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domain name news - 18 June
Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the most recent edition
of the domain news, including an RSS feed - already online! Headline from today's news include:
".cn" becomes third largest national domain name | Domain Name Industry
Threatened, says Internet Commerce Association | What Prevents IPv6
Deployment in Europe by Patrick Vande Walle | CitizenHawk TypoAlert:
Cybersquatting Continues to Plague Online Kids’ Sites | DotAsia
start-up now set for September 2007
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The Domains Of The Day - making millions from names
http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_26/b4040059.htm
za: Domain name rules ‘are working’
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A491768
European concerns grow over IPv6 migration
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39287566,00.htm
More IPv6 Warnings on Why Organizations Must Plan Transition Now
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_warnings_organizations_transition_now/
Preparing for the next generation - IPv6
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/99FE35D716136F33CC2572FA00832426
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200706181133/upgrade_of_web_addresses_to_handle_more_domain_names
IPv6 network-management tools still lacking
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/C79BD94BE9BFEF07CC2572FA00834D2A
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RESEARCH PAPERS
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Domain Names, Trademarks, and the First Amendment: Searching for Meaningful Boundaries by Margreth Barrett (University of California, San Francisco - Hastings College of the Law)
This article argues that domain names for forum web sites are comparable to the titles of expressive works, and points out how existing principles defining and governing the regulation of non-commercial speech should apply when mark owners challenge incorporation of their marks into domain names for gripe sites and other forum sites that target the mark owner. Unfortunately, courts have generally ignored the Supreme Court's definition of noncommercial speech in this context, and the First Amendment implications of prohibiting the defendants' use. In particular, courts are equating commercial speech with the Lanham Act's recently expanded commercial use requirement. While the commercial use requirement has served in the past to ensure that Lanham Act protection is consistent with First Amendment principles, its recent expansion has seriously undermined its effectiveness to do so.
The article also examines the interface of First Amendment protection with the Anticybersquatter Consumer Protection Act, focusing particularly on how the courts are construing and applying the forth and fifth factors that the Act lays out for determining whether a defendant has the requisite bad faith intent to profit from the plaintiff's mark. The article notes several concerns, including a tendency of courts to undermine the purpose of the fourth factor's safe harbor for noncommercial fair use by: 1) relying on recent expansion of the Lanham Act's commercial use requirement in infringement and dilution cases to find that the defendant's forum site use was commercial; 2) focusing on the defendant's intent to harm the plaintiff, rather than his intent to profit; and 3) defining profit to include non-financial interests, such as the defendant's personal satisfaction from airing his criticism of the plaintiff. The article also points out pitfalls in the courts' construction
of the fifth factor, and suggests alternative constructions that are more consistent with First Amendment precedent.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=928261
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GOVERNANCE
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US to China: we will win the cyberwars
China is making a bid to become the dominant player in cyberspace, forcing the United States to increase its capabilities in the area of network attack, the US military has said. A senior US Air Force commander charged with heading up a new 'cyber command' unit told reporters: "They're the only nation that has been quite that blatant about saying, 'We're looking to do that.'"
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1932053.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/15/wcyber115.xml
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DOMAIN NAMES
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The Domains Of The Day
How two Boston entrepreneurs are making millions from names as simple as chocolate.com: Through their company, Internet Real Estate Group, Andrew Miller and Michael Zapolin have made a career of buying underappreciated domain names on the cheap and turning them into multimillion-dollar properties. Instead of flooding a site with pay-per-click ads and flipping the domain for a quick profit, they're trying to develop real businesses that will sell for much more. They own 17 domains, ranging from software.com to relationship.com, with a closely guarded list of several others they would like to buy—if the price is right.
http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_26/b4040059.htm
za: Domain name rules ‘are working’
The inflexibility of two companies which were fighting over the brand name Mr Plastic has been resolved in the first verdict handed down under new rules for quelling local internet address disputes. A clash for the cyber address mrplastic.co.za had reached melting point between Mr Plastic and Mr Plastic Mining & Promotional Goods, but was resolved in less than two months under the new arbitration.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A491768
http://allafrica.com/stories/200706140172.html
European concerns grow over IPv6 migration
European businesses are being held back from migrating to IPv6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at Nominet. ... However, concerns have been raised about the way IPv6 addresses are currently allocated by RIPE and it appears that this situation will not change for at least four months. Nominet's IT director Jay Daley indicated that, unlike ARIN, RIPE was allowing only ISPs access to IPv6 addresses, leaving enterprises out in the cold. "We, for example, have our own IPv4 address allocation from RIPE, but we are unable to get an IPv6 allocation because their current allocation policy means we must be an ISP who gives addresses out to at least 200 customers. We don't give addresses to customers — we are an enterprise, in the same way that a large enterprise might want their own address space for local management of internet connectivity."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39287566,00.htm
More IPv6 Warnings on Why Organizations Must Plan Transition Now
The IPv6 Portal reports on a paper titled "The Choice: IPV4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6", written by Jordi Palet, warning that organizations must start planning for IPv6 now or "be aware that some already have, and you are beginning to be at a disadvantage." From the report: "This is going to affect the business of existing ISPs and to a greater extent, at a certain point in time, the creation of new ISPs. As a consequence if may have a deeper impact in developing regions (Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean) where the penetration of the Internet is not yet so widespread."
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_warnings_organizations_transition_now/
Preparing for the next generation - IPv6
The new IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the internet’s primary protocol, IPv4. It has a 128-bit addressing scheme that lets it support an order-of-magnitude more devices connected directly to the internet than IPv4’s 32-bit addressing. It also boasts autoconfiguration, end-to-end security and other enhancements. Computerworld contacted several leading network-management vendors, and here’s what they had to say about their efforts to meet a mid-2008 US federal government deadline to support the new protocol.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/99FE35D716136F33CC2572FA00832426
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200706181133/upgrade_of_web_addresses_to_handle_more_domain_names
IPv6 network-management tools still lacking
When it comes to network management software that supports IPv6, buyers should be wary. An increasing number of network monitoring and management tools support IPv6, but these products often don’t include the full set of features available in IPv4. And few commercial offerings provide the extra capabilities needed for IPv6, an upgrade to the internet’s primary protocol that has a new addressing scheme, built-in autoconfiguration and end-to-end security, among other features.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/C79BD94BE9BFEF07CC2572FA00834D2A
RIPE Community Requests that ICANN Signs DNS Root
During the RIPE 54 Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia on 7 -11 May, the RIPE DNS Working Group agreed that a formal request should be made to ICANN for it to sign the DNS root as soon as possible.
http://ripe.net/news/icann-root-signing.html
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2007/6/15/3022582.html
Combating Cyber-Squatting And Other Domain Name Maladies: An Overview Of UDRP Proceedings
Businesses that are working to establish an easily identifiable Internet presence oftentimes utilize their trademarks in their domain names in order to better direct customers to their website venues. Unfortunately, disputes many times occur when a business learns that some other individual or entity is using that enterprise's trademark or something very similar in such a way so as to confuse consumers. Moreover, some businesses have ended up having to deal with so-called cyber-squatters, individuals or businesses who register domain names with hopes of reselling them at a premium price. There are protocols and procedures in place through which some of these disputes can be resolved in a more timely manner.
http://www.article-warehouse.com/Article/Combating-Cyber-Squatting-And-Other-Domain-Name-Maladies--An-Overview-Of-UDRP-Proceedings/122451
NATO says urgent need to tackle cyber attack
NATO defense ministers agreed on Thursday that fast action was needed to tackle the threat of "cyber attacks" on key Internet sites after Estonia suffered a wave of assaults on its computer networks last month.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKJOH45001020070614
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/cyber_war_screaming_fist/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070614.wgtnato0614/BNStory/
us: Homeland Security to detail IT attacks
Officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 20 to discuss the findings of an investigation into the agency's own problems in battling electronic attacks and IT systems intrusions. In a hearing labeled "Hacking the Homeland: Investigating Cyber-security Vulnerabilities at the Department of Homeland Security," officials including DHS chief information officer Scott Charbo and Gregory Wilshusen, director of information security issues at the Government Accountability Office are scheduled to detail their findings in response to requests from Congress to test the agency's IT security defenses.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/15/Homeland-Security-on-the-hot-seat_1.html
Rethinking Domain Name Searches
Over the past year, Tucows has given a lot of thought to how customers search for domain names. The rising popularity of domains, combined with the proliferation of the domain name ‘aftermarket’, has made the task of finding the right name much more difficult than, say, four or five years ago. And to be honest, it doesn’t look like finding the right name is going to get any less challenging any time soon. In response, Tucows introduced a couple of features late last year designed to improve the quality of search results returned to customers. They unveiled their Name Suggestion feature, which uses technology from domain search gurus DomainsBot, to display available domain names related to a query based on keyword popularity, domain extension, word relevance and more.
http://blog.tucows.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/11/3013937.html
A new domain portfolio and monetization management tool
At the targeted TRAFFIC conference, which starts on Tuesday in New York City, Modern Gigabyte (the makers of the hosting billing software ModernBill), will be announcing the launch of their dnZoom tool. The system is a full hosted solution for domain monetization and management.
http://www.domaineditorial.com/archives/2007/06/17/a-new-domain-portfolio-and-monetization-management-tool/
How Cameroon Auctioned Its Internet Namespace
Early in August 2006, the Internet was awash with reports of a “typo-squatting” scheme involving Cameroon. According to these reports, “Internet authorities in in the West African nation that owns the .cm top level domain (TLD) have been accused of authorizing a DNS wildcard that has the effect of redirecting all accidental .cm traffic instead of returning an error.” In layman’s terms, Cameroon Internet authorities were redirecting all misspelled .com addressed (e.g. www.dibussi.cm instead of www.dibussi.com ) to an advert-based website (agoga.com), where they were making millions of dollars in pay-per-click advert revenue (Pay-per-click is an advertising system where advertisers pay an agreed amount for each click delivered to their site).
http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=1060
NameDrive Opens Park & Sell to All Members
NameDrive has always been more than a domain parking service. It offers a number of ways for domain owners to monetize, develop, and sell their domains. When the service launched it offered “Park & Sell”, which allowed domainers to park domains and then receive offers to purchase the domains for up to 96x monthly revenue. But the service wasn’t streamlined and there were limited buyers. When I inquired about becoming a buyer NameDrive said they weren’t accepting new buyers. I speculated that this was so they would have less competition when buying. But now NameDrive is opening up the Park & Sell service to let any NameDrive member buy domains — and it’s free.
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/06/15/namedrive-opens-park-sell-to-all-members/
Flipping Domains For Insane Profits – The 'where' And The 'how'
This is a quick way to make money online easily and quickly, if you are desperate for cash. It is like buying a piece of real estate and reselling it for a profit, only on a smaller scale of course. But the concept is similar and it is called flipping domains. You should take some time to think about which domain you want to flip, then head over to a domain registrar to register the domain. Some reputable registrars include GoDaddy and Namecheap. You need to go with a domain name that has value and that people are willing to pay for. Look for rising trends on the Internet and see if you can tap into the craze by flipping a domain name.
http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/Flipping-Domains-For-Insane-Profits---The--Where--And-The--How-/235004
UTube.com Trespass Claims Against YouTube Dismissed
You've got to feel sorry for the folks at Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, whose Web site is hosted at www.utube.com. Prior to October 2005, they got a few thousands visits a month to their site. After YouTube came on line at www.YouTube.com, that number started to climb, and now the pipe company's site gets 70,000 visitors a day. Apparently most of the visitors are looking for online videos, not used tube and pipe equipment. The increase in traffic has caused the utube.com site to crash, and the company's Web hosting costs have gone from less than $100 a month to more than $2,500 a month.
http://brownraysman.typepad.com/technology_law_update/2007/06/utubecom_trespa.html
au: Short Guide to au-domains
More than 700,000 au-domains are registered. How can a company or private person register an au-domain? Since July 1 2002 there are new rules for au-domains: The net.au and com.au-domains are still restricted to Australian Companies, but also a foreign company licenced to trade in Australia, an owner or applicant of a Trade Mark are entiteled to com.au-domains. The foreign company must not have an Australian Trade Mark: an international trade mark valid in Australia is sufficient.
http://verivox.de/News/ArticleDetails.asp?aid=53761&pm=1
http://www.pressebox.de/pressemeldungen/secura/boxid-111011.html
Lesley Cowley, CEO of Nominet Awarded First Woman of Technology in the 2007 First Women Awards
Judges acknowledge contribution in helping shape the global debate surrounding Internet standards and her active support of women within her own organisation.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/20247_First_Women_Award.pdf
http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4107
Register.com Launches Fully-Integrated Custom Web Design Service for Small Businesses (news release)
Register.com announced its new, end-to-end web design service called ’Build My Website-Custom’.
http://domaininformer.com/news/press/070614Registercom.html
Oversee.net Completes Acquisition of SnapNames (news release)
Oversee.net, a leading technology-driven online marketing solutions company, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of SnapNames, the operator of the largest available source of expired and deleting domain names.
http://domaininformer.com/news/press/070615Oversee.html
INDOM registrar officiel du .ASIA
INDOM est désormais registar officiel du .ASIA. Une conférence aura lieu sur ce sujet et l’actualité des noms de domaine le 21 juin prochain au Palais Brongniard. Inscrivez-vous!
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1234/indom-registrar-officiel-du-asia.php
L'AFNIC renouvelle son Conseil d'administration
Le gestionnaire de l'extension française .FR annonce la composition de son nouveau Conseil d'administration.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1235/france-l-afnic-renouvelle-son-conseil-d-administration.php
.IE: ouverture aux noms patronymiques
Le registre du .IE s’apprête à modifier ses règles de nommage des noms patronymiques et proposera l’enregistrement des noms de personnes en .IE d’ici cet été.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1233/irlande-ie-ouverture-aux-noms-patronymiques.php
Promociones de registro. ¿mecanismo para aumentar penetracion de nombres de dominio en un ccTLD?
El Estudio sobre crecimiento de ccTLDs en America Latina que viene desarrollando LatinoamerICANN, han permitido apreciar que las ofertas de registro (reducción de precios, ofertas por registro de largo plazo), acelerarian los procesos de crecimiento de nombres de dominio bajo un ccTLD.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1499
.cr: Reinicio de Promocion - Registre su Dominio desde tan sólo $14 por año
Con motivo de facilitar su presencia en Internet y debido a la buena respuesta por parte de nuestros usuarios, se reinicia la promoción de dominios en la que podrás obtener un dominio bajo .CR desde tan sólo $14 por año si lo registras por 2 años, o $15 si lo registras por 1 año. NIC-Internet Costa Rica, le brinda esta promoción solamente del 15 al 30 de junio, 2007.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1498
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