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[APPLe list] domain name news - April 3
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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 April 7 edition of the news include:
Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet | Web could collapse as video demand soars | Coming soon: superfast internet | Australian broadband network soon to be obsolete | ICANN Issues Advisory Regarding the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy | NTIA Shrugs by Milton Mueller | US domain name costs rise as Australian regs loosen | Happy second birthday .eu! | Estonia prepares for repeat of cyberattacks on anniversary | The evolution of CyberCrime Inc. | US Cyberwarfare Prep Includes Offense | nz: Extra cyber defence team considered | Craigslist bullies unofficial blog over domain, trademarks | Are Domain Name Registrars Ready for IPv6? by Patrick Vande Walle | Pizza.com cooked for $2.6m
And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings.
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NTIA Statement on the Mid-Term Review of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) Between NTIA and ICANN
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/ICANN_JPA_080402.html
ICANN Welcomes Statement on Joint Project Agreement
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02apr08.htm
Estonia to drill NATO's future cyber-war defenders
http://news.theage.com.au/estonia-to-drill-natos-future-cyberwar-defenders/20080402-234p.html
Europe debates cybercrime law enforcement in NATO, Council of Europe meetings [AP]
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_8759722
Internet has a garbage problem, researcher says [IDG]
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1488056707;fp;2;fpid;1
NZ teen hacker Akill admits cyber crime charges
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501361
Akill pleads guilty to all charges
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/A4C8AD60A514BC88CC25741D007C894A
NZ teen convicted of cyber crime
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7323733.stm
NZ teenager guilty of million-dollar hacking campaign
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/01/hitechcrime.hacking
Owen 'Akill' Walker was part of botnet 'A-team'
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/693DE1B864708EABCC25741E0068E114
Intellectual curiosity gone wrong
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501707
Superhacker convicted of international cyber crime
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501518
IPv6 Deployment: Just Where Are We? by Geoff Huston
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_deployment_where_are_we/
Dark Blue Sea values domain portfolio at $570m
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4442
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Who's to say Comcast won't meddle with Net again? by Larry Magid
Comcast and BitTorrent last week announced an agreement to collaborate on technologies to make it more efficient to conduct peer-to-peer file sharing over Comcast's cable modem network. This announcement came in the wake of intense criticism of the giant cable company and Internet service provider for controlling its customers' use of BitTorent to exchange files. The criticism grew so intense that the Federal Communications Commission held a hearing about it in February at Harvard University and announced plans to hold a second hearing at Stanford University on April 17.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8755316
Hot Architectural Issues for the Internet by Kurtis Lindqvist
The Internet Architecture Board’s (IAB) chair, Olaf Kolkman, asked the members of the IAB to provide a statement paper each on what they believe the current most pressing issues in terms of Internet architecture are. Not sure if these will be made public or not, but I decided to post mine here. I have thought about this for the past few days, and realised that it’s hard to come up with overarching issues and even harder to come up with issues, where the IAB actually could make a difference. But I came with up with two issues.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/hot_architectural_issues_the_internet/
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DOMAIN NAMES
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NTIA Statement on the Mid-Term Review of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) Between NTIA and ICANN
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), on behalf of the Department of Commerce, recently conducted a mid-term review of the Department’s Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The JPA is a continuation of a series of agreements between the Department and ICANN to facilitate the transition of the technical coordination of the management functions related to the Internet domain name and addressing system (DNS) to the private sector.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/ICANN_JPA_080402.html
ICANN Welcomes Statement on Joint Project Agreement
ICANN welcomed today’s statement regarding the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) mid-term review from the United States Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-02apr08.htm
Organizational structure image conspiracy uncovered by Kieren McCarthy
Unveil the conspiracyOnce of the most difficult things about working at ICANN is keeping all the conspiracies under wraps. With an eagle-eyed community keeping tabs on the organisation’s every move, the tiny tweaks that, left noticed, would irreversibly alter the entire domain name system keep getting picked up before they can work their magic.
http://blog.icann.org/?p=294
ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
The main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the internet will be powered down for one hour on Tuesday at 12pm, British Summer Time.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39377525,00.htm
ICANN Calls for Expressions of Interest to Host 2009 Meeting
ICANN is actively soliciting expressions of interest from organisations seeking to host the first ICANN International Public Meeting in 2009. ICANN has previously agreed upon the following location and date: 1-6 March 2009 | Latin America
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-31mar08.htm
ICANN Regional Meet in UAE
UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, announced that it is co-hosting the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Regional Meeting in cooperation with ICANN. It states that ICANN is an internationally organised, public benefit non-profit company responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain names and the addresses used in a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the Internet.
http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/icann-regional-meet-in-uae_0401087663.htm
TRA to debate domain names in Arabic online
A key meeting, to be co-hosted by UAE Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA)Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA)Loading... soon, will discuss the possibility of getting domain names in Arabic online and made available to the public. The UAE TRA is co-hosting the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) regional meeting in cooperation with ICANN in Dubai from April 1-3.
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080331042503/secIndustries/pagTelecoms%20&%20IT
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Dot-Com, Dot-Net Fees Go Up Again Oct. 1 [AP]
Fees for using two of the most common suffixes for Internet addresses are going up for a second consecutive year.
http://news.theage.com.au/dotcom-dotnet-fees-go-up-again-oct-1/20080403-23a1.html
http://news.smh.com.au/dotcom-dotnet-fees-go-up-again-oct-1/20080403-23a1.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/02/ap/hightech/main3990129.shtml
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/02/financial/f104509D89.DTL
Brand New Chinese Character Domain Names Get Underway on the Internet Today. A Huge Series of Other International Languages are Also Launched.
Internet users can now register domain names using almost any language or text imaginable Included are not only Chinese characters, but also German, Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish and Korean - to name but a few. The Internet has evolved and become a lot more universal.
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=41879
10th ENUM Day of DENIC on 18 April 2008 in Frankfurt am Main [news release]
On 18 April 2008 DENIC will host the 10th ENUM Day. The event takes places in the Le Meridien hotel in Frankfurt, Wiesenhüttenplatz 28-38 (close to Frankfurt central railway station). The ENUM Day begins at 10 a.m. and ends approximately at 4 p.m. Participation is free of charge. Please register for this event via our web form.
http://www.denic.de/en/denic/news/news_80.html
http://www.telconews.com/2008/04/01/10th-enum-day-of-denic-on-18-april-2008-in-frankfurt-am-main/
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/01/10th-enum-day-of-denic-on-18-april-2008-in-frankfurt-am-main/
Over 62,000 .vn domain names registered
By the end of March 2008, VNNIC had granted more than 62,000 .vn domain names, much higher than the number of international domain names, at over 40,000.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/04/776241/
uk: Manchester lawyer named to Nominet panel
A Manchester-based intellectual property partner from law firm Hammonds has been appointed to advise Nominet, the domain name registry entry body which covers disputes on all “.uk” name disputes.
http://www.crainsmanchesterbusiness.co.uk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/FREE/429768965/1071/-/-/manchester-lawyer-named-to-nominet-panel
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Estonia to drill NATO's future cyber-war defenders [AFP]
Almost a year after falling victim to a "cyber-war" blamed on Russian hackers, the Baltic state of Estonia is now piloting NATO's efforts to ward off future online attacks on alliance members.
http://news.smh.com.au/estonia-to-drill-natos-future-cyberwar-defenders/20080402-234p.html
http://news.theage.com.au/estonia-to-drill-natos-future-cyberwar-defenders/20080402-234p.html
Europe debates cybercrime law enforcement in NATO, Council of Europe meetings [AP]
Two groups working separately to boost Europe's defenses against online crime will present proposals this week, almost a year after most of the nation of Estonia's links to the Internet were disrupted for days or weeks.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_8759722
Internet has a garbage problem, researcher says [IDG]
Arbor Networks says that between 1 percent and 3 percent of data on the Internet is DDOS data. Somewhere between 1 percent and 3 percent of all traffic on the Internet is meaningless packets of information, used in distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) to knock Web sites offline.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1488056707;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1488056707;fp;2;fpid;1
http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=7804&pubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=125
NZ teen hacker Akill admits cyber crime charges
A Whitianga teenager, allegedly at the centre of a cyber crime ring causing millions of dollars of damage, admitted six computer crime charges when he appeared in Thames District Court today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501361
Akill pleads guilty to all charges
Owen Walker, the 18-year-old Whitianga resident also known as Akill, has pleaded guilty to all charges he was facing under the Crimes Act for his part in attacking the University of Pennsylvania’s computer system and in a global adware scheme.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/A4C8AD60A514BC88CC25741D007C894A
NZ teen convicted of cyber crime
A New Zealand teenager accused of being the ringleader of an international cyber-crime network has been convicted. Owen Thor Walker, 18, admitted six charges of using computers for illegal purposes and will be sentenced in May.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7323733.stm
NZ teenager guilty of million-dollar hacking campaign
A New Zealand teenager accused of leading an international ring of computer hackers which skimmed millions of dollars from bank accounts was today convicted of illegal computer hacking.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/01/hitechcrime.hacking
Owen 'Akill' Walker was part of botnet 'A-team'
New Zealand cybercriminal Owen Walker's malware code was highly sophisticated and in international demand, according to the Police summary of facts presented in the Thames District Court yesterday.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/693DE1B864708EABCC25741E0068E114
Intellectual curiosity gone wrong
The photos show him standing in the dock, his bland, uniform-like shirt and long stringy hair suggesting Owen Thor Walker had received a release pass from school for the day.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501707
Superhacker convicted of international cyber crime
Self-taught Whitianga computer whiz Owen Walker has admitted being involved in international botnet conspiracies.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10501518
A Peek at ISP DDOS, Spam Traffic Trends
Here’s another perspective on the rise in malicious Internet traffic: Nearly 5 percent of all Internet traffic among ISP domains consists of either DDOS or spam, according to preliminary statistics gathered by Arbor Networks of around 70 of its ISP customers. And there’s an average of 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks occurring each day, according to data gathered by Arbor over the past year and a half via its Atlas program.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149866
Botnet Survivor: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast Bot Herders at Their Own Game
Early adopters are typically characterized as progressive risk-takers who have little to lose and much to gain. Following this logic, it makes perfect sense that within this crowd we find bot herders -- hackers who control a large number of compromised PCs (or bots) for malicious purposes.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/62401.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/62401.html
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Cyveillance Reports Large Enterprises Plagued by Cybersquatting
Cyveillance's latest report, in part to promote their services, in part to alert of the problem of cybersquatting and typosquatting, is intended to alert business that the average large enterprise (although a large enterprise is not defined) suffers more than 5,000 suspicious domain name registrations each year that targets their "master" brand. And for companies with multiple brands, Cyveillance claim this can lead to "tens of thousands of suspicious domain registrations each year."
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4444
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/01/cyveillance-reports-cybersquatting-problems-for-large-enterprises/
http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/cyveillance-reports-large-enterprises-plagued-by-cybersquatting.html
http://cyveillance.com/web/news/press_rel/2008/2008-03-31.asp
Fighting the Fakes: Louis Vuitton and Murakami Make a Show of It
Make no mistake — Louis Vuitton is well-equipped for combat against counterfeiters. Tonight, Vuitton is celebrating Takashi Murakami's "© Murakami" exhibition with a "Brooklyn Ball" at the Brooklyn Museum featuring a special performance by Kanye West, the unveiling of a new camouflage print developed by Murakami and Marc Jacobs called Monogramouflage and a special installation designed to bring attention to one of the industry's biggest travails — counterfeits. ...The luxury brand now employs a 40-member team that focuses exclusively on protecting its trademarks, designs, models, copyrights and domain names. The team is based in Paris, with regional offices in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Milan, Dubai, Buenos Aires and Guangzhuo, China. Since 2003, the company has conducted over 30,000 raids against individuals or companies selling fake Vuitton merchandise. Last year alone, the firm directed more than 7,600 raids worldwide, often seizing the fake
merchandise and even the manufacturing tools in order to prevent factories from returning to producing counterfeits. In addition, more than 24,000 legal proceedings were initiated on behalf of Vuitton last year, and over 750 Web sites selling fakes were forced to shut down.
http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/123953
Protecting Your Brand: Copyright Law
While organizations don’t often pursue this protection, logos are typically protectable by copyright law. Make sure your organization, and not an outside person or agency, owns the copyright to your brand’s logo. Advertising/marketing agencies will often include an assignment of rights, titles and interests (including copyright interests) to their clients in their letters of agreement. While trademark infringement requires proof of “confusing similarity,” copyright infringement requires proof of “substantial similarity.”
http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2008/04/protecting-your.html
Bush library searches for Web site name
While President Bush’s advisers were taking offers on an ideal spot for his library and museum, they probably should have paid more attention to the virtual real-estate market. Officials finally settled on Southern Methodist University in Dallas to house the $250 million complex. But online, some of the best addresses are gone — snapped up for mere dollars by squatters who have no connection to the library yet hope to make fun of the president, protect him or simply cash in on his name.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0331bush-library0331-ON.html
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/apr/01/bush_library_searches_web_site_name/
Cybersquatters Are Getting Smarter: Brand pirates focusing more on less visible directory tactics
The "Catchusifyoucan.com" cyber crooks have devised new techniques to avoid brand defence actions, reports the Las Vegas Business Press in an interesting article on brand piracy this week. Intellectual property lawyer David LeGrand summed up the state of online disputes by saying that cybersquatters were getting smarter and more difficult to detect. But lawsuits over domain names are increasing, he said, although like the Internet itself, the infringers are evolving and becoming more sophisticated.
http://www.online-casinos.com/news/news6513.asp
Less-restricted sale of dot-travel names illustrates failure of a once-lofty concept
The company that operates yellowpages.travel and bills it as "officially the Better Business Bureau of the international travel industry" ran afoul of none other than the Better Business Bureau for using a trademarked name without permission.
http://atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=12242
WIPO: Cybersquatting Cases Rise To Record Levels
Cybersquatting is on the rise, according to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which published statistics last week on case filings under its international Internet domain name dispute settlement system.
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=981
Cayman Islands ‘cybersquatter’ sued
Lawsuits over domain names are increasing, and like the Internet itself, the infringers are evolving and becoming more sophisticated, intellectual property attorneys say. Intellectual property lawyer David LeGrand has dealt with alleged cybersquatting first hand in Las Vegas.
http://www.caymannetnews.com/news-6418--1-1--.html
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IPv6 Deployment: Just Where Are We? by Geoff Huston
I suppose we all know the plot by now. Back in the early 1990’s it was forecast that we would run out of IPv4 addresses well before we were ready for the Internet to stop working, and that we’d need to transition the Internet to use a new version of the IP protocol that allowed for a larger address space if we wanted to avoid the problem. In response to this, the technical community came up with a specification for IP version 6 by the mid 1990’s and we were all set. And then nothing happened.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_deployment_where_are_we/
US Feds: We will meet June IPv6 deadline
U.S. federal government officials are confident they will meet a June 30 deadline to support IPv6 on their backbone networks, but they see challenges ahead in transitioning their production networks to this long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/02/Feds-will-meet-June-IPv6-deadline_1.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;591879843;fp;2;fpid;1
A key to IPv6 transition
Federal agencies may ease their transition to IPv6 through IP address management (IPAM) tools. The biggest challenge to IPv6 deployment is “the intimidation factor, said Tim Rooney, product management director at BT Diamond IP, who spoke at the FOSE Conference and Exhibition in Washington today. “The 128-bit IPv6 address is intimidating even to technical folks.”
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46059-1.html
ng: Experts Give Reasons for IPv4 Decline
EXPERTS in the nation's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector have adduced some reasons why the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) has been on the decline. Some of the expects who spoke to Champion Infotel on the depletion of IPv4 usage globally included the President, Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), Mr. Lanre Ajayi and his counterpart in the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Mr. Ndukwe Kalu.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200804020186.html
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A forewarning of his firing is frightening
... My corporate employer, VeriSign, is more bereft than most. Located in Dulles, Va., VeriSign is the sole keeper of the Internet domain name registry. That means they sell people the rights to their own name -- plus the suffix .com, .net or .org. They sold microsoft.com to Microsoft. They also will sell anyone the right to anyone else's name. That's how whitehouse.com became an adult entertainment portal.
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080401/COLUMNISTS08/804010303
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C. EAST 2008 release tentative schedule
The organisers of the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. EAST 2008 in Orlando, Florida have released some tentative information and details with more information coming in mid-April. Until then, there is a proposed schedule available to give people an idea of what is going to happen at the conference. Their framework shows the direction they are heading in and it will be updated as things progress.
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/31/traffic-east-2008-release-tentative-schedule/
Finding Premium Domains on Afternic Auctions is Now Easier
We made a change to Afternic Auctions, our expiring domain auction service, that will make it easier for you to find exclusive premium domains. You can now see how many PreOrders have been submitted on a domain before its live auction starts. This allows you to easily find the hottest domains.
http://afternicdlsblog.com/2008/03/31/finding-premium-domains-on-afternic-auctions-is-now-easier/
Dark Blue Sea values domain portfolio at $570m
Dark Blue Sea, based in Brisbane, Australia and owner of Fabulous, have released an “investor presentation” that shows they have a portfolio of over 570,000 domain names, mostly .com domain names that they value at an average of $1,000 each. So this makes the company worth around $570 million.
http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4442
http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/03/31/dark-blue-sea-values-domain-portfolio-at-570m/
http://www.domainnews.com/en/registries/dark-blue-sea-valued-at-over-570m.html
Dark Blue Sea: Domain Portfolio Worth $600 Million Retail
Company values retail value of portfolio at approximately $1,000 USD per domain.
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/03/31/dark-blue-sea-domain-portfolio-worth-600-million-retail/
10 Simple Steps to Boost Search Engine Rankings
There are several steps to follow to ensure top rankings in search engines. Sites that follow these simple steps will likely see their traffic and search engine rankings soar through the roof. The better optimized your site is for the search engines, the better results you can expect. The following tips will help you understand how the search engines rank sites and why some sites achieve higher rankings than others. Following these 10 steps will greatly boost your Web sites presence in the search engines and on the Internet as a whole.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/62402.html
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/62402.html
How much is my domain worth?
This is probably the most common question that new domainers have. They want to know if they have struck gold with their latest brainwave or at least a little more than it cost to register that domain.
http://www.domaininformer.com/guides/General_Information/articles/080402Howmuchismydomainworth.html
5 Ways You Can Still Make Money with Domain Names - Got in late? You can still make money.
I recently read a forum post written by someone disappointed about Yahoo’s decision to nix arbitrage. This person complained “How am I supposed to make money with domains now? I got in late and all the good domains are gone. It’s not fair!” (Seriously, it sounded like a 5 year old.)
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/02/5-ways-you-can-still-make-money-with-domain-names/
Are You Clear About Your Blog Monetization Strategy?
Why are you starting a blog? What is the goal for your Blog? Be honest, this is really important. If you are blogging to make money or even make a living from blogging then you have to decide on your blog monetization strategy right from the start. Most of the 100,000 thousand odd blogs that start everyday plan to make money, all but a few succeed and it is the odd blogger or two that blog for the love of it.
http://www.mytradedomain.com/pick-your-blog-monetization-strategy-wisely/
Roundtable Hotel - Book now
Domain Roundtable venue hotel - the Palace - extended the booking date. I received quite a few emails and calls this morning from people forgetting to reserve their hotel room at the discounted rate that ended yesterday. DON’T PANIC !!! The hotel has agreed to extend our rate until April 7. Our rate of $239 is only for the days of the conference with an April 18 check-in and April 21 check-out. Any additional dates around this will be charged current hotel rate pricing.
http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/roundtable-hotel-book-now/
Domain Parking Takes a Bad Turn
It is not a secret that domain parking was a lucrative business. Until recently, a number of companies made good earnings on it. In the last few months, ad providers changed the rules and the situation for domain parking rapidly took a bad turn. Domain name parking has become less profitable business.
http://www.domaininformer.com/news/editors/080331DomainParkingTakesaBadTurn.html
Standards - Part 13 - What parking companies need to do.
So what does a parking company need to do in order to be classified as "clean" and above reproach? The first thing that needs to be done is the adoption of standards:
http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/
Standards – Part 12 – The trouble with being a parking company
I think that there should be a saying, "Parking, damned if you don't, damned if you do....". This is definitely the cast for domain parking companies that are under pressure from multiple directions and now most recently standards and transparency.
http://www.whizzbangsblog.com/
David Kesmodel - The “Where Are They Now” Files
Back in 2006, Wall Street Journal reporter David Kesmodel began work on a book about the domain space. Kesmodel also released his own blog publishing news and insight into companies and players in the space. Kesmodel announced he was shuttering the blog and heading back to a reporting gig in Chicago. So, what happened to the book? Domain Name News talked to Kesmodel about his book after seeing recent updates on his site about a spring release.
http://www.domainnamenews.com/miscellaneous/david-kesmodel-the-where-are-they-now-files/1511
But does it come with www.pepperoni.com?
Proving the theory that there’s always someone willing to buy everything, domain name “pizza.com” is up for sale — and someone’s willing to pay more than $2.5 million for the right to own it.
http://blogs.reuters.com/shop-talk/2008/04/01/but-does-it-come-with-wwwpepperonicom/
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Steuerkurs – DENIC veröffentlicht Strategiepapier
Wohin steuert die deutsche Domain-Verwaltung DENIC eG? Mit einem Strategieplan hat der Vorstand nun erstmals ein Papier vorgelegt, das als Leitbild für die kommenden Jahre fungieren könnte.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/steuerkurs-denic-veroeffentlicht-strategiepapier-id667159.html
10. ENUM-Tag der DENIC am 18. April 2008 in Frankfurt am Main [Pressemitteilungen]
Am 18. April 2008 veranstaltet die DENIC den 10. ENUM-Tag. Er findet im Hotel Le Meridien in Frankfurt, Wiesenhüttenplatz 28-38 (Nähe Frankfurt-Hauptbahnhof), statt. Beginn der Veranstaltung ist 10:00 Uhr, Ende gegen 16:00 Uhr. Die Teilnahme ist kostenfrei. Bitte nutzen Sie zur Anmeldung unser Online-Formular.
http://www.denic.de/de/denic/news/news_81.html
IPv6-Kommunikation für Cluster ermöglicht
Wissenschaftler des Instituts für Informatik der Universität Potsdam haben in Zusammenarbeit mit Experten der Universität Jena Kommunikationsbibliotheken nach dem Standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) auf den erweiterten Internetadressstandard IPv6 übertragen. Dadurch soll die Effizienz der Kommunikation zwischen Cluster-Systemen erhöht werden.
http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39189136,00.htm
IPv6 besteht den Hochleistungs-Testlauf
Die Forscher der Universität Potsdam proben den Ernstfall: Klappt der Umstieg auf das zukünftige Internet-Protokoll IPv6 auch im Rechenzentrum ohne Zwischenfälle?
http://www.pcwelt.de/start/dsl_voip/online/news/1752707/
US-Wahlkampf löst Cybersquatting-Lawine aus
Der Wahlkampf der US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten hat eine Lawine von Cybersquatting-Angriffen im Internet ausgelöst. Einer Untersuchung des Domain-Manager-Dienstes Netnames zufolge gibt es mittlerweile bereits 1900 registrierte Domainnamen im Zusammenhang mit den Top-Kandidaten der US-Wahl 2008.
http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39189010,00.htm
http://www.networld.at/index.html?/articles/0814/542/201784.shtml
http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/305318.htm
http://www.news.ch/US+Wahlkampf+loest+Cyberattacken+Lawine+aus/305318/detail.htm
Illegale Registrierungen von Domains explodieren
Das Arbitration and Mediation Center der WIPO musste im Jahr 2007 insgesamt 2.156 Schiedsgerichtsverfahren rund um sogenanntes "Cybersquatting" führen. Das waren fast 18 Prozent mehr als noch 2006 und die höchste Zahl seit Einführung der Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) im Jahr 1999. "Diese Steigerung zeigt, dass Cybersquatting ein wichtiges Thema für Rechteinhaber bleibt", meint Francis Curry, WIPO Vize-Gneraldirektor. Mit der geplanten Einführung neuer generischer Top-Level-Domains (gTLDs) könnte das Problem des Cybersquattings noch verschärft werden, vermutet der Experte.
http://www.digitalproduction.com/dp/news_detail.asp?ID=6714&MODE=7&NS=1
Grapsch die Domäne
Internet-Adressen sind bares Geld wert - Ein Zuffenhausener Geschäftsmann hat sich die Namen von Birkach, Plieningen und Sillenbuch gesichert
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/1669964
Mehr als 1000 Webadressen zu Hillary Clinton
Der US-Vorwahlkampf regt die Fantasie so genannter Cybersquatter an. Massenhaft legen Netznutzer Webadressen an, die einen Bezug zum Namen der erfolgreichsten Bewerber haben.
http://www.netzeitung.de/internet/957520.html
Computer & Cyberspace Mehr als 1.000 Internet-Adressen zu Hillary Clinton [AP]
Clinton, Obama und McCain, die Namen der Präsidentschaftsbewerber in den USA, haben eine Flut von neuen Internetadressen ausgelöst. Angemeldet wurden diese Domains vielfach von Geschäftemachern, die das hohe Interesse an der Wahl ausnutzen, um mit Mausklicks oder anderer Werbung Geld zu verdienen.
http://de.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080401/tde-computer-cyberspace-mehr-als-1-000-i-f1128fc.html
US-Wahlkampf: Willkommenes Ereignis für Web-Abzocker
Der Wahlkampf um das höchste amerikanische Amt ist in vollen Gängen. Auch Cyber-Experten sind mit von der Partie - mit teils nicht legalen Methoden.
http://www.testticker.de/news/security/news20080331021.aspx
US-Wahlkampf löst Cyberattacken-Lawine aus [news release]
Der Wahlkampf der US-Präsidentschaftskandidaten hat eine wahre Lawine von Cybersquatting-Attacken im Internet ausgelöst. Einer aktuellen Untersuchung des Domain-Manager-Dienstes NetNames http://www.netnames.com zufolge gibt es mittlerweile bereits 1.900 registrierte Domainnamen im Zusammenhang mit den Top-Kandidaten der US-Wahl 2008. Während ein Großteil dieser Domains dabei zu Befürwortungs- oder Hass-Seiten führt, verdienen Cybersquatter auf anderen Geld an ahnungslosen Surfern, die auf der Suche nach offiziellen Informationen zum jeweiligen Präsidentschaftskandidaten sind. Besonders weit verbreitet sind in diesem Zusammenhang so genannte Online-Click-Farmen. Darunter werden Webseiten verstanden, welche Google-ähnliche Anzeigen enthalten, die sofort pro Klick abgeechnet werden.
http://www.pressetext.com/pte.mc?pte=080331031
Spam-Bots spuken auf Myspace
In den Nutzerprofilen des sozialen Netzwerks Myspace gehen Spam-Bots um und legen neue Profile an, die für Phishing-Angriffe und zur Verbreitung von Malware dienen können.
http://www.pcwelt.de/start/sicherheit/backup/news/153819/
TLD-Update – Neues von .pro, .gp und .rs
RegistryPro, Verwalter der Profi-Domain .pro, macht einen erneuten Vorstoß, um die Attraktivität seiner Top Level Domain zu steigern. So soll zum einen der Kreis der Registrierungsberechtigten erweitert werden; namentlich genannte Berufsgruppen sind Architekten, Kaufleute, Zahn- und Tierärzte, Chiropraktiker, Erzieher und Pfleger. Third Level Domains wie .med.pro sollen erhalten bleiben, allerdings eine Registrierung direkt unterhalb von .pro möglich sein. Angestrebt ist weiter, dass die zum Nachweis der Zugehörigkeit zu einer der als besonders professionell eingestuften Berufsgruppen erleicht wird. ICANN stellt die geplanten Änderungen nun vorerst bis zum 10. April 2008 zur öffentlichen Diskussion; wann mit einer Entscheidung durch den ICANN-Vorstand zu rechnen ist, ist offen.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/tld-update-neues-von-pro-gp-und-rs-id667163.html
.xxx – ICM Registry scheitert vor US-Gericht
ICM Registry, potentieller Betreiber der neuen Porno-Domain .xxx, hat eine weitere Schlappe einzustecken: vor einem US-Gericht ist das Unternehmen mit der Klage gescheitert, Einsicht in Regierungsunterlagen zu nehmen.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/xxx-icm-registry-scheitert-vor-us-gericht-id667162.html
eva-padberg.com – wer ist der Beklagte?
Mit den Tücken des Verfahrensrechts musste sich das deutsche Top-Model Eva Padberg herumplagen, nachdem es im Streit um die Domain eva-padberg.com das Genfer UN-Schiedsgericht der World Intellectual Property Organisation angerufen hatte. Das Panel nahm die Entscheidung zum Anlass, grundsätzliche Feststellungen zur Beklagten eines UDRP-Streits zu treffen.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/eva-padberg-com-wer-ist-der-beklagte-id667161.html
LG Düsseldorf – Parking-Anbieter haftet nicht
Die Domain-Börse Sedo hat in einem Prozess vor dem Landgericht Düsseldorf (Urteil v. 28.11.2007, Az.: 2a O 176/07) im Rahmen einer negativen Feststellungklage deutlich machen können, dass man für beim Parking auftretende Rechtsverletzungen erst ab Kennnis haftet.
http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/lg-duesseldorf-parking-anbieter-haftet-nicht-id667160.html
Paris joue l'intimidation pour protéger ses noms de domaine
Si vous avez l'intention de déposer un nom de domaine contenant le mot « paris », réfléchissez-y à deux fois... Ou vous pourriez bien connaître la mésaventure de cette jeune société décidée à lancer un site de paris en ligne. Au mois de décembre dernier, Stéphane Nachez et son associé déposent un nom encore disponible et qu'il considère à fort potentiel : paris-fr.biz.
http://www.01net.com/editorial/377151/paris-joue-l-intimidation-pour-proteger-ses-noms-de-domaine/
L'OMPI s'inquiète d'une nouvelle vague de cybersquatting
L'organisme mondial de la propriété intellectuelle a enregistré en 2007 une hausse de 18 % des plaintes pour cybersquatting. Il craint que l'ouverture de nouvelles extensions prévue par l'Icann ne déclenche de nouveaux problèmes.
http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/internet/0,39020774,39380094,00.htm
Cybersquatting : statistiques 2007 de l'OMPI
Le Centre d'Arbitrage et de Médiation de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CAM-OMPI) a rendu public ses statistiques de l'année 2007 pour cette activité.
http://domainesinfo.fr/actualite/1475/cybersquatting-statistiques-2007-de-l-ompi.php
Bientôt 1 million de .CA
Le registre canadien lance une campagne de communication en vue de l’enregistrement du millionième enregistrement en .CA.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1472/canada-bientot-1-million-de-ca.php
Deuxième année d’existence pour le .CAT
Le registre du .CAT fête sa deuxième année d’existence et totalise à ce jour 27 500 enregistrements.
http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1474/communaute-catalane-deuxieme-annee-d-existence-pour-le-cat.php
L'affaire Pages Jaunes (2ème partie)
En 1996 et 1997, Xentral enregistrait pagesjaunes.com et pagesjaunes.net. En 2000, Pages Jaunes engageait une bataille juridique qui allait apporter une remarquable contribution au droit des marques et des noms de domaine. DomainesInfo.fr revient sur cette affaire dans un dossier spécial en trois parties.
http://domainesinfo.fr/chronique/190/l-affaire-pages-jaunes-2eme-partie.php
Verisign augmente encore le prix d'enregistrement des .com et .net
Verisign annonce qu'il va procéder à son augmentation annuelle du prix facturé pour tenir à jour les serveurs racines des noms de domaine des TLD .com et.net. A compter du 1er octobre, le prix payé par les registrars (auprès de qui on achète les noms de domaine) passera à 6,86$ (+7%) pour les domaines en .com et à 4,23$ (+10%) pour ceux en .net.
http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-verisign-augmente-encore-le-prix-d-enregistrement-des-com-et-net-25724.html
L'OMPI constate une augmentation de 18% du nombre de plaintes pour cybersquattage
L'organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) a publié son bilan concernant le cybersquattage en 2007. « L'évolution constante du système d'enregistrement des noms de domaine est une source de préoccupation croissante pour les propriétaires de marques dans le monde entier», explique l'organisme dans un communiqué daté du 27 mars 2008.
http://www.neteco.com/130738-ompi-constate-augmentation-18-nombre-plaintes-cybe.html
VeriSign augmente ses tarifs en octobre
Le principal registrar et dépositaire de noms de domaine en .com et .net annonce une hausse de ses tarifs qui entrera en vigueur le 1er octobre 2008.
http://www.generation-nt.com/nom-domaine-verisign-prix-tarif-com-net-actualite-70482.html
Fitna y las puertas al campo
No cabe duda de que el tema de la semana en este pequeño gran mundo que es la red de redes ha sido el estreno del cortometraje Fitna y los problemas que ha tenido para su difusión en internet. Primero fue Network Solutions quien decidió cerrar la página donde el diputado del Partido Liberal holandés Geert Wilders pretendía colgar la película antes de que tuviera la oportunidad de hacerlo. La razón es que la empresa está "investigando" si la web de Wilders viola sus normas de uso a raíz de "unas quejas" misteriosas cuya naturaleza y procedencia no han aclarado.
http://www.libertaddigital.com/opiniones/opinion_42813.html
La Argentina es el sexto operador mundial de dominios de Internet
La Argentina es la sexta operadora entre los países con dominios de primer nivel (TLD, sigla en inglés)) con código de países y la primera de América latina. Así se desprende del último informe de VeriSign, la empresa que opera los dominios .com y .net. Según sus datos, hay 1,6 millones de dominios .ar.
http://ar.news.yahoo.com/s/31032008/44/n-technology-argentina-sexto-operador-mundial-dominios-internet.html
200 propuestas para nombres de dominios
ICANN, el organismo encargado de seleccionar los nombres dominio, informó que 47 grupos han presentado más de 200 propuestas para nuevos nombres. La decisión de ICANN será dada a conocer en noviembre.
http://www.diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=3028
33 millones de nuevos dominios en Internet
Internet creció en aproximadamente 33 millones de nombres de dominios en 2007, según el Reporte de la Industria de Nombres de Dominios correspondiente al cuarto trimestre de 2007 publicado por VeriSign.
http://www.diarioti.com/gate/n.php?id=17040
Fechorías norteamericanas en Internet
Las tecnologías de la información y las telecomunicaciones han colocado al mundo con sus confines muy cercanos. Desde el Sudeste de Asia cualquiera se puede comunicar con San Francisco, La Habana, Caracas o Buenos Aires en segundos.
http://www.adelante.cu/noticias/28/4/2/ciencia.internet.php
http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/infain7190.htm
.co: Avanza implementación para administrar el ccTLD .CO
El Ministerio de comunicaciones ha continuado con sus esfuerzos para implementar la administración del ccTLD.CO, para lo cual viene adelantando acciones encaminadas a dar cumplimiento con los objetivos definidos. Para obtener mayor información
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1612
.mx: NIC Mexico lanza ofertas de registro en el mes de Abril.
Del 1 al 30 de Abril da el primer paso para tener presencia en Internet y registra un dominio .MX desde $6 USD costo por año al registrar 5 años.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1611
VeriSign muestra preocupación por la escasez de direccion IP y presentó un informe en Argentina
El último informe de VeriSign también destaca la importancia de aumentar el espacio de direcciones IP para la infraestructura global que crece rápidamente, en un mercado donde empresas e individuos suman casi 33 millones de nombres de dominios en Internet en el 2007 a nivel mundial, aumentando el total de dominios registrados a más de 153 millones.
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1610
Intens kamp om danske domæner
Administrationen af den danske del af internettet får pludselig konkurrence fra en uventet kant. Et dansk-amerikansk partnerskab vil nu have fat i .dk. Det kan åbne for billigere domæner.
http://www.erhvervsbladet.dk/article/20080331/news04/80331054/
dotDK vil overtage styringen af .dk-domæner
To internationale profiler indleder samarbejde i form af Tina Dam fra ICANN og Afilias, som administrerer .info og .org, og sammen har de budt på administrationen af .dk-domænet.
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/45071?a=block&i=188&pos=4
Globalare internet skapas med fulhack
I vår är internet på väg att förändras i grunden. Eller rättare sagt i toppen: de så kallade toppdomänerna är på väg att explodera.
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.153165
Story mentioning IPv6 in Japanese
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/business/080329/biz0803292212007-n1.htm
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