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au: Aust businesses embrace .au domains
The combined number of .com.au and .net.au domain
names has reached the 500,000 mark, two and a half
years after .au Domain Administration (auDa) took over
management of the .au domain space.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39180159,00.htm

http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/au-commercial-domains-touch-500000/2005/02/07/1107625101935.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12173404%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

com.au and net.au domain registrations exceed 500,000
(news release)
The combined number of .com.au and .net.au domain
names reaching 500,000 confirmed the success of the
.au regime and demonstrated Australian business’
unwavering enthusiasm for the Internet according to
the CEO of the .au Domain Administration (auDA), Mr
Chris Disspain.
 http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=29

Afrinic Takes Full Responsibility for Africa's IP
Numbers This Year
AFRICA will no longer have to rely on other Regional
Internet Registry (RIR) bodies, Adiel A. Akplogan the
Chief Executive Officer of the African Registry for
Internet Numbers (AfriNIC) has said.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502081054.html

Google's domain move sends rivals searching for
answers
After Google disclosed last week that it had been
granted the right to sell domain names, the question
in many minds was, "Why?"
 http://iht.com/articles/2005/02/08/business/ecom.html

FCC Announces Wireless Domain List for CAN-SPAM
Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
makes available to the public a list of wireless
domain names that are used to transmit electronic
messages to subscribers of commercial mobile service,
such as cellular service, Personal Communications
Service (PCS) and enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio
Services (SMRS).
 http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/dispnewsstand?article=3342

WIRELESS CARRIERS HELP COMMISSION TO PROTECT WIRELESS
SUBSCRIBERS FROM SPAM (news release)
On February 7, with the cooperation of wireless
carriers, the Commission published on its Web site a
list of mail domain names used to send messages to
wireless service.  This list is to protect cellular
and wireless consumers from unwanted commercial
electronic mail messages by alerting marketers to
which Internet domain names are used in the electronic
addresses of wireless service subscribers.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-256624A1.pdf

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-256624A1.doc

ISPs have stake in .net domain competition
The ISP industry is watching with interest the ongoing
competition to operate the .net domain, which is a
critical component of the Internet's infrastructure.

http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/isp/2005/0131isp1.html

Boffins to decide future of .net domains
ICANN has named the people that will decide who gets
to run all .net Internet domains from July.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/08/boffins_on_dotnet/

http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12560&

ICANN Engages Independent Evaluation Team to Review
.NET Applications
ICANN has engaged Telcordia Technologies, Inc. to
review and assess the applications submitted in
response to the .NET Request for Proposals. The
assessment process, already begun, will actively
involve at least ten of the Telcordia technical and
professional staff and include site visits to the
qualified applicants. Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is
a leading global provider of telecommunications
software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and
cable. Telcordia's Dr. David Sincoskie will lead a
team that possesses 270 years of collective industry
experience, with particular emphasis in networks,
information databases, security and operations. Also
posted: "Advisory Regarding Neutrality of Independent
Evaluators".

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-07feb05.htm

ICANN Considers New Registrars for .net Domain
ICANN has engaged Telcordia Technologies to review and
assess the applications submitted in response to the
.NET Request for Proposals. ICANN will complement the
Telecordia team's capabilities with an international
panel of DNS experts to contribute to the assessment
effort.

http://www.convergedigest.com/Wireless/broadbandwirelessarticle.asp?ID=13683

Experts: international domain names may pose threat
Security experts are warning about a new threat to Web
surfers: malicious Web sites that use international
domain names to spoof the Web addresses of legitimate
sites.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/08/HNdomainnamethreat_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/08/HNdomainnamethreat_1.html

International characters in domain names leave door
open for new phishing trick
Phishers can use a new trick to fool users of Web
browsers (currently Opera 7.54, Konqueror 3.2.x., and
Mozilla-based Web browsers such as Firefox 1.0) into
believing Web addresses.
 http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/56123

IDN and Homographs Spoofing
There is a published spoofing attack using homographs
IDN. By using a Cyrillic SMALL LETTER A (U+430),
Securnia is able to pretend to be
http://www.paypal.com/.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/934_0_1_0_C

us: Ferraro becomes the queen of opponents' domain
names
Republican county executive candidate Peg Ferraro has
drawn criticism from her opponent Bob Nyce and County
Executive Glenn Reibman for hijacking their names on
the Internet.

http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-14/110785705329130.xml

Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
A security weakness in a standard for handling special
character sets in domain names could let an attacker
spoof websites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher
has warned.

http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39127678,00.htm

us: Internet company reveals 'breast' ad of Super Bowl
An Internet domain-registrar company tried to
capitalize on the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction"
scandal tonight with a commercial featuring a buxom
young woman whose flimsy top repeatedly comes undone
while testifying before "broadcast censorship
hearings."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42739

us: Peter A. Forman to Step Down as CEO of
Register.com
Register.com today announced that Peter A. Forman,
Chief Executive Officer of the Company since June
2003, has informed the Board of Directors that he does
not intend to renew his two-year contract upon its
expiration this coming June and has asked the Board of
Directors to immediately commence a search for a
successor.

http://hartford.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?type_news=latest&newsid=10629

In Celebration of Engineers Week, .Eng.pro Domain Name
Launches for Engineers Only (news release)
.Pro domain expands to provide secure and confidential
Internet communication to engineers who seek the
highest assurance in a registry

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=11520
 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050208/netu025_1.html

ISC Upgrades Domain Name System Root Server to IPv6
with Juniper Networks (news release)
M-Series Routing Platforms Key to IPv6 Capability in
Domain Name System F-Root Server Nodes 
 http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050208/85325_1.html

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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WGIG WORKING PAPERS
The issue papers available from the link below are the
first of a series of 'draft working papers' prepared
by WGIG members, reflecting the preliminary findings
of various drafting teams.
 http://www.wgig.org/working-papers.html

There'll Be Life After Tunis - We'll Make Sure of It
While others wonder what's next after Tunis, young
people at the Accra conference have taken matters into
their own hands and won't see their hard work die
prematurely.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502081066.html

A Need for Numbers
Only nine African countries replied to the
questionnaire on the WSIS Plan of Action adopted at
Geneva phase of WSIS.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502081062.html

Afro-Arab Summit - On the Road to Tunis
Egypt has already laid out a red carpet for the
forthcoming Afro-Arab summit to be held in preparation
for the Tunis phase of WSIS.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502081055.html

Stop Your Hand-Wringing Mentality
The message put across during the African Civil
Society forum held at the WSIS Africa Regional
Preparatory Conference was simple: "If we want to get
listened to at global negotiation tables, we should
save ourselves, and not expect saving from outsiders."
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502081057.html

Civil Liberties 'An Issue' Ahead of WSIS
The International Freedom of Expression Exchange
(IFEX) has found serious cause for concern regarding
the restrictions on civil liberties in Tunisia, ahead
of the World Summit for Information Society (WSIS)
meeting to take place in Tunis at the end of this
year.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502071042.html

Regional Preparatory African Conference of the WSIS in
Accra, Ghana
Tunisia committed to the success of the 2nd phase of
the event.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200502071108.html
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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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(c) David Goldstein 2005


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