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Christmas.co.uk put up for sale
A UK entrepreneur hopes to raise hundreds of thousands
of pounds through the domain name sale, but retailers
may not profit from it this year

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/ecommerce/0,39020372,39239114,00.htm

Trade group embroiled in ICANN dispute
The World of Domain Name Developers group has filed a
lawsuit disputing Verisign's control over .com
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5974842.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4482292.stm

http://www.circleid.com/posts/lawsuits_filed_against_icann_verisign_settlement/

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/verisign-icann-face-antitrust-lawsuits/2005/11/30/1133026497651.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-11-29-antitrust-verising-icann_x.htm

http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/28/1426561.html

ICANN and Legalities
Bret Fausett points to two lawsuits against VeriSign
and ICANN for violating U.S. anti-trust laws. They
state the obvious: VeriSign and ICANN made an
agreement that is to the large financial benefit of
the two corporations and the financial detriment of
nearly everyone else.
 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_and_legalities/

ICANN-Verisign Settlement Workshop, Part 2
Here's two mp3s by Bret Fausett of today's
cross-constituency workshop on the ICANN-Verisign
Settlement Agreement and the associated .COM Registry
Agreement. This second part includes a wide-ranging,
open discussion about the issues and remaining
questions around the proposed settlement.

http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1427735.html

http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1427723.html

ICANN May Release Single-Letter Domain Names
"If it's a single letter domain name, how much roadway
does it have?" Leslie Ament, director, customer
intelligence research, Aberdeen, told TechNewsWorld.
"How much brand equity is in a single letter vs. a
domain? Why would IBM, for instance, want to be I?
It's not closely enough related to the brand name to
be worth it."

http://technewsworld.com/story/gMWDmWig0SWqX9/ICANN-May-Release-Single-Letter-Domain-Names.xhtml

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/icann-weighs-singleletter-web-addresses/2005/11/29/1133026428223.html
 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/47575.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-11-28-icann-single-letters_x.htm

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/13276709.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR2005112800889.html

Single-letter Internet names are valuable
Although Internet domain names may be getting longer
as Web sites squeeze more into the crowded ''.com''
address space, most single-letter names like ''a.com''
and ''b.com'' remain unused.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-nws-net29.html

ICANN posts briefing on open 2005-06 budget items
The ICANN Board adopted the fiscal year 2005-06 budget
at the Luxembourg meeting with the provision that
specific line items be held to the current run rate of
expenditures while discussions continued on these line
items. As requested, the Board Finance Committee
reviewed and discussed additional materials (posted
here) on the specified line items and recommended such
materials be provided to the full Board for
consideration.

http://icann.org/announcements/budget-briefing-29nov05.pdf

Proposed Change to ICANN Bylaws Regarding "At-Large
Structure" Certification -- Public Comment Forum
Reminder
Background: The ALAC is recommending that the Board
amend the bylaws to improve the process by which the
ALAC certifies or decertifies groups as "At-Large
Structures."  The ALAC proposes to reduce the number
of required votes of ALAC members for approval of
applications for At-Large Structure certification, as
follows:

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-27nov05.htm

IPR60: Podcast from ICANN's Vancouver Meeting
In today's podcast, Bret Fausett provides the briefest
of summaries about the  ICANN-Verisign Settlement
Workshop held today in Vancouver and note some of the
unusual sights at this particular ICANN meeting.

http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1427798.html

Domain Names for the Asian Markets
An Asian presence is the norm for international
businesses. For this, domain names are surely powerful
and effective business identifiers for the Asian
markets.   With the Internet as a global medium for
local users, the commercial values of domain names are
a potential that must not be overlooked.   Indeed,
since the launch of UDRP(1) by ICANN(2), the use of
the Internet has kept improving and growing to suit
demands and needs of businesses worldwide, with a much
wider and more diversified spectrum of users.  
Through reviewing and comparing recent case examples,
this article examines, from an Asian perspective, the
salient features of the rationale and operation of the
UDRP process in the evolving Internet.  Additionally,
it also highlights the list of factors that those
involved in domain name disputes under the UDRP should
be alerted to in dealing with such disputes.
 http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2005/issue5/soo5.html

Chinese domain name returns home
According to newspaper reports, famous domain name
investor Yao Jinbo spent US$30,000 to buy back the
Chinese domain name "???.cn". That domain name was
registered by a Korean company. Yao Jinbo said he was
willing to donate his newly acquired domain name at no
charge.

http://en.ce.cn/Industries/IT/200511/25/t20051125_5319967.shtml

Correction: .com prices could rise 50%
On two recent occasions we have reported that the
proposed new .com registry contract between VeriSign
Inc and ICANN would allow the price of a .com domain
to double between 2007 and 2012. The largest potential
increase would in fact be 50%, from $6 to $9, as we
originally reported.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=73860D73-2AA9-40DB-964F-A1F35A119123

Web outage hits 120,000 websites
A broken piece of hardware in Network Solutions'
domain name system rendered 120,000 websites
unreachable this Monday morning.

http://www.pcw.co.uk/vnunet/news/2146835/web-outage-hits-120-websites

http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/112905_Network_Solutions_Suffers_Outage.cfm

IPOWER Sets Domain Name Pricing World Record
IPOWERWEB announced that it has reduced the price of
its domain name registration sales to $2.95 per year
for ALL domain extensions IPOWER offers, which include
.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us.
 http://www.w3reports.com/?itemid=1149

UAE domain name website launched
EmiratesDomainRegistrar.com has launched a website for
registration of domain names, a service which is aimed
at the local market. Prices start from $7.95 for a
domain name which includes web hosting.
 http://www.ameinfo.com/72824.html

.XXX Off The Table...It Seems
So no sooner had I podcast my forecast that .XXX would
be approved here in Vancouver, than ICANN Chair Vint
Cerf announced in the open GAC meeting that he was
taking the issue off the agenda...indefinitely.

http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/29/1427996.html

Dutch company starts new Internet address system
A Dutch company has launched a new Internet addressing
service that does away with the most common top-level
domains (TLDs), such as .com and .edu, and allows
organizations and individuals to register Internet
addresses that end with the name of their business, or
virtually any other word they choose.

http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2005/11/28/68670.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17387943%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.computerworld.com/news/2005/story/0,11280,106559,00.html
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=11586

http://www.cw360asp.com/Articles/2005/11/28/213175/DutchfirmtakesonIcannwithalternativeDomainSystem.htm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051126/RTICKERDOTCOM26/TPBusiness/International

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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WSIS Proves a Summit of Unsolved Solutions
The article concludes: "It was clear from the Tunis
Summit that the frustration expressed by governments
around the world that was not addressed, will continue
to impact Internet governance developments in various
ways. On the way home from Tunis, I met a South
African journalist who described the frustration he
and others felt with the Summit actions on ICANN. The
so called Summit of Solutions, as the Tunis Summit was
called by officials, was not for him an appropriate
title as the problems, he explained, had basically
been left unsolved."

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=295197


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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
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