Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. By close of business Melbourne time on 17 October, a more recent edition of the news should be posted to the auDA web site. The domain name news is supported by auDA. **************** DOMAIN NAMES **************** au: Watchdog warns on domain name scams SMALL-BUSINESS operators can be easy prey for fraudsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited and unneeded "services", says the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said domain name solicitations, in particular, were a frequent source of complaints to the ACCC and fair trading agencies. http://theage.com.au/news/business/watchdog-warns-on-domain-name-scams/2005/10/06/1128562942885.html cn: Domain names related to earth's summit preemptively registered Domain names similar to 8844, the new height of meters of Mount Qomolangma confirmed on Sunday, have been heatedly registered by Chinese cyber speculators, according to a report in Monday's Beijing Morning News. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/10/content_3602326.htm Web domains hit new high One of fastest growing trends of electronic communications is digital identity. The simplest way of establishing digital identity is to get a domain name and create a web site and email accounts. http://www.circleid.com/article/1229_0_1_0_C/ Riding on Expiring Domains: Are Registrars Abusing Owners' Rights? The ICANN regulations for domain name registrars dictate a requirement for deletion and auto-renewal policies. However, if you've had a domain expire lately you may have noticed that your registrar has taken over your domain name's DNS and redirected YOUR domain to THEIR website. This is because of a clause in their Service Agreement that says you give them permission to do this. http://www.circleid.com/article/1231_0_1_0_C/ Do You Have The Next 6 Figure Domain Name? (news release) Do you have a great domain name that you?ve registered but are not currently using? Then, get ready to cash in on the biggest domain name purchase event of the year at http://www.nichecashcows.com http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/10/prweb296182.htm in: Straddling two realms Two years into his role as president and CEO of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), a non-profit organisation that manages the .org registry, Edward Viltz is taking his evangelical role very seriously. His mission is to get more non-commercial organisations worldwide to sign up for .org domain names on the internet. And the first country he chose to start this mission happened to be India. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1256974.cms EU readies itself for .eu sunrise Companies and individuals desperate for a .eu domain have only a few more weeks to wait http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/ecommerce/0,39020372,39228248,00.htm http://webhosting.info/news/1/domain-the-net-launches-.eu-pre-registrations_1010056900.htm http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-the-net-pre-registers-eu-domain-names-1472.html http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1151 http://infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=00256F6C005C22FC00257093002B0F69 http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:24567 http://www.onlypunjab.com/webmasters/fullstory-newsID-2299.html http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=6363&mhnews_page=1 .aero launches ?who?s who? online directory for the aviation community .aero, the top level domain of the aviation industry, today announced the launch of an online directory dedicated to the air transport community. ... As holding a .aero domain name requires that the registrant be "verified" as a company or association affiliated with the industry, end users can be confident that the search results returned by the directory will be credible and trustworthy. http://www.shephard.co.uk/Rotorhub/Default.aspx?Action=745115149&ID=435b74e8-e28d-4fd6-83c7-417dfe43e019 ICANN Announces New Staff Appointments in IANA Appoints David Conrad as General Manager and Kim Davies as Technical Liaison of IANA. http://webhosting.info/news/1/icann-announces-new-staff-appointments-in-iana_1010051809.htm http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-08oct05.htm ********************* WSIS & GOVERNANCE ********************* A Further Look Into ORSN Most commentators on Vixie's astounding message have gotten sidetracked. People don't seem to see the most important feature of his statement: Vixie's endorsement of Open Root Server Network (ORSN) is based on explicitly political criteria. As ORSN says on its web site: "The U.S.A (under the current or any future administration) are theoretically and practically able to control "our" accesses to contents of the Internet and are also able to limit them. A manipulation of the Root zone could cause that the whole name space .DE is not attainable any more for the remaining world - outside from Germany." So ORSN sees this as a "backup". http://www.circleid.com/article/1227_0_1_0_C/ EU says internet could fall apart A battle has erupted over who governs the internet, with America demanding to maintain a key role in the network it helped create and other countries demanding more control. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589902,00.html Where countries stand http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1589904,00.html Net power struggle nears climax US administration coming under worldwide pressure over the net. It is seen as arrogant and determined to remain the sheriff of the world wide web, regardless of whatever the rest of the world may think. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4327928.stm House Backs U.S. ICANN Stand The U.S. House Commerce Committee backed the White House Thursday and emphatically opposed turning over governance of the Internet to the U.N.. http://internetnews.com/article.php/3554686 http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39153172,00.htm Moves to give UN net control PLANS by the UN to take control of the internet have descended into high farce, with delegates at a meeting in Geneva tabling nine different proposals but failing to reach agreement. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16874891%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html Nations squabble over internet management Delegates at a meeting in Geneva on Monday failed to reach an agreement on who should control the internet's addressing system. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/enews_net_governance/ U.N. WANTS CONTROL OF THE INTERNET The UN World Summit on the Information Society met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland on Dec. 10-12, 2003 for what would begin a heated international debate over control of the Internet. http://newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon104.htm http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051010-103935-4364r +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2005 David Goldstein address: 4/3 Abbott Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David §yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 5773 - home ____________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Messenger 7.0: Free worldwide PC to PC calls http://au.messenger.yahoo.comReceived on Sun Oct 16 2005 - 10:14:51 UTC
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