Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. By close of business Melbourne time on 17 November, 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 **************** Webmasters defy litigious Smurfs Webmasters are standing defiant against an attack of litigious little blue cartoon characters, taking the fight deep into enemy territory. Which we believe is Belgium. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/12/webmasters_defy_smurf/ au: Small businesses plagued by unsolicited offers - Internet Domain Names (news release) Small business operators are being warned not to fall victim to scammers trying to charge for registering unwanted website addresses. http://docep.wa.gov.au/Corporate/Media/statements/2005/October/Small_businesses_pla.html Korean ordered to hand over Internet domain to HP A local court has instructed a South Korean man to transfer property rights of the Internet domain name of "hpweb.com" to Hewlett Packard (HP). http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=33287 http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200511/kt2005111017451111960.htm us: News Website Can Keep Domain Name After Trademark Fight A medical news website, with the assistance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), has settled a dispute with a French pharmaceutical giant over using the name of a trademarked medication, Acomplia. http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=5437 Dot-eu registrations to begin in December The new EU TLD, dot-eu, has been officially launched, signalling the start of the rush to grab preferred domain names. http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9652751 http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1297628 PETA launches anti-meat effort Want to find out the latest about the poultry or beef industry? An animal-rights group hopes that curious consumers happen onto its new Web site with the deceptive sounding domain name, view the video from slaughterhouses and drop all plans for a big juicy streak or fried chicken. ... American Meat Institute spokeswoman Janet Riley expressed frustration with what she called "the battle of the domain names." http://casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/11/12/news/regional/fbd5e0a293283cae872570b60062f8fc.txt http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=3626267 uk: SMS.co.uk sale fails to attract winning bid The sale of the domain sms.co.uk has suffered a hiccup after bidders failed to match the reserve price. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/sms_sale/ US to open internet root to bids? The US government is said to be planning to open the contract to manage the internet's addressing systems, currently held by ICANN, for competitive bidding. But an official yesterday denied a report that such a move has been discussed publicly. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=9A0AA9C6-9039-4194-B17E-33F95C9C794F Combined WHOIS Task Force of the GNSO Council Final task force report on a policy recommendation and advice on a procedure for handling conflicts between a registrar/registry's legal obligations under privacy laws and their contractual obligations to ICANN http://gnso.icann.org/issues/tf-final-rpt-25oct05.htm GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda - 16 November 2005 http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-16nov05.shtml Letter from ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf to GAC Chairman Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf has written to the Chairman of the ICANN's Government Advisory Committee (GAC), Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, proposing a special meeting of the GAC and the ICANN Board during the Board's upcoming meeting in Vancouver to discuss what measures can be taken to make our cooperation more effective, including ensuring the participation of developing countries. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-09nov05.htm Development Matters More than Domains By Bill Thompson The advance teams are already gathered in Tunisia ahead of next week's second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, and those of us on the press list are being deluged with announcements, releases, notices and invitations to meetings. The meeting, which runs from 15-18 November, is an opportunity to look at the progress that has been made since December 2003, when representatives and heads of state gathered in Geneva. ??? http://www.circleid.com/posts/development_matters_more_than_domains/ Vint Cerf Speaking Out on Internet Neutrality In a U.S. congress hearing held yesterday November 9th, significant focus was projected on "network neutrality" and a new telecommunications bill affecting the Internet. "This bill could fundamentally alter the fabulously successful end-to-end Internet," says Alan Davidson in the post on Google blog. Vint Cerf was not able to testify because of the Presidential Medal of Freedom award ceremony at the White House, but submitted the following letter to the hearing... ??? http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_speaking_out_on_internet_neutrality/ White House Honors Internet Pioneers Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn are among the latest Presidential Medal of Freedom winners. President Bush presented the medals, the nation's highest civilian honors, Wednesday afternoon at a White House ceremony. http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3563316 Netcraft November 2005 Web Server Survey In the November 2005 survey we received responses from 74,572,794 sites, an increase of 181K hostnames from the October survey. This was the smallest increase in sites since January 2004 and was attributable to a decrease of 810K hostnames at the domain registrar enom, nearly all of which were parked .info domains that expired without being renewed. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/11/07/november_2005_web_server_survey.html Spanish '.es' Domains Take-Off Spanish '.es' Domains Become Unrestricted This Week http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=13679 ********************* WSIS & GOVERNANCE ********************* Internet Governance: The US position is politically untenable globally by Ang Peng Hwa [Dean of School of Communication and Information and Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and appointed by Kofi Annan as a member of the Working Group on Internet Governance] So, Larry Lessig, law professor at Stanford, in his interview in Foreign Policy thinks the EU distrusts the US and that is why the EU is recommending an independent body to oversee the root functions of the internet. Well, with the greatest respect for Prof. Lessig, and there is indeed much to respect him for, he is wrong on this one. The reason the EU, and the rest of the world for that matter, wants control of the root to be taken out of US hands and into that of a third international body is simple: the US position, that control of the root server system should remain in the hands of ICANN, is simply politically not defensible. Here's why. ... In my book, Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet , I've predicted that in general, the EU is the place to look to for guidance on internet law and policy. They are smart, they try to maintain a sense of balance of competing interests (as in here too) and they reconcile various cultural differences. I never expected the EU to come up with a position like they have. Given the compromise it offers, it looks like it could be a winning formula in Tunis. http://internetinasia.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/internet_govern_1.html eu: Internet Governance The EU and the US are at odds on the control of the servers at the heart of the internet. The issue has been declared one of two main thematic focal points of the WSIS. http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-142724-16&type=LinksDossier Last thing free society needs is a web of control Surrendering the internet to UN regulation would change it all - for the worse, writes Alan Anderson. http://smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/11/07/1131212007403.html Expectations beyond Tunis by Yoshio Utsumi, ITU Secretary-General We started on the long journey to Tunis in 1998, when the government of Tunisia proposed to the ITU?s Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis to hold a WSIS. We have accomplished much during this journey. At the first phase of WSIS in Geneva in December 2003, we developed a common vision of the information society. In particular, we declared our common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented society where the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) is used to promote sustainable development and improve the quality of life. It is a society where everyone, anywhere should have an opportunity to participate and no one should be excluded from the benefits the information society offers. http://www.itu.int/itunews/manager/display.asp?lang=en&year=2005&issue=09&ipage=itu_commentary&ext=html ICANN at the World Summit on Information Society Stakeholders from many of ICANN's bottom-up partnership structures have participated in the WSIS process. Key representatives from these groups have organized a WSIS Working Group, through which several sessions on WSIS have been held at ICANN meetings. ICANN will participate in the second Phase of the WSIS, and attend the Tunis summit. http://icann.org/wsis/icann-wsis-11nov05.htm Keep the Internet Free Delegates from around the world will gather next week in Tunisia for what is known as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Few people are aware of WSIS's existence, its mission or the purpose of this conference. That is unfortunate, since the principal agenda item calls for a wholesale change in governance of the Internet that could lead to a significant setback for global freedom of information. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101408.html Questioning the Illusion of Internet Governance By Jonathan Zittrain I confess, I don't get it. Much has been written about the apparent desire by the United Nations, spurred by China, Cuba, and other informationally repressive regimes, to "take control of the Internet." Oddly, the concrete focus of this battle -- now the topic of a Senate resolution! -- is a comparatively trivial if basic part of Net architecture: the domain name system. The spotlight on domain name management is largely a combination of historical accident and the unfortunate assignment of country code domains like .uk and .eu, geographically-grounded codes that give the illusion of government outposts and control in cyberspace. http://www.circleid.com/posts/questioning_the_illusion_of_internet_governance/ US stands firm over Internet control Q&A: US ambassador David Gross talks about the US Internet governance sentiment approaching next week's UN Summit http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39236757,00.htm UN fights US over internet's future They are five letters you have probably never heard of: ICANN. But that obscurity is about to end. Since 1998 ICANN has been the nearest thing to a governing body for the internet, regulating domains and protocol numbers, and allocating addresses. The debate over its future now pits the US against most of the rest of the world, and the increasingly bitter argument is set to come to a head at a United Nations conference in Tunis next week. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10354409 Showdown looms over Internet control The United States is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the Internet. http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=10256975 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5944688.html http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/detail.asp?GRP=E&id=71812 http://redorbit.com/news/technology/302780/showdown_looms_over_us_internet_control/ Internet showdown in Tunis The UN's WSIS began with a high-minded purpose: to bridge the technological gap between richer and poorer nations. But now the WSIS event, which begins Nov. 16 in Tunisia, has transformed into a week-long debate about who should control key portions of the Internet. http://news.com.com/Internet+showdown+in+Tunis/2008-1012_3-5945200.html Pacific Islands Regional Advisor banned from major World IT Meeting At a preliminary meeting in Geneva preparing for the WSIS meeting, the Pacific Islands Regional Advisor on this major global initiative was last week excluded from observing proceedings. http://picisoc.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=4 ICANN Working to Resolve U.N. Issue The board of directors at ICANN wants to hold a special meeting with their governmental members to discuss ways to head off the threat of U.N. intervention. http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3563031 Showdown over control of Net expected at U.N. summit On the global Internet these days, the United States is less trusted and more alone. The worldwide network was born on U.S. shores, but that matters little to the growing number of nations now demanding shared control. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/13132793.htm http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/index.php?ntid=61319&ntpid=3 http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Nov/11/bz/FP511110330.html http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/1853411.html Tunisian Authorities block our Side-Event The Heinrich B?ll Foundation had planned a meeting for our partners in Tunis on 14 November 2005. This by-invitation-only event was supposed to take place at the cultural centre ?El Teatro?, which had been booked for this purpose month ago. News has just reached us that the management of El Teatro was instructed by the authorities not to host the meeting due to "security reasons." http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/817.htm WSIS Set to Begin in Tunis As SADC Lobbies Countries To Diffuse The Dakar Paper WITH the WSIS set to begin in Tunis, Tunisia, in just a few days, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is now lobbying other countries to diffuse the Dakar paper as it was not representative of the African position. http://allafrica.com/stories/200511100280.html Before the Summit of Solutions Efforts at making the second phase of the WSIS-05, also otherwise tagged the 'summit of solutions' may have proved successful, reports REMMY NWEKE from Germany. http://allafrica.com/stories/200511100115.html Debate over internet governence hots up The European Commission hopes a meeting next week will come up with an agreement to allow governments more direct influence over the domain name system that guides traffic around the Internet. A UN report has put forward a more multi-national approach to running the Internet, which serves a billion users worldwide. The organisation says this would be more democratic and transparent. http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,116024,00.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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!? Yahoo! Photos: Now with unlimited storage http://au.photos.yahoo.comReceived on Wed Nov 16 2005 - 12:37:00 UTC
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