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domain name & governance news - 28 August
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Development Agenda for Internet Governance-Call for a
Framework Convention on the Internet
http://itforchange.net/mambo/content/view/126/1/
ICANN Confirms: Tiered Pricing Not Forbidden in New
.BIZ, .INFO and .ORG Contracts by George Kirikos
http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_tiered_pricing_tld_biz_info_org_domain/
au: Melbourne IT rides the internet wave to riches
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/23/1156012609488.html
Will Splogs Kill .INFO Domains?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_splogs_kill_info_domains/
ax: Aland gets to rel.ax at last
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2162974/aland-gets-rel-ax
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GOVERNANCE
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Development Agenda for Internet Governance-Call for a
Framework Convention on the Internet
'Development agendas' in WTO and WIPO mark a new era
in global policy spaces, whereby the rights of the
global south are being asserted. However, the
governance of new ICTs, chiefly the Internet, remains
a nebulous zone, with practically no global policy
frameworks. As these ICTs reconstitute reality around
us in so many different ways, of which we keep
discovering more every passing day, their governance
is an important area. As they say, in ICTs
'architecture is policy' and 'code is law'. And, more
and more of it is being written every passing day,
perhaps irrevocably, deciding the contours of an
emerging world for us, but without our participation
in these decisions. IT for Change submitted the
following paper to Internet Governance Forum as an
input for its first meeting in Athens in October 2006.
http://itforchange.net/mambo/content/view/126/1/
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DOMAIN NAMES
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ICANN Confirms: Tiered Pricing Not Forbidden in New
.BIZ, .INFO and .ORG Contracts by George Kirikos
Vint Cerf/ICANN confirm my interpretation of
.biz/info/org proposed contracts?tiered/differential
domain pricing would not be forbidden
http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_tiered_pricing_tld_biz_info_org_domain/
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/25/0611209
http://icannalac.org/content/view/126/88/
us: Political fray includes domain names
Call it a case of cyberantics with a cause. The
dueling camps over Proposition 87, the November
initiative that would impose a fee on oil extracted in
California, have been duking it out all week over
control of Web site domain names.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/15358321.htm
au: Melbourne IT rides the internet wave to riches
THE internet's surging power is reflected in the
half-yearly results posted by domain name registry and
web services company Melbourne IT.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/23/1156012609488.html
Will Splogs Kill .INFO Domains?
An article in the September issue of Wired explores
search spam and the role of .info domain names. The
article, titled "Spam + Blogs = Trouble" is a good
overview of the problems of search spam, blog spam,
and other various forms of web activity designed to
take advantage of search engines. (The article will be
online September 5, but you can read it on page 104 of
the print edition that is available to subscribers
now). For those not versed in search spam, it's
basically creating multiple websites, typically
auto-generated by computers, to get good search
rankings and then monetize the resulting search
traffic through AdSense or affiliate programs. The
article focuses much of its attention to splogs, or
auto-generated blogs.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_splogs_kill_info_domains/
ax: Aland gets to rel.ax at last
The .ax top level internet domain for the autonomous
Åland (pronounced: oh-land) archipelago in the Baltic
Sea was taken live earlier this month.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2162974/aland-gets-rel-ax
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2162974/aland-gets-rel-ax
.AX Country Code Top Level Domain Becomes Operational
(news release)
Last week, the Åland Islands ccTLD .AX announced that
they had become operational. This follows formal
approval of the new ccTLD by the ICANN Board on the
9th of June, 2006 and addition of the .AX domain to
the root zone shortly afterwards.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-23aug06.htm
us: Local judges recused from Harris case
Harris filed the suit last week against GoDaddy,
claiming the domain name registrar violated Alabama?s
Fair Campaign Practices Act by sponsoring an anonymous
Web site containing allegedly inaccurate statements
about Harris. The site used Harris? name in the Web
URL, harrisforsheriff.com.
http://www.times-journal.com/report.lasso?WCD=6012
us: Political campaigns duel over domain-name tricks
Call it a case of cyberantics with a cause. The
dueling camps over Proposition 87, the November
initiative that would impose a fee on oil extracted in
California, have been duking it out all week over
control of Web site domain names.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/15361597.htm
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/technology/15361597.htm
au: Mass mail out by DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd (news
release)
auDA has become aware that DomainName.com.au Pty Ltd
is sending letters and/or faxes to some domain name
registrants offering to arrange registration of the
.com equivalent of the registrants com.au domain name
for $225.
http://auda.org.au/consumeralert/ca-21082006/
au: Rafferty's rules
THIS is an alert for the citizens of the wild west,
otherwise known as Western Australia. We believe they
are about to have in their midst one Blair Rafferty,
proprietor of Domains Australia Pty Ltd, a company
that recently came to the attention of auDA, the
domain names administrator in Australia.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/22/1156012542788.html
vn: Banks lag in securing domain names
Recently opened registrations for Vietnamese .vn
internet domain names have seen more than 100 domains
registered with website addresses of large local
banks, but many of these domains have been registered
by businesses not involved in banking, according to
the Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre
(VNNIC).
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01BAN230806
ICANN: la mainmise américaine sur le réseau est
toujours de mise
L?internationalisation de la gestion de l?Internet est
reportée aux calendes grecques. Le gouvernement
américain a reconduit récemment le contrat de l?ICANN
pour 5 autres années, soit jusqu'en 2011.
http://www.menara.ma/infos/includes/detail.asp?lmodule=technologie&article_id=11735
ADR.EU: des modifications de procédure envisagées
Afin d?accélérer les procédures ADR, la Cour
d?Arbitrage Tchèque propose de modifier les règles
supplémentaires relatives au règlement ADR des litiges
liés aux noms de domaine en .EU
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/989/adr-des-modifications-de-procedure-envisagees.php
Microsoft combate a los "ciberokupas"
La compañía de Gates presentó demandas contra tres
estadounidenses del Estado de Utah (oeste), quienes
fueron acusados de registrar 324 dominios cuyos
nombres emplean asociaciones a Microsoft o a sus
servicios, y contra un hombre de California que
registró 85 de estos sitios.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1343
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