Hi all Just a quick note to say that I'm always interested in feedback on the news. Also any news items people think are worthwhile including are more than welcome, especially those from sources you don't see much of in my news. Cheers David .au - Domain administrator expels member over election kerfuffle A member of the .au Domain Administrator has had its membership revoked after attempting to be elected to the auDA board of directors, prompting changes to the auDA constitution. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20281464,00.htm .uk - Domain name rush after World Cup win England's win in the Rugby World Cup final will have plenty of commercial ramifications - and if any of it is in cyberspace, then a number of people are hoping they can cash in. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/28/1069825981523.html http://www.vnunet.com/News/1150619 Public domain This True North isn't on the map. It's the code name of a government computer suite being built at a secret location somewhere within 150 kilometres of London. The site (actually two sites, called data centre one and data centre two, at least 16 kilometres apart for security), is "x-listed" as part of the UK's critical national infrastructure. If Whitehall were reduced to a radioactive smudge, True North's disc drives would go on whirring. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1093536,00.html First IDN disputes start to emerge The first disputes relating to Internationalised Domain Names - ones which allow web users to register domain with non-Latin characters - have started to emerge with Chinese film company Golden Harvest winning a dispute over a domain made up of the Chinese characters corresponding to its name. http://www.demys.net/news/2003/11/27_golden.htm Developing countries may challenge domain governance The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is due to take place in Geneva on 10-12 December. While the published statement of the secretariat indicates that it "aims to bring together Heads of State, Executive Heads of the United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, civil society entities, industry leaders and media representatives to foster a clear statement of political will and concrete plan of action to shape the future of the global information society", it appears that a more specific plan may be tabled by some countries to move Internet policy and governance (and particularly the control of the Internet domain name system) from the Californian non-profit corporation ICANN to the United Nations. http://www.demys.net/news/2003/11/28_wsis.htm .de - Domain Names with a Local Flavor Starting in March, Internet domain names will be able to include words with diacritical marks such as umlauts and accents. Proponents of the new naming standard say it will help preserve local culture and identity. http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1446_A_1041860_1_A,00.html The Colombian goverment is seeking for a new registrar for the Colombian ccTLD .co. The new registrar has to be a Colombian company and will receive as payment a percentage of the earnings from the domain name payments during five years. New policy allows foreign companies to register their domain names as yourcompany.co and establishes that disputes will be solved according to UDRP. For more information please contact info§br-legalsolutions.com. El Ministerio de Comunicaciones de Colombia acaba de abrir la convocatoria p�blica para la escogencia de la persona jur�dica colombiana de naturaleza privada a la cual le ser� conferida la funci�n administrativa de administraci�n del registro de dominios .co. Si necesitan informaci�n adicional pueden contactarnos a alvaro§br-solucioneslegales.com http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co/licitaciones/Dominioco2003Proyecto.pdf (Espanol) New RIS Remote Route Collector deployed at the Milan Internet Exchange (MIX) RRC10 is located at the Milan Internet Exchange It is the eleventh RRC to come on line and has been operational since November 6, 2003. RRC10 has an interface on the shared MIX medium (both IPv4 and IPv6 VLANs) and collects routing information from all MIX members willing to peer. http://www.ripe.net/ris/rrc10.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://www.auda.org.au/about/news for the latest domain news. Within 24 hours of this news being posted to the list, a more recent edition of the news will normally be posted to the auDA web site. The domain name news is supported by auDA. Also see http://greta.electric.gen.nz/mailman/listinfo/internet-news or http://www.alfa-redi.org/noticia for an archive or to subscribe to the general news. Sources include Quicklinks (www.qlinks.net) and BNA Internet Law News (www.bna.com/ilaw)". ===== David Goldstein address: 2/4 Dundas Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 0015 - home http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time.Received on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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