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Cyber squatters ride on Sochi's Olympic success | Is IT losing the
battle against DNS attacks? | au: Web of confusion between domain names
and trademarks | The Web: Are You Truly Master Of Your Domain? by David
M. Kelly (Boston Business Journal)(reg req'd) | The Most Expensive Web
Addresses
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http://techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=9518The Fragility of DNS
http://networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=201001838us: Government, contractors hit in targeted attack
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/17/Government-and-contractors-hit-in-targeted-attack_1.htmlDNS Security Problems Widespread and Poorly Understood: Study
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001880Australia should lead way on IPv6 by Philip Argy
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22083788-5013038,00.htmlScarcity of IPv4
Addresses by Patrik Fältström
http://www.circleid.com/posts/scarcity_ipv4_addresses/Chinese Internet Population Reaches Higher
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/07/19/5652-chinese-internet-population-reaches-higher/Chinese users flood the Internet
http://variety.com/article/VR1117968776.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1A Domain Name Worth $100 Million
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/a-domain-name-worth-100-million/in: Put some farmland and Internet domain names in your
investment portfolio
http://indiadaily.com/editorial/17585.aspNew gold rush: Internet domains snagging huge amounts of money (AP)
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--domainnames0715jul15,0,5859427.story**********************
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OECD Communications Outlook 2007
The OECD Communications Outlook 2007 presents the most recent comparable data on communication sector performance and provides information on policy frameworks in OECD countries. The report also provides detailed time series data of up to 10 years for a number of key indicators. In addition, for the first time, the 2007 edition includes analysis of the communication sector in five large non-OECD countries:
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The report includes information and statistics on on internet subscribers, internet hosts, domain names, web servers, secure servers, national and regional internet development and peering. The report is in pdf format and is 319 pages, or over 5mb in size.
https://www.oecd.org/document/17/0,3343,en_17642234_17642806_38876369_1_1_1_1,00.html**********************
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Domain name scammers target uk.biz
Domain name scammers are once again targeting UK firms. Typically, the scam, which is still under investigation, starts with calls to domain owners warning them that a variant of the domain they own has been bought by a third party. Prospective marks are invited to outbid these third parties by placing higher bids with domain registration
entities that falsely claim to be partners with Nominet, the UK registrar.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/17/domain_name_scam/Scam targets domain name holders
A new scam has come to light using publicly available "whois" data to rip off domain name owners. The scam, like many other increasingly targeted attacks, uses contact information available in the publicly available "whois" database to direct its emails, according to industry newsletter Domain Name Wire. The emails claim to originate from a company called Domain Renewal, which operates a professional-looking site and offers to renew users' or companies' domain names.
http://techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=9518The Fragility of DNS
A recent study conducted by Mazerov Research
and Consulting suggests that despite a multitude of costly and elaborate efforts to keep Domain Name Systems (DNS) protected, companies are still suffering from a barrage of denial-of-service, pharming or cache poisoning attacks.
http://networkcomputing.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=201001838http://weblog.infoworld.com/zeroday/archives/2007/07/dns_attacks_hit.htmlhttp://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070717/20070717005635.htmlus: Government, contractors hit in targeted attack
Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors, and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password
information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/17/Government-and-contractors-hit-in-targeted-attack_1.htmlDNS Security Problems Widespread and Poorly Understood: Study
Nearly half of IT and business professionals surveyed by Mazerov Research reported a security compromise of their Domain Name System servers, despite spending money on overlapping security products.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001880http://itnews.com.au/News/56671,dns-security-problems-widespread-and-poorly-understood-study.aspxhttp://techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=9538Over Here or Over There, Server Protection Is Key
This distressing story from Government Computer News focuses on government servers, but there seems to be no reason to assume what is happening isn’t a danger to corporate servers as well. Tools available to Internet browsers, the writer points out, are becoming more adept at identifying questionable Web sites and stopping phishing attempts. That’s great. But it’s also true that the malware community is clever and never at a loss for what to do. Its response, according to the story and the Symantec release upon which it is based, is to find
loosely protected government servers and use them to host phishing sites that attack that government.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/top/?p=155Cyber Extortionists Reappear, Attack U.S. Companies
Online extortionists have resurfaced, breaking into users' systems, encrypting their data, and then holding it hostage until a $300 ransom is paid. A cyberblackmailer tormented users in Russia between 2005 and 2006. Now the extortionists have reappeared, according to researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. And it also appears they've branched outside Russian borders.
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001837Bots Driving Click Fraud
Bot nets are driving up click fraud, according to Click Forensics, a click auditing
company. "This is a growing problem for the industry and one that's getting worse and not better," said Tom Cuthbert, president and CEO of Click Forensics, Inc. The company's findings are based on data from its Click Fraud Network, which attempts to identify and track pay-per-click advertising fraud across over 4,000 online advertisers and ad agencies.
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Australia should lead way on IPv6 by Philip Argy
Philip Argy says he has often commented on the need for Australia to identify and develop expertise in technologies or areas that offer the potential for us to create competitive advantage or innovative products and services that the rest of the world will need or want.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22083788-5013038,00.htmlScarcity of IPv4 Addresses by Patrik Fältström
Patrik Fältström writes, "My friend Kurtis writes in his blog some points he has been thinking of while discussing 'when we run out of IPv4 addresses'. In reality, as he points out so well, we will not run out. It will be harder to get addresses. It is also the case that unfortunately people that push for IPv6 claim IPv6 will solve all different kinds of problem. Possibly also the starvation problems in the world."
http://www.circleid.com/posts/scarcity_ipv4_addresses/za: All Systems Go for IPv6 in SA
At the end of June AfriNIC ratified a long-discussed policy that allows the allocation of ‘Provider Independent’ address blocks of the
next-generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) to certain end-user organisations, most notably our registry in South Africa, Uniforum, which manages co.za domain names.
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Australian broadband among world's worst: OECD
The OECD has passed judgement on Australia's broadband in a study calling it among the slowest and most expensive in the world, however, Communications Minister Helen Coonan claims it was a "strong report card" for the nation's infrastructure. ... Communications Minister Helen Coonan, however, preferred to concentrate on the upside of the report, such as Australia's relatively high level of domain name registrations per capita.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Australian-broadband-among-world-s-worst-OECD/0,130061791,339280104,00.htmus: DoC seeks manager and operator of .us
The Department of Commerce is seeking to procure the services of a Contractor to manage, maintain, and operate the usTLD under NTIA’s supervision. The DoC is seeking to acquire centralised management and coordination of the registry, registrar, database, and information services for the usTLD. The usTLD provides a locus for registering domain names and serving the Internet community in the United States. As such, the DoC intends the usTLD be available to a wide range of registrants. The DoC is seeking proposals to achieve a number of objectives which are outlined on their “synopsis”.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/vendors/usTLD01_070707.htmChinese Internet Population Reaches Higher
The latest report from the China Internet Network Information Center shows that as of June 30, 2007, there were 162 million Internet users in China, which made the country rank second in the world next to the United States in terms of Internet population. ... The report shows that about 44 million Chinese users use mobile phones to surf online, which was 2.6 times higher than last year. In addition, .CN domain name websites reached 810,000, increasing by 137.5%, and the number of .CN websites exceeded that of .COM for the first time.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/07/19/5652-chinese-internet-population-reaches-higher/http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6219100.htmlhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/18/content_6395741.htmChinese users flood the Internet
China has 9.18 million domain names and 1.31 million websites.
http://variety.com/article/VR1117968776.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1http://varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1708/1/Swedish internet domain introduces minority language letters for the Net
The Swedish internet domain .se has introduced new letters that include the minority language alphabet. Since 2003 it has been possible to register SE. domains with
å, ä, ö, é and ü. Now, the coverage has grown from 42 letters to almost 200, covering all the letters from Sweden’s minority language alphabets.
http://eurolang.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2925DOT TK - a new approach to make a whole TLD free of illicit content
Dot TK – the Internet registry for .TK domain names, announced the launch of the latest version of WatchDot, the content filtering system used to check newly registered websites for illicit content, such as adult entertainment, messages of hate and other websites that do no comply with Dot TK’s content policy.
http://dot.tk/en/press_jul16-07.pdf11,111,111 .de domains
In the early afternoon of July 12, 2007, the German domain registry DENIC processed the
registration request for a special .de domain. With “pressious.de” the “schnappszahl” of 11,111,111 domains was reached. The domain holder is the owner of a printing shop in Westphalia. No more than one year ago DENIC eG celebrated the registration of the ten millionth .de domain.
http://www.denic.de/en/denic/presse/press_83.htmlhttp://www.denic.de/en/denic/news/news_51.htmlEU NameSpace is Dead? by Michele Neylon
The European Union's .eu TLD sunrise and landrush has probably been discussed to death, but what is the landscape like over a year later? A lot of industry insiders were right to express their doubts about the stability of .eu following on from the high profile squats that have been discussed here at length. Of course any discussion on a new TLD would have to wait
until after the first wave of renewals. That happened in April, so now, in July, it's a good as time to take stock of the situation.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/eu_namespace_is_dead/New Internet domain starts: dot-asia
Any individual, business or organisation based in Asia will be able to apply for a website address in the ".asia" domain starting on Tuesday, organisers said.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=120232http://www.indiaenews.com/asia/20070717/61082.htmhttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet__Telecom/Applications_start_for_asia_domain_name/articleshow/2209685.cmshttp://nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30041162http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=74062za: Telkom wins domain dispute
Telkom has become the first company to win a domain name dispute in terms of the new arbitration procedure that oversees local domain name disputes.
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India TV wins Internet domain case against US firm
Rajat Sharma's India TV has won an Internet domain case against a US-based firm with the Delhi High Court restraining the latter from using a web address to broadcast Indian TV programmes in its original form.
http://www.indiaprwire.com/businessnews/20070717/23492.htmhttp://newspostindia.com/report-7717http://www.indiaenews.com/business/20070717/61173.htmhttp://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1110441http://siliconindia.com/shownews/36451**********************
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us: Democrats split over Terre Haute mayor's race prompts Net action
A campaign committee bought four “Democrats for Duke” Internet addresses the day after someone publicly announced the group’s creation to support Republican mayoral candidate Duke Bennett. But the committee making the purchase supports Bennett’s opponent.
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Search Optimization: SEO Myths
Every professional field has its own set of "myths" -- things that people either within or outside the profession (or both) take to be true about it. SEO is no exception. If anything, the field is a little more prone to myths because something that worked last week, last month, or last year may no longer yield results. In this article, we take a look at some of the more common SEO myths.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/SEO-Myths/**********************
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A Domain Name Worth $100 Million
It may just be the most expensive domain name
so far. The Answers Corporation, which runs Answers.com, just announced it has paid $100 million in cash to buy Lexico Publishing Group, a privately held California company whose main business is running the Dictionary.com site. Dictionary.com is Lexico’s greatest asset. The site attracts 11 million users a month, and 85 percent of them come from people typing one of its domain names into their browsers. Lexico also runs Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/a-domain-name-worth-100-million/in: Put some farmland and Internet domain names in your investment portfolio
The best investment over the next ten years will be the farmlands across the country and Internet Domain Names.
http://indiadaily.com/editorial/17585.aspNew gold rush: Internet domains snagging huge amounts of money (AP)
Inside a midtown hotel, Larry Fischer is on his cell phone with a financial backer as his partner Ari Goldberger does quick research on a laptop computer. They are bidding furiously at this auction of Internet domain names, with hopes of snagging megayachts.com. The duo won't be deterred. They want this name.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--domainnames0715jul15,0,5859427.storyhttp://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1184576789648http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/120317.htmlhttp://www.sunjournal.com/story/221032-3/Business/Internet_domains_snag_big_bucks/First GreatDomains Domain Name Auction Starts Thursday
Online auction to feature premium dot.com domains. Sedo acquired GreatDomains last month and immediately announced plans to use the site for premium auctions. Its first premium auction will start this Thursday, July 19 at 2:00pm EST. GreatDomains’ premium auction events will be held once per month and last seven days.
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/07/17/first-greatdomains-domain-name-auction-starts-thursday/Big Deal for Dollars.com Tops This
Week's Domain Sales Chart
Rick Latona of DigiPawn.com, who has long been associated with this domain, decided to let it go when buyer Virtual Network SA of Switzerland weighed in with a $650,000 offer. This is the 6th biggest sale reported so far this year.
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Netcrafts Internet-Statistiker finden erstmals mehr als 125 Millionen Websites
Die Internet-Statistiker von Netcraft konnten in diesem Monat 125.626.329 Websites erreichen. Das sind 3,62 Millionen mehr als im Juni und erstmals mehr als 125 Millionen. In diesem Zeitraum stieg der Marktanteil für Webserver von Microsoft um 1,01 Prozentpunkte auf 32,8 Prozent, während der Anteil von Apache um 1,11 Prozentpunkte auf 52,6 Prozent zurückging.
Damit habe sich ein bereits seit einiger Zeit haltender Trend fortgesetzt, teilt Netcraft mit. Google weise knapp 600.000 mehr Websites auf und komme nun auf 4,53 Prozent Marktanteil.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/92816Paris et Belgrade candidats pour l'ICANN 2008
La deuxième réunion ICANN de 2008 se tiendra obligatoirement en Europe. Paris et Belgrade sont tous les deux prêts à la recevoir. Qui l'emportera ? Réponse définitive en septembre.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1260/paris-et-belgrade-candidats-pour-l-icann-2008.phpLe parlement allemand soutient le .BERLIN
Si la création du .BERLIN irrite actuellement le sénat allemand, elle rencontre un vrai soutien de la part du parlement berlinois.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1257/berlin-le-parlement-allemand-soutient-le-berlin.phpLegrenelle-environnement.fr vs legrenelleenvironnement.fr
Une dépêche publiée sur lemonde.fr fait état d’une polémique autour du nom de domaine legrenelle-environnement.fr portail du nouveau ministère de l'écologie et du développement durable.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1263/legrenelle-environnement-fr-vs-legrenelleenvironnement-fr.phpPlus de 11 millions de .DE
Avec 11 119 714 .DE enregistrés, l’extension allemande confirme sa place de leader des extensions géographiques mondiales.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1262/allemagne-plus-de-11-millions-de-de.phpMexicanos crearán proyecto de dominio de internet para latinos
Mexicanos tendrán una participación crucial en la creación de un dominio en Internet para latinos durante los meses que le restan al 2007.
http://eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/41399.htmlhttp://universia.net.mx/index.php/news_user/content/view/full/49484/Entrevista a Oscar Robles sobre la creacion de un gTLD para America Latina
Para entender la real dimension del anuncio de la alianza entre NIC Mexico y eCOM-LAC para la creacion de un gTLD para America Latina, LatinoamerICANN ha entrevistado a Oscar Robles, quien
tiene bajo su responsabilidad la gestión del NIC Mexico para obtener su perspectiva del tema.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1510Seleccionan a NIC México como socio en la búsqueda de un dominio en Internet para latinos.
Monterrey, México, 10 de Julio de 2007.- La Federación de Latinoamérica y el Caribe para Internet y el Comercio Electrónico (eCOM-LAC), ha elegido a NIC México como socio en la búsqueda de un dominio en Internet para la comunidad latina.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1509Consultas en espanol sobre el Plan Estrategico de
ICANN
Reporte enviado por Pablo Hinojosa, liason del ICANN para America Latina.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1508+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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