Don't forget to check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/ for today's edition of the complete domain news, including an RSS feed - already online!Headlines from the 3 September edition of the news include:
Vint Cerf of Google on the internet's future | Japan will research Net replacement | Internet pipes can't keep up in YouTube age | Buzz of Google's 'intellectual bumblebee' | Malicious Web: Not just porn sites - The New Zealand Honeynet Project | Public Comments Require Changes in ICANN new gTLD Policy by Milton Mueller | Inside Views: Acting To Protect Freedom of _expression_ At ICANN by Dan Krimm | Court tosses $11 million judgment against Spamhaus | auDA reviews community geographic domain names policy | CTC
teaches cyber safety with auDA Foundation grant | China sale spurs domain name boom | Is .EU squatter an accredited registrar? | EURid blocks 10,000 .EU names | .ru to pass 1,000,000 domains in September | Heavy metal domain dispute over pantera.com | Bodog loses domain but strikes back | 'China Barbie' takes on Mattel
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Vint Cerf on the future
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/08/28/vint_cerf_on_the_future.htmlCall to regulate the net rejected by Vint Cerf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6968322.stmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today4_20070829.ram [audio interview]Google: censorship is not up to us
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2347562.eceThe Council of Europe contributes to 2007 IGF
http://www.coe.int/t/dc/press/source/CoE%20submission%20to%20IGF_100807FINAL.docLatest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief Underscores Growth of Internet Internationally [news release]
http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042743.htmlAll of world's biggest firms hit by typosquatting
http://out-law.com/page-8423ICANN's Whois privacy reforms stalled
again
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033398http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2472If WHOIS Privacy is a Good Idea, Why is it Going Nowhere? by John Levine
http://www.circleid.com/posts/782811_whois_privacy_going_nowhere/.cat - 24,000 registrations in first year
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2462ch: Switzerland's one-millionth domain name: www.ez14.ch [news release]http://switch.ch/about/news.html?id=146Now more than 2.5 million .eu registrations
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2463li.com sells for US$500,000
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales08-28-07.htm**********************
RESEARCH PAPERS
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Getting it right: Protecting American critical infrastructure in cyberspace by Sean M. Condron [Harvard Journal of Law & Technology]
The attacks of September 11, 2001 highlight the
deadly intent of our adversaries and the nation?s vulnerability to ?different, unorthodox, and unimaginable? threats. Due to the low cost and wide availability of computers, cyber attacks are an attractive method of warfare. Unlike traditional military weapons, an adversary can use a personal computer, which can be purchased almost anywhere for a few hundred dollars, to accomplish a military objective. In 2003, the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center received reports of 137,529 ?incidents.? Attacks against network systems have become so common that, in 2004, the Computer Emergency Response Team stopped maintaining statistics showing the number of ?incidents.? In 2004, the Congressional Research Service estimated that the economic impact of cyber attacks in the United States was $226 billion.
... It may thus be preferable to approach cyber security as a threat to national security rather than as a criminal matter. This
change would raise at least three issues. First, it may be necessary to revisit and clarify the government?s current distinction between homeland security and homeland defense as applied to cyberspace. Second, this change requires consideration of the jus ad bellum paradigm that controls a state?s self-defense response against a cyber attack. Finally, the delicate balance between national security interests and civil liberties should be considered in developing a strategy for responding to cyber attacks. This Article presents a framework for addressing these issues.
http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v20/20HarvJLTech403.pdfGaining a Stake in Global Internet Governance: The EU, ICANN and Strategic Norm Manipulation by George Christou & Seamus Simpson [sub req'd]
The global governance of the Internet and the influence
that the EU is able to exert in international governance institutions are two important topics that this article brings together in the context of the EU's relationship with ICANN. Employing Schimmelfennig's model of rational action in international institutional contexts, the article explores how the EU acted to secure its interests within an organizationally constrained environment. While ICANN was formed through an essentially rationalist process where the EU accepted a less than first-best outcome in return for a stake in its governance, a dialectical relationship thereafter developed where the EU accepted and adapted ICANN's key norms but also asserted its material interests through rhetorical action due to its relatively weak position at ICANN's inception.
http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/2/147The Early Ground Offensives in
Internet Governance by Kevin M. Rogers [International Review of Law, Computers & Technology] [sub req'd]
Abstract: The second stage of the WSIS in Tunisia in November 2005 saw the long-standing debate over who should govern the Internet reach an apparent culmination. The vast majority of parties involved (over 10,000 people from over 170 countries) announced their acquiescence to the final agreement, which allowed ICANN to maintain responsibility for domain name allocation, while introducing a non-binding multi-stakeholder IGF to be set up alongside.1 However, this current paper will show that the agreement provides limited assistance to the ongoing discussion and resolution on Internet Governance, and furthermore that unless the key players - particularly the USA - alter their stance, the Internet is in danger of fragmentation and gridlock, which is a genuine possibility unless the governance of the Internet moves to an International level away
from exclusive US control. The conclusions made in Tunisia are not fully representative and the perception of US control has not been removed. Until this is revisited and altered, the Internet remains in considerable threat of break-up and potential gridlock.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778585567Rethinking Accountability in Cyberspace: A New Perspective on ICANN by C. N. J. De Vey Mestdagh & R. W. Rijgersberg [International Review of Law, Computers & Technology] [sub req'd]
Abstract: One of the most persistent debates regarding Internet governance concerns ICANN's accountability deficit. This paper identifies the habitual application of a state frame of reference, by which scholars and politicians address accountability issues regarding the domain name system, as the source of this debate. Re-examination of
the assumptions underlying two exemplary solutions for the deficit, direct elections and intergovernmental supervision, shows that the state frame of reference informing this debate ultimately breaks down. The availability of alternative services renders the call for a state-based model by which to judge and design ICANN's accountability provisions superfluous. The latter part of the paper shows that a market model is more appropriate to assess ICANN's accountability mechanisms and its role among other domain name services providers. In addition, a market frame of reference enables us to understand ICANN's hybrid organisational structure better.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a778582759**********************
GOVERNANCE
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ISOC Call for Participation: Trust and the Future of the Internet [news
release]
The Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees is currently engaged in a discovery process to define a long term Major Strategic Initiative to ensure that the Internet of the future remains accessible to everyone. The Board believes that Trust is an essential component of all successful relationships and that an erosion of Trust: in individuals, networks, or computing platforms, will undermine the continued health and success of the Internet.
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/headlines/20070809.shtmlVint Cerf on the future
'Godfather of the internet' talks to us about TV, Google and the net: ... Over the course of several meetings during the day we discussed a wide range of topics including but not limited to: the future of the TV industry, internet censorship, the net in space, Google's plans for mobile phones,
being chair of ICANN, where the internet is headed - oh, and what it is he actually does at Google and how he came to be there.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/08/28/vint_cerf_on_the_future.htmlCall to regulate the net rejected by Vint Cerf
The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society's ills, said Vint Cerf, Google's net evangelist and a founding father of the network. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online. He said the net was just a reflection of the society in which we live.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6968322.stmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today4_20070829.ram [audio interview]http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/08/29/net-evangelists-regulation-rejectionGoogle: censorship is not up to us
Internet companies such as Google should not be responsible for censoring content, one of the web's founding fathers has said. Vint Cerf, who is credited with inventing one of the internet's key protocols and now holds the position of chief internet evangelist at Google, said companies should comply with existing laws and take down illegal content when requested to do so, but should not actively seek out breaches.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article2347562.eceThe Council of Europe contributes to 2007 Internet Governance Forum
The Council of Europe has sent its submission to the next Internet Governance Forum taking place from 12 to 15 November in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The Council promotes the public service value of the Internet and places users rights, in particular freedom of _expression_, and safety at the forefront. The Council plays a leading role in the fight against Internet-based crimes drawing its action from key conventions on cybercrime, terrorism, sexual exploitation of children and counterfeit medicines. Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio will take part in the Forum and address its opening ceremony. For their submission, see:
http://www.coe.int/t/dc/press/source/CoE%20submission%20to%20IGF_100807FINAL.docGoogle expert says 'TV is dead'
One of the founding fathers of the internet has predicted the end of traditional television. Vint Cerf, who helped to build the internet while working as a researcher in America, said that television was approaching its "iPod moment". In the same way that people now download their favourite music onto their iPod, he said that viewers would soon be downloading most of favourite programmes onto their computers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/27/wgoogle127.xmlhttp://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/08/27/google-evangelist-internet-founder-predicts-web-futurehttp://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/godfather%20of%20internet%20predicts%20demise%20of%20tv_1041843http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2007/08/29/4455281-sun.htmlHome broadband customers are crippled, Vint Cerf reckons
THE CO-FATHER of the TCP/IP protocol and so-called "father of the Internet" as well told a packed auditorium at the University of Buenos Aires last week that all internet links should be symmetric.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41961**********************
DOMAIN NAMES
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Latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief Underscores Growth of Internet Internationally [news release]
The number of domain names registered globally now totals more than 138 million, according to the second quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. The largest TLDs in terms of total base of registrations are .com, .de, .net, .uk, .cn and .org. A factor in the expansion of domain name registrations in the second quarter was strong growth in ccTLD registrations, such as .cn, .ru and .kr. ccTLDs grew to about 51.5 million by the end of the second quarter, approximately 13% more than the first quarter of 2007, and 36% more than the same quarter of last year. Other gTLDs saw growth as well, including .com and .net, which grew to 73 million domain name
registrations. Not surprisingly, as domain name registrations increased, so have the demands on the registry infrastructures that enable users to register domain names, access Web sites, send emails or conduct commerce and communications.
http://www.verisign.com/press_releases/pr/page_042743.htmlCountry-specific domain names popular [AP]
The number of domain name registrations worldwide reached 138 million midway through 2007, a 31% increase from a year earlier, according to VeriSign.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/08/30/1188067225545.htmlhttp://www.thestate.com/technology-wire/story/158832.htmlhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/08/30/1188067225545.htmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20500486/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TECHBIT_DOMAIN_NAMES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-08-29-16-48-25VeriSign: 138M Domains Registered, New Registration Hits Record
http://domainnamewire.com/2007/08/29/verisign-138m-domains-registered-new-registration-hits-record/Dot-com names get dottier
From Abazab to Xoopit,
start-ups try to be clever and unique to stand out from the hundreds of new firms online. Still, many are just gibberish ... Silicon Valley is in the midst of a great corporate baby boom. Venture capitalists have pumped $2.5 billion into 400 young Internet companies since the beginning of 2006, compared with $1.3 billion into 236 companies during the previous two years, according to research firm Dow Jones VentureOne.
These entrepreneurial brain children have short life expectancies, destined to fight for revenue with the likes of Google, Yahoo and EBay. But still they are being born -- and they need names. Naming a company is far more difficult than naming a child. The name needs to sound snappy, separate its young company from the pack and provide a unique Web address.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-names29aug29,1,3782702.story**********************
- DOMAIN SECURITY
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'Dream Team' Takes on Black Hats
A secretive summit of law enforcement, federal government, ISPs, and select members of the research community held in Washington, D.C., yesterday and today had the distinct air of a hunt -- a manhunt.
According to sources who were there, the closed-door Internet Security Operations and Intelligence III (ISOI3) meeting focused more on going after the bad guys behind botnets and cybercrime than just studying malware, as in previous summits.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132400All of world's biggest firms hit by typosquatting
The world's 500 biggest
companies have all fallen victim to typosquatting. OUT-LAW research has found that the fast-growing trend of making ad money from web domains similar to famous brands affects all the world's biggest firms.
http://out-law.com/page-8423http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/biggest_companies_typosquatted/On the Trail of 'Fast Flux' Botnets
Fast-flux botnets are multiplying and making it tougher to trace botnets, but there are ways to sniff out these wily networks run by the dark side, researchers say. "I don't think there's any question that the FFers know they are being monitored," says Nicholas Bourbaki, an independent researcher and fast-flux expert. That poses a few obvious challenges to an investigation, including the perpetrators turning on you:
Bourbaki goes only by this pseudonym for fear of reprisal from botnet operators that he tracks and fights. "If you are not a Trend Micro, Symantec, [or] McAfee, you are in the position of being wiped off of the map anytime you get too annoying to these criminals."
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=132720**********************
- ICANN
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ICANN's Whois privacy reforms stalled again
A working group set up by ICANN to thrash out differences over proposed privacy changes to the WHOIS database stopped work last week with little real agreement on how or even whether to implement the reforms.
The group's failure to come up with a proposal that could have been accepted by ICANN continues a long-standing stalemate on proposed reforms to the way WHOIS data is handled. The group's findings were summarized
in a final outcomes document released Aug. 20.
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033398http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136522-pg,1/article.htmlhttp://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;368095639;fp;2;fpid;1If WHOIS Privacy is a Good Idea, Why is it Going Nowhere? by John Levine
ICANN has been wrangling about WHOIS privacy for years. Last week, yet another WHOIS working group ended without making any progress. What?s the problem? Actually, there are two: one is that WHOIS privacy is not necessarily all it?s cracked up to be, and the other is
that so far, nothing in the debate has given any of the parties any incentive to come to agreement.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/782811_whois_privacy_going_nowhere/ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!) by William Tan
At ICANN San Juan, I found out from Tina Dam, ICANN?s IDN Program Director, that she was putting together a live IDN TLD test bed plan which includes translations of the string .test into eleven written languages (Arabic, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Tamil and Yiddish) and ten scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Han, Hangul, Hebrew, Hiragana, Katakana, Tamil).
http://www.circleid.com/posts/782810_icann_tests_idn_tld_live/**********************
- (cc)TLD NEWS
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DotAsia Partners with ICANNWiki to Harness Online Community Participation for Pioneer Domains Program [news release]
DotAsia Organisation, the registry operator of the ?.Asia? Internet domain, today announced a landmark partnership with ICANNWiki, a grassroots domain collaborative website and industry resource for ICANN stakeholders, that will leverage the Web 2.0 web-based communities to expand online community participation for DotAsia?s .Asia Pioneer Domains Program.
http://think.asia/press/2007-08-27-DotAsia-PR.html2007 CIRA Board of Directors Election Campaign Forum Starts August 28, 2007 [news release]
The
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) launched its online 2007 Board of Directors Election Campaign Forum. The Campaign Forum provides Candidates, CIRA Members, and the general public an opportunity to discuss viewpoints, concerns, and Candidate positions related to how Candidates will serve Canada?s Internet community if elected as a Director in the 2007 CIRA Board of Directors Election.
http://cira.ca/news-releases/208.html.cat - 24,000 registrations in first year
There will be more than 24,000 .cat registrations after its first year in operation according to reports in Noticiasdot.com. Currently there are over 23,600 registrations. The executive director of Punt.Cat, Jordi Iparaguirre, describes this as a ?notable? achievement.
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2462http://domainpulse.com/2007/08/27/cat-24000-registrations-in-first-year/http://domainnews.com/registries/2007082805/cat-24000-registrations-in-first-year/ch: Switzerland's one-millionth domain name: www.ez14.ch [news release]The holder of the one millionth domain name is called Laurent Schütz and comes from Lucerne. EZ14 stands for "Einsatzzug 14" (Engine 14) of the City of Lucerne's fire brigade. Laurent Schütz had the idea of setting up the website a few days before he registered the domain name. He intends
to use the website to post photos of joint excursions for his colleagues.
http://switch.ch/about/news.html?id=146New registration system for .CZ
CZ NIC, registry for the Czech Republic's .CZ domain, is launching an updated registration system called DSDng which translates as Distributed Next Generation Domain Administration.
http://domainesinfo.fr/english/092/new-registration-system-for-cz.phpNow more than 2.5 million .eu registrations
Eighteen months after its official launch, there are now more than 2.5 million .eu domain names. While most registrants continue to use their gTLD or ccTLD address as their default domain name, there are a number of companies and organisations using their .eu domain, most multinational or pan-European
companies still use the .com or .org address as the default.
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=2463http://domainpulse.com/2007/08/27/now-more-than-25-million-eu-registrations/http://domainnews.com/registries/2007082810/now-more-than-25-million-eu-registrations/EU web domain name grows rapidly
One year after its official launch, the internet domain name .eu has drawn more than 2.5m registrations, making it one of the fastest growing top TLDs on the web. ... However, most groups continue to use international domains such as .org or .com domain name or their national TLD in
parallel. The new domain has proved especially popular with groups created by cross-border mergers ? such as Dexia, the Franco- Belgian group ? and with companies registered outside their home country for regulatory reasons.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ec3d2460-e84a-11db-b2c3-000b5df10621.htmlhttp://www.circleid.com/posts/eu_domain_cross_border/EURid Suspends More Domains
EURid is reported to have taken action against an alleged cybersquatter based in China, Zheng Qingying. John over on WhoisIreland picked up the story from DomainsInfo. He?s also provided a list with some of the domains affected.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/78299_eurid_suspends_more_domains/http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/08/29/eurid-suspends-more-domains/Flemish extreme right groups want a Geo TLD by Patrick Vande Walle
Now that Catalonia got its .cat domain, other regions are coming up with similar requests. One of those is lead by a group of associations from the Belgian Flanders region, claiming a .VL TLD. The Jonge Vlamingen association is a nationalist group wishing to make Flanders independent from Belgium.
http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/dot-vl/The most popular three rumors answered by Neil Edwards, CEO dotMobi
There are three rumors floating
around the blogosphere about dotMobi right now. I feel compelled to give you the CEO view on them. You may choose to ignore what I say, but I have no problem answering the mail in a public forum. The rumours addressed are: 1. dotMobi investors are doing nothing with .mobi and created the company as a money making scam; 2. dotMobi will never release its premium names and 3. dotMobi put too much emphasis on live sites.
http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2007/08/the-most-popula.html**********************
- DOMAIN DISPUTES
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Bodog hit with $48-million judgment
Online gambling website Bodog.com was out of service Monday and remained inoperative Tuesday, apparently due to a $48.6-million default judgment obtained by a Las Vegas company against Bodog in a patent infringement case.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=0ab54419-fc28-447b-95ce-4f96bb381756http://domainpulse.com/2007/08/29/bodogcom-domain-name-dispute/http://domainnews.com/litigation/2007082914/bodogcom-domain-name-dispute/Bodog apparently involved in legal struggle for control of the Bodog.com domain
Online poker players have noticed connection problems at Bodog.com over the last few days, with the problem escalating and reaching an apparent peak today, as virtually no players were able to connect to the site or the room. Apparently the cause behind these troubles is an
unspecified legal dispute over the Bodog.com domain name.
http://news.parttimepoker.com/2007/08/28/bodog-apparently-involved-in-legal-struggle-for-control-of-the-bodogcom-domain/http://www.ogpaper.com/news/news-0943.htmlhttp://www.gambling911.com/Bodog-Website-Down-082807.htmlhttp://www.poker-king.com/poker-king-articles.php?article=234http://news.parttimepoker.com/2007/08/28/bodog-poker-loses-control-of-domain-name-in-lawsuit/us: Anti-cyber squatting statutes broken
The City of Bridgeton wants a recently retired city police officer who oversees an Internet chat room and message board on which users wax critical about the current city administration to relinquish ownership of several domain names bearing the city's name.
http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1188367843322550.xml&coll=10Barbie comes out swinging - perspective by Eric J. Sinrod
It is not a good idea to offend Barbie. Case in point--Mattel has sued a company called Global China Networks for infringing on the Barbie
trademark. The dispute stems from GCN's use of the domain name ChinaBarbie.com, a pornographic Web site. Mattel accuses GCN of cybersquatting, trademark dilution, trademark infringement and unfair competition.
http://news.com.com/2010-1030_3-6204958.htmlhttp://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6204958.htmliREIT Drops TM-Typo Domains? by George Kirikos
As faithful CircleID readers will know, iREIT (Internet REIT, Inc.), a Texas domain name portfolio investment corporation, has been sued by Verizon and by Vulcan Golf for cybersquatting. It appears iREIT is taking steps to clean up its portfolio by deleting obvious typos of famous trademarks.
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- IPv4/IPv6
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IPv6 passes first test on applications
In the first large-scale test of basic enterprise networking with IPv6, applications using the next-generation IP in real-world conditions passed muster. Until recently, most of the attention on IPv6 has concentrated on the network backbone, but this summer?s tests at the University of New Hampshire?s InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) focused instead on applications.
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_22/44924-1.htmlMove to IPv6 to Intensify Next Year
New standards being introduced to manage domain names and IP addresses will make the Internet more secure and better identifiable, according to ICANN
official Stephen D. Crocker.
http://cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=3798Lockheed Martin Announces IPv6 Transition Pilot [news release]
Lockheed Martin announced it will transition a portion of its global network to IPv6. The pilot program will work through all phases of a full-scale IPv6 transition, similar to one that a government agency would undertake.
http://lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=18545&rsbci=0**********************
- MISCELLANEOUS
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PacINET 2007 ? A quick review [news release]
... Attended by more than 300 participants, with about 100 from outside Solomon Islands, and opened by the Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Hon. Manasseh Sogavare,
participants congratulated the Local organisation committee chaired by Christina Wini for running a very successful International meeting. "It is important that all Pacific islanders encourage their governments, Internet Service Providers and Internet users to collaborate on effectively harnessing the power of the Internet as a global repository of knowledge.", Hon. Manasseh Sogavare said in his opening speech.
http://scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00650.htmGoogle-GoDaddy Marriage on Tap?
Google surprised the industry when it became accredited as a registrar more than two years ago, with analysts questioning whether or not it was planning to challenge the registrar incumbents. But Google insisted it just wanted to gain a better understanding of the DNS (domain name system) to support its Google Apps strategy. ... But some industry experts are wondering if
there is more to this relationship than meets the eye.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2177278,00.aspInfoblox Buys IP Address Management Firm
California-based Infoblox yesterday agreed to buy Ipanto to beef up IP address management capabilities in its network appliance portfolio.
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=165529E4%2D5058%2D465E%2D9FD3%2D34D191E3DFA8Google Webmaster Central Supporting IDNA Domains
Google Webmaster Central has announced that it is now supporting the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) movement which lets site owners secure domains which are not limited to the basic letters of the English Alphabet, numbers 0-9 or
hyphens.
http://searchenginejournal.com/google-webmaster-central-supporting-idna-domains/5559/**********************
- DOMAINING
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Domain Names for Boostrappers
Last night I led a discussion for the web subgroup of Bootstrap Austin, an organization for people starting or running a bootstrapped business. I discussed finding the right domain name for their businesses without breaking the bank.
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- DOMAIN SALES
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li.com sells for US$500,000
... Sedo.com had a fabulous fortnight piling up 27 of the 50 highest sales including the top two
and seven of the first ten. LI.com led the way for them at $500,000 in a deal that is the 11th highest sale reported so far this year.
http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2007/domainsales08-28-07.htm**********************
- NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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Der 1-millionste Domain-Name der Schweiz: www.ez14.ch [news release]Der Halter des 1-millionsten Domain-Namens heisst Laurent Schütz und kommt aus Luzern. EZ14 steht für Einsatzzug 14 der Feuerwehr der Stadt Luzern. Auf seiner Website will Laurent Schütz seinen Kollegen Fotos von gemeinsamen Ausflügen zugänglich machen.
http://switch.ch/de/about/news.html?id=146Markenrechtsverletzung und
Domainnamen
Das Markenrecht in Deutschland ist kompliziert und nicht einfach zu verstehen. Unternehmer sollten für den Internetauftritt ihres Unternehmens unbedingt einen Juristen zu Rate ziehen, rät Rechtsanwalt Sören Siebert, Spezialist für Internetrecht.
http://www.n-tv.de/842460.htmlDie vielen Mausefallen des Internet
In Österreich konnten Phishing-Betrüger eine Million Euro erbeuten - die Dunkelziffer dürfte weit höher sein: Brav sein allein hilft nicht, wenn man heutzutage durch das World Wide Web streift. Mit ein bisschen Pech könnte man auf harmlos aussehenden Seiten auf Fangvorrichtungen wie MPack treffen. Das Hacker-Tool klopft Browser auf Sicherheitslücken ab und schleust, wenn es eine findet, Schadprogramme auf die Festplatten der User. Zum Beispiel Trojaner wie Torpig. Er attackiert Virenscanner, stiehlt Userdaten und ermöglicht es
sinistren Hintermännern, gekaperte Computer für kriminelle Anliegen einzuspannen.
http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4787&Alias=Dossiers&cob=298762Immer mehr Babys besitzen eigene Website
Der Internet-Hype hat inzwischen auch die jüngsten Erdenbürger erreicht. Immer mehr Babys und Kleinkinder sind schon im Besitz einer eigenen Homepage, lange bevor sie ihr erstes Wort sprechen können.
http://www.computerwoche.de/nachrichten/599569http://derstandard.at/?url="">http://www.kleine.co.at/allgemein/multimedia/545762/index.doPhishing: Immer mehr Deutsche gehen ins Netz
Die Zahl der Deutschen, die Opfer von Online-Kontodatendiebstählen werden, ist im vergangenen Jahr um 23 Prozent auf über 3250 gestiegen.
http://www.computerwoche.de/knowledge_center/it_security/522220Japaner forschen am Internet-Nachfolger
Japanische Forscher wollen eine neue Netzwerktechnologie entwickeln, um das Internet in seiner derzeitigen Form zu ersetzen. Damit soll vor allem den wachsenden Problemen der Sicherheit und Qualität der Daten entgegen getreten werden.
http://www.computerwoche.de/nachrichten/522158http://www.news.ch/Japaner+forschen+am+Internet+Nachfolger/285583/detail.htmhttp://diepresse.com/home/techscience/internet/326408/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/index.doDomain iptv.de wird verpixelt [news release]
Wenn es darum geht, einprägsame Domainnamen zu bestellen, sieht es bei Adressen mit der Top Level-Domain .de heutzutage eher schlecht aus. Millionen .de-Domains sind bei der zentrale Registrierungsstelle Denic bereits angemeldet. Darunter auch die attraktive Adresse www.iptv.de. Doch die Inhaber der Adresse wollen diese jetzt wieder loswerden. Was als Gratis-Aktion beworben wird, entpuppt sich bei genauerem Hinsehen als geschickte
Marketing-Kampagne.http://www.dslteam.de/news/artikel/26677/0/Domain_iptv.de_wird_verpixeltLitige sur 10 000 .EU
Zheng Qingyin, propriétaire de plus de 10 000 .EU a vu ses noms bloqués par EURid il y a un mois, au motif que sa domiciliation restait floue. Il cite EURid en référé devant le Président du TGI de Bruxelles.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1286/europe-litige-sur-10%A0000-eu.phpLe millionième nom de domaine de Suisse: www.ez14.ch [news release]A la fin de la semaine passée, Monsieur Laurent Schütz des services de sapeurs-pompiers de la ville de Lucerne a enregistré le millionième nom de domaine avec
extension .ch. EZ14 signifie "Einsatzzug 14" des pompiers de la ville de Lucerne. Sur le site www.ez14.ch Laurent Schütz souhaite donner à ses collègues l'accès à des photographies de leurs excursions communes.http://switch.ch/fr/about/news.html?id=146La Suisse dévoile son millionième .CH
La Suisse intègre le Top 5 des pays localisés en Europe ayant plus d?1 million de noms enregistrés. C?est à Lucerne, en Suisse centrale, que réside le propriétaire de ez14.ch, millionième .CH.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1287/suisse-la-suisse-devoile-son-millionieme-ch.phpIl milionesimo nome a dominio in Svizzera: www.ez14.ch [news release]Il signor Laurent Schütz dei Vigili del fuoco della Città di Lucerna ha registrato il milionesimo nome a dominio con l?estensione .ch. La sigla EZ14 sta per ?Einsatzzug 14? (una squadra di autopompe della Città di Lucerna). Laurent Schütz vuole rendere accessibili ai suoi colleghi le foto di gite fatte insieme sul sito web www.ez14.ch.http://switch.ch/it/about/news.html?id=146El dominio de internet ?.cat? roza los 24.000 registros tras un año y medio de vida
El dominio de internet .cat tiene ya 23.619 registros contabilizados un año y medio después de ser aprobado por el ICANN, el organismo internacional que se encarga de gestionar los dominios en la red.
http://www.noticiasdot.com/wp2/2007/08/28/el-dominio-de-internet-cat-roza-los-24000-registros-tras-un-ano-y-medio-de-vida/Por una internet sin bozal
Internet no debe ser el chivo expiatorio de los males de la sociedad, opinó Vint Cerf, uno de los "evangelistas" de Google y padre fundador de la red de redes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/science/newsid_6969000/6969422.stmVaticinan que el formato actual de televisión está llegando a su fin
Vint Cerf, uno de los científicos que hace treinta años crearon Internet, cree que los días de la televisión actual están contados. En una intervención en el Festival Internacional de Televisión en Edimburgo, el experto predijo que la
TV se aproxima al mismo momento crítico al que tuvo que hacer frente la industria musical con la llegada del reproductor de MP3.
http://www.territoriodigital.com/nota.aspx?c=4772062480704437http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/television/futuro/sera/iPod/elpeputec/20070827elpepunet_7/Teshttp://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?id=64486http://www.infobae.com/notas/nota.php?IdxSeccion=1&Idx=334066http://www.eloncedigital.com.ar/secciones/general/nota.asp?id=78496http://elmostrador.cl/modulos/noticias/constructor/noticia_new.asp?id_noticia=226264http://www.elpais.com.uy/07/08/27/ultmo_299588.asphttp://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/08/27/um/m-01486700.htmhttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/42310.htmlhttp://www.cpnradio.com.pe/html/2007/08/29/11/13.htmhttp://eldictamen.net/ver_nota.php?noticia=7166Conferencia IPv6 en Chile: El momento de actuar ha llegado.
NIC Chile informa la realización de la Conferencia "IPv6 en Chile: El momento de actuar ha llegado", organizada en conjunto con el Registro de Direcciones para América Latina y Caribe, LACNIC y que cuenta con el patrocinio de la Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones y el Consejo Nacional de Nombres de Dominio y Números IP.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1529GoDaddy
GoDaddy no es sólo el mayor Agente
Registrador del mundo. Es el que más patentes solicita en esta industria, casi 50 en los últimos años.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1528Propuestas del modelo para la Administración del Dominio.co
Con el fin de adelantar exitosamente la transición a un nuevo esquema de operación de la administración del registro de nombre de dominio .co, el Ministerio de Comunicaciones invita a los interesados a consultar el documento "Propuesta de modelos para la administración del Dominio.co", y a enviar sus comentarios
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1527'Pai da internet' prevê transformações na TV
Vint Cerf, um dos cientistas da computação que contribuiu para a criação da internet, acredita que os dias da televisão atual estão contados. Em um palestra no Festival Internacional de Televisão em Edimburgo, publicada nesta segunda (27) pelo jornal 'The Guardian', Cerf disse que a TV se aproxima do mesmo momento crítico que a indústria musical enfrentou com a chegada da música digital.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u323365.shtmlhttp://www.estadao.com.br/tecnologia/not_tec41664,0.htmhttp://www.portalorm.com.br/plantao/noticia/default.asp?id_noticia=282158http://gazetaonline.globo.com/noticias/minutoaminuto/internacional/internacional_materia.php?cd_matia=346241&cd_site=0844http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/mundo/2007/08/27/um_dos_pais_da_internet_preve_fim_do_modelo_atual_de_tv_980383.htmlhttp://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/interna/0,,OI1859212-EI238,00.htmlhttp://www.territoriodigital.com/nota.aspx?c=4772062480704437Modelo atual de TV está perto do fim, diz um dos criadores da internet
O modelo atual de televisão vai acabar. É o que defendeu Vint Cerf, um dos um dos cientistas da computação que criaram a internet há 30 anos, em palestra no Festival Internacional de Televisão em Edimburgo, publicada nesta segunda-feira pelo jornal "The Guardian".
http://jbonline.terra.com.br/extra/2007/08/27/e27084234.htmlSerá o fim do modelo atual de TV, prevê um dos 'pais' da internet
Vint Cerf, um dos cientistas da
computação que criaram a internet há 30 anos, diz que os dias da televisão atual estão contados LONDRES - Vint Cerf, um dos cientistas da computação que criaram a internet há 30 anos, acredita que os dias da televisão atual estão contados e revelou que trabalha atualmente com outros especialistas em um sistema para o uso da rede na comunicação espacial.
http://oglobo.globo.com/tecnologia/mat/2007/08/28/297462132.aspDomännamnshysteri i Europa
Tyskarna har registrerat hela 11 052 403 .de-domäner. Svenskarna tillhör världens flitigaste registranter, men ligger samtidigt långt efter de ledande länderna.
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.118425A tévé végét jósolja az internet atyja
Vint Cerf, az internet egyik alapító atyja szerint
az internetes letöltés ugyanúgy gyökerestül átformálja majd a televíziót, mint anno az mp3 a zeneipart. Víziója szerint a jövoben több musort fogunk a netrol letölteni, mint a tévén nézni, ez utóbbi azonban élo közvetítések platformja marad még egy ideig.
http://origo.hu/techbazis/internet/20070828-vint-cerf-szerint-az-internet-megoli-a-televiziot.htmlSex.com najdrozsza domena na swiecie
http://www.gazetaprawna.pl/wydarzenia/?news=eGP20070824161214291Stories in Korean mentioning IPv6
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/economy/2007/08/29/0303000000AKR20070829116200006.HTMLhttp://hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007082973661+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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