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Domain name games
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/25/1164341442837.html

Addressing the new net
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/28/1164476144123.html

uk: Wedding rumours lead to royal cyber-squatting
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2468125,00.html

Review of ICANN Regions
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-rev-28nov06.htm

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GOVERNANCE
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'Layers principle' should be respected in internet governance, report recommends
The anarchic and freewheeling Internet has grown to the point where some governance is necessary, but national and international steps to regulate it should be designed so that innovation is not stifled and measures do not cut disruptively across the "layers" on which the Internet is based, a new UNCTAD report recommends.
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/8677

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DOMAIN NAMES
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Domain name games
This article in the Australian Fairfax press discusses the international domain names and the complexities that go with their introduction. It also mentions the IGF in Athens where IDNs "came to a head" and the complexities of introducing IDNs. The article concludes quoting Paul Twomey "We live in multicultural Sydney ... and we all want a multicultural internet," Twomey says. "And yet, there's one big difference between human beings and computers. Human beings can deal with ambiguity, but computers can't."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/25/1164341442837.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/25/1164341442837.html

ca: Domain Name Dispute Resolution Under The CDRP ? The First Five Years (reg req'd)
Like most domain name registries, the dot-ca registry, operated by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), has a dispute resolution policy. This article examines the CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the CDRP) as it approaches its fifth anniversary.
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=44528

Addressing the new net
What is the internet? To some it's a bottomless resource of text, images and video. To others it's an idea that connects the electronic world without barriers or censorship. To engineers it's a language: IPv4, Internet Protocol version 4.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/28/1164476144123.html

uk: Wedding rumours lead to royal cyber-squatting
There?s nothing like the whiff of a royal wedding to stir the entrepreneurial spirit. Rumours of impending nuptials between Prince William and his girlfriend, Kate Middleton have prompted a flurry of cyber-squatting, in which internet opportunists have registered a series of addresses containing the names Wills and Kate.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2468125,00.html

ICANN at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong, China, 4-8 December 2006
The ITU Telecom World will take place in Hong Kong, China, from 4-8 December 2006. ICANN will participate in the Internet Pavilion, part of the Exhibition Hall related to the meeting. The Internet Pavilion, co-sponsored by the NRO, ICANN, and ISOC, will be located in Stand 8053 in Hall 8 of the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-1-28nov06.htm

Review of ICANN Regions
ICANN is launching a public comments period on a Review of ICANN Regions. In accordance with ICANN bylaws, a review of ICANN Regions is being conducted to determine whether any change is appropriate, taking account of the evolution of the Internet.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-rev-28nov06.htm

UDRP and Article 92(b) of European Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 by Patel
It has been over a year since Patel posted "The Non-Parity of the UDRP", how little did he know then compared to now! Since that posting, the corporations and their lawyers have given him a crash course in the law and he has learned much. There are many tricks that corporations will play on a domain name registrant in order to silence criticism of the corporation and to violate the registrants right of freedom of expression without frontiers.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/udrp_european_council_regulation/

Do We Need Title Insurance for Domain Names? by Andrew Allemann
Over the Thanksgiving holiday Alleman read an article in Forbes about real estate title insurance. The article was about how real estate title insurance is a joke and overpriced. But as he read in the article how titles are investigated, it dawned on him that a title check service for domain names would be helpful.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/need_title_insurance_domain_names/

Demand for .travel domain climbs
With little more than 30 days remaining until the expiration of .travel Place Name Priority Rights, Tralliance Corporation, the .travel Registry, reports a surge in domain name requests and has established a hotline for potential registrants to expedite the domain name application process.
http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/article/20061129095945234

az: "Non-compulsory registration of domains brings about increase of electronic newspapers"
Unregistered sites bring about piracy and gaps in the laws don't allow fighting these illegal activities. When you get a domain names com, net or org in aboard, you need to use your credit card. Intrans sells domain name az. in Azerbaijan only requiring passport.
http://www.today.az/news/business/33231.html

Louis Vuitton fails to grab LV.com
Louis Vuitton has failed to gain control of lv.com in a domain name dispute. The luxury goods company could not prove that the current owner registered and used the name in bad faith so could not gain control of it.
http://out-law.com/page-7526

VeriSign Shares Falls on Acquisition News (AP)
Shares of VeriSign fell Monday after the company said it would buy inCode Wireless Consultants, a San Diego-based consultancy that focuses on wireless and other technology, for about $52 million.
http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4362426.html

7 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name
A friend of mine calls me the "Domain Queen", since at one time I owned around 50 domains. I've let many of them go (I own only 22 now) as my business has changed and developed, or I've just simply lost interest in the project. I'm often asked how I go about picking effective domain names, so as the "Domain Queen", I'll share my thought process with you.
http://domaininformer.com/guides/Choose_Domain/articles/0611277Strategies.html

Icann starts public comments period on Whois services (sub req'd)
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=149769&nr=

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Web censorship 'bypass' unveiled
A tool has been created capable of circumventing government censorship of the web, according to researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab software. The free program, called psiphon, has been constructed to let citizens of countries with restricted web access retrieve and display web pages from anywhere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6187486.stm

Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
The new software would be used to circumvent restrictive countries that censor access to Western news sites, blogs and other sites.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/technology/27censorship.html

us: Groups Urge Court to Give E-mail Full Constitutional Protection
Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail.  Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims that opened e-mail and older stored e-mail can be obtained from service providers without a court order and without notice to the e-mail user. In the case, Warshak v. U.S., a lower federal court ruled that government agents could not force disclosure of email from a service provider unless they provided the relevant subscriber notice and an opportunity to object.
http://cdt.org/security/

eu: Fighting spam, spyware and malicious software: Member States should do better, says Commission
On 27 November the Commission called on all regulatory authorities and stakeholders in Europe to step up the fight against spam, spyware and malicious software. Despite existing EU legislation to outlaw spam in Europe, Europe continues to suffer from illegal online activities from inside the EU and from third countries, the Commission underlines in a new Communication. The Communication stresses that although internet safety is on the political agenda for some time, national authorities should step up their actions to prosecute illegal online activities.
http://ec.europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1629&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

eu: Brussels declares war on spyware and spam
The European Commission called for stronger action against spammers and spy ware merchants today and said it may bring in further legislation to combat the problem.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/eu_spam_war/

nz: Broadband PCs attacked over 100 times a day
New Zealand broadband computer users are being attacked by would-be intruders more than a hundred times a day, a study released today says.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3882821a10,00.html

us: DoJ to review domestic surveillance
The Department of Justice (DoJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will now conduct a review of the Department's involvement in the affair, as Congress had previously requested. In the past, the White House had thought it clever to deny the inspectors the security clearance necessary to perform this duty, while a Republican majority on the Hill obediently declined to insist.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/29/a_better_hobbyhorse/

au: IIA sounds off on copyright law ammendments
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has joined the chorus of voices warning of the dangers of the Federal Government?s planed copyright law amendments.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=42865

au: Proposed Copyright Laws: Risk Analysis for Teenagers, Families, Small Businesses and Industry
The IIA in conjunction with QUT Intellectual Property Law Research Program has compiled these risk analyses of how teenagers, families and small businesses could be liable under the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws.
http://iia.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=519&Itemid=32

us: Court sides with alleged 'vacation' spammer
When antispam activist Mark Mumma received unsolicited e-mails advertising cruise vacations two years ago, he posted a report on his Web site and threatened to sue Omega World Travel. But Mumma met with an unpleasant surprise: He was the one sued in federal court by Omega World Travel and its subsidiary Cruise.com, which demanded $3.8 million in damages for defamation.
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6138874.html

eu: EU says more than half e-mails are spam (AP)
Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80% of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-11-27-spam-eu_x.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/28/1164476167784.html
http://iht.com/articles/2006/11/27/business/spam.php

Study: 1 in 5 parents say kids online too much, though no effect on grades either way (AP)
One in five American parents believe their kids are spending too much time on the Internet, though most say the online activities haven't affected grades either way.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/29/1164777640908.html

Online video 'eroding TV viewing'
Almost half of people who regularly watch online video spend less time watching TV, a survey suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm

us: Confessional blogs of the internet nuns
SOME days she goes to classes on chastity and obedience. Other days are reserved for prayer and contemplation. Yet life is not all about spiritual devotion for one of the younger members of an intriguing new religious order ? nuns who have taken to the internet to describe their convent lives.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2471917,00.html

UN warning on e-waste 'mountain'
The UN meets to discuss how to tackle the growing problem of dumping of electronic waste in Africa.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6187358.stm

PC makers must follow world's strictest green laws, says Gartner
Laws designed to curb the environmental impact of computer parts will disrupt complex global supply chains unless companies themselves are more stringent, says Gartner.
http://out-law.com/page-7527

nz: Internet blackouts cost ISPs millions
Telecom's wholesale customers ihug and CallPlus say they have spent millions trying to fix major problems on their network in the past few months. Thousands of their customers have lost their connection to the internet for periods sometimes lasting hours.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10412545

nz: InternetNZ welcomes Select Committee?s report, endorses operational separation plan
InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) congratulates the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on its report back today on the Telecommunications Amendment Bill, particularly its recommendation of operational separation of Telecom?s network under an independent oversight group.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/SelectCommitteeReport
 
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