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VeriSign, critics gear up for ICANN hearing (IDG)
http://infoworld.com/article/06/09/18/HNverisignicann_1.html
Internet head honchos prepare for election (ICANN &
Nominet)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/nominet_icann_boards/
au: Aussie by any name
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640577.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640577.html
au: Celebrities may be able to reclaim domain from
cybersquatters
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431644946.html
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=53174
au: Arbitrator backs claim domain name use was
'conduct in bad faith'
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640590.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640590.html
au: The sheriff is home on the range
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640584.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640584.html
New .EU domain use seen hampered by "warehousers"
(Reuters)
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13534985
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VeriSign, critics gear up for ICANN hearing (IDG)
A VeriSign official defended its contract to operate
the .com domain Monday, after Network Solutions
accused ICANN of not requiring adequate security
safeguards in its registry agreements.
http://infoworld.com/article/06/09/18/HNverisignicann_1.html
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=15896
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;669096558;fp;4;fpid;1398720840
Internet head honchos prepare for election
Board selections for two of the internet's most
important companies are to be decided later this
month. Two directors of UK registry owner Nominet will
be chosen on 27 September at the company's annual
general meeting in London, while three board members
for US company and internet overseeing organisation
ICANN will be officially announced at around the same
time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/18/nominet_icann_boards/
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20060920092635294
ICANN Nominating Committee, Frankfurt, 17 September
2006 (news release)
All members of the ICANN Nominating Committee met in
Frankfurt, Germany from 15-17 September to make their
final selections. The committee thanks all 90
candidates and the many people who went to great
lengths to provided valuable references. The candidate
pool was of exceptional quality and we are grateful to
all who took the time and effort to contribute to this
year's process.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-18sep06.htm
A Note Back to Kieren by Bret Fausett
Bret Fausett's reply to Kieran Baker, a candidate for
the NomCom, about where Bret and Kieran agree and
disagree, in the lack of transparency and openess for
the NomCom process and on the "on the release of the
names of all candidates" respectively.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/20/2341566.html
Two Congressional Hearings This Week on ICANN by Bret
Fausett
Congress has turned its attention to ICANN again,
holding two hearings, on opposite sides of the Capitol
Building, in one week. The Senate Commerce Committee
starts things off on Wednesday, September 20th with a
hearing titled Internet Governance: The Future of
ICANN. The House Commerce Committee follows on
Thusday, September 21st with ICANN Internet Goverance:
Is It Working? ICANN CEO Paul Twomey and the
Department of Commerce's John Kneuer will be
testifying at both hearings.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/19/2341244.html
The GNSO Review by Susan Crawford
The London School of Economics review of the GNSO was
recently released by ICANN. ICANN?s comment about the
review said that the ?report will be used to inform
ICANN?s effort to develop detailed proposals for
improving the GNSO?s structures and processes. ICANN?s
Board will work with the GNSO and the ICANN community
to consider this report, along with previous reviews
and public input, in a collaborative process to
strengthen this key policy-making body.?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_gnso_review/
ICANN Ratifies Global Policy for Allocation of IPv6
Addresses
At its September 7, 2006 Meeting the Board of ICANN
ratified a global policy for the allocation of IPv6
addresses by IANA to Regional Internet Registries.
http://domaininformer.com/news/press/060919ICANN.html
ICANN Opens Public Comment Period on the Tralliance
Proposed New Registry Service (news release)
On 13 September 2006, ICANN posted for public
information a proposal submitted through the Registry
Request Service by Tralliance Corporation for a new
service known as "search.travel". ICANN has made a
preliminary determination that the Tralliance proposal
requires further consideration by the Registry
Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) because
the proposal could raise significant Security and
Stability issues. Accordingly, today ICANN has
referred the proposal to the RSTEP.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-18sep06.htm
"Miniscule" by Bret Fausett
Whatever you may have thought about Tralliance before,
you can now add "bad business people" to the list of
adjectives.
http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2006/9/19/2342914.html
.MS: Alternate Root and Monoculture as Good Things By
Gadi Evron
Why shouldn't there be a .gadi TLD? Why not one for
Microsoft? This post is not about alternate roots or
why they are bad, this post is about something else.
We do need to go over some background (from my
perspective) very quickly though. ICANN has a
steel-fist control over what happens in the DNS realm.
They decide what is allowed, and who gets money from
it. Whether it's VeriSign for .com or any registrar
for the domains they sell. They decide if .gadi should
exist or not. ...What I am here to discuss is why
Microsoft, as a non-arbitrary choice this time,
indeed, of all the world, should kick it aside,
creating an alternate root while at the same time not
disturbing the world's DNS.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/alternate_root_tlds_as_good_things
au: Aussie by any name
Australia polices the use of .au names strictly, and
not to the pleasure of all.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640577.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640577.html
au: Celebrities may be able to reclaim domain from
cybersquatters
The good name of footballer and TV hunk Brodie Holland
is being used -- against his will -- to market soft
pornography and a service for Australian swingers.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431644946.html
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=53174
au: Arbitrator backs claim domain name use was
'conduct in bad faith'
It was a very nasty case," arbitrator Neil Brown QC
says. Harbord Real Estate is a real-estate agency in
Sydney with harbordrealestate.com.au as its registered
domain since October 2000. Austin Robinson, a
competing real-estate agent with an office barely 100
metres away on the same street, registered
harbordrealestate.com in October 2002. The domain
resolved to his own website at ajrobinson.com.au.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640590.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640590.html
au: The sheriff is home on the range
Domain name disputes are gaining global attention: A
FEW months ago Neil Brown, former deputy leader of the
Liberal Party, settled back to watch Big Momma's
House. As the hilarious action comedy about a
cross-dressing FBI agent unfolded, Mr Brown, 66,
waited on the edge of his seat for the entrance of
Cedric Kyles, aka Cedric the Entertainer, who played
the less-than-leading role of the Reverend.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640584.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/18/1158431640584.html
New .EU domain use seen hampered by "warehousers"
(Reuters)
Companies owning thousands of common names for
Internet use will hold back the spread of .eu,
Europe's attempt to rival .com, campaigners said on
Tuesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13534985
http://tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1202995.php
eu: Commissioner Reding pays first visit to managers
of Europe?s new internet domain
Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane
Reding visited EURid, the independent consortium
managing the '.eu' domain name. Commissioner Reding
was accompanied by several Members of the European
Parliament. The purpose of the visit was to understand
the way the new domain name registration system ? that
so far has attracted more than two million users ?
functions. EURid is located in Diegem, Brussels.
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/332&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
hu: Hungarians flock to grab "we screwed up" website
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's blunt admission he
lied to win an election has sparked outrage, riots and
a race to claim a website over his comments. ... The
Hungarian web portal Index reported on Tuesday that
three licence requests for the elkurtuk.hu ("we
screwed up" in Hungarian) website had been submitted
to the domain registration body ISZT. ... It was
unclear whether the domain name would be approved as
Hungarian domain licensing regulations stipulate that
requests for manipulative or potentially outrageous
domain names can be rejected.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13537604
Search Service Proposed for '.travel' (AP)
Operators of the ".travel" domain name are proposing a
new search service to help guide people who mistype
Web addresses or seek nonexistent ones, reviving a
debate over how much control such organizations should
have in directing Internet traffic.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/19/financial/f132115D33.DTL
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15557544.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/09/20/1158431742729.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/20/1158431742388.html
ch/li: Reduced price for domain names (news release)
SWITCH, the registry for domain names ending in .ch
and .li is reducing the annual fee for domain names
from CHF 35 to CHF 27 as of 1 November 2006.
http://switch.ch/about/news.html?id=121
us: American Express Sued Over Tagline (AP)
A freelance art director sued financial services
company American Express Co. and two of its
advertising agencies for trademark infringement and
other charges relating to the company's "My life. My
card." advertising campaign.
http://www.kiplingerforecasts.com/apnews/XmlStoryResult.php?storyid=236014
us: American Express sued over tagline
In the suit, filed on Aug. 17 in the U.S. district
court for the Southern District of New York, Thomas
O\'Keefe, a graphic designer and advertising art
director said he has been using the trademark \"My
card, my work\" since early 2003. He registered the
domain name http://www.mycardmywork.comin mid-2003,
where he showcased a sample advertising campaign with
the tagline.
http://www.sharewatch.com/story.php?storynumber=210084
Saddam.com domain name for sale
An internet domain company based in Panama is
auctioning off the domain name Saddam.com on eBay this
week.
http://thepost.ie/breakingnews/breaking_story.asp?j=263491050&p=z6349zxxx&n=263492037
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1384482006
http://redorbit.com/news/technology/662282/the_world_saddam_selloff
Templates.com Changes Hands in One of the Year's Top
Ten Sales
Tessoro Media Limited reluctantly let go of one of
their most prized possessions this week. It took
$450,000 to persuade the company to part with a real
gem, Templates.com,.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales09_19_06.htm
us: Visitors council snares "dot travel" names
Now that the travel industry has its own Internet
domain ? "dot.travel" ? the Santa Cruz County
Conference and Visitors Council is getting a piece of
the action.
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/September/18/biz/stories/01biz.htm
Britney?s boy falls prey to domain name bounty hunters
Just a day after Britney Spears' second baby was born
in Los Angeles, and several days before the name was
widely circulated in the media, websites devoted to
his name had already started getting registered.
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=23915
http://news.sawf.org/Entertainment/21437.aspx
Is Expired Domain Registration Still Profitable?
After the dot com crash, expired domain names and
expired domain name traffic have been a source of
potential income. It is important to inexpensively
obtain the automated tools required to track the
thousands of domain name registration and abandoned
websites that are removed from the domain registry and
become available for purchase.
http://market-day.net/article_26405/20060918/Is-Expired-Domain-Registration-Still-Profiotable.php
ie: Novara in major domain reseller deal
Dublin-based hosting company Novara has won a contract
to develop the .ie domain registration API
(application programming interface) for international
domain player Register.com?s reseller division.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7057
Zifferndomains ab Dienstag in Österreich verfügbar
Am Dienstag startet die Domain-Verwaltung nic.at die
Vergabe von .at-Domains, die ausschließlich aus
Ziffern bestehen. Bisher sind Domainnamen wie 12345.at
nicht zulässig, da mindestens ein Buchstabe enthalten
sein muss. Dies ändert sich am 19. September um 13
Uhr. Die DeNIC lehnt die Einführung von
.de-Zifferndomains weiterhin ab, weil sie
Verwechslungen mit IP-Adressen befürchtet.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78299
Studie: Insider geben in ICANN-Gremien den Ton an
Insider geben in einzelnen Gremien der ICANN den Ton
an. Das stellt die London School of Economics in einer
von ICANN in Auftrag gegebenen Studie der so genannten
GNSO fest.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78370
Public Interest Registry anuncia 5.000.000 de dominios
.ORG registrados en todo el mundo
PIR anunció hoy que actualmente hay 5.000.000 dominios
.ORG registrados en todo el mundo. El espectacular
crecimiento experimentado por el registro .ORG en 2006
refleja el aumente permanente de concientización,
valor y uso de la marca .ORG, además del éxito
internacional de los registros .ORG.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1358
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