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The domain name news is supported by auDA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Net's ruling body renews US links http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4799137.stm Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/business/icann.php Can US Control Over the Web be Untangled? http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,524,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html ICANN: Comments Sought on Technical Checks Used for DNS Root Zone Changes http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm cn: Chinese domain name sells for $160,000 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/18/china.domain.name.reut/ Domain Name, wrestling.com, Sells for $500,000 http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-wrestling-com-sells-for-500-000-2305.html HomeImprovement.com Hammers Out $166,000 Sale To Head This Week's Top 20 http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales08_15_06.htm au: Rafferty's rules at work again in domain registration http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Rafferty_s_rules_at_work_again_in_domain_registration/0,2000061791,39266688,00.htm au: Qld Labor wins website shutdown http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20169330%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html au: auDA's members overwhelmingly approve constitutional changes (news release) http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-15082006/ DNS could slow broadband service http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6106936.html ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** Net's ruling body renews US links The US looks set to maintain its role as ultimate supervisor of the net's addressing systems until 2011. The US Department of Commerce has signed a five-year deal with administrative body Icann that renews the body's role overseeing net domains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4799137.stm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/16/icann_awarded_iana/ http://www.out-law.com/page-7206 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6106417.html http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/A3D3E47AD68CCE5BCC2571CD0019A8EB Internet Domain Agency Renews U.S. Contract The agency that supervises Internet domain names, Icann, has renewed its contract with an arm of the United States Department of Commerce to administer the technical workings of the global computer network. http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/business/icann.php http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/technology/17icann.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/technology/16cnd-icann.html http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3627026 http://www.silicon.com/0,39024729,39161586,00.htm http://www.itworld.com/Man/2681/060816usgov/ NTIA Aawards contract for management of key internet functions to ICANN (news release) The Commerce Department?s National Telecommunications and Information Administration today announced the award of a sole source contract to ICANN to perform technical functions supporting the Internet Domain Name system. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/press/2006/icanncontract_081406.htm Can US Control Over the Web be Untangled? The US government has renewed its contract with the Internet overseeing company ICANN to manage technical functions for the Internet's DNS. ICANN has been granted exclusive rights, for no consideration, to run the so-called IANA function until 2011, although the contract is subject to annual review and renewal. http://www.sda-asia.com/sda/features/psecom,id,524,srn,2,nodeid,4,_language,Singapore.html ICANN: Comments Sought on Technical Checks Used for DNS Root Zone Changes When performing its IANA Root Zone Management function, ICANN staff performs a series of tests on supplied name server technical data beforethey are entered into the root. We are seeking to review the tests, and comments are sought on what technical requirements are suitable for this service in the future. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm cn: Chinese domain name sells for $160,000 A sale of Chinese Internet domain names netted more than $160,000 on Friday in what organizers said was the biggest such auction yet in the computer-crazy country. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/18/china.domain.name.reut/ http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/20/content_668940.htm http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060818-0723-internet-china.html http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13232175 Domain Name, wrestling.com, Sells for $500,000 Communicate.com Inc. has sold the domain name, wrestling.com, for US$500,000, in a private transaction. http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-domain-name-wrestling-com-sells-for-500-000-2305.html HomeImprovement.com Hammers Out $166,000 Sale To Head This Week's Top 20 This was quite a day (August 8) at Moniker.com. The company announced the $166,650 sale of HomeImprovement.com and CEO Monte Cahn told us they also had a sale above $750,000 that could not be released due to a non disclosure agreement. Oh yes, one other thing...the company was sold. http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2006/domainsales08_15_06.htm au: Rafferty's rules at work again in domain registration auDA warned domain name registrants about letters and faxes offering registration of the net.au equivalent of registrants' com.au domain name for AU$225. http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Rafferty_s_rules_at_work_again_in_domain_registration/0,2000061791,39266688,00.htm http://www.net4now.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=3674 http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=58423 http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=36046 au: Qld Labor wins website shutdown THE ALP has won a Queensland Supreme Court injunction to shut down a defamatory website about Premier Peter Beattie and former party members. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20169330%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html au: Proposed .au Internet Domain Review (news release) The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, today announced a review into the policy, administrative and regulatory arrangements that underpin the operation of the .au Internet domain. http://www.minister.dcita.gov.au/media/media_releases/proposed_.au_internet_domain_review au: auDA's members overwhelmingly approve constitutional changes (news release) The overwhelming vote in support of changes to auDA?s constitution at yesterday?s EGM marked a positive step forward for the Internet in Australia according auDA?s CEO, Chris Disspain. http://auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-15082006/ DNS could slow broadband service A broadband provider's claim of superfast speeds may only be as good as its weakest link, which could be its domain name server software. A report issued Thursday by Nominum, a company that sells DNS server software, indicated that some broadband service providers need to bulk up their DNS servers to ensure that broadband users actually get all the benefits of their high-speed connections. http://news.com.com/2100-1034_3-6106936.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6106936.html Thousands of fi-domain names to expire in September Approximately 14,000 fi-domain names are to become obsolete as of 1 September, according to a press release from the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (Ficora) on Friday. Some 65 per cent of the 41,000 fi-domain names awarded before 1 September 2003 have so far been renewed. http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=13469&group=General vn: Public allowed to register .vn domains Both domestic and international organisations have been able to register internet domain names ending in .vn from 4.30pm on Monday, says the Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre. http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01BUS170806 India, China Come Together for IPv6 In a significant development, the IPv6 Forum India, a non-profit, non-governmental registered organization, has reportedly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the China IPv6 Council. The association is particularly crucial as it is expected to enable knowledge sharing and deployment of IPv6 in both countries. http://techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=75302&cat_id=643 dotMobi To Auction Top-Drawer Names mTLD has announced its plans for trademarks containing common words...the domains will be set aside and trademark owners will need to show their brand connection to the words to have the domain removed from the list and registered with them ? companies will need to have registered their marks before 11 July 2004 or have used them for five years ?in good faith?. http://www.moconews.net/dotmobi-to-auction-top-drawer-names.html Go Daddy Offers CashParking for Domain Names GoDaddy.com is offering CashParking. Parked pages are the web sites displayed when the registrant of a domain name has not yet posted a developed site. http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-go-daddy-offers-cashparking-for-domain-names-2310.html http://webhosting.info/news/1/godaddy.com-offers-cashparking_0817062005.htm Sedo Revamps Domain Parking Program Sedo has announced new features and a restructuring of its domain parking program, designed to deliver greater profitability to any domain name holder. http://webhosting.info/news/1/sedo-revamps-domain-parking-program_0817066767.htm Issues around domain names OPINION: Someone once told me that domain names will one day be as valuable as land and how right they were. Everyone now knows that domain names are strongly associated with organisations? identities and a good domain name can in certain circumstances be akin to a home with a view. http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=58343 SnapNames auctioning domain names SnapNames has expanded its secondary domain name marketplace reach by launching a new public auctions service, the company said. http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2006/08/14/daily27.html ******************* OTHER INTERNET NEWS ******************* uk: Net censorship 'morally unacceptable', report says The UK Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee recently issused a report in which it stated that "search engines' agreement to block the access of computer users to certain information (in China) was 'morally unacceptable'". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/political_censorship/ au: Northern Sydney suburbs schools lead the way in Internet safety Northern suburbs schools, Brookvale Public and Monte Sant? Angelo Mercy College were today announced as winners of NetAlert's CyberSafe School Awards for Excellence. The inaugural national competition recognises schools that demonstrate best practice in online safety and is proudly supported by leading online media company ninemsn. http://netalert.net.au/03591-Northern-Sydney-suburbs-schools-lead-the-way-in-Internet-safety.asp eu: Call to act over extremist sites Europe faces 'real' and 'persistent' threat from terrorism, Reid warns. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/terrorism/story/0,,1851456,00.html us: Using Nearly Nude Pictures, Child Sex Sites Test Laws Web sites for pedophiles offer explicit images of children who are covered by bits of clothing to avoid child pornography charges. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/20model.html uk: Computer expert faces jail over 'made-up' child porn images A COMPUTER expert who altered indecent images of naked women to make them look like children has been warned that he faces a prison sentence. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2306067,00.html kr: In South Korea, online rumors can hit hard Kim Myong Jae's estranged girlfriend was found dead in her room in Seoul on April 22 last year, six days after she poisoned herself. Two weeks later, Kim, a 30-year-old accountant, found that he had been transformed into the No. 1 hate figure of South Korea's Internet community, a victim of a growing problem in a country that boasts the world's highest rate of broadband use. http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/korea.php jp: Internet crimes hit record high in Japan The number of Internet-related crimes in Japan in the first six months of this year hit a record high, according to data issued Thursday by the National Police Agency. The NPA said there were 1,802 cases of such crimes in the first half of 2006, which is up 12 percent on the same period last year. The largest number of cases involved fraud related to computer networks. Most of these cases, which accounted for about 40 percent of all Internet-related crimes, were linked to Internet auction sites, the NPA said. http://infoworld.com/article/06/08/17/HNinternetcrimesjapan_1.html http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=51168 nl: Dateless Dutch farmers vent anger over porn A DUTCH dating website for farmers has taken Google to court for listing sponsored links to pornographic sites when you enter the site's name into the search engine. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20133493-13762,00.html au: Website scars top surgeon A PROMINENT plastic surgeon from the eastern suburbs has won his case against a website designer over unacceptable nudity and bad grammar. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/18/1155408025299.html us: US judge rules wiretaps illegal President Bush says the taps are a much-needed device A secret wiretapping scheme brought in as part of the Bush administration's war on terror is unconstitutional and must stop, a federal judge has ruled. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5260892.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-6107411.html http://www.out-law.com/page-7209 Waging War Against Click Fraud As fraud undermines faith in pay-per-click Web ads, search engines, advertisers, and Web hosts are wrangling over what to do http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060817_077667.htm Spyware's Growing Arsenal Purveyors of malware are increasingly harnessing the popularity of social networks and Web video to infect PCs http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060816_466084.htm nz: Concern at Three Key Myths Print this page "InternetNZ is concerned at three key myths which are emerging in response to yesterday's announcements of telecommunications regulatory reform," said InternetNZ President Colin Jackson today. http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2006-05-04-myths YouTube takes on music giants with free video downloads A little over a year ago it did not exist. Today it is viewed more than 100m times a day and has become one of the most spectacular success stories of the internet in recent years. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1852846,00.html Twenty-four million pay for VoIP: Key to success? Don't call it VoIP Twenty-four million people worldwide pay to use retail VoIP services, new research has shown. The number of retail VoIP subscribers jumped more than 80 per cent to 18.7 million during 2005 - or 24 million if you add users of PC-to-phone services such as Skype, according to Point Topic's IP Telephony report. http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39161601,00.htm au: VoIP payphone ready to roll A new generation of internet pay phones are ready to hit the streets in Australia, wrapping broadband access and IP telephony into a single device. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/18/1155408000399.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2006 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!? Check out gigs in your area on the comprehensive Yahoo! 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