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ICANN Request for Information on Domain Tasting | ICANN Launches Latest Consultation on New TLDs | Editorial: ICANN's WHOIS Policy Shift Would Be Criminal Negligence | Opinion: The Return of the IPv4 Shortage by Larry Seltzer | 2,500,000 .nl domain names registered | nz: Third consultation on RMC Policy Review
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us: Web address bill by Sen. Little will become law - prevents cybersquatting personal/business names
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=8132
Estonian Cyber-War Highlights Civilian Vulnerabilities
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2166125,00.aspICANN spreads love, opens bosom to all
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/06/icann_magazine_fellowship/Aussie Labor party sparks cyber land grab
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/07/1186252686007.htmlHe sells employer's Web name, takes off with
stripper
http://greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/GPG0101/70806123Cybersquatting: Global problem, local solutions
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=43695441-D535-4B29-ABA5-A32641C2757ECitizenHawk TypoAlert: Cybersquatting on Celebrity Names is Big Business [news release]
http://citizenhawk.com/newsevents/pressreleases/celebritynames.htmlICANN Takes a Lick at Domain Tasting by Larry Seltzer
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2167112,00.aspPharmacy.com for Sale, for US$50m?
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Global Alliance Launches Website, Blog For Geneva Youth Forum [news release]
The United Nations Global Alliance for ICT for Development launched the website of the Forum on Youth and ICT for Development on 21 June, to be held on 24-26 September in Geneva, Switzerland. The Youth Forum aims to involve young people in discussions with policymakers, thought leaders and representatives from the private sector and civil society, and to explore ways to empower them and encourage their full participation in society through the use of information and
communications technology.
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us: Web address bill by Sen. Little will become law
In 120 days, a person in New York state will no longer be able to register a domain name that is similar to or the same as another living person or business. The law, sponsored by state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury, is aimed at internet users who turn a profit by purchasing a domain name and then selling it back to the namesake.
http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=8132http://www.circleid.com/posts/law_domain_registration_another_person/http://domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/new-york-state-makes-their-own-domain-laws/814us: Senator Little's domain name law signed [news release]
A measure sponsored by Senator Betty Little (R,C,I-Queensbury) aimed at preventing a person from registering a domain name that is similar to or the same as another living person or business with the specific intent to profit from selling the domain name to that person or business has been signed into law.
http://senatorlittle.com/press_archive_story.asp?id=17598Greater Transparency in Domain Name Pricing
by George Kirikos
Tucows issued a press release today wherein they announced lower domain name pricing and enhanced services. The bigger change, which might set a trend for other registrars, is the greater transparency of the registry and ICANN fees relative to the fees charged by Tucows. Tucows? fees will be $3 per domain above the combined registry and ICANN fees.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/070807_transparency_domain_name_pricing/Tucows Reduces Wholesale Domain Name Pricing [news release]
Tucows announced, effective immediately, it has reduced its list price for wholesale domain name registrations. Additionally, the cost breakdown of a domain name is now transparent to customers, revealing Registry and ICANN fees as well as the Tucows management fee. This new pricing structure will provide increased visibility for
wholesale domain customers ahead of the announced October 2007 Registry domain name price increases.
http://about.tucows.com/media/news/tucows-reduces-wholesale-domain-name-pricing/Tucows Q2 profit rises to US$3.2M from year-ago US$200,000, sales up 33% (CP)
Tucows's second-quarter profit rose to US$3.2 million, from US$200,000 a year earlier, as revenue jumped 33 per cent on "atypically large" sales of domain names and revenue growth across all areas of the business.
http://www.canadaeast.com/progress/article/44610Tucows Revenues Falls Short, Stock Tumbles
Shares of domain name company Tucows are down over 15% in early trading after announcing earnings.
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/07/tucows-revenues-come-up-short-stock-tumbles/http://domainnamenews.com/registrars/tucows-introduces-cost-pricing-model/813**********************
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Estonian Cyber-War Highlights Civilian Vulnerabilities
The online attacks against Estonia are being referred to as the first Internet war. If this "war" is anything to go by, simple folk such as you and I may end up as the weak links in our country's defense. Indeed, the attack's impact was not what we might have expected: It was the civilian infrastructure used by banks, ISPs and home users?not the military's?that was under siege.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2166125,00.aspThe Good, the Bad, the Net Neutrality Detector
DNS rebinding isn't just a dangerous design flaw in client-side scripting, it's also a tool to detect hostility to Net neutrality.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2167648,00.aspPhishers Now Targeting Domain Registrars by Edward Falk
This is an issue of some concern and should be watched carefully: phishers are now trying to get passwords of domain registrants. Currently, correspondents inform me that GoDaddy is the target, but there?s no reason to think the phishers won?t expand to other registrars. Normally, phishers go after bank accounts or other financial information, or sometimes the online accounts of users so that they may send spam.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/070807_phishing_domain_name_registration/Nearly 60% of gov.vn domain names attacked by hackers
Almost 60% of gov.vn websites have been hacked according to surveys by the Government Commission for Code according to a report in VietNamNet. The report says ?attacks take place in many forms but the most popular form is attacking the archive system of ISPs to delete information about service charges, steal information of enterprises, passwords of credit accounts, etc.?
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ICANN spreads love, opens bosom to all
ICANN continued its ongoing outreach efforts last week with two announcements: the
establishment of an ICANN online magazine and the expansion of a pilot fellowship program oriented towards those from countries relatively underrepresented in the ICANN processes.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/06/icann_magazine_fellowship/Fellowships to Ensure Global Voices Heard at ICANN
More voices from across the globe will be heard at ICANN's 30th International Public Meeting in Los Angeles later this year thanks to the global fellowships program launched on August 2, 2007, a press release by ICANN stated.
http://net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=4408A Closer Look At The Monitors
If the old adage is true that what stands behind every good man is a woman, what stands behind every powerful
organization? A committee. Almost all organizations that direct everything from software to soda pop, have an advisory or oversight committee behind them creating regulations, monitoring conduct, and making sure all the rules are followed. When reviewing registry domain names, there is a committee standing behind that process to make sure things happen in a fair and safe manner. That committee's name is ICANN.
http://searcharticles.net/article.cfm/id/63951Russian Internet conference next month
In a little over a month (September 10-12), IT professionals from around the world will meet at the Vatutinki residence near Moscow, Russia. ... Topics on the agenda include (but are not limited to): IPv6, ENUM, DNSsec, Internationalized Domain Names, presentation and discussion about ISOC and ICANN.
http://blog.icann.org/?p=177Top internet experts to speak during conference
TWO of the world?s leading authorities on the Internet will in Honiara next week to participate in the Pacific Information Communication Technology (PacINET). They are ICANN and ISOC.
http://solomonstarnews.com/?q=node/14679ICANN: Procedures for IDN TLD Evaluation Deployment in the Root Zone
ICANN has finalized the procedures describing how IANA will manage the insertion, administration and removal of IDNs in the root zone for the upcoming evaluation. The procedures were posted previously for public comments. That comment, as well as advice from the technical community (including RSSAC), was taken into consideration in editing the final versions.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-06aug07.htmMonthly Magazine Introduced by ICANN
ICANN, this week announced the launch of its monthly magazine which will review recent developments in policy topics, provide details of recent board meetings, the news from around the world, and other developments within the organization.
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IPv6 will require learning curve for network admins
Business IT managers be forewarned: Implementing networks with the emerging Internet Protocol Version 6 standard will take substantial preparation, including training developers and IPv6 administrators
charged with provisioning office applications.
"We've found a gap in the knowledge of administrators and IPv6 developers. There's a learning curve in setting up these environments," said Erica Johnson, the IPv6 consortium manager at the independent InterOperability Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029058http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135564-c,networking/article.htmlhttp://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1267256597;fp;2;fpid;1What You Need to Know About IPv6
Vendors and
government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are unprepared for the new protocol. Here's more on what you need to know about IPv6. PC World has answers to the questions What is IPv6? Why change? So how big is this IPv6? While we are on the subject, does IPv6 have anything to do with Moonv6? And Why Moon?
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CNNIC Exposes Illegal Domain Name Registrars
The China Internet Network Information Center has published the names of two Internet domain name registrars who have been accused of illegal activities. Shanghai Jinyue Network Technology Company and
Suzhou Huayan Network Technology Company have allegedly sent intimidating emails to terrify Internet users to try to have them change their domain registrars. CNNIC says it will verify the complaint reports and transfer them to the relevant criminal authorities.
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/08/07/5729-cnnic-exposes-illegal-domain-name-registrars/What is the need for the ?.post? TLD that UPU is pushing for with ICANN?
Establishing a ?.post? TLD for the worldwide postal sector will provide an opportunity to establish the worldwide postal sector?s presence on the Internet, bringing to cyberspace many of the values normally associated with the physical postal network, including security and trust, which are two issues currently preventing businesses and consumers from performing more online
transactions.
http://thehindubusinessline.com/2007/08/08/stories/2007080850070900.htmmy: Anyone for '.asia' domain names?
Companies in this country that want Internet domain names with the extension ".asia" can start applying for them now.
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/8/7/corpit/18348474&sec=corpitza: New body for domain name disputes
Business owners involved in disputes with entities or persons over cybersquatting as well as other cases where someone is using the company name as their domain name, can finally have an easier and painless way to resolve problems with the launch of a South African domain name authority.
http://www.businessowner.co.za/Article.aspx?Page=23&type=19&Item=3347http://domainnews.com/litigation/2220070808/new-south-african-body-for-domain-name-disputes/Companies seek control of '.us' Internet domain
Two companies prominent in the domain name industry want to better market the ".us" Internet domain.
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Aussie Labor party sparks cyber land grab
After its high-profile
launch of Australian Labor leader Kevin Rudd's campaign site, Kevin07, it has emerged that his strategists have made the basic error of not registering obvious variations of the site's address.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/07/1186252686007.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/07/1186252686007.htmlhttp://stuff.co.nz/stuff/4157393a28.htmlHe sells employer's Web name, takes off with stripper
A 41-year-old Sheboygan man was charged today with selling his employer?s domain name for $200,000 and using corporate credit cards to finance international trips with a stripper girlfriend, according to a complaint filed in Milwaukee
County Circuit Court.
http://greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/GPG0101/70806123http://sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/SHE0101/70806105/1973/frontpagehttp://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=643055http://chippewa.com/articles/2007/08/06/ap-state-wi/d8qrsj000.txthttp://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/06/200000-sofacom-domain-name-stolen-by-employee/Sale of domain name leads to trouble.com
A Wisconsin man may spend the next five years of his life in jail for allegedly selling his company's domain name, sofa.com, without permission.
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/Quirks/2007/08/07/sale_of_domain_name_leads_to_troublecom/9039/us: Inquiry in Schuylkill race can proceed
The Schuylkill County district attorney can continue to investigate accusations that a candidate for county controller violated state election law by taking Internet domain names referring to his opponent, then trying to cover up his actions.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b7_1elect.5980637aug07,0,7373319.storyWhat happens when two sites share similar names
Sounds like a disaster! I'm talking about the headaches suffered by Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment in Perrysburg, Ohio, long after video-sharing site YouTube caught fire with millions of daily users.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/smallbiz/2007/08/what-happens-wh.htmlCybersquatting: Global problem, local solutions
Internet turned the word ?communication? into a multilingual commodity; as a result, we have seen big number of deals rising on this new digital state of things. Space and time boundaries have fallen, and people get closer, even when they are physically distant from each other.
Internationalization is not an exclusive concept for the Web. Nowadays, we are actors moving over an immaterial place, composed by bits and bytes, the so-called Cyberspace. Following there is a discussion on the cybersquatting problem and its local solutions.
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=43695441-D535-4B29-ABA5-A32641C2757ECitizenHawk TypoAlert: Cybersquatting on Celebrity Names is Big Business [news release]
CitizenHawk reported that cybersquatters are fraudulently using celebrity names to generate advertising revenue. In the latest CitizenHawk TypoAlert, the company details the impact of cybersquatting on some of today?s biggest names. The alert includes a list of well-known actors, musicians, sports stars and other notable people and an
estimate of the number of potentially trademark-infringing domains on each brand.
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MSN Messenger is Censoring .info Domains
Reports have been surfacing on various blogs about Microsoft?s MSN messenger users who have recently found URLs containing the .info TLD extension blocked entirely. Moreover the censorship is not limited to the URL in question, but any string in your message that contains the string ?.info?.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/07080616_msn_messenger_censor_info_domains/http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/08/microsoft_messenger_is_filteri.phpStudy Finds Companies Are Overpaying for DNS Security -- Why Not Just Use OpenDNS?
A recent study commissioned by DNS appliance provider Secure64 reportedly found that companies are exhausting their budget on multiple DNS security applications, and still remain vulnerable after the expenditures. The study, conducted by Denver-based Mazerov Research and Consulting, included 465 IT and business professionals.
http://domaininformer.com/news/news/070807OpenDNS.html.Mac Expands Storage, Adds Personal Domains
Apple boosted .Mac's offerings today by increasing standard storage space tenfold and adding a new feature, personal Web addresses. ... Another new feature of
.Mac is the ability to use a personal Web address. A new "Personal Domain" button now appears in users' .Mac settings windows, and enables you to forward a registered Web site domain directly to a Web site hosted on .Mac.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135640-c,webservices/article.htmlInternet Society Announces New Application Round for the ISOC Fellowship to the IETF [news release]
Continuing its longstanding commitment to build technical capacity in less developed countries, ISOC announced that it is seeking applications for the next round of the ISOC Fellowship to the IETF program. The program offers engineers from developing countries fellowships that fund the cost of attending an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting.
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Antitrust now a battleground for Google and foes
Opponents see one last chance to cut Google Inc. off at the pass before the Internet giant attains total dominance -- by staging an old-fashioned regulatory ambush. The behind-the-scenes battle over federal approval of Google's proposed $3.1-billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. could shape the Internet's future. At stake: control of the growing online advertising market, estimated at $21.7 billion this year.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google6aug06,1,4948594.storyICANN Takes a Lick at Domain Tasting by Larry Seltzer
Opinion: Most people who hear about domain tasting
are immediately horrified and ask why "they" don't stop it. But ICANN has more studying to do, and others find it in their own interest.
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The bottom line of my read on the subject is that it would be easy to do something about tasting if VeriSign were interested in doing so. Clearly it's not. VeriSign obviously thinks that the cost to it of an enormous amount of adds and deletes in the registry is overwhelmed by the registry fees it gets.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2167112,00.asphttp://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070805/tc_zd/21287010th Worst Domainer Practice by Bret Fausett
Let's be honest: in polite company you never introduce yourself as a "domainer." It's like introducing yourself as a "slumlord" or "pimp"...and it's just one
half-step above "lawyer" for goodness sakes. No, I'm sure your business cards say that you're in some kind of Internet "real estate" business, and your spouse has told your inlaws that you work for "an Internet start-up."
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Pharmacy.com for Sale
Domain name speculators, open your wallets. Pharmacy.com is up for sale for the first time since 1994 and the domain name?s broker is looking to break a few records. ?Based on modeling, we?re putting it way over $50 million,? said Joshua Bourne, co-founder of FairWinds Partners, an Internet consultancy that is brokering the sale.
http://redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=23050http://fairwindspartners.com/pharmacy.htmlhttp://blog.cmnn.com/index.php?/archives/1291-50-million+-for-a-domain-name.htmlDomain names dominate Internet real estate
It may surprise you to find out that the Brooklyn Bridge is indeed for sale, at least virtually. A visit to brooklynbridge.org lists it as a domain address offered for sale in the virtual real estate market, available for an unspecified price.
http://www.amny.com/business/ny-bzcov5322093aug06,0,3402014.storyhttp://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzcov5322093aug06,0,7385919.storyScottsdale site owner buys Tempe.com
Scottsdale.com, a travel, news and lifestyle Internet source, has acquired the Tempe.com domain name from a Florida businessman and plans to beef up the site's content.
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/08/06/story16.htmlSale of CreditCheck.com & FreeCreditCheck.com for US$3 Million
Moniker.com's $3 million sale of twins CreditCheck.com and FreeCreditCheck.com was completed this week.
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Domain .test in 11 Zeichensystemen in die DNS-Rootzone aufgenommen
Ende September wird die IANA die TLD .test in elf verschiedenen Zeichensystemen beziehungsweise Schriftsprachen in die Rootzone eintragen. Das gab die private Netzverwaltung ICANN Anfang der Woche bekannt. Ziel des Tests ist es, etwaige negative Effekte durch die bevorstehende Einführung von Adresszonen mit anderen als ASCII-Zeichen aufzuspüren.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94060Grossartige Werbemöglichkeit mit ch-domains [news release]
Schweizer Domains sind selbstverständlich nicht nur in der Schweiz, sondern auch in Deutschland und weltweit erreichbar. Sie sind daher ein guter Ersatz, wenn die .de-domain bereits vergriffen ist. Die deutschen Suchmaschinen akzeptieren im allgemeinen auch .ch-domains, wenn der Inhalt auf
deutsch ist.
http://offenes-presseportal.de/internet_it/grossartige_werbemoeglichkeit_mit_ch-domains_24578.htmCampagne pour un DNS "équitable"
Dans une tribune publiée sur le net, un représentant civil de l?ICANN défend le respect d'une neutralité dans la création des nouvelles extensions gTLD et dénonce le lobbying dont fait preuve l'ICANN à ce sujet.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1278/campagne-pour-un-dns-equitable.phpUne décision judiciaire approuvant des décisions ADR
Le Tribunal de grande instance de Bruxelles a été saisi d?une contestation de la société Topeu.com contre plusieurs décisions d?EURid adoptées pendant la sunrise period. Le TGI
déboute Topeu.com de l?ensemble de ses demandes, après un premier rejet devant les experts ADR de la Czech Arbitration Court.
http://domainesinfo.fr/chronique/154/emmanuel-gillet-une-decision-judiciaire-approuvant-des-decisions-adr.phpSochi.info, cible des domainers
Le 4 juillet dernier, Sochi est désignée ville olympique des jeux d?hiver de 2014. S?il reste 7 ans à patienter, les domainers se sont rués sur les noms de domaine désignant cette future ville olympique.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1268/information-sochi-info-cible-des-domainers.php¿Qué es el '.cat' y qué organismos lo están promoviendo?
El órgano regulador
internacional ICANN lo aprobó como dominio válido en septiembre de 2005 a petición de la Fundació PuntCAT, integrada por un centenar de entidades supuestamente para promover la cultura catalana.
http://www.elmundo-eldia.com/2007/08/08/illes_balears/1186524001.htmlAlistan dominio ?web? para latinos
NIC México impulsará la iniciativa para la región y se prevé que la terminación esté lista para 2009
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/41855.htmlBankzaken veiliger met speciaal internetdomein
Banken moeten een eigen domeinextensie introduceren om internetbankieren veiliger te maken voor hun klanten. Dat stelt directeur Mikko Hypponen van het Finse beveiligingsbedrijf F-Secure. Internetadressen die eindigen op
.safe of .bank, en voorbehouden zijn aan financiële instellingen, kunnen volgens hem internetfraude beter tegengaan.
http://fd.nl/ShowRedactieNieuws.asp?Context=N%7C1&DocumentId=37600AZ.pl z akredytacja ICANN
http://www.e-biznes.pl/inf/2007/21069.phpLiberalizujú domény, pribudnú nové koncovky
Velké organizácie mo?no budú môct mat vlastné internetové koncovky. Najskôr sme boli zvyknutí najmä na webové stránky s koncovkou .com a na servery s príponou jednotlivých ?tátov. Potom pri?li dal?ie domény ako .eu, .name ci .info a výber sa roz?íril.
http://pc.sme.sk/c/3429437/Liberalizuju-domeny-pribudnu-nove-koncovky--redir.htmlStory on CNNIC exposing illegal domain name registrars in
http://it.com.cn/f/server/078/7/458417.htmhttp://it.nmas.cn/f/server/078/7/458417.htmStories on .asia in Korean
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