United Nations Information and Communication Technologies
Task Force
This initiative is intended to lend a truly global
dimension to the multitude of efforts to bridge the global
digital divide, foster digital opportunity and thus firmly
put ICT at the service of development for all. The Task
Force is supported by the Heads of State and Government of
all UN Member States who endorsed the ECOSOC Ministerial
Declaration at the Millennium Summit in September 2000.
 http://unicttaskforce.org

us: Pornographer gives WhitehouseKids.com address to govt
The owner of the Whitehouse.com pornography website has
donated a similar Internet address to the government, a
move he said would ensure that children don't inadvertently
stumble into one of the Internet's seedier neighbourhoods.

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/3/16/technology/7551360&sec=technology
 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/8193844.htm

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040316.gtwhitemar16/BNStory/Technology/

nz: Internet provider Fast Access in murky domain name deal
Sahil Gupta, the owner of Hamilton internet provider Fast
Access, is again embroiled in controversy. Gupta faces
accusations of having hijacked fellow Hamilton internet
provider Netstream's domain names to enforce payment of
debts owed to his companies.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3554868

Web name wait lists 'will hurt the little guy'
A controversial new waiting list service will make it
easier for big companies to snap up expired internet domain
names, say experts, leaving the little guys with little
chance of grabbing the web address they want.
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994768

Adult-Related TLD Considered Dangerous
In an RFC prepared by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd and Declan
McCullagh, an analysis is offered for proposals to mandate
the use of a special top level name or an IP address bit to
flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the like. This
document explains why these ideas are ill considered from
legal, philosophical, and technical points of view.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/530_0_1_0_C

TLD for Online Communities and Social Networking?
A company called PW Registry Corporation makes the
following announcement regarding the .PW ccTLD originally
designated for the country of Palau: "The PW Registry
Corporation announced today plans for the activation of the
PW top- level domain (TLD), the Internet's first and only
domain extension devoted to "Communities of Shared
Interests". Unlike other domain extensions, such as .com,
.biz, and .info, PW is aimed at providing individuals and
consumer/affinity organizations a highly-personalized,
permanent and portable e-mail address and a managed
platform for community and social networking."
 http://www.circleid.com/article/533_0_1_0_C

VeriSign Vs. ICANN - Name Dropping on the Internet
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
recently became the focus of litigation from VeriSign. In a
practice called name-dropping, domain-name retailers prey
on thousands of .com addresses that expire each year when
their owners fail to renew, snatching them up for clients.
The crux of the litigation is VeriSign's new wait-list
service (WLS) to recycle expired domain names and ICANN's
authority over the Internet domain name system (DNS).
 http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1505buzz1

ICANN and Iraq: suffering along
I thought of ICANN today when reading about the devolution
of the Iraqi Governing Council, which managed to unite for
just a moment to approve a constitution with about the
half-life of lutetium. ICANN and the IGC: two institutions
put in charge of ill-behaved constituencies and stuck in
chronic failure mode. Could anything be learned by
examining them at arm's length? Indeed, different as they
are, their histories contain several common elements.
 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4584

ICANN GNSO Whois Task Force Meeting Minutes (16 March 2004)
* Task Force 2 held 8 March 2004

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-dow2tf-08mar04.shtml
* Task Force 1 held 9 March 2004

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-dow1tf-09mar04.shtml
* Task Force 3 held 10 March 2004

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/minutes-dow3tf-10mar04.shtml

Smoking domain name sold for $325,000
Not only was the domain name Mercury.com sold for $1,1
million this week, but today it was also revealed that the
domain Smoking.com has been sold for $325,000 US dollars.
 http://www.multireg.com/article375.html
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