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domain name news - 19 April
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U.S. House bill clarifies ban on Web names resembling those of U.S. agencies
http://iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/news/domain.php
us: House Passes Bill to Protect Taxpayers (AP)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6565963,00.html
In Wake of Tragedy, Speculators Snatch Up Profitable Web Names
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/vt_domainname
GoDaddy Registers Dozens of Questionable Virginia Tech Names
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/godaddy_registe.html
Owner of Virginiatechkiller.com Cancels Registration
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/owner_of_virgin.html
Fee for '.org,' '.info' Names to Jump (AP)
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21583133%5E15306,00.html
Founding father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, surveys his domain
http://scrippsnews.com/node/21455
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U.S. House bill clarifies ban on Web names resembling those of U.S. agencies
A 1994 law that bars "any" use of a name of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service and their initials, logos and other symbols to solicit business by for-profit organisations is to be clarified in a House vote by specifying that the prohibition against "any" includes domain names. The law also states that a disclaimer is not a defense against either civil or criminal action. The change follows warnings twice in the last three weeks by the Internal Revenue Service commissioner about confusion over the official Web site of his agency and commercial firms playing off that confusion.
http://iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/news/domain.php
http://nytimes.com/2007/04/17/technology/17web.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6176994.html
us: House Passes Bill to Protect Taxpayers (AP)
The House marked Tax Day on Tuesday by approving new protections against some of the modern-day dangers facing taxpayers, including identity theft, deceptive Web sites and loan sharks. ... It clarifies rules prohibiting the use of domain names, such as IRS.org instead of the government's IRS.gov, that could be used to deceive taxpayers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6565963,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18161408/
http://businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8OIL0KG0.htm
us: Sale of IRS.com stirs Congress into action on domain names
When Intersearch.com paid $12.5 million for the domain name irs.com ("We're not the Internal Revenue Service, we're the #1 INDEPENDENT resource for tax information"), some in Congress had had enough.
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3082
us: Evil and its profiteers following the Virginia Tech shooting
To show some people have no remorse or morals, a number of mindnumbingly awful people have registered domain names relating to the recent shootings in Virginia, just like was done following other disasters around the world in recent times such as the tsunmai and hurricanes. For example, a resident of Virginia has registered vtmurders.com, vtmurders.info, vtkillings.com, and choseung-hui.com (the name of the suspected killer). The first three domains are available for $250K and the last one for $1 million. A number of domains are available on eBay, while other domain names have been registered to look like they're charities attempting to raise money to assist the victims. For a list of at least some of the domains registered, see:
http://www.secondcityceo.com/2007/04/16/breaking-news-people-already-profiting-from-virginia-tech-shooting/
In Wake of Tragedy, Speculators Snatch Up Profitable Web Names
People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some pray. Some watch the news. Some try to get rich. Just hours after a student at Virginia Tech went on a killing spree that claimed 33 lives Monday, speculators began snatching up domain names related to the shooting. Dozens of people registered sites like vatechbloodbath.com, virginiatechmurders.com and blacksburgmassacre.com through companies like GoDaddy.com and Enom, Inc. Several of the names went up for sale on eBay later that day.
http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/04/vt_domainname
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187983/security-firms-brace-virgina
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/04/papers_warns_of.html
Virginia Tech massacre may spawn phishing scams
Information security experts warned users today to be on the lookout for legitimate-looking websites exploiting Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech. The US SANS Internet Storm Center reported late Tuesday that at least 28 domain names have been registered that relate to the shootings, including www.vatechshooting.com and www.hokiemassacre.com.
http://securecomputing.net.au/news/50106,virginia-tech-massacre-may-spawn-phishing-scams.aspx
'Ismail Ax' sparks web frenzy
All at once, the world went searching for the meaning of "Ismail Ax". ... There were other reactions. A TV repair shop owner in Corpus Christi, Texas, registered the domain name http://www.ismailax.com the morning after the shootings.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/04/18/1176696889800.html
GoDaddy Registers Dozens of Questionable Virginia Tech Names
After seeing a post on the Second City CEO blog today about some rather graphic domain names being snatched up mere minutes after the Virginia Tech shootings this morning, we ran a few of the more sanguinary titles through a Whois search. GoDaddy came back on most of the results.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/godaddy_registe.html
Owner of Virginiatechkiller.com Cancels Registration
Lewis Dennison, aka groovybluedragon, sent Wired an email on Wednesday saying that he'd cancelled his registration of virginiatechkiller.com, a domain name Dennison put up for sale on eBay a day after the campus massacre.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/owner_of_virgin.html
Fee for '.org,' '.info' Names to Jump (AP)
Wholesale prices for internet addresses ending in ".org" and ".info" are going up 2.5 per cent in mid-October, about the same time fees for ".com" and ".net" are increasing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041801835.html
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21583133%5E15306,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18175936
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/18/ap3627677.html
.info domains to get expensive as well
Afilias Ltd. have now announced that the wholesale rates for these domains would increase 2.5 percent on Oct. 15.
http://business.techwhack.com/2328/info-domains/
Notification to ICANN of increase in price of .org domain names
http://icann.org/correspondence/frolich-to-twomey-18apr07.pdf
Founding father of the Internet surveys his domain
When the man known as a "founding father of the Internet" looks back on its 30-plus years of existence, Vinton Cerf sees a reflection of our best and worst instincts. What has most surprised and pleased the renowned Internet pioneer has been the continuing avalanche of free information that's become available since the advent of the worldwide Web in the mid-1990s.
http://scrippsnews.com/node/21455
http://www.kitsapsun.com/bsun/bu_business/article/0,2403,BSUN_19060_5491067,00.html
Political pressure on porn? by Stephen Balkam
What does this somewhat obscure international organization (ICANN) have to do with how the Internet will be managed and how governments around the world will view their role in regulating content? Quite a lot - and not necessarily all good. ... So, where does all this leave ICANN? While some will be cheering the decision, many more will be left wondering how this body can retain whatever semblance of transparency, objectivity and independence of government interference it claims to possess. The decision by ICANN, influenced as it has been by political pressures, chips away at the fundamental value of the Internet. For all of us involved in the online world - and that is virtually all of us - this is a worrying trend.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.porn17apr17,0,4471608.story
British Islamists’ Cyber Camouflage
Partly due to the pressure of new terror laws in Britain and partly because of the effectiveness of Destroyers of jihadi websites like Internet Haganah, British-based radical Islamists have sought more imaginative online solutions both to maintain an online presence (even when they are banned) and to keep on recruiting (something they are increasingly desperate to do in a climate justifiably increasingly hostile towards them). ... Look at the WHOIS data behind domain names used by the radical Islamists in their online operations and more often than not they fall for using anonymous registration services – just as the less lazy Islamists use software to hide their IP addresses when they communicate with their extremist brothers.
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2649&cid=3&sid=74
us: Our view: Abuse of cyberspace demands corrective action
... And there's a new tactic in politics known as "cybersquatting." Someone's political opponents purchase his or her domain name, either preventing its use by the person whose name is attached to it; or, worse, using it to spread malicious information about that person.
http://salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_106115809
ICANN gets restraining order against RegisterFly
In a welcome victory for RegisterFly customers, ICANN announced yesterday that it had been granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against RegisterFly, the ICANN-accredited domain registrar accused of allowing tens of thousands of domains to lapse unlawfully. The TRO orders RegisterFly to provide copies of all current registrant data within 48 hours, and provide weekly data updates to ICANN.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/18/icann_tro_registerfly/
http://webhosting.info/news/1/registerfly-submits-domain-names-data-to-icann_0418071827.htm
ICANN's Application for Temporary Restraining Order Against RegisterFly Has Been Granted
RegisterFly has been ordered by US Federal Court Judge, Manuel J. Real, to hand over to ICANN current and accurate data for all of its domain names now that ICANN's application for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against RegisterFly was granted yesterday. Under the TRO, RegisterFly is also obliged to provide this data every seven days, plus immediately allow ICANN staff access to the company's records and books in order to perform an audit.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-17apr07.htm
http://blog.icann.org/?p=104
Phishing fraud emails target domain name owners
Domain name owners are the target of a sophisticated scam disclosed by the US SANS Internet Storm Center late last week. According to a report received by the nonprofit organisation, scammers initially sent victims an email with an offer to purchase a domain name.
http://securecomputing.net.au/news/76700,phishing-fraud-emails-target-domain-name-owners.aspx
WARNING: This Label Is Worthless
Lawmakers are again reaching for their favorite panacea in their futile campaign against online pornography: Web site labeling. It's good politics but bad policy. For a politician, child safety trumps free speech every day -- at least on the campaign trail. ... If the proposal sounds vaguely familiar, it should. Last year, Baucus and Pryor led an unsuccessful effort to force ICANN to quarantine adult material into an .XXX domain. ICANN said it wasn't in the censorship business.
http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3672586
Microsoft: DNS patch to come by May 8... maybe
Microsoft hopes to fix by May 8 a critical flaw in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) servers that is being exploited by online criminals, the company said late Tuesday.
http://infoworld.com/article/07/04/18/HNmsdnspatch_1.html
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1856063324;fp;4194304;fpid;1
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8586
IPv6 – Ready for Prime Time? Part IV: Vendor Support
In our previous tutorial, we looked at the various IPv6 test networks that have been established around the world to gather deployment experience with the new protocol. But test networks are just that – testing – and if it’s your bonus on the line, you want to make sure that the key vendors that support your network are also tuned in with the latest IPv6 enhancements.
http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/networking/features/article.php/3672641
Getting WHOIS Server Address Directly from Registry by Jay Daley
If you want to find out the WHOIS server for a particular TLD then in many cases you can do it with a simple DNS lookup. Just query for an SRV record for the domain _nicname._tcp.tld, like this... Many other TLDs follow this convention including .au .at .dk .fr .de .hu .ie .li .lu .nl .no .re .si .se and .ch.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/whois_server_address_registry/
CNNIC Urges Websites To Use CN Domain Name
With the support of China's Ministry of Information Industry, the Information Office of the State Council, the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform and China Academy of Sciences, the China Internet Network Information Center has formally launched a "One Million Websites Using Chinese Domain Names" program.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/04/13/5248-cnnic-urges-websites-to-use-cn-domain-name/
Amazon sues Alexaholic…everyone loses!
... Flash forward to March of this year and Alexa's attitude had cooled towards Alexaholic. Trouble in paradise became apparent to many on the web when Alexa filed a URDP complaint with ICANN to get the domain taken away from Hornbaker because it contained the word "alexa" in it. Thinking he could resolve this problem with a simple domain name change, Hornbaker changed the site to Statsaholic. This didn't seem to appease Alexa, who began to disrupt Statsaholic services by blocking Alexa graphs from appearing on the site.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=350
Dutch state sues owner of 112.nl domain (sub req'd)
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=164747&nr=
123-Reg - No News is Bad News
Last week we reported that we received notification from Pipex's 123-Reg that a new support system had been put in place. As a 123-Reg client we decided to put this to the test as by coincidence, one of our .EU domain names had not been renewed despite 123-Reg happily taking payment from our credit card account. Now, 10 days after the domain was supposed to have been renewed it has been suspended by the .EU registrar.
http://net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=3849
ET.com sells for $225,000
Domain Name Journal reports et.com was the biggest sale in domain names last week, selling for US$225,000.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales04-17-07.htm
Internet Prospectors Find Gold In Domain Names
Using a combination of memorable domain names and strategically placed paid ads savvy internet website owners are mining gold from the internet. There is a new two-step going and it has nothing to do with dancing. This two-step is being done on the Internet by domainers who are cashing in on the hot paid click advertising market and whistling a happy tune all the way to the bank.
http://addpr.com/articles/domain_names/16749.html
What is a Domain Name Worth to an End User?
A couple weeks ago Domain Name Wire more than quadrupled my money on a domain name sale. The domain was purchased less than a year ago at a reseller market. A broker was used to market the domain to companies that sold the related product, bringing in a five-figure sale. (The domain nor the actual sales price is not disclosed for confidentiality reasons.) While the domain name didn't get many clicks, it is the title of an entire software category dominated by large companies such as Sun and Oracle; the term receives 5,000-10,000 searches per month and advertisers are paying $5-$10 per click for this term.
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/04/18/what-is-a-domain-name-worth-to-an-end-user/
Spam Fighters Turn To Profiling As Tax Deadline Looms
Profiling tactics from Barracuda and other companies are designed to block e-mails that smell fishy but whose IP addresses or domain names haven't been blacklisted.
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199100220
Descriptive Domain Names Key to Successful Online Advertising (news release)
... How important is it? According to Jason Brook, President of Domain Name Venture Capital. ”Click through traffic appears analagous to direct navigation or “type-in” traffic. Whether they type a domain into a web browser or click on a hyperlink, it is clear that web surfers assume the most credible and direct path to what they are looking for is via a generic term domain."
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=32819
us: Schuylkill controller candidate admits to Web trick
The Republican candidate for Schuylkill County controller admits buying all combinations of his Democratic opponent's Internet domain names, preventing her from establishing her own Web site and redirecting people to his site.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_1votemail.5804394apr17,0,3361930.story
in: Govt plans vernacular domain names
The government is planning to have domain names in Indian languages. This means that ‘dot in’ domain names that link to the vernacular website can also be in vernacular languages.
http://andhracafe.com/index.php?m=show&id=21798
Anna Nicole Smith's baby's domain name up for grabs on eBay for $1m
The domain name of Dannielynn Birkhead, Dannielynnbirkhead.com is being sold for a million dollars on eBay.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070417/139/6enos.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=45597&in_page_id=7
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/134170.php/Anna-Nicoles-babys-domain-name-up-for-grabs-on-eBay-for-$1m
RegisterFly muss Domain-Daten herausgeben
Ein US-Bezirksgericht hat den Domain-Registrar RegisterFly per einstweiliger Verfügung verpflichtet, aktuelle und korrekte Daten über alle von ihm verwalteten Domains an die ICANN zu übergeben.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88417
Gericht bestätigt Haftung des Admin-C
Nach einem Urteil des Landgerichts (LG) Hamburg vom 5. April 2007 haftet ein als Admin-C eingetragener Rechtsanwalt für einen Verstoß gegen das Wettbewerbsrecht unter der auf ihn eingetragenen Domain (Az. 327 O 699/06).
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/88425
200,000 noms en .MX
NIC MEXICO registre du .MX a annoncé le 4 avril dernier que son extension dépasse désormais les 200 000 noms enregistrés.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1183/mexique-200-000-noms-en-mx.php
2,9 millions de noms latino-américains
Dans une étude publiée le 10 avril 2007, LatinoamerICANN, entité dédiée à l’Internet latinoaméricain, révèle le volume des noms de domaine en Amérique latine. L’Argentine et le Brésil se placent en tête du classement.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1185/2-9-millions-de-noms-latino-americains.php
NomCom 2007 cierra periodo de postulaciones
Anuncio enviado por Sebastian Riccardi (miembro del NonCom), sobre el proximo deadline para postulacion de candidatos.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1472
Ultimo llamado: envio de apoyos a nominados al directorio de ICANN
Este es el último recordatorio sobre el plazo para enviar comentarios sobre los nominados a ocupar el cargo del ASO en el Directorio de ICANN. El plazo cierra el 20 de abril de 2007 a las 18.00 UTC.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1471
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