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How do you build a new internet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internetus: VeriSign Spent $570K Lobbying in 2007 [AP]
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3971856.htmlICANN seeks to
better protect domain name registrants
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028399nz: Macaulay elected new InternetNZ president
http://m-net.net.nz/1799/latest-news/latest-news/macaulay-elected-new-internetnz-president.phpGo Daddy & Afilias Announce Joint Venture Creating Alliance Registry in Support of usTLD Bid [news release]
http://dnalliance.us/archives/000032.htmlNeustar Losing .us Could Be Good for .com Registrants
http://www.circleid.com/posts/neustar_losing_us_domain_name/Rate of Link Decay by Bret Fausett
http://www.namebrief.com/content/view/21/1/
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How do you build a new internet?
How do you cut online crime, tackle child pornography, halt crippling viruses and get rid of spam? The answers could lie in a £200m successor to the internet that computer experts are already referring to as the next rendition of the virtual world.
Researchers in the US want at least $350m (£175m) to build the Global Environment for Network Innovations (Geni), touted by some as the possible replacement for today's internet. In Europe, similar projects are under way as part of the EU's Future and Internet
Research (Fire) programme, which is expected to cost at least £27m.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/01/news.internet
Why we must close the net by Sir Elton John
Pop legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN. Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing. He claims it is destroying good music, saying: ?The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. ?Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn?t bode well for long-term artistic vision. ?It?s just a means to an end.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html
http://ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?id=1892
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us: VeriSign Spent $570K Lobbying in 2007 [AP]
VeriSign spent US$570,000 in the first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government on Internet related issues, according to a disclosure form. VeriSign lobbied on issues related to privacy, taxation, e-mails and Web addresses, which are also known as domain names, according to the form posted online Monday by the Senate's public records office.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/31/ap3971856.html
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-18556726.htm
http://www.hemscott.com/news/latest-news/item.do?newsId=47985522184996
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/07/31/godaddy-verisign-lobby-capitol-hill/
After the dot: the latest net revolution
Ask someone to name a website and it's a virtual certainly they will say something ending with "dot com": Amazon.com, eBay.com, Facebook.com, it doesn't matter what, it's the same suffix. Dotcom is the internet for most people. But that may all change next year when the top level of the net ? the part after the dot ? is liberalised. From 2008, anyone wanting their own piece of the internet is welcome to apply for it. It won't be cheap (there will an application fee of around $100,000) and it won't be simple (you have to prove you are
capable of running a complex piece of the net's infrastructure) ? but it could mean a change in the way the online world works.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/31/comment.internet
Can You Spot the Real Utube?
Ralph Girkins, CEO of Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment, has been doing business online since the mid-1990s and has fielded angry e-mails before. But nothing prepared him for the rant that landed in his in box last October: "Where the f--- are all the videos??? 1.5 billion for this piece of s--- website? Google got taken!"
http://inc.com/magazine/20070801/can-you-spot-the-real-utube.html
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ICANN seeks to better protect domain
name registrants
ICANN is asking for the public's input as it revises its accreditation process for registrars, the companies that register and sell domain names.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028399
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135263-pg,1/article.html
http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php?id=1588008493
ICANN opens registrar reform up to public comment
The time for reform at ICANN has come. Long overdue changes to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement are now open for public comment on the ICANN website, as the aftershocks of the RegisterFly failure
continue to ripple through the organization entrusted with the technical stability of the internet we all know and love.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/30/icann_registrar_reform/
ICANN wants your feedback on registrar reform
ICANN is making progress on revamping its contract to better protect customers from registrar meltdown and is now asking the public for feedback. The organization launched its public consultation on the Registrar Accreditation Agreement late last week, which solicits feedback via e-mail on a number of possible amendments to the RAA.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070730-icann-wants-your-feedback-on-registrar-reform.html
http://telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=178082
SSAC Response to ICANN's Proposed Next Steps for IDN Deployment in the Root Zone
SSAC Response to IDN Program Director regarding ICANN's proposal for IDN deployment at the root level of the DNS The Security and Stability Advisory Committee has been invited to comment on ICANN's proposal for IDN deployment at the root level of the DNS.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-31jul07.htm
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InternetNZ to host IPv6 workshop [news release]
InternetNZ will host a technical workshop next week on IPv6. The five day workshop runs from 6 ? 10 August 2007. The technical workshop is being delivered by two offshore experts on IPv6 - Faraz Shamim from
Cisco Systems and Gaurab Upadaya from Packet Clearing House. A range of technical issues will be covered including IPv6 design and addressing, IPv6 neighbour discovery, IPv6 stateless auto-configuration and mobile IPv6. Much of the workshop will involve hands-on work with network equipment from Cisco Systems.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/media-ipv6workshop
Transition to IPv6 Address by Geoff Huston
Last month's column looked at the exhaustion of the IPv4 unallocated address pool and the state of preparedness in the Internet to grapple with this issue... There has been a considerable volume of discussion in various IPv6 and address policy forums across the world about how we should respond to this situation in terms of development of address distribution policies. Is it possible to devise address management
policies that might both lessen some of the more harmful potential impacts of this forthcoming hiatus in IPv4 address supply, and also provide some impetus to industry to move in the originally intended direction to transition into an IPv6 network?
http://www.circleid.com/posts/transition_to_ipv6_address/
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Neustar Losing .us Could Be Good for .com Registrants
Neustar is facing a potential loss of the Dot-US franchise as competitors bid against them. Why might this be of interest to .com registrants? ... The issue of antitrust with regards to the .com agreement has never really been properly settled, as a well-funded complainant hasn?t brought forward a case to full fruition in the courts. ICANN sold out the public by agreeing to a settlement that would see its own
coffers swell, at the expense of registrants, so they do not count.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/neustar_losing_us_domain_name/
Go Daddy allies to take over America
Afilias and Go Daddy want to together usurp NeuStar as the US government contractor responsible for the what they claim is the 'neglected' .us top-level internet domain. The two companies have formed a joint venture, The Domain Name Alliance Registry, and have applied to the US Department of Commerce to replace NeuStar as the custodian of .us.
http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D6593B1B-19D4-4E3C-B5CA-E827E9465D77
http://news.techwhack.com/6233/godaddy.us-domains/
http://domainnamenews.com/editorial/godaddy-and-afilias-created-joint-venture-in-order-to-bid-for-us-tld/786
Companies seek control of '.us' domain [AP]
In Britain, ".uk" is the suffix of choice for Internet addresses. In Germany, it's ".de." In the United States, however, ".us" is the forgotten stepchild. Web sites tend to prefer ".com," which was designed as a global moniker for commercial sites but is heavily populated by Americans. Two companies prominent in the domain name industry want to challenge that notion.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/02/1185648006141.html
http://businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8QODT6G1.htm
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/national/story/107085.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070801.wgtdomain0801/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070801.wgtdomain0801
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_AMERICAN_DOMAIN?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-01-15-25-53
Are GoDaddy and Afilias The Right Combination to Run .us?
GoDaddy and Afilias have made a bid to run .us. Are they the right parties to run this important domain?
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/01/are-godaddy-and-afilias-the-right-combination-to-run-us/
Go Daddy & Afilias Announce Joint Venture Creating Alliance Registry in Support of usTLD Bid [news release]
GoDaddy.com, Inc. and Afilias USA, Inc., have teamed up to create The Domain Name Alliance Registry, LLC (?Alliance Registry?), a
joint venture seeking to assume stewardship of the usTLD, America?s sovereign space on the Internet. Yesterday, Alliance Registry submitted a proposal in response to the request for quotations issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration for a registry operator for the usTLD.
http://afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2007-07-31-01
http://godaddy.com/gdshop/pressreleases/Alliance_Press_Release_7_31_07.pdf
http://dnalliance.us/archives/000032.html
http://www.circleid.com/posts/alliance_registry_go_daddy_afilias_us_domain/
DotAsia Announces Key Agreements with Deloitte Belgium, AGIP and Pool.com
DotAsia announced agreements with several global organizations that will play key roles in helping ensure the stable and orderly introduction of the .Asia extension into the social and technical fabric of the Internet. ... The companies will work together to oversee the process of screening all applications for domain names during the Sunrise period for trademark owners and businesses. Various Deloitte member firms and AGIP in the MENA region will be responsible for verifying that accepted applicants meet the requirements of the .Asia Sunrise policies.
http://www.asia/pressreleases/DotAsia-PR-2007-07-25-ENG.pdf
DotAsia Auctions Aim to Address Problems of the Past
The announcement this week that DotAsia will work with Pool.com on an auction system to introduce its new domain names is a good reaction to problems of the past.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/dotasia_organisation_domain_auction/
InternetNZ Announces Election Results
InternetNZ announces official results in this year?s InternetNZ Council elections. Peter Macaulay has been elected InternetNZ?s new President, for a two-year term. Macaulay is a former InternetNZ Councillor and has served in the past as Executive Director.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/mediareleases/electionresults
nz: Macaulay elected new InternetNZ president
Peter Macaulay, the chief executive and co-founder of The Number One IT Group, has been named the new president of InternetNZ following elections held on Friday. A former InternetNZ councillor, Macaulay has also served as the society's executive director. He was elected to a two-year term.
http://m-net.net.nz/1799/latest-news/latest-news/macaulay-elected-new-internetnz-president.php
uk: Video: Nominet chief talks domains
Recently voted the 'First Woman in Technology', Lesley Cowley, CEO of .uk registrar Nominet, discusses domains and the UK's role in shaping the global web
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39288350,00.htm
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au: Babcock & Brown website ire
Babcock & Brown has moved to shut down a financial services website that has been set up by another company. Blogger Pty Ltd, the operator of babcockandbrown.com.au is owned by a Sydney businessman. ASX-listed Babcock & Brown's legal department yesterday asked a leading law firm to investigate what action could be taken to remove the site from the web.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22161664-664,00.html
us: Boca Raton synagogue creates own Web site after dispute with founder
Zev Freidus is angry at Boca Raton Synagogue and he is holding a
hostage: its old Web site. ... He served as volunteer webmaster for six years, but in 2005, the synagogue asked him to turn over brsweb.org because he was using the Web site to advertise his real estate business. Freidus refused.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpsynagogue0801psaug01,0,1781325.story
Cruise operator wins rights to qe2.com [Reuters]
Carnival, the world's largest cruise operator, on Tuesday won exclusive rights to "qe2.com" after the firm that registered the Internet site was found to have no link to its most famous ocean liner.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647945522.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/01/1185647945522.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/tech/20070731-0623-internet-cybersquatting-qe2.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/31/internet.qe2.reut/
What's in a name? Just ask Abt
Abt Electronics Inc. has been using the www.abtelectronics.com Web site address, but it wasn't happy about it. They wanted abt.com. ... Abt filed a complaint with the forum in 2004 against Gregory Ricks, who owned the abt.com name. But the company lost. Then Abt discovered more evidence and re-filed the complaint earlier this year. The
forum ruled in March in Abt's favor, which then led to an appeal.
http://dailyherald.com/business/story.asp?id=336141
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How telcos are managing to deliver 'clean' traffic
From AT&T's Global Network Operations Center 40 miles west of New York City, CISO Ed Amoroso has as wide a window into the Internet as anyone. With a glance at a two-story wall covered with computer monitors and television screens, Amoroso can tell at any given moment how much e-mail, Web and voice-over-IP traffic is streaming across AT&T's data networks, buzzing its way from business to business, person to person. The amount of Internet traffic represented in the room is staggering. On the average business day, almost 10 petabytes of data pass through AT&T's networks--more information
than the entire Web contained in 2000.
http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php/id;934985980;fp;16;fpid;0
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Domain names return hefty profits
The Web addresses that businesses and people online call home have generated the equivalent of a real estate boom in the real world with speculators, appraisers, developers, investors, and brokers turning the names typed on navigation bars into hefty profits.
http://boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/07/30/online_domain_name_game_yields_real_profits_for_virtual_brokers/
http://iht.com/articles/2007/08/01/business/ptend02.php
Rate of Link Decay by Bret Fausett
Pardon me while I drill down a minute. The value of a domain name is primarily driven by two factors: its resale value and the value of its traffic. Those aren't necessarily separate. For most domain names, resale value is a function of a name's traffic. So at point of sale, a buyer is very interested in current and historic traffic.
http://www.namebrief.com/content/view/21/1/
Domainer Inc announces partners [news release]
Domainer Inc. announced that it has concluded a private placement of CDN$ 2.0 million with a group of investors including a Toronto-based venture capital firm. Flagship Bancorp Inc. acted as exclusive agent on the offering.
http://www.domainer.com/about-domainer/news-and-press-releases/
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Moniker.com Brings Adult Domain Name Auction to Internext Expo in Florida [news release]
Moniker will host another exciting domain name auction of premium adult domain names at Internext Expo, the world's largest business-to-business online and digital media adult conference, on August 3-5.
http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-30-2007/0004635315
Sedo's Seven-Figure Sale of Chinese.com Leads the Charge in Another Banner Week for Domain Names
Sedo.com issued a brief press release on 23 July announcing they had brokered the sale of Chinese.com
for $1 million.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales07-31-07.htm
http://www.sedo.de/presse/presse_230707.php4?tracked=&partnerid=&language=d [news release in German]
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Berlin lehnt .berlin mit Verweis auf das Heise-Forum ab
Die Bemühungen um eine eigene Top-Level-Domain für die deutsche Hauptstadt stoßen beim Berliner Senat auf Ablehnung. Dabei verweist Berlins Regierender Bürgermeister auf eine Diskussion im Heise-Forum, die als repräsentativ anzusehen sei.
http://golem.de/0708/53849.html
Keine
Unterstützung des Berliner Senats für Berlin-Domain .berlin
Der Berliner Senat wird die von der dotBerlin GmBH angeregte und geplante Top Level Domain .berlin nicht unterstützen. Unter der neuen TLD sollen sich Berliner Unternehmen, Verbände und Bürger zusammenschließen. Damit soll für alle Interessenten auf der ganzen Welt eine regionale Identität im Internet entstehen, wie die Initiatoren formulieren.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93643
ICANN will mehr Schutz für Domain-Inhaber
Im März hatte die ICANN beschlossen, den in die Jahre gekommenen Standardvertrag mit den einzelnen Domain-Verwaltern (Registraren) zu überarbeiten. Nachdem zunächst intern Vorschläge gesammelt wurden, beginnt nun die Phase der öffentlichen Diskussion.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93528
IPv6: Die Zukunft hat kein Geschäftsmodell
Ein neuer Vorschlag, nach dem das US-Internet bis 2011 vollständig auf IPv6 umgestellt sein soll, wirft die Frage auf, warum die Migration auf das neue Protokoll auch in Österreich wesentlich langsamer vonstatten geht als ursprünglich gedacht.
http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/211596/
Staatsanwaltschaften verweigern Provider-Abfragen zu IP-Adressen
Ein Bericht von heise online über den Beschluss des Amtsgerichts Offenburg zur Ermittlung von Tauschbörsennutzern durch Strafverfolgungsbehörden hatte für einiges mediales Echo gesorgt. Mittlerweile liegen der Redaktion ältere Beschlüsse von Staatsanwaltschaften vor, die in eine ähnliche Richtung weisen. Von einer
Einzelfallentscheidung kann demzufolge nicht mehr ausgegangen werden.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93693
Internet-Domain erreicht durch Auktion Höchstpreis von 1,1 Mio. US-Dollar [news release]
Die Internet-Domain chinese.com erlangte mit 1,1 Millionen US-Dollar den bisher höchsten Verkaufspreis in einer Domain-Auktion von Sedo. Die weltweit führende Handelsbörse für Domainnamen konnte die Domain bereits sicher an den Käufer, ein Unternehmen aus Hong Kong, transferieren.
http://www.sedo.de/presse/presse_230707.php4?tracked=&partnerid=&language=d
Sedo startet erste Premium-Domain-Auktion auf GreatDomains.com [news release]
Sedo startet diesen Donnerstag, den 19. Juli 2007, um 20 Uhr MEZ die
erste der ab sofort monatlich laufenden Auktionen für qualitativ hochwertige Domains auf GreatDomains.com. Die Auktionen haben eine Laufzeit von sieben Tagen.
http://www.sedo.de/presse/presse_180707.php4?tracked=&partnerid=&language=d
L?anonymat dans le Whois français
Le TGI Versailles autorise l?AFNIC à lever l?anonymat sur le ou les titulaires de vingt-cinq noms de domaine similaires à des marques du groupe 3 Suisses. L'occasion de s'interroger sur des enjeux tels que la préservation de l?anonymat et la protection des droits des tiers.
http://domainesinfo.fr/chronique/153/emmanuel-gillet-l-anonymat-dans-le-whois-francais.php
Comment sont choisis les
lieux des réunions ICANN ?
Deux membres de l'équipe ICANN sont actuellement à Paris pour évaluer notre candidature pour la 2ème réunion de l'ICANN de 2008. L'occasion d'en savoir plus sur la façon dont ces choix se font.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1274/comment-sont-choisis-les-lieux-des-reunions-icann.php
Vente record du site Business.com
345 millions de dollars. C?est la somme déboursée par l?éditeur nord américain R.H. Donnelley pour l?acquisition du site business.com.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1273/vente-record-du-site-business-com.php
Un code de conduite pour les registrars chinois
Les bureaux d'enregistrement de noms de domaine chinois
lancent une convention "d'autodiscipline" pour assainir leur marché local.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1272/chine-un-code-de-conduite-pour-les-registrars-chinois.php
Entran en vigor las nuevas Políticas Generales de Nombres de Dominio
A partir del día 1ro. de Agosto de 2007, entran en vigor las nuevas Políticas Generales de Nombres de Dominio bajo el ccTLD .mx
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1517
El NAP CABASE resolverá 50 millones de búsquedas de dominios .com y .net por día
Tras el acuerdo celebrado con la firma Verisign, el NAP CABASE alojará un sitio de resolución para los
dominios ?.com? y ?.net?.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1516
Taller IXP en El Salvador - Presentaciones
Informamos que se encuentran publicadas las presentaciones realizadas el primer día del Taller sobre Puntos de Intercambio de Tráfico (IXP) llevado a cabo en el Hotel Hilton Princess, San Salvador, El Salvador los días 18 en su sesión teórica y el 19 de Julio en la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) en su sesión práctica se encuentran disponibles.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1515
La historia
de Internet - la experiencia latinoamericana - No. 2
Pablo Hinojosa ha publicado la segunda parte de esta interesante recopilación de información sobre la experiencia latinoamericana en materia de Internet.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1514
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