,000 that could not be
released due to a non disclosure agreement. Oh yes,
one other thing...the company was sold.
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales08_15_06.htm
au: Rafferty's rules at work again in domain
registration
auDA warned domain name registrants about letters and
faxes offering registration of the net.au equivalent
of registrants' com.au domain name for AU$225.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Rafferty_s_rules_at_work_again_in_domain_registration/0,2000061791,39266688,00.htm
http://www.net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=3674
http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=58423
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=36046
au: Qld Labor wins website shutdown
THE ALP has won a Queensland Supreme Court injunction
to shut down a defamatory website about Premier Peter
Beattie and former party members.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20169330%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
au: Proposed .au Internet Domain Review (news release)
The Minister for Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, today
announced a review into the policy, administrative and
regulatory arrangements that underpin the operation of
the .au Internet domain.
http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/media/media_releases/proposed_.au_internet_domain_review
au: auDA's members overwhelmingly approve
constitutional changes (news release)
The overwhelming vote in support of changes to auDA?s
constitution at yesterday?s EGM marked a positive step
forward for the Internet in Australia according auDA?s
CEO, Chris Disspain.
http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-15082006/
DNS could slow broadband service
A broadband provider's claim of superfast speeds may
only be as good as its weakest link, which could be
its domain name server software. A report issued
Thursday by Nominum, a company that sells DNS server
software, indicated that some broadband service
providers need to bulk up their DNS servers to ensure
that broadband users actually get all the benefits of
their high-speed connections.
http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6106936.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6106936.html
Thousands of fi-domain names to expire in September
Approximately 14,000 fi-domain names are to become
obsolete as of 1 September, according to a press
release from the Finnish Communications Regulatory
Authority (Ficora) on Friday. Some 65 per cent of the
41,000 fi-domain names awarded before 1 September 2003
have so far been renewed.
http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=13469&group=General
vn: Public allowed to register .vn domains
Both domestic and international organisations have
been able to register internet domain names ending in
.vn from 4.30pm on Monday, says the Viet Nam Internet
Network Information Centre.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01BUS170806
India, China Come Together for IPv6
In a significant development, the IPv6 Forum India, a
non-profit, non-governmental registered organization,
has reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with the China IPv6 Council. The association is
particularly crucial as it is expected to enable
knowledge sharing and deployment of IPv6 in both
countries.
http://techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=75302&cat_id=643
dotMobi To Auction Top-Drawer Names
mTLD has announced its plans for trademarks containing
common words...the domains will be set aside and
trademark owners will need to show their brand
connection to the words to have the domain removed
from the list and registered with them ? companies
will need to have registered their marks before 11
July 2004 or have used them for five years ?in good
faith?.
http://www.moconews.net/dotmobi-to-auction-top-drawer-names.html
Go Daddy Offers CashParking for Domain Names
GoDaddy.com is offering CashParking. Parked pages are
the web sites displayed when the registrant of a
domain name has not yet posted a developed site.
http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-go-daddy-offers-cashparking-for-domain-names-2310.html
http://webhosting.info/news/1/godaddy.com-offers-cashparking_0817062005.htm
Sedo Revamps Domain Parking Program
Sedo has announced new features and a restructuring of
its domain parking program, designed to deliver
greater profitability to any domain name holder.
http://webhosting.info/news/1/sedo-revamps-domain-parking-program_0817066767.htm
Issues around domain names
OPINION: Someone once told me that domain names will
one day be as valuable as land and how right they
were. Everyone now knows that domain names are
strongly associated with organisations? identities and
a good domain name can in certain circumstances be
akin to a home with a view.
http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=58343
SnapNames auctioning domain names
SnapNames has expanded its secondary domain name
marketplace reach by launching a new public auctions
service, the company said.
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/08/14/daily27.html
Was wird aus dem Internet? Strategiediskussion im
Sommerloch
Das Internet steht vor der größten Herausforderung
seiner dreißigjährigen Geschichte. Mehr als eine
Milliarde Menschen nutzen es, aber noch immer werden
die Kernressourcen des Internet von der US-Regierung
kontrolliert. Und immer mehr Länder, deren Sprache
nicht auf dem lateinischen Alphabet basiert, erwägen
einen eigenen Internet Root aufzubauen mit Top Level
Domains (TLD) in chinesischer, kyrillischer,
arabischer, persischer Sprache. Droht das Internet zu
zerfallen?
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23342/1.html
Domain wiki.com soll 2,8 Millionen US-Dollar kosten
Wiki-Provider Mindtouch will zusammen mit Unternehmer
John Gotts einen Wiki-Dienst unter der Domain
"wiki.com" anbieten.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76867
USA kontrollieren das Internet weitere fünf Jahre
Das US-amerikanische Handelsministerium stellt die
ICANN noch immer nicht auf eigene Füße. Stattdessen
hat es seinen Kontrollvertrag mit der
Internet-Verwaltungsbehörde ICANN um weitere fünf
Jahre verlängert. Der bisherige Kontrakt wäre am 30.
September ausgelaufen. Der neue Vertrag gilt zwar nur
ein Jahr, kann jedoch vier Mal verlängert werden.
http://computerwelt.at/detailArticle.asp?a=106218
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,432155,00.html
http://pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=47208
http://golem.de/0608/47208.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76942
http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/130193/
http://www.computerwoche.de/nachrichten/580196/
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/975/82893/
http://internet-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=47208
Les États-Unis conservent la gestion technique de
l'internet auprès de l'Icann
Le ministère du Commerce américain a renouvelé, pour
au minimum un an, son accord avec le régulateur de
l'internet: il porte sur la gestion du DNS et du
serveur racine des noms de domaine. Un accord
reconductible jusqu'en 2011.
http://zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39362726,00.htm
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/actualite/987/contrat-renouvele-pour-l-icann.php
http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/30781-LIcann-voit-son-role-technique-renouvele-jus.htm
http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/06-08/10-274901.html
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-37553-noms-domaine-icann-garde-main.html
http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/multimedia/20060817.ZDN9362726.html
http://www.vnunet.fr/fr/vnunet/news/2006/08/18/gouvernement-am-ricain
http://solutions.journaldunet.com/0608/060821-contrat-icann.shtml
http://www.futura-sciences.com/news-icann-usa-gardent-controle-noms-domaine-jusqu-2011_9488.php
.MOBI "stratégiques" accessibles aux propriétaires de
marques
L'enregistrement des noms .MOBI premium sera ouvert du
15 septembre au 13 octobre 2006 aux propriétaires de
marques, sous réserve de répondre aux critères définis
par le registre.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/986/appareils-mobiles-mobi-strategiques-accessibles-aux-proprietaires-de-marques.php
Estados Unidos prorrogam controle da internet até 2011
O governo dos Estados Unidos mantém o controle técnico
sobre a internet até 2011. Nesta semana, sem alarde,
Washington renovou contrato com a Icann, empresa com
sede na Califórnia e responsável pela gestão da rede
mundial de computadores.
http://www.estadao.com.br/tecnologia/internet/noticias/2006/ago/18/92.htm
http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/economia/2492001-2492500/2492417/2492417_1.xml
http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/mundovirtual/2491501-2492000/2491781/2491781_1.xml
La ICANN seguirá bajo la tutela de EEUU hasta 2011
Estados Unidos ha ganado una nueva batalla por el
control del sistema de dominios en Internet, motivo de
controversia en la última Cumbre Mundial sobre la
Sociedad de la Información de Túnez, puesto que el
Departamento de Comercio ha renovado por cinco años,
hasta 2011, su acuerdo con la organización encargada
de gestionarlos, la ICANN.
http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2006/08/17/tecnologia/1155812959.html
http://www.diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=12068
http://www.faq-mac.com/mt/archives/018810.php
http://www.libertaddigital.com/noticias/noticia_1276285926.html
Récord en una subasta de nombres de dominios en China
La venta de unos nombres de dominios de Internet en
China recaudó el viernes más de 160.000 dólares, en lo
que según los organizadores ha sido la mayor subasta
hasta ahora en un país que se está volviendo loco por
la informática.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1339
La ICANN seguirá bajo la tutela de EEUU hasta 2011
Estados Unidos ha ganado una nueva batalla por el
control del sistema de dominios en Internet, motivo de
controversia en la última Cumbre Mundial sobre la
Sociedad de la Información de Túnez, puesto que el
Departamento de Comercio ha renovado por cinco años,
hasta 2011, su acuerdo con la organización encargada
de gestionarlos, la ICANN.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1338
Il governo statunitense controlla la rete
Il governo statunitense rinnova l'accordo per
controllare l'ICANN, l'organo che gestisce i domini
Internet.
http://azpoint.net/internet/altro/13370/Il-governo-statunitense-controlla-la-rete.asp
VS nog vijf jaar de baas over internet
De Verenigde Staten behouden de komende vijf jaar nog
hun macht over internet. De Amerikaanse overheid heeft
dit deze week vastgelegd in het verlengde contract met
de Icann, de organisatie die het internet technisch
beheert.
http://www.parool.nl/nieuws/2006/AUG/19/eco1.html
USA lar Icann beholde makten
Av Eirik RossenUSA vil ikke gi fra seg den endelige
makten over Internett, men lar Icann jobbe videre.
http://digi.no/php/art.php?id=314906
http://www.ba.no/forbruker_guider/multimedia/article2243632.ece
http://itavisen.no/php/art.php?id=314945
http://computerworld.no/index.cfm/fuseaction/artikkel/id/61143
http://www.business-standard.no/index.cfm?fuseaction=artikkel&id=1B76BF19-F1FF-9846-6D03DBD0C72E334F
Story in Korean on ICANN
http://www.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=353480
Story on ICANN in Russian
http://lenta.ru/news/2006/08/18/icann/
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