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domain name & governance news - 28 September
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Internet's future in 2020 debated
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.stm
China builds an ultrafast Internet
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/25/business/chinet.php
IPv6 Coming Sooner Than You May Think
http://cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25007
Internet Domain Name Disputes Still on the Rise
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=404&res=1152_ff&print=0
LSE report released: Another ICANN reform? by Milton Mueller
http://internetgovernance.org/news.html#lsereport_091906
Mobile net names a bit dotty ...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/709fbdec-4bfe-11db-90d2-0000779e2340.html
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eu: CONFERENCE: Internet Governance and the role of the civil society
The conference will be chaired by Catherine Trautmann and held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 10 October.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/doc/epposter.pdf
Internet's future in 2020 debated
The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology thinkers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5370688.stm
http://webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060926PewTheInternetWillEatYou.html
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5746/53/
http://broadband.gigaom.com/2006/09/24/for-pew-the-future-of-internet-is-obvious/
The Future of the Internet II
A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020. A predictions database can be viewed here.
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/188/report_display.asp
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China builds an ultrafast Internet
China has built its own version of an ultrafast next-generation Internet network that promises to reduce the country's dependence on foreign companies, the state news media reported Monday. The China Education and Research Network has linked 167 institutes and departments at 25 universities in 20 cities through IPv6, China Central Television reported.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/09/25/business/chinet.php
IPv6 Coming Sooner Than You May Think
For many IT managers, IPv6 may seem like a far-off concern. But the technology will make its way into corporate IT systems sooner than many people realize, forcing IT departments to confront potential security vulnerabilities inherent in the new protocol, a security consultant warned.
http://cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25007
us: Politicos mull data retention by Web hosts, registrars
Politicians on Tuesday urged domain name registries and Web hosting companies to do more to keep illicit child pornography off the Internet and indicated mandatory retention of user records is an option under consideration.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6119878.html
Internet Domain Name Disputes Still on the Rise
Another busy area for WIPO is its Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), which arbitrates cases of bad-faith, abusive registration and use of Internet names under the generic top-level domains such as .com, .org, .net, .info and .biz. The UDRP centre saw a 20 percent increase in activity in 2005, which continued in the first half of 2006 at an average filing rate of about 4.5 new cases per calendar day, according to WIPO.
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=404&res=1152_ff&print=0
LSE report released: Another ICANN reform? by Milton Mueller
The London School of Economics Public Policy Group finally released its long-awaited assessment of the GNSO, ICANN’s representative organ for making global domain names policy. The impartial X-ray the LSE group administered on the GNSO is, on the whole, excellent as an analysis of how things are. Many of the recommendations are good, too. But on the most critical issue of all * the distribution of voting power among GNSO constituencies * the LSE has put forward recommendations that cause serious concern.
http://internetgovernance.org/news.html#lsereport_091906
ng: Control of Nigeria’s domain name
It is a national shame and embarrassment that the the country’s code top-level domain name, .ng, a spin-off of the the Internet revolution has remained in the hand of foreigners. This obtains even as President Olusegun Obasanjo had waded into the matter directing the formation of a broad-based Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO) to manage the national information technology resource. This was the aftermath of contentions by rival bodies with diferring claims to the resource. As it was then, so it is now.The domain name .ng is still in the hand of an American, Randy Bush.
http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2006/sept/14/editorial-14-09-2006-001.htm
uk: Nominet board candidate interviews
Podcast: Two spaces on the board of UK registry owner Nominet will be decided at the company's annual general meeting this Wednesday.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/25/nominet_board_interviews
The sordid saga of Sex.com
NEVER stole it. He stole it!” cries Stephen Michael Cohen, pointing wildly at the man who had been chasing him for over a decade. “It was you guys who went into court and explained that there was some cockamamie list and therefore he was the owner. The name sex.com has always been mine.” The cockamamie list referred to is the Internet’s most valuable document: a list of the owners of all the internet domain names ending with “.com”.
http://gulfweeklyworldwide.com/article.asp?Sn=3821&Article=13499
Highest .Info Sale Ever Reported
In January 2004, New York.info sold for $28,086 in what, at the time, was the largest .info sale ever reported. This week, 32 months after the original sale, the domain was sold again, this time for $46,392.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales09_26_06.htm
Domain names stay with ICANN
The U.S. Commerce Department said last week it will extend its oversight of ICANN while finding ways to improve the group's accountability and transparency.
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2006/09/25/1893613-ap.html
Mobile web shake-up gets started
The general public can now register websites ending with .mobi (dotmobi) as the backers of the mobile net hope to overturn consumer apathy. ... Almost 13,000 companies have already registered dotmobi addresses as part of a pre-registration process open to trademark holders.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5379170.stm
Buy your piece of the .mobi internet today
The latest addition to the internet - new .mobi domains - will go on sale from 3pm today (GMT - 26 September). The .mobi top-level domain will be exclusively for use with mobile phones and other mobile devices, rather than relying on cut-down versions of normal websites, and so will "revolutionise the use of the internet on mobile devices" the company behind it says.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/mobi_launches/
Mobile net names a bit dotty ...
NEW ".mobi" internet domain names will go on general sale today in an attempt to drive the use of mobile devices as platforms to surf the web. ... But critics across a broad range of business, the law and academe are railing against the proliferation of new domains, which they claim are costly and a cause of fraud.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/709fbdec-4bfe-11db-90d2-0000779e2340.html
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20474803-36375,00.html
http://www.moconews.net/concern-over-mobi.html
Top-level domain .mobi launched
So far, the DotMobi registry has reserved over 5,500 so-called premium generic terms, which include such domain names as sex.mobi and sun.mobi. If you wish to apply for a premium name it will cost you $1,500 which you must pay to the World Intellectual Property Organisation for accreditation. Other than that, it costs about $25 (£14) to register a DotMobi site for a minimum two-year period.
http://www.techspot.com/news/22997-toplevel-domain-mobi-launched.html
Mobile web domain up for grabs
There is still some debate however about whether the new domain name is necessary. With many smart phones perfectly capable of running standard web pages it's likely there will be less need for mobile-optimised web pages in the near future.
http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39162720,00.htm
'Pointless' .mobi landrush launched
The registration of .mobi domains has been opened to all-comers, although most of the decent names are likely to have been claimed already.
http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2165036/dotmobi-money-making-machine
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2165036/dotmobi-money-making-machine
.Mobi domain names available to public
Websites that are optimised for display on mobile internet devices are now eligible for a .mobi domain name.
http://digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=18543
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=18543
Mobile domain names open up to public registration
>From this afternoon, anyone can register domain names released specifically for websites that have been tailored to be surfed by mobile phones.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2165040/mobile-domain-names-opens
http://www.pcw.co.uk/computeractive/news/2165040/mobile-domain-names-opens
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computeractive/news/2165040/mobile-domain-names-opens
Rush is on for 'Dot-Mobi' domains
Registrations began Tuesday for .mobi top level domain names for mobile wireless devices and mobile phones.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=37485
http://www.platinax.co.uk/news/26-09-2006/net-delivers-mobile-domains
http://www.betanews.com/article/Land_Rush_Begins_for_MOBI_Domains/1159285417
Manipulationen bei Domain-Vergabe
Die österreichische Domain-Registrierungsstelle nic.at gesteht Unregelmäßigkeiten bei der Vergabe von Ziffern-Adressen ein. Die strittigen Ziffern-Domains sollen nun neu zugeteilt werden.
http://futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/139111/
Nic.at gesteht Manipulation bei Vergabe der Zifferndomains ein
Die österreichische Registry Nic.at hat am Wochenende Manipulationen beim Start der Zifferndomains vor knapp einer Woche eingeräumt. Der Vorstandsvorsitzende der Internet Privatstiftung Austria (IPA), Michael Haberler, teilte nach einer Prüfung der Registrierung mit, ein Registrar habe sich als Administrator die doppelte Bandbreite gegeben und damit seine Chancen bei der Registrierung attraktiver Domains erhöht.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78661
Öffentliche Vergabe von .mobi-Domains gestartet
Sinnhaftigkeit der Einführung umstritten
http://derstandard.at/?id=2600920
http://futurezone.orf.at/business/stories/139171/
.mobi startet für jedermann
Ab heute kann jeder Domains unter der neuen Top-Level-Domain .mobi registrieren, bereits seit dem 12. Juni 2006 wurden Domains im Rahmen einer so genannten Sunrise-Period zunächst an Mobilfunk-Unternehmen, ab 28. August dann an Markeninhaber allgemein vergeben. Websites mit der Endung .mobi müssen nach den Regularien der Registry auf die Darstellung auf mobilen Engeräten optimiert werden.
http://www.golem.de/0609/48017.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78662
http://www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=48017
http://internet-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=48017
http://www.infoweek.ch/news/NW_single.cfm?news_ID=14406
Experten erklären das Internet 2020
Ein US-Forschungsinstitut hat 742 Experten, darunter Netzbürger der ersten Stunde, Wissenschaftler und Vertreter von Organisationen wie ICANN oder IEEE, zum zweiten Mal um einen Blick in die Kristallkugel gebeten und zum Internet des Jahres 2020 befragt. Nach der im Rahmen des Projekts "Imagining the Internet" von der Forschungseinrichtung Pew Internet & American Life und der Universität Elon durchgeführten Studie (PDF-Dokument) sehen die Experten im Netz der Zukunft große Chancen, weisen aber auch auf die Gefahren hin.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78647
Eigene Domains für Montenegro und Serbien festgelegt
Die Internationale Organisation für Standardisierung (ISO) hat die Abkürzungen (ISO-3166-1) für die nach ihrer Trennung im Sommer 2006 unabhängigen Staaten Montenegro und Serbien festgelegt. Künftig wird die Republik Serbien als RS, SRB oder 688 kodiert, Montenegro als ME, MNE oder 499. Entsprechend werden die Top-Level-Domains .rs und .me lauten.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/78685
Le .mobi devient une extension grand public
Après une période réservée aux marques pour enregistrer des noms de domaine en .mobi, le service est désormais ouvert à tous.
http://www.vnunet.fr/fr/vnunet/news/2006/09/26/mobi-s-ouvre-grand-public
Ya pueden contratarse los dominios '.mobi'
* Las webs '.mobi' deberán estar adaptadas perfectamente a la tecnología móvil.
* Su creación responde a una creciente demanda de los servicios online para teléfono móvil.
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/156211/0/dominios/mobi/movil/
Les USA gardent la mainmise
Sans surprise, l’Icann, l’organisme qui gère les extensions des noms de domaine sur Internet, a vu son contrat avec le département américain du commerce renouvelé jusqu’en 2011.
http://www.webmanagercenter.com/management/article.php?id=17758
L'ICANN renouvelé
D'après le département du Commerce américain, dont dépend l'ICANN, le contrat liant le régulateur de l'Internet au gouvernement américain sera renouvelé en octobre.
http://www.domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1009/l-icann-renouvele.php
Le .mobi accessible à tous
Accessibles depuis juin 2006, les noms de domaines en .mobi étaient jusqu’à présent réservés aux titulaires d’une marque de commerce. Près de 12 000 noms de domaines ont ainsi été enregistrés depuis lors, dont plus de 500 par des entreprises françaises. C’est aujourd’hui que les .mobi doivent être ouverts à tout le monde, particuliers compris.
http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/domaine-mobi-19330/
Le .MOBI, c'est pour aujourd'hui
Après plusieurs périodes d'enregistrements prioritaires, l'extension des contenus mobiles s'ouvre à tous, sans restriction.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1010/appareils-mobiles-le-mobi-c-est-pour-aujourd-hui.php
Aftonbladet snyltar på nätet
Fundera ett varv till. Det är mycket olyckligt att Schibstedkoncernen startar en gratistidning i Sverige under namnet .SE. Aftonbladet renommésnyltar på Internets svenska toppdomän. Det finns andra namn att välja, skriver styrelsen för .SE, Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur.
http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/brannpunkt/did_13740141.asp
Story mentioning ICANN in Japanese
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/enterprise/articles/0609/23/news013.html
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