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domain name news - 11 June

Hi all,

Don't forget to check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for a more recent edition of the complete domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! Headlines from today's edition of the news include:

China aims to top U.S. in cyberspace: U.S. general | Large-scale DOS attack menace continues to grow | Fancy buying Scotland for £2m? | us: YouTube - uTube showdown stays alive in federal court | Another Cyber Attack Hits Europe | California Man Gets 6-Year Sentence For Phishing | Yellow legal fight erupts in NZ | .nz offers IPv6 connectivity

And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates.


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Google wins right over domain name 'gmail.co.in'
http://hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200706072067.htm

Sale of domain names a hot business in India
http://business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=286911

IP address depletion looms, ARIN warns
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060707-arin-registry-backs-ipv6.html

ARIN Provides Latest Word on Need to Move to IPv6: Will Anyone Heed the Warning? (Does anyone care?)
http://www.circleid.com/posts/arin_deploying_ipv6_warning_move/

Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem
http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/07/sedo-and-the-boobtubecom-problem/

Boobtube.com Shenanigan: Domain Name Exchanges Open to Market Manipulation?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/boobtube_shenanigan_domain_name_exchanges/

Netcraft June 2007 Web Server Survey
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/06/08/june_2007_web_server_survey.html


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Civil Society Participation in ITU
On 15 June, the first meeting of an ITU's Council Working Group established by the Antalya Plenipotentiary Conference to study civil society participation in ITU will be held, under the chairmanship on Argentina. In preparation for this meeting, ITU held a consultation meeting with civil society representatives on May 18.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/Civil+Society+Participation+In+ITU.aspx

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Google wins right over domain name 'gmail.co.in'
Internet search engine giant Google Inc has won ownership of domain name 'gmail.co.in' as an arbitrator appointed by National Internet Exchange of India has directed a Chinese national to transfer the portal address in its favour.
http://hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200706072067.htm
http://thehindu.com/holnus/001200706072067.htm

Sale of domain names a hot business in India
Cyber squatters may have made their life a tad difficult, but enterprising individuals have managed to make an honest living selling domain names — with auction portal eBay India alone recording one sale every eight hours.
http://business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=286911

IP address depletion looms, ARIN warns
The IPv6 movement got a boost in May when the American Registry for Internet Numbers announced it would actively encourage migration to IPv6. ARIN distributes blocks of IP addresses to service providers and enterprises based in North America.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/060707-arin-registry-backs-ipv6.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132720-c,internetnetworking/article.html

ARIN Provides Latest Word on Need to Move to IPv6: Will Anyone Heed the Warning? (Does anyone care?)
NetworkWorld is running an article that talks about the announcement from ARIN (the American Registry for Internet Numbers) of the ARIN Board resolution calling upon ARIN to no longer be "neutral" in the IPv4 vs IPv6 space and instead work to actively encourage migration to IPv6... Until now, ARIN and the other RIRs have generally been fairly neutral in the IPv4 versus IPv6 debate and have not shown a preference in allocation, but this announcement from ARIN shows the first signs of change.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/arin_deploying_ipv6_warning_move/

Sedo, and the Boobtube.com problem
Sedo sold a popular URL, Boobtube.com, for $41,688 last week, but then turned around and canceled the sale because the seller didn’t really own it. This auction had lasted more than two weeks, and was frenetic. The cancellation raises prickly questions about the nascent domain name exchanges, which are handling several hundred million dollars of trades. Are they trustworthy? Are they open to market manipulation?
http://venturebeat.com/2007/06/07/sedo-and-the-boobtubecom-problem/

Boobtube.com Shenanigan: Domain Name Exchanges Open to Market Manipulation?
VentureBeat is running a story by Mark Coker, going over the recent boobtube.com auction and its eventual cancellation due to misrepresentation of ownership. Mark writes: "Sedo, the world’s largest domain name auctioneer, sold a popular URL, Boobtube.com, for $41,688 last week, but then turned around and canceled the sale because the seller didn’t really own it." The author, who was also one of the boobtube.com auction bidders, questions the maturity and trustworthiness of the domain name exchanges, which are currently handling several hundred million dollars of trades.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/boobtube_shenanigan_domain_name_exchanges/

Netcraft June 2007 Web Server Survey
In the June 2007 survey we received responses from 122,000,635 sites, an increase of 3.97 million sites from the May survey. This month we have expanded our graph of server software publishers to include Google, primarily due to Blogger's move from Apache to GFE.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/06/08/june_2007_web_server_survey.html

Online censorship on Nigerian domains?
It was brought to my attention by Sokari Ekine of Blacklooks that one our bloggers, Emmanuel Oluwatosin’s website www.yemma.com.ng has been offline for two weeks. Emmanuel has a firm belief in Nigeria and the promotion of Nigerian cyberspace. For that reason he has suffered for two weeks.
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1002

br/us: Foreign Operator of Obscene Web Sites Pleads Guilty to Obscenity Charges
Danilo Simoes Croce, 43, of Sao Paulo, Brazil, an officer of Lex Multimedia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to an obscenity-related charge in U.S. District Court in Orlando, the Justice Department announced today. Croce pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell to one count of conspiracy to use the mail for delivery of obscene material. As part of Croce’s guilty plea, he agreed to pay a fine of $2,000 and forfeit $98,000 in cash. Croce will also forfeit to the government all equipment and materials connected with his business operations in Florida, all copies of certain obscene films in the company’s possession, and all Internet domain names used by Lex Multimedia, which also conducted business under the names Lexus Multimedia, MFX, and Dragon Films.
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=38777

ca: B.C.'s masters of their domain
To those not in their tight circle or familiar with the hidden underpinnings of the online world, British Columbia's domainers are the anonymous nouveau riche. They have none of the star power of their real-world brethren, the Donald Trumps and fellow billionaire property developers whose dealings the world follows with tabloid interest.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=8116fd2a-7bf2-4cad-819c-142bdbb8a641

ICANN Response to One World Trust Review of ICANN's Accountability and Transparency — Structures and Practices and Update on Management Operating Principles Development Consultation
ICANN have released a document that outlines their response to each of the recommendations in the One World Trust report. The bulk of the recommendations are accepted and are in the process of being implemented; some others have been referred to the Nominating Committee and Board reviews which will take place this year, or to the GNSO Improvements Working Group, for further consideration.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-2-07jun07.htm
http://blog.icann.org/?p=136

ICANN Opens Comment Period on NeuStar Amendment to Implement Approved Registry Service
ICANN is opening a comment period on the proposed amendment to implement the new registry service proposed by NeuStar to offer Bulk Transfer After Partial Portfolio Acquisition (BTAPPA) to consenting registrars in the circumstance where one ICANN-accredited registrar purchases, by means of a stock or asset purchase, merger or similar transaction, a portion but not all, of another ICANN-accredited registrar’s domain name portfolio in the .BIZ top-level domain. NeuStar requested approval of the registry service at the request of two ICANN accredited registrars.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jun07.htm

ICANN Extension of Comment Period on Telnic Proposal
On 11 May 2007, ICANN opened a public comment period on a proposal from Telnic Ltd. to amend the terms in the .TEL Registry Agreement concerning the public display of Whois information. In accordance with requests, ICANN is extending the public comment period through 28 June 2007.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-07jun07.htm

Time for multilingual net domains
Internet law professor Michael Geist argues that delays to multilingual domain names are holding back internet diversity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725807.stm

VeriSign Releases Q1 Domain Brief
VeriSign announced on Wednesday it has released the VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2007, which highlights key industry data for worldwide domain name activity.
http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/060707_VeriSign_Releases_Q1_Domain_Brief.cfm

Rare domain names Autoclassifieds.com and PrinterCartridge.com to be auctioned by Moniker.com (news release)
Moniker.com has been chosen to sell Autoclassifieds.com and Printercartridge.com on June 21st, 2007 at TRAFFICS show NYC
http://fastpitchnetworking.com/pressrelease.cfm?PRID=11400

Kevin Ham, Cameroon, and the Domain Name Industry
If you’re interested in web hosting or buying and selling domain names, you probably read the recent CNN Money article on Kevin Ham. This man has built an empire around generic domain names. While the article itself was excellent, many in the domain industry believe it has given the field a black eye from which it might not recover for a year or more.
http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-News/Kevin-Ham-Cameroon-and-the-Domain-Name-Industry/

za: Domain name policy welcomed (sub req'd)
http://www.iweek.co.za/ViewStory.asp?StoryID=174065

za: Cybersquatters beware (sub req'd)
New process formalised for domain name disputes
http://www.iweek.co.za/ViewStory.asp?StoryID=174035

You May Be Thinking ".COM" - But This Could Be More “.FUN”? (news release)
With over 70 million mostly forgettable “.COMs” already registered, there's very little left to interest individuals or businesses. A complete lack of choice has led to speculation on some interesting alternatives. Brand New Top Level Domain Names have recently been released and they're now available free, to anyone who wants them, from a company called dotWORLDS.
http://transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=17318&ret=Default.aspx
http://www.pr-inside.com/you-may-be-thinking-com-r149206.htm

Le site www.pap.fr affiche une progression de sa fréquentation de 70% sur un an
Le nom de domaine pap.fr est désormais le point de rencontre de 6 millions de visiteurs.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1227/le-site-www-pap-fr-affiche-une-progression-de-sa-frequentation-de-70-sur-un-an.php

Le registre du .TRAVEL menacé ?
La société propriétaire de Tralliance, le registre du .TRAVEL, serait face à de graves problèmes financiers. Une mauvaise nouvelle pour une extension qui peine déjà à décoller.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1228/professionnels-du-tourisme-le-registre-du-travel-menace.php

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