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Subject: Re: [DNS] domain news - 8 January


> Scotty
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Goldstein" <goldstein_david&#167;yahoo.com.au>
> To: "auDA DNS Mailing List" <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:06 PM
> Subject: [DNS] domain news - 8 January
>
>
> > Hello all
> >
> > Welcome to another year, and welcome back to the news that
> > will continue on a bi-weekly basis throughout 2004.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> >
> > .au - Domain regulator labels DNA brawl as biggest consumer
> > issue
> > The mail-out of 500,000 allegedly misleading advertisements
> > by Domain Names Australia (DNA) was the biggest issue in
> > the domain name market to affect consumers in 2003.
> >
> >
>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20282256,00.ht
> m
> >
> > Canadian Firm Barred From Misleading Domain Name Marketing:
> > FTC
> > A Canadian Internet domain name re-seller stands to be
> > barred by a federal court from misrepresenting its
> > domain-name registration service marketing and ordered to
> > pay consumer redress, the Federal Trade Commission
> > announced December 23. The stipulated order awaits only a
> > judge's signature to take full effect.
> >
> > http://www.avnonline.com/issues/200312/newsarchive/news_122403_1.shtml
> >
> > Court Bars Canadian Company from Misleading Consumers in
> > Marketing of Internet Domain Name Services
> > The Federal Trade Commission has requested that a federal
> > district court enjoin Domain Registry of America, Inc., an
> > Internet domain name re-seller, from making
> > misrepresentations in the marketing of its domain name
> > registration services and require it to pay redress to
> > consumers. According to the FTC, the company told consumers
> > that their domain registrations were expiring, leading many
> > consumers unwittingly to switch their domain name
> > registrar. The company also allegedly did not disclose that
> > it would charge a processing fee to consumers if their
> > transfer request was not competed - for any reason - and
> > failed to provide consumers refunds in a timely manner.
> > Under the terms of the stipulated final order announced
> > today, Domain Registry of America (DROA), based in Ontario,
> > Canada, may be required to provide redress to up to 50,000
> > consumers, is prohibited from engaging in similar conduct
> > in the future, and is subject to stringent monitoring by
> > the Commission to ensure its compliance with the court
> > order.
> >  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/domainreg.htm
> >
> > ITU Survey of ccTLD Management
> > As part of its follow-up activities related to ITU
> > Resolution 102: Management of Internet Names and Addresses
> > (Marrakesh, 2002), the ITU initiated in April 2003 a survey
> > and questionnaire with regard to Member States' experiences
> > with country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs).  As of 12
> > December 2003, the ITU has received replies to this survey
> > from 60 countries.
> >  http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2003/12/19.html#a415
> >
> > http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/survey/index.html
> >
> > What the net did next
> > The internet is set to become the basis for just about
> > every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint
> > Cerf, and he should know what he is talking about.
> >  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3292043.stm
> >
> > Wiring the world is one thing, making Internet truly global
> > another
> > Rahul Dewan typed "India" into the search box of an online
> > stock photo service, hoping to find digital images of his
> > native country. He found only three - all of flags. Dewan
> > then typed "Switzerland," a country smaller than his, and
> > found 33, while "USA" returned 72.
> > ...
> > The Internet's key oversight body also is studying domain
> > names entirely in non-English characters - instead of
> > requiring ".com" or another English suffix. Other
> > challenges remain.
> >
> >
>
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/24hour/technology/story/1091630p-7626700c.htm
> l
> >
> >
>
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031218.gtnett1218/BNStory/
> Technology
> >
> > ICANN DNS Infrastructure Recommendation Of the Security and
> > Stability Advisory Committee
> > A key element of the DNS infrastructure is the delegation
> > of zones. Beginning with the root of the DNS ("."), each
> > zone administrator has the authority to delegate sub-zones
> > to other responsible parties. Each sub-zone becomes another
> > delegation point in the DNS infrastructure tree. The
> > correct operation of the delegation hierarchy is essential
> > to the stability of the DNS.
> >
> > http://www.icann.org/committees/security/dns-recommendation-01nov03.htm
> >
> > ICANN Announcement - Details on March 2004 ICANN Meeting to
> > be Held in Rome, Italy
> > ICANN's next round of meetings will be held 2-6 March 2004
> > in Rome, Italy. The meetings are free to attend and open to
> > any interested person. ICANN encourages broad participation
> > in its bottom-up, consensus development process.
> >
> > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-23dec03.htm
> >
> > ICANN Approves Community User Groups
> > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
> > (ICANN.org) announced this week that six community user
> > groups in three geographic regions have received "at-large
> > structure" certification in a step towards fulfilling the
> > organization's objective to have structured individual
> > Internet user participation.
> >  http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/ica121803.cfm
> >
> > http://alac.icann.org/announcements/announcement-16dec03.htm
> >
> > Signs of Recovery: Domain Names Once Again Fetch Top Dollar
> > News from Associated Press tells us the Internet is ringing
> > in the new year with domain names that, once again, are
> > netting seven figures. According to an AP report, a man in
> > Florida sold the domain name, men.com, to a company called
> > men.com LLC for $1.3 million. He paid $15,000 for it in
> > 1997. The purchasing company intends to create a portal for
> > men.
> >
> > http://channelzone.ziffdavis.com/article2/0,3973,1422990,00.asp
> >
> > http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/1098142p-7681053c.html
> >
> >
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/25/internet.domains.ap/index.html
> >
> >
>
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8258423%5E15343%5E%5Enbv%5E1
> 5306%2D15318,00.html
> >
> > Dispute rages over Nigeria's internet domain name
> > The hosting of the Country's Country Code Top Level Domain
> > (ccTLD) name locally may remain elusive for long as
> > contenders to the hosting right are yet to resolve their
> > dispute.
> >  http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article03
> >
> > Letting DNS Loose
> > RFID tags, UPC codes, International characters in email
> > addresses and host names, and a variety of other
> > identifiers could all go into DNS, and folks have
> > occasionally proposed doing just that. Its really just a
> > question of figuring out how to use the DNS -- its ready to
> > carry arbitrary identifiers. And by the way, this isn't a
> > new idea, see RFC 1101 for proof, although even earlier I
> > designed the DNS in the early 1980s to allow it to be so,
> > but it seemed too far fetched to document for a while. ...I
> > was in Geneva for a WSIS meeting of CTOs, and was surprised
> > that the various organizations (ITU, ICANN, ISOC) haven't
> > figured out that they need each other to make this
> > technology work, rather than asserting ownership.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/415_0_1_0_C
> >
> > What the Net Did Next
> > During this slow and long lull of domain name policy and
> > ICANN related news stories, I thought it would be a good
> > time to bring an article by BBC News Online technology
> > correspondent Mark Ward to the attention of the CircleID
> > community. In it, ICANN Chairman of the Board Vint Cerf
> > reflects on the history of the Internet and his involvement
> > as somewhat of a "midwife," rather than the "father" title
> > he doesn't like. He also looks to the future and identifies
> > two key, fundamental changes that will shape the next stage
> > of the Internet. As he puts it, they are VoIP and ENUM.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/414_0_1_0_C
> >
> > WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About?
> > Until a few weeks ago, almost everyone in the Internet
> > governance circus seemed to ignore the very existence of
> > WSIS. After it popped up on international newspapers,
> > however, things have been changing; and suddenly, I have
> > started noticing plenty of negative reactions, on the lines
> > of "we don't need WSIS, we don't need the UN, we don't need
> > governments, we don't need internationalization - just go
> > away from our network". However, I often find that these
> > reactions are based on fundamental misunderstandings of the
> > issues at stake; so please let me offer a different
> > perspective.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/411_0_1_0_C
> >
> > A Psychoanalysis of Corporate Domain Names and Branding -
> > Part II
> > Naming for today's global e-commerce is very fragmented and
> > every corporation is trying to cope with little or no
> > guidance at all. When a name fails to deliver a clear and
> > distinct message no amount of bizarre branding ideas will
> > ever save it. Now to check on the health of a name here are
> > some key reasons and if not corrected, a name will
> > endlessly shout and eventually die.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/409_0_1_0_C
> >
> > A Psychoanalysis of Corporate Domain Names and Branding -
> > Part I
> > A corporate name of any merged entity, at best, is really
> > an outcry from the deep bottom of a corporation, all in
> > search of attention and in pursuit of fame and glory.
> > Whether you read a corporate brand name in a column, see it
> > in a phone book, hear it on a radio, TV or come across it
> > on the web, the name is always, a real show-off with a
> > desperate mission to seek all the attention it can get.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/399_0_1_0_C
> >
> > A Study on Public Participation in ICANN
> > The following is an executive summary from the preliminary
> > study by John Palfrey, Clifford Chen, Sam Hwang, and Noah
> > Eisenkraft at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
> > Harvard Law School. This study considers to what extent the
> > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
> > has achieved its stated goal of a "representative" and
> > "open" decision-making process.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/405_0_1_0_C
> >
> > Centralizing the Net, Monetizing DNS, Getting Trendy?
> > In a Red Herring Conference held last week in California,
> > Mitch Ratcliffe's offers an analytical overview of an
> > interview held with Stratton Scalovs, VerisSign's CEO..."He
> > then goes on to say that we need to move the complexity
> > back into the center of the Net! He says the edge can't be
> > so complex. Get David Isenberg in here! Ross Mayfield,
> > sitting in front of me, laughs out loud. I am dumbfounded.
> > According to VeriSign, the Net should not be open to any
> > type of application, only applications that rely on single
> > providers of services, like VeriSign. This is troglodyte
> > talk."
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/402_0_1_0_C
> >
> > ICANN on Closing Off Port 43
> > ICANN has launched three task forces on WHOIS
> > restructuring...It sounds innocuous enough -- nobody likes
> > spam -- but the restrictions being discussed reach further
> > than marketers. Pushed by registrars who feel that WHOIS
> > amounts to forced disclosure of their customer lists, the
> > task force is seriously discussing closing off port 43's
> > straightforward access to WHOIS information, replacing it
> > with GIF-based barriers or similar access restrictions.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/401_0_1_0_C
> >
> > ICANN and the Virtues of Deliberative Policymaking - Part
> > II
> > In the second part of this two-part series article, Andrew
> > McLaughlin concludes his critical look at the recently
> > reported study, Public Participation in ICANN, by John
> > Palfrey, Clifford Chen, Sam Hwang, and Noah Eisenkraft at
> > the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
> > School.
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/407_0_1_0_C
> >
> > ICANN and the Virtues of Deliberative Policymaking - Part I
> > In this two-part series article, Andrew McLaughlin takes a
> > critical look at the recently reported study, Public
> > Participation in ICANN, by John Palfrey, Clifford Chen, Sam
> > Hwang, and Noah Eisenkraft at the Berkman Center for
> > Internet & Society at Harvard Law School..."The study's
> > presentation and analysis of data contain much of interest,
> > and much that could assist ICANN (and other policy-making
> > bodies) in improving its use and management of online
> > public forums. But the study's value is diminished by two
> > rather fundamental shortcomings: (1) its misapprehension of
> > both the theory and the practice of ICANN's
> > policy-development process, and (2) the sizeable gap
> > between the broad scope of the study's conclusions and the
> > very narrow -- indeed, myopic -- focus of the analysis from
> > which they are derived. Simply put, the study scrutinizes a
> > small and misleading corner of ICANN (namely, its online
> > public comment forums) and leaps to a sweeping (and, in my
> > view, unwarranted) conclusion."
> >  http://www.circleid.com/article/406_0_1_0_C
> >
> > Unexpected twists in Internet law
> > Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises, with Congress
> > passing an antispam bill, the courts blessing pop-up
> > advertising, the music industry losing lawsuits and the
> > Supreme Court finally upholding an Internet law.
> >  http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5131781.html
> >
> > Foundation wins Internet dispute
> > It has ruled that the Staten Island-based Joey DiPaolo AIDS
> > Foundation, whose Internet identity was hijacked by a porn
> > site back in September, has exclusive rights to the use of
> > its name in cyberspace.
> >
> >
>
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/107210432636520.xml
> >
> > Consumeractive: Domain name pain
> > What happens when your domain name isn't re-registered: I
> > often receive emails or letters from small organisations
> > that need help or tell me that my advice has not brought
> > about a resolution.
> >  http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151734
> >
> > .us - New Yorker accused of cybersquatting
> > MediaNews Services Inc., parent of the Charleston Daily
> > Mail, has accused a New York man of cybersquatting in a
> > federal lawsuit that seeks to shut down a Web site with an
> > address similar to the newspaper's site.
> >
> >
>
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-apindustrynews1222dec22,0,1
> 439807.story
> >
> > .us - Cyber-squatter burns area politician
> > A Web site address for Assemblywoman Carol Liu, D-Pasadena,
> > has been taken over by a business in Switzerland peddling
> > pills for penis enlargement.
> >
> > http://www.sgvtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,205~12220~1843140,00.html
> >
> > RegisterFly Offers New.net Domains
> > Web hosting and domain registrar RegisterFly.com
> > (registerfly.com) announced on Wednesday that it is
> > offering domain name registrations for New.net (new.net)
> > domain extensions. Pasadena, California-based New.net is
> > the registry for descriptive domain extensions such as
> > .sport, .club, and .family.
> >  http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/reg121703.cfm
> >
> > http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/showarticle.asp?id=1770
> >
> > .in - HC restrains foreign firms from using 'Zee' in domain
> > names
> > Stung by its trade name being robbed off by non-descript
> > foreign firms to squat on domain names, Zee Group of
> > Company approached the Delhi High Court which has
> > restrained firms from America, China, Pakistan and Nepal
> > from using the word "ZEE" in their domain names.
> >  http://www.indiantelevision.com/mnd/y2k3/dec/1decgm1.htm
> >
> > .us - Pot-linked senator domain names de-activated
> > More than 100 World Wide Web domains belonging to a group
> > that linked Florida senators' names to a marijuana seed
> > seller were de-activated Thursday and Friday. The same
> > group has attempted in the past to attach Florida
> > congressmen to a political group promoting white rights.
> > Friends of Chantal, an organization in Mossyrock, Wash.,
> > bought the names of a dozen Florida state senators in
> > January as Internet domains names. Those domains were then
> > linked to Overgrow.com, a World Wide Web site that sells
> > marijuana seeds from Canada.
> >
> > http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/701/public/news513848.html
> >
> > Network Solutions v. Hoblad in the 4th Circuit Court of
> > Appeals, United States District Court
> > The district court determined that Appellants were bound by
> > the registration agreements because the intermediaries had
> > acted as Appellants' agents in executing those agreements.
> > For the decision see
> >  http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/031226.U.pdf
> >
> > Web addresses get nip and tuck--and spam
> > A crop of Web sites have sprung up with the mission of
> > making long, easily breakable Web addresses shorter--and at
> > least one of them is trying to make money at the idea.
> >
> >
>
http://ups.asia.cnet.com/c/as.ch.nt.stories/asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0
> ,39001153,39162150,00.htm
> >
> > FieldTurf Scores in ACPA Decision - from
> > http://www.udrplaw.net UDRPlaw.net
> > FieldTurf, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of
> > synthetic sports surfaces, received a favorable decision
> > from U.S. District Court Judge John Darrah in its case
> > against competitor Sportexe, Inc., over its registration
> > and use of the domain names FieldTurf.net and
> > FieldTurf.info.
> >  http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/100509.htm
> >
> > When Does an Expired Domain Name Become Available?
> > In order to know exactly when an expiring domain name will
> > become available for re-registration by a new owner, you
> > must understand the 'Status' of a domain as listed in the
> > 'whois' database.
> >
> > http://www.cpureview.com/articles/20031223expireddomains.html
> >
> > Choosing a Domain Name for Optimization Purposes
> > A web site's URL can serve many purposes. One of those
> > purposes is to improve the site's visibility and rankings
> > on the search engines. This worksheet focuses exclusively
> > on choosing a domain name for optimization purposes.
> > Remember that a URL can serve other purposes, therefore,
> > these suggestions will not and should not be followed
> > exactly in all cases. After all, there are many factors in
> > developing a online business in addition to its search
> > engine rankings.
> >  http://www.isedb.com/news/index.php?t=reviews&id=614
> >
> > E-scams rule the roost in 2003
> > Regrettably, 2003 proved to be a year in which online
> > scamming elevated itself to new heights, with
> > inexperienced, gullible or just plain unfortunate
> > individuals facing a minefield of potentially expensive
> > schemes.
> > ...
> > Domain name renewal notices
> > One issue that has generated significant angst is that of
> > the distribution of advertisements for domain names that
> > appear to look like domain renewal notices.
> >
> > http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/security/0,39001150,39163323,00.htm
> >
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
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> > 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&#167;yahoo.com.au
> >  phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 0015 - home
> >
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