Hi all It's getting towards the end of the year, and I'm keen to get feedback on the news - what you like, dislike, new ideas, issues I don't cover, issues I cover too much. I have kept developing the news throughout the year, so while it has grown, it has also covered a wider range of news issues. So while comments are welcome any time, this is just a prompt to remind you I'm keen to receive them. Feel free to comment to the list and/or myself directly. Cheers David +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. Within 24 hours of this news being posted, a more recent edition of the news will normally be posted to the auDA web site. The domain name news is supported by auDA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ au: Exchange - Chris Disspain Meet the man in the front line of the battle against domain name fraud. Thousands of Australians have lost money to Internet domain name scams, particularly those who registered domains through Domain Names Australia (DNA). We put some of the most common complaints to Chris Disspain, CEO of the Australian Domain Name Authority (auDA). http://apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/print/8CE35FCC8C60D151CA256F4D002752BD nz: ICANN has just announced that its March 2006 meeting will be held in Wellington, New Zealand (no link yet!) The meeting will be held from the 27th to the 31st of March 2006, and will primarily be at the Wellington Convention Centre and the Duxton Hotel. uk: easyGroup wins easyejt.com domain name dispute The Panel of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Arbitration and Mediation Center, which administers the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and rules, has found in favour of easyGroup IP Licensing Limited (easyGroup) in a dispute over the domain name easyejt.com. From: http://practicallaw.com/jsp/article.jsp?item=46171 New Berkman Amici Brief In Domain Name Case The Berkman Center's Clinical Program in Cyberlaw this week filed another amici curiae brief in a trademark appeal involving an allegedly infringing domain name. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=626 Russian Internet Domain Turns 10 Over 200,000 domain names are registered in the Russian Internet domain (Runet), Mikhail Seslavinsky, head of the federal press and mass communications agency, reported on Tuesday. http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5153298&startrow=1&date=2004-11-30&do_alert=0 Website registration reaches record levels Over five million new domain names were added to the internet in the third quarter of this year - the highest growth in registrations ever. http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39126277,00.htm http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/news/38566.html http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/11/29/daily28.html http://www.pcmag.co.uk/news/1159779 http://www.vnunet.com/news/1159779 Netcraft December 2004 Web Server Survey In the December 2004 survey we received responses from 56,923,737 sites. The gain of 808,722 sites continues the Internet's powerful growth as a medium for communications and commerce, which has continued at near-record pace in 2004 despite a steady drumbeat of security threats. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/01/december_2004_web_server_survey.html Bidders line up for .net domain names registry The role of US corporations in managing domain name registries is destined to provoke heated debate as various companies submit and defend their respective bids for the .net domain name registry. http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93460,00.html Big Turn Out At ICANN Conference Over 600 delegates are attending the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a meeting has been held in Africa. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030564.html za: ICANN conference under way in Cape Town ICANN is holding a major conference in Cape Town as part of its commitment to reach out to internet users around the world. Theresa Swinehart, ICANN's general manager for global partnerships, said the organisation is doing its best to engage the world by holding its tri-annual meetings in it's five different regions (Africa, Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe) on a rotational basis. http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93422,00.html ICANN to unveil internet strategy at meeting ICANN will be holding its annual meeting from the 1st-5th December in Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93186,00.html za: ICANN: Affordable Access the Key The main African Internet issue is that of affordable access, CEO Paul Twomey said at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Cape Town this morning. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020629.html za: Minister, Internet Community Rift 'Healed' The South African Internet community has praised communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri for her speech at the ICANN conference, saying it heals the rift between the community and government. The speech earned the minister a standing ovation this week. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030422.html Conference explores Africa's Internet options More than 600 delegates are attending the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) conference in Cape Town, the fourth time such a meeting has been held in Africa. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063453797I250 http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93323,00.html ICANN works Harry Potter magic on net Internet overseeing organisation ICANN has a difficult task ahead persuading people to let it run the whole network when its contract ends in 2006. And it is willing to try anything to get there - including, it would seem, magic. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/icann_harry_potter_magic/ ITU head: Arabic domain names coming to a computer near you Internet domain names may soon be available in Arabic, according to Yoshio Utsumi, the secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union. http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=4722 African Languages to Be Recognised Internationally Africans wishing to use local languages in Internet domain names and content can now do so, courtesy of a new movement to internationalise domain names. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020002.html Finding Our Roots On the Internet - ICANN Conference Brings Hope to Africa Imagine exploring cyberspace and wading through mountains of information in Kiswahili, Amharic or the Ghanaian language Twi efficiently and as easily as you would in English. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020001.html za: New Language for South Africa? Is there a twelfth official language in South Africa? If you are in Cape Town this week you would be forgiven for thinking so. It is acronyms galore in the Mother city as a new language invades and wreaks havoc inside the International Convention Centre where the annual ICANN conference is being held. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020003.html Cornucopia: A Radically Different Approach to TLDs Much of the discussion about proposed TLDs centres around domain names as a form of classification: ".mobi" for mobile device content, ".kids" for child-safe content, language codes for language-specific content, ".museum" for museum-related entities, and so on. Notoriously little activity has been forthcoming in actually implementing these proposals, and the select few that have been allowed out into the world are, shall we say, a tad arbitrary. http://www.circleid.com/article/819_0_1_0_C/ ICANN selects its wardens ICANN has selected the two independent wardens of its activites after a two-year delay. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/icann_selects_wardens/ ICANN Posts Ombudsman Framework for Public Comment http://icann.org/ombudsman/ombudsman-framework-03dec04.htm Internet Governance: ICANN pitches the internet's future ICANN, which oversees the Internet in all its manificent lunacy, has just published a Strategic Plan, in which it has outlined what its direction and goals are for the next three years. http://www.markle.org/weekly_digest/weeklydigest_vol.3_issue45.pdf TJ is Tajikistan Internet Address! Last year the redelegation process over .TJ domain initiated by present Manager and supported by Internet Community of Tajikistan and ICANN took place. The process was successfully finished on July 2, 2003. Unfortunately all the attempts (both ours and ICANN) to establish any contacts to the previous domain administration regarding the names, which had been registered before failed. In this connection the decision was made to cancel them all. So for those companies and individuals who had the names registered before July 2003 and are still interested in them the solution is to register them again. http://www.nic.tj Travel industry to have its own web address Companies in the travel and tourism industry are to have their own internet address. The '.travel' top level domain (TLD), which should launch in the second quarter of 2005, will provide a new variation to the continuing demand for new web addresses. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041203/175/f7u2v.html Travel domain will make Web surfing easier Are you facing the agony of locating an ideal hotel or travel agent over the Internet? You can brace yourself for better times because the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has entered into technical and commercial agreements on a proposed .travel domain name registry. http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=iol1102174231146T614 Thawte Secures International Domains SSL security certificate provider thawte (thawte.com) announced Tuesday at the ICANN conference in Cape Town, South Africa that it had become the first certificate authority to offer SSL certificates that fully secure internationalized domain names. http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/tha120204.cfm ***************** WSIS & GOVERNANCE ***************** OECD: Meeting on Economic and Social Implications of ICT, Antigua, Guatemala from 18-Jan-2005 to 19-Jan-2005 As part of the preparatory process of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (to be held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005) the OECD is collaborating with UNCTAD, ILO and the ITC in organising a WSIS Thematic Meeting on the Economic and Social Implications of ICT. OECD's work on the links between ICTs and economic growth, social development and performance of enterprises that has been carried out under the aegis of ICCP and WPIE will provide some of the fundamental arguments presented at this meeting. http://www.oecd.org/document/47/0,2340,en_2649_37409_33938223_1_1_1_37409,00.html The Accountable Net: Who Should Be Accountable? By Esther Dyson Two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission held a summit on e-mail authentication in Washington, DC; the community of people who handle bulk mail came together and agreed on standards and processes that should help reduce the proliferation of spoofed mail and fraudulent offers. This was a big, collective step in the right direction. http://www.circleid.com/article/820_0_1_0_C/ za: Internet Body Must Include All - Minister The international governing structure of the internet had to be made more inclusive to allow for greater participation by underdeveloped and developing countries, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri says. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030414.html za: Governments Should Have Voice in Internet Governance, Says South African Minister South African Communications Minister, Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities to allow governments of developing countries to have more of a say in how the Internet is governed. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412030609.html za: Matsepe-Casaburri Lobbies for Wider Internet Access Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has challenged the international community to allow wider access in the governance of the Internet. http://allafrica.com/stories/200412020128.html za: 'We need to create affordable Web access' South African communications minister, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has called on Internet authorities to allow governments of developing countries to have more of a say in how the Internet is governed. Matsepe-Casaburri was officially welcoming delegates attending the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) conference in Cape Town on Thursday. http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1101989711770O545 http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html za: Speech by South African Minister of Communications, Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, to ICANN meeting http://www.info.gov.za/search97cgi/s97_cgi?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2E%2E%2Fdata%2Fspeech04%2F04120309451002%2Etxt&DocOffset=9&DocsFound=4624&Collection=speech04&SortField=TDEDate&SortOrder=desc&ViewTemplate=gov%2Fdocview%2Ehts za: Internet in Africa to be more accessible and affordable African internet service providers (ISPs), struggling to survive in Internet Protocol registries based in the US and the UK, can hold their breath until April 2005, when the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) will be fully recognised and operational. AfriNIC, the first registry to exclusively serve the African market, will not ask them to justify why they should be allocated IP addresses. http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93415,00.html za: Govt wants more say over web Governments, "as the true representatives of their country", should have an increased voice in the governance of the internet, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Thursday. http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/396546.htm http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5475319.html Africans need to join the global arena A Sudanese delegate at the ICANN conference in Cape Town stands and speaks about his home country. "In Sudan we started what is called the Free Internet system where Internet users only paid for local call costs and not ISP costs," he began, "The number of Internet users tripled impressively. Then the numbers stopped growing and we found out it was because many Sudanese people did not have access to computers to enable them to connect to the Internet in the first place." http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=iol1102063487465R252 http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,93308,00.html WGIG Too Focused on Negative Side of the Internet? By Susan Crawford The following is a report by Susan Crawford at the ICANN meeting in Cape Town where a workshop was held yesterday for increasing awareness and understanding of United Nation's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and issues that directly impact ICANN. ("WSIS" is defined as a process in which governments intend to address a broad range of international legal, regulatory, economic, and policy issues related to the Internet. Some governments have proposed that an intergovernmental organization be responsible for "Internet governance," a phrase that remains undefined and some consider to include and/or mean the administration and coordination of the domain name system (DNS).) http://www.circleid.com/article/815_0_1_0_C/ Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had Final Meeting The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms had its final meeting at UNDP headquarters in New York on 29 November. Rik Panganiban (CONGO), who was allowed to participate as an NGO observer, reports. http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/698.htm Geneva informal meeting on financial mechanisms disappointing The Task Force on Financing Mechanisms (TFFM) held an open meeting in conjunction with the WSIS Group of the Friends of the Chair meeting in Geneva last week. Chantal Peyer from the Swiss NGO coalition Communica.ch was there and reports about a disappointing discussion, but also about a possible strategy for civil society. http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/697.htm Civil Society processes in WSIS Phase II Civil society groups involved in the World Summit on the Information Society had some difficulties concerning the transparency and inclusiveness of their overall coordination structures. A review of the structures and decision-making procedures was started at PrepCom 1 in June and was finally kicked off at last week’s meetings around the UN ICT Task Force in Berlin. http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/691.htm Proposal for formation of CS Working Methods Working Group Draft “Rules and Procedures for NGO Representation at UN Conferences” http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.rtf http://worldsummit2005.de/download_en/CS-RULES-PROCEDURES-21-11-2004.pdf WSIS PrepCom2 will be “stormy” The UN Information and Communication Technology Task Force (UN ICT TF) met in Berlin last week, and civil society groups had a number of meetings around this event. The conflicts and coalitions in the second phase of the WSIS are becoming clearer now. One major dispute is to be expected over financing. http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/689.htm Ghana to host preparatory conference of WSIS Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, chief executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), has met with the secretariat of the African Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Accra to examine the preparations so far made towards the hosting of the summit scheduled for Accra in February next year. http://www.accra-mail.com/story.asp?id=11751 RSF says repressive regimes gaining foothold ahead of WSIS Several countries that have cracked down on the use of the Internet are members of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), charged a world media watchdog Wednesday. http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=301138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2004 ===== 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 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! 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