[DNS] domain name news - 21 January

From: David Goldstein <david> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:51:36 +1100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:11 UTC

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DNS Industry CEO Roundtable Event by Fadi Chehad?
<http://blog.icann.org/2013/01/dns-industry-ceo-roundtable-event/>

auDA to co-sponsor Tim Berners-Lee's "Down Under tour"
<http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-18012013/>

Race Toward New gTLDs Finish Line Sparks Debate on ICANN's Policy Methods
<http://www.bna.com/race-toward-new-b17179871911/>

?Strawman Solution? Appears Unsolved ? So What Now?
<http://internetcommerce.org/Strawman_Non-Solution>

Statement of ICANN?s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) on the Trademark Clearinghouse Talks and Staff Strawman Model
<http://ipjustice.org/wp/2013/01/14/statement-of-icanns-non-commercial-stakeholders-group-ncsg-on-the-trademark-clearinghouse-talks-and-staff-strawman-model/>

GAC Early Warnings just got a whole lot more important
<http://domainincite.com/11646-gac-early-warnings-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-important>

Cooperative Efforts To Shut Down Virut Botnet
<http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/690/cooperative-efforts-to-shut-down-virut-botnet>

Prolexic Technologies Report Shows Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Are Growing in Size
<http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/prolexic-technologies-report-shows-large-scale-ddos-attacks-are-growing-in-size>

au: Cyber war, China 'key to security', says Julia Gillard
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/cyber-war-china-key-to-security-says-julia-gillard/story-e6frg8yo-1226557811625>

Pingdom Internet In 2012: How Much, How Many...
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/18/pingdom-internet-2012/>

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GOVERNANCE
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ca: WCIT-12: Why multilateral Internet governance can't work by Byron Holland
IN DECEMBER 2012, delegates from more than 150 countries gathered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the World Conference on Information Technology (WCIT-12) to discuss and update the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs). I was a part of the Canadian delegation to this important conference hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations.
<http://www.cartt.ca/news/14949/Cable-Telecom/WCIT-12-Why-multilateral-Internet-governance-can-t-work.html>

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DNS Industry CEO Roundtable Event by Fadi Chehad?
I had the pleasure of hosting leaders of the registrar community this week in Los Angeles to discuss key issues taking place within the Domain Name System (DNS) sector.
<http://blog.icann.org/2013/01/dns-industry-ceo-roundtable-event/>

DNS Industry CEO Roundtable Events by Fadi Chehad?
To the ICANN Community, I believe The Domain Name System ? and the Industry that has grown up around it ? are at an inflection point. With the impending introduction of new gTLDs and the vertical integration of the DNS value chain, we, as leaders within the DNS ecosystem, must be ready to meet the challenges ahead.
<http://blog.icann.org/2012/12/dns-industry-ceo-roundtable-events/>

Tracking the SSR Review Implementation by Patrick Jones
This is an update on our progress with implementation of the 28 recommendations from the Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Review Team. In October at the ICANN meeting in Toronto, the ICANN Board approved the Final Report and recommendations of the Security, Stability & Resiliency Review Team and instructed staff to proceed with implementation.
<http://blog.icann.org/2012/12/tracking-the-ssr-review-implementation/>

IDN Variant TLD Program -- Draft Final Report Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs
Purpose (Brief): To receive community feedback on the latest draft of the report "Examining the User Experience Implications of Active Variant TLDs".
http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/variant-ux-18jan13-en.htm

Steve Crocker to Heather Dryden
Board Response to the GAC Toronto Communiqu?
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/correspondence/crocker-to-dryden-16jan13-en>

New ICANN Speakers Bureau Launched
We are pleased to announce that we have added a new online service to help our community members request expert speakers from ICANN to participate in events worldwide.
<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-17jan13-en.htm>

Cheapies.com Gets Another Breach Notice From ICANN
It looks like there?s a pattern emerging. Remember the 10 registrars that got breach notices last week? While some have ?cured? the breach another one of the 10 has been sent a new breach in the last 24 hours. Cheapies.com was sent a new breach notice yesterday.
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/19/cheapies-com-gets-another-breach-notice-from-icann/>

ICANN Files Memorandum In Support Of Dismissing Suit Over .Web
ICANN filed this memorandum in support of its motion to dismiss over lawsuit that IMAGE ONLINE DESIGN, INC a previously applicant for .Web filed against ICANN last year.
<http://www.thedomains.com/2013/01/17/icann-files-memorandum-in-support-of-dismissing-suit-over-web/>

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UAE?s TRA proposes activation of .Arab domain name
UAE?s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's (TRA) has proposed the activation of ?.Arab? gTLD.
<http://www.emirates247.com/business/corporate/uae-s-tra-proposes-activation-of-arab-domain-name-2013-01-20-1.491758>

auDA to co-sponsor Tim Berners-Lee's "Down Under tour"
.au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is proud to announce its support for Sir Tim Berners-Lee?s upcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand.
<http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-18012013/>

CIRA Goes Large on Marketing And PR For Launch of French Language IDN
CIRA, the registry operator for the Canadian ccTLD .ca, is raising its profile at the moment. They?ve taken over the frontpage of La Presse today, though it?s not viewable form outside Canada: Why are they doing this?
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/17/cira-goes-large-on-marketing-and-pr-for-launch-of-french-language-idn/>

.CO Registry Announces Global Launch of Scandinavian Internationalized Domain Names
.CO Internet, the company behind one of the most successful global domain extensions in history today announced the global launch of Scandinavian Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in the .CO namespace.
<http://www.cointernet.co/media/press-releases/co-registry-announces-global-launch-scandinavian-internationalized-domain-names>

eu: BCP exercise 2012 completed successfully
To test its crisis management capabilities, EURid successfully ran an unannounced Business Continuity Plan (BCP) exercise on Wednesday, 12 December 2012.
<http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/bcp-exercise-2012-completed-successfully>

Find out the Top 10 Terms used in .fr domain names.
What are the longest .fr domain names? Find out all of this ? and more ? in this month?s issue of the Afnic Industry Report on Domain Names.
<http://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/6611/show/find-out-the-top-10-terms-used-in-fr-domain-names-1.html>

France, Paris And Immobilier Most Common Terms In .FR Domains
The most used terms used in .fr domain names are "france", "paris", and "real estate" (immobilier) with around 12,300 domains containing each of these strings at the end of December the latest Afnic monthly report on the French Domain Name Industry has found. Rounding out the top ten most used terms are "hotel", "location" (rental), "saint", "restaurant", "service", "web" and "auto" both with and without diacritics.
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/20/france-paris-immobilier-fr-domains/>

nz: Inventor of the Web to deliver public lecture in Wellington
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that later this month the inventor of the World Wide Web ? Sir Tim Berners-Lee ? will visit Wellington to deliver a public lecture exploring the benefits of an open and uncaptureable Internet.
<https://internetnz.net.nz/news/media-releases/2013/Inventor-Web-deliver-public-lecture-Wellington>

Portuguese ccTLD Board Resigns
The board of FCCN, the entity which runs the Portuguese ccTLD (.pt) has resigned en masse. The resignation was prompted due to the Portuguese government?s merging of FCCN with part of the Ministry of Education. An interim board has been appointed with Jo?o Nuno Ferreira as chair.
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/13/portuguese-cctld-board-resigns/>

sg: Chinese New Year "HongBao" Promotion!
Pay SGD$8 or less for a domain name in Febuary 2013! The Lunar New Year is just round the corner and SGNIC is joining in the festive celebrations with a "HongBao" promotion!
<http://nic.net.sg/news/chinese-new-year-hongbao-promotion-0>

uk: Legal proceedings
It is with regret that we have today issued formal legal proceedings in the High Court against Graeme Wingate and his company That Internet Limited for publication of defamatory content. We are seeking an injunction to remove this content and prevent its publication in future.
<http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/legal-proceedings>

uk: Nominet?s proposals for a more secure domain suffix under fire
Nominet, the UK?s internet domain registrar, has proposed a new, more secure direct .uk suffix for the UK; but these proposals have been heavily and widely criticized.
<http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/30286/nominets-proposals-for-a-more-secure-domain-suffix-under-fire/>

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Race Toward New gTLDs Finish Line Sparks Debate on ICANN's Policy Methods
Within the community that supports domain name policymaking at ICANN, the question of whether a particular matter is "policy" or "implementation" is an important one. "Policy" at ICANN must be the product of a consensus-driven process that involves all relevant members of the ICANN community. "Implementation" matters, on the other hand, might be adopted by the ICANN board of directors without involving ICANN's various constituencies to any great extent.
<http://www.bna.com/race-toward-new-b17179871911/>

?Strawman Solution? Appears Unsolved ? So What Now?
Commentary on ICANN?s proposed ?Strawman Solution? for the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) is reaching impressive heights. With just a few hours remaining before the filing deadline eighty-three separate comments have been submitted on the proposal, and we imagine that a few more will trickle in before the inbox is closed.
<http://internetcommerce.org/Strawman_Non-Solution>

Statement of ICANN?s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) on the Trademark Clearinghouse Talks and Staff Strawman Model
At ICANN?s 45th international meeting in Toronto in October 2012, ICANN?s Intellectual Property and Business Constituencies sent a letter to ICANN to request that additional changes be made to the policies for new TLDs. Despite the fact that the current policy had been long finalized via a painstakingly arduous consensus process in which all stakeholders compromised and ultimately reached unanimous agreement, nonetheless the IPC and BC sent a letter to Fadi Chehade, the new CEO, and the ICANN Board of Directors with 8-points for consideration and policy modification.
<http://ipjustice.org/wp/2013/01/14/statement-of-icanns-non-commercial-stakeholders-group-ncsg-on-the-trademark-clearinghouse-talks-and-staff-strawman-model/>

GAC Early Warnings just got a whole lot more important
ICANN will let new gTLD applicants change their applications in order to respond to the concerns of governments, it has emerged.
<http://domainincite.com/11646-gac-early-warnings-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-important>

Donuts' Reply to UK Government Early Warning
Donuts Inc. is in receipt of the United Kingdom Government?s early warning for the above??referenced gTLD, for which our subsidiary company applied. On behalf of Donuts, please accept this letter and the attachments thereto as Donuts? formal reply.
<http://www.donuts.co/images/stories/donuts_reply_to_uk_early_warning.pdf>

ICANN strives to improve the new gTLD program by St?phane Van Gelder, Registry Relations and Strategy Director for NetNames
ICANN has shaken up its new gTLD program team and is also revisiting its approach to communicating with the outside world. Since program director Kurt Pritz left ICANN, new faces have stepped into the limelight. There?s a new program General Manager, Christine Willet, and a new gTLD communications manager, Michele Jourdan. There?s also a new commitment from ICANN to improve the way it provides information.
<http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/icann-strives-to-improve-the-new-gtld-program/>

The two sides of the Trademark Clearinghouse
The priority draw for new gTLDs, held by ICANN on 18 December 2012 in Los Angeles, determined the order in which evaluation results will be released for the 1,930 applications. Internet users are likely to see the first new TLDs appear from the religion, technology and automotive sectors as early as July next year.
<http://www.netnames.com/blog/2013/01/the-two-sides-of-the-trademark-clearinghouse/>

The gTLD Land Grab Controversy: Google, Amazon, and the GAC Part II
Just one of the reasons Amazon and Google are garnering so much attention as new gTLDs (nTLDs) make their way through ICANN's application process is the sheer number of their applications
<http://www.name.com/blog/ntlds/2013/01/the-gtld-land-grab-controversy-google-amazon-and-the-gac-part-ii/>

ICANN?s Priority Release Draw, and What?s Next For nTLDs in 2013
On December 17, 2012, ICANN published its priority release list ? the result of a prioritization lottery draw determining the order of nTLD (new gTLD) releases in the upcoming year.
<http://www.name.com/blog/ntlds/2013/01/icanns-priority-release-draw-and-whats-next-for-ntlds-in-2013/>

The Future of Religions on the Internet by Shahram Soboutipour
Internet is facing the biggest change in its history. New brands, ideas, groups, communities,... have now found the chance to apply for their own specific space on internet naming system through ICANN's new gTLD program. One of the most interesting points of this courageous program was the motivation it created among communities to try to represent their specific webspace on the internet by applying for their own TLD; and among them were the religious communities as well.
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130120_the_future_of_religions_on_the_internet/>

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Inside the 1,000 Red October Cyberespionage Malware Modules
The Red October espionage malware campaign is providing security researchers with a deep dive into the complexity of targeted attacks, which in this case made use of more than 1,000 malware modules for everything from reconnaissance on targets to exfiltration of data to command and control servers.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/inside-1000-red-october-cyberespionage-malware-modules-011713>

Red October Attackers Shutting Down C&C Infrastructure
It appears that the attackers behind the Red October cyberespionage campaign are taking their ball and going home. Since the attack came to light on Monday, the attackers have begun shutting down their infrastructure and the hosting providers and registrars involved with some of the command-and-control domains are shutting those down, as well.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/red-october-attackers-shutting-down-cc-infrastructure-011813>

Why Red October malware is the Swiss Army knife of espionage
The Red October malware that infected hundreds of computer networks in diplomatic, governmental, and scientific research organizations around the world was one of the most advanced espionage platforms ever discovered, researchers with antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab have concluded.
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/why-red-october-malware-is-the-swiss-army-knife-of-espionage/>

Cooperative Efforts To Shut Down Virut Botnet
During the past few weeks, Spamhaus has worked hard to shut down a botnet called "Virut".
<http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/690/cooperative-efforts-to-shut-down-virut-botnet>

Polish Takedown Targets ?Virut? Botnet
Security experts in Poland on Thursday quietly seized domains used to control the Virut botnet, a huge army of hacked PCs that is custom-built to be rented out to cybercriminals.
<http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/polish-takedown-targets-virut-botnet/>

NASK shuts down dangerous Virut botnet domains
NASK has taken over multiple domains used for cybercrime activities, making their further usage for illegal purposes impossible. The domain names were used to spread and control dangerous malware known as ?Virut?.
<http://www.nask.pl/newsID/id/827>

Polish CERT acts against Virut malware with domain takedowns
CERT Polska, a computer emergency response team in Poland that is run under the aegis of the country's Research and Academic Network (NASK), has announced takedown action against a raft of web servers associated with the Virut family of malware.
<http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/20/polish-cert-acts-against-virut-malware-with-domain-takedowns/>

Critical Infrastructure Systems Seen as Vulnerable to Attack
The vast majority of targeted computer attacks now start with a malicious e-mail sent to a company employee. Now evidence suggests that the same technique could be used to attack watersheds, power grids, oil refineries and nuclear plants.
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/critical-infrastructure-systems-seen-as-vulnerable-to-attack/>

Critical infrastructure vulnerable to simple cyber-attacks
Spearphishing ? the technique by which hackers gain access to computer networks through sending misleading, malicious emails which users click on ? is a risk to more than just small computer networks. According to the New York Times? ?Bits? blog, critical infrastructure like ?watersheds, power grids, oil refineries and nuclear plants? are vulnerable to spearphishing attacks.
<http://www.salon.com/2013/01/18/critical_infrastructure_vulnerable_to_simple_cyber_attacks/>

US general warns over Iranian cyber-soldiers
Cyber-attacks on Iran are turning it into a "force to be reckoned with" America's top cyber-soldier has warned.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21075781>

Prolexic Technologies Report Shows Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Are Growing in Size
DDoS protection service provider Prolexic Technologies announced on Thursday it has published its Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which found that the scale and diversity of attacks increased against its global client base in Q4 2012.
<http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/prolexic-technologies-report-shows-large-scale-ddos-attacks-are-growing-in-size>

Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Grow Bigger and More Diversified According to Prolexic?s Latest Report [news release]
Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today announced that the scale and diversity of attacks increased against its global client base in Q4 2012. This is one of a number of key findings contained in the company?s Quarterly Global DDoS Attack Report, which was published today.
<http://www.prolexic.com/news-events-pr-ddos-attacks-grow-bigger-and-more-diversified-q4-2012-report.html>

Are Banks Winning the DDoS Battle?
Despite the claims of hacktivists, U.S. banking institutions say their websites now suffer fewer and less severe outages linked to traffic surges tied to distributed-denial-of-service attacks. And online traffic patterns tracked by one third-party monitoring service appear to support the banks' contention.
<http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/are-banks-winning-ddos-battle-a-5434>

Cyber-Attacks Against Banks Continue: Wall Street, We Have A Problemo, Bro by Derek Klobucher Derek Klobucher, SAP
Iran may be behind a massive and sustained campaign of cyber-attacks against numerous Western financial institutions, including Citigroup, Capital One and HSBC, we learned last week. The strikes exploit banks? Web site encryption, which encode customers? online transactions to keep them secure, but it also increases traffic volume.
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2013/01/18/cyber-attacks-against-banks-continue-wall-street-we-have-a-problemo-bro/>

Iran?s Cyber Threat Potential Great, U.S. General Says
Iran?s developing ability to launch cyber attacks will make it ?a force to be reckoned with,? the head of the U.S. Air Force Space Command said.
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-17/iran-s-cyber-threat-potential-great-u-s-general-says.html>

Iran strengthened cyber capabilities after Stuxnet - U.S. general
Iran responded to a 2010 cyber attack on its nuclear facilities by beefing up its own cyber capabilities, and will be a "force to be reckoned with" in the future, a senior U.S. Air Force official told reporters on Thursday.
<http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/01/17/iran-usa-cyber-idINDEE90G0JH20130117>

Rising security threats shield IT specialists from downturn
The increase in IT security threats has shielded companies in this field from the global economic downturn, the chief financial officer of IT security specialist NCC Group PLC said Thursday.
<http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=478849>

'Security crescendo' builds as cyber crime evolves [video]
Richard Watson, of BAE Systems Detica, discusses the increasingly complex methods cyber criminals are developing to hack into computers and mobile devices.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-19/security-crescendo-grows-as-cyber-crooks-evolve/4472304>

au: Cyber war, China 'key to security', says Julia Gillard
JULIA Gillard will this week identify the rise of China and a massive escalation in cyber attacks against government and industry as two of the key security issues facing the nation in a major address designed to strengthen Labor's defence credentials.
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/cyber-war-china-key-to-security-says-julia-gillard/story-e6frg8yo-1226557811625>

nz: Doubt Aus cyber warning would work here
Australia's looking to put out a strong warning to cyber predators, but there's doubt the same move would work here.
<http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/news/nbnat/538439413-doubt-aus-cyber-warning-would-work-here>

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That's My Name, Says UDRP Complainant
UDRP complaints involving personal names are tricky, especially if the complainant or respondent holds a trademark for the name in question. A German lawyer learned this firsthand when he filed a UDRP complaint against a respondent called Eighty Business Names with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the domain name Lambsdorff.com.
<http://www.domainnamestrategy.com/2013/01/14/thats-my-name-says-udrp-complainant>

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Pingdom Internet In 2012: How Much, How Many...
Pingdom, a company that covers the uptime monitoring needs of 90 percent of the companies in the world, has published their annual internet numbers for 2012. Issues covered are how many emails, how many websites, how many blogs, how much spam...
<http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19639>
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/18/pingdom-internet-2012/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/pingdom-internet-in-2012-how-much-how-many.html>

The Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites, 2.4 Billion Users
The folks from uptime monitoring company Royal Pingdom have assembled a gargantuan list of various internet-related stats from 2012, and it's a very interesting read. ... Highlights from the list include 2.2 billion email users worldwide (425 million use Gmail, making it the biggest email service around), 634 million websites (with 51 million being added to the web every year) and 246 million domain name registrations in 2012.
<http://mashable.com/2013/01/17/the-internet-in-2012-634-million-websites-2-4-billion-users-1-3-trillion-google-searches/>

Senator's Domain Name Held Up by Gun Enthusiast
Veteran California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has been a staunch activist against assault weapons throughout her tenure on Capitol Hill, but a domain name featuring her name will soon tell a different story. Dimitrios Karras, the CEO of the California gun parts and accessories store Ares Armor, registered SenatorFeinstein.com and will use the site to promote gun rights, reports The Daily Caller.
<http://www.domainnamestrategy.com/2013/01/17/senators-domain-name-held-gun-enthusiast>

Reigning in the Rogue
At FairWinds, one of the services we offer clients is a sort of ?spring cleaning? of their domain name registrations. We know that, especially for large corporations, there are often many different individuals who register domain names ? sometimes representatives from various departments within the company, and other times account representatives at partner agencies such as marketing and creative firms. We also know that even when these registrations are made with the best of intentions, after a certain point, things tend to go awry. As time goes on, employees leave and agency contracts expire. And eventually, the company?s network of domain names starts to resemble a tangled web.
<http://www.gtldstrategy.com/brand-protection-strategies/reigning-in-the-rogue>

Mat Bao Fix Some Of Their Compliance Issues
Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao appears to have fixed *some* of their issues with ICANN?s Compliance team: But if you scroll down the Compliance notices page you?ll see that they?re still not out of the woods: The earlier, and arguably more serious, breach still remains open.
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/16/mat-bao-fix-some-of-their-compliance-issues/>

Vietnamese Registrar Mat Bao Has Two Breaches At Once
Today?s list of 10 registrars that received breach notices included Vietnamese registrar Mat Bao. What makes this quite interesting is that the company had already got a breach notice back in December.
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/12/vietnamese-registrar-mat-bao-has-two-breaches-at-once/>

Verisign To Dual Stack EPP Servers
Verisign has been offering IPv6 connections to their EPP servers for the last year. However as of March 14th the Verisign registry backend will become dual stacked ie. the hostnames for IPv4 and IPv6 connections will be identical.
<http://www.internetnews.me/2013/01/14/verisign-to-dual-stack-epp-servers/>

APNIC Drafts Documents for Comment
APNIC seeks final editorial comments on the following draft documents:
<http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2013/drafts-documents-for-comment-20130118>

NRPM 2013.1 ? New Policies Implemented
On 18 December 2012 the ARIN Board of Trustees adopted the following policies:
<https://www.arin.net/announcements/2013/20130116.html>

Go Daddy, OfficeMax Partner to Put Small Business Hosting on Retail Shelves
Web hosting giant Go Daddy announced on Thursday that it has partnered with retail office supply company OfficeMax to deliver Go Daddy?s small business web hosting services to customers in its physical stores.
<http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/go-daddy-officemax-partner-to-put-small-business-hosting-on-retail-shelves>

Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom?s new Mega
Last February I stumbled into the lobby of the Fairmont Santa Monica after a DomainFest party. It was about 3 in the morning and it had been a long night. I ran into Tony Lentino, founder of domain name registrar Instra. We chatted for a few minutes and the conversation turned to Kim Dotcom and Megaupload, the file sharing service that was shut down by U.S. and New Zealand authorities a few months later.
<http://domainnamewire.com/2013/01/17/domain-registrar-powers-kim-dotcoms-new-mega/>

NZ company revealed as key Mega partner; Mega CEO named
Kim Dotcom has named Instra as a key partner for Mega.co.nz, his new file-sharing service launching 6.38am this Sunday (the to-the-minute anniversary of the raid on his mansion).
<http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nz-company-named-key-mega-partner-mega-ceo-named-ck-134668>

Mega to launch with mini call centre
The new mega.co.nz will launch with 50 gigabytes of cloud storage for all comers and a global customer support line, but just 15 to 20 staff to handle calls. Kim Dotcom has announced the 50GB allowance on Twitter, and Australian-based domain name registrar Instra has put up its hand as the new service's call centre. Instra's former CEO Tony Lentino has since taken up the same post at Mega.
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/18/mega_call_centre/>

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New Heart Internet Study Finds UK Public Unaware of What Web Hosting Is
A new study released on Thursday by UK web hosting provider Heart Internet finds more than half of the general public in the UK have no clue what web hosting is. Heart Internet asked 1,000 people if they had ever heard of the term ?web hosting? and 61 percent said no.
<http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/new-heart-internet-study-finds-uk-public-unaware-of-what-web-hosting-is>

Mega launches; Dotcom says he would have hosted it in NZ, but ...
Kim Dotcom's new file sharing service, Mega, launched this morning at 6.48am - the to-the-minute anniversary of NZ Police/FBI raid on Dotcom mansion, and the shutdown of Megaupload servers in the US.
<http://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/mega-launches-dotcom-says-he-would-have-hosted-it-nz>

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 - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET
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Webfest Global Going Partying With The Space Shuttle
The Webfest Global conference is only three weeks away and there has been an update on what is planned. One of the highlights is the party at Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Pavilion on 6 February. Webfest Global conference attendees will enjoy the rare opportunity of having dinner and cocktails directly under this amazing vehicle while former NASA Astronaut Garrett Reisman will make a special appearance to share stories, answer questions and show souvenirs from past missions. 
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/17/webfest-global-going-partying-with-the-space-shuttle/>

First Week of the 2013 Domain Sales Season Finds Trio of DomainNameSales.com Transactions at Top of the Chart
And they're off! The 2013 domain sales season is officially underway with the first week of data in from popular aftermarket venues, private buyers and sellers. With the past week shortened by the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day holiday, overall opening week sales were understandably light. There were no six-figure sales reported but DomainNameSales.com (DNS) logged a trio of solid five-figure sales that fill the first three slots on our new weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.
<http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2013/20130116.htm>

.CO.NL Aftermarket Starts Up
The domain names casino.co.nl and onlinecasino.co.nl sold for ?1500 and ?300 respectively, indicating a growing demand for the Dutch 2LD.
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/18/co-nl-aftermarket-starts-up/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/conl-aftermarket-starts-up.html>

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INTERNET USE
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Pingdom Internet In 2012: How Much, How Many...
Pingdom, a company that covers the uptime monitoring needs of 90 percent of the companies in the world, has published their annual internet numbers for 2012. Issues covered are how many emails, how many websites, how many blogs, how much spam...
<http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=19639>
<http://www.domainpulse.com/2013/01/18/pingdom-internet-2012/>
<http://www.domainnews.com/en/pingdom-internet-in-2012-how-much-how-many.html>

The Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites, 2.4 Billion Users
The folks from uptime monitoring company Royal Pingdom have assembled a gargantuan list of various internet-related stats from 2012, and it's a very interesting read.
<http://mashable.com/2013/01/17/the-internet-in-2012-634-million-websites-2-4-billion-users-1-3-trillion-google-searches/>

Overuse of internet gaming or gambling set to be a mental illness
Internet addiction is likely to be classified as a mental illness, as Australian psychiatrists warn teenagers and single men are getting "hooked" on online gaming.
<http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-addiction-likley-to-be-classified-as-a-mental-illness/story-e6frfro0-1226557712281>

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SOCIAL MEDIA
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Search Option From Facebook Is Privacy Test
Facebook?s greatest triumph has been to persuade a seventh of the world?s population to share their personal lives online.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/technology/with-graph-search-facebook-bets-on-more-sharing.html>

Facebook: The social network?s shares recover as it fixes its search problem
Mark Zuckerberg is trying to spice up things online with some pillar talk. Unveiling a revamped search engine on January 15th, the boss of Facebook referred to it as the ?third pillar? of the social network alongside its timeline, which lets individual users post what they have been up to, and its news feed, which lets them see what their friends are doing. Facebook?s search offering has long been so dire that any improvement to it is a welcome relief. But the company will have to do much more in future if it wants to mount a serious challenge to Google?s dominance of the online-search business.
<http://www.economist.com/news/business/21569766-social-networks-shares-recover-it-fixes-its-search-problem-search-me>

How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook's Graph Search
Earlier this week, Facebook launched a new feature?Graph Search?that raised some privacy concerns with us. Graph Search allows users to make structured searches to filter through friends, friends of friends, and strangers. This feature relies on your profile information being made widely or publicly available, yet there are some Likes, photos, or other pieces of information that you might not want out there.
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/how-protect-your-privacy-facebooks-graph-search>

The Creepy Details of Facebook's New Graph Search
The famed technology writer Steven Levy starts his long-form history of Facebook's newest product?Graph Search?by describing it as a feature that "promises to transform its user experience, threaten its competitors, and torment privacy activists." Though it takes quite a lot to torment us these days, Graph Search does raise a few eyebrows.
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/facebooks-graph-search>

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CHILD PROTECTION & ONLINE SAFETY
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Cyberbullying Tragedies Demand Real Change
There are few in Ireland who haven't been shocked by the spate of teen suicides in recent months as a result of bullying. It's always heartbreaking when so much potential is quenched seemingly without warning. And it's horrifying to think that such innoccuous tools as social networking sites could be used to such devestating effect.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/genevieve-shanahan/cyberbullying-tragedies-demand-real-change_b_2462769.html>

uk: Playboy fined ?100,000 for offering porn on websites accessible to children
Playboy has been fined ?100,000 by Ofcom for offering hardcore videos and pornographic images online that could by accessed by children.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/16/playboy-fined-porn-accessible-children>

uk: Playboy fined ?100,000 for failing to protect children [news release
Ofcom has today fined Playboy ?100,000 for failing to protect children from potentially harmful pornographic material.
<http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2013/01/16/playboy-fined-100000-for-failing-to-protect-children/>

Child porn websites quadruple
THE number of web pages identified by Australian authorities as containing child sex abuse material has quadrupled since 2006.
<http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/child-porn-websites-quadruple/story-e6freuy9-1226557044109>

nz: Racist Facebook pages
Late last week we notified our latest partner Net Safe that there were new racist FaceBook pages that were against Maori.
<http://www.nzmis.maori.nz/123/>

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ONLINE TV, MUSIC & PIRACY
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Deloitte report finds content still key, despite new viewing technology
A report by Deloitte has challenged the perception that new TV viewing services will pose a threat to television broadcasters, arguing they will lift the networks more than competing services like Google TV.
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/deloitte-report-finds-content-still-key-despite-new-viewing-technology/story-e6frg996-1226556691278>

Pat Pilcher: RIANZ responds to Dotcom piracy plan
Not so long ago I wrote about the 5 points tweeted by Kim Dotcom that he believed would help end piracy.
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10859973>

The re-sale of digital music and video files in the EU may not be found to infringe copyright, says expert
Courts in the EU may not deem the re-sale of digital music and video files by businesses operating within the trading bloc as copyright infringement, an expert has said.
<http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/the-re-sale-of-digital-music-and-video-files-in-the-eu-may-not-be-found-to-infringe-copyright-says-expert/>

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MOBILE/WIRELESS
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Nokia backs 3D printing for mobile phone cases
Nokia is releasing design files that will let owners use 3D printers to make their own cases for its Lumia phones
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21084430>
<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21084430>

Nokia Lets You 3-D Print Your Own Phone Case
Nokia is turning its Lumia phones into a bit of an arts-and-crafts project. Now you can print your own cases for them.
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/nokia-print-cases/>

Mobile money - All together now
In Kenya mobile money has become central to the country?s economy. M-PESA, a service that allows money to be sent and received using mobile phones, has now been adopted by 70% of the adult population and is a conduit for 25% of Kenya?s GNP. Yet elsewhere such services have had limited success, even though there is no lack of demand. In India, for instance, only an estimated 30,000 of the 600,000 villages in the country have bank branches. Little wonder that 700m Indians, or nearly two-thirds of the population, don?t have accounts.
<http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/01/mobile-money>

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SPAM
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Spam Volumes: Past & Present, Global & Local
Last week, National Public Radio aired a story on my Pharma Wars series, which chronicles an epic battle between men who ran two competing cybercrime empires that used spam to pimp online pharmacy sites. As I was working with the NPR reporter on the story, I was struck by how much spam has decreased over the past couple of years.
<http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/spam-volumes-past-present-global-local/>

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ONLINE CRIME & LEGAL
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Aaron Swartz?s illusion over research
The death of the internet activist Aaron Swartz at the age of 26 has rightly evoked tributes to his creativity and selflessness. Swartz, who faced jail for illegally downloading millions of academic papers from an electronic library, committed suicide last week.
<http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/da5ebf98-5f3a-11e2-be51-00144feab49a.html>

Was Aaron Swartz a Victim of Prosecutorial Overkill? by Bennett L. Gershman, Professor of Law, Pace
Aaron Swartz's suicide last weekend a few months before he was to stand trial for computer fraud has evoked tidal waves of outrage against the federal prosecutors for vastly abusing their power by bringing inflated and unfair charges against Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet folk hero and crusader to make Internet Web files free and open to the public. Dubbed "the humanist hacker," Swartz was indicted in 2011 on numerous counts of computer and wire fraud for breaking into computer networks at M.I.T. and using a false account to download some 4.8 million academic documents from the JSTOR database. The charges carry potential punishment of 35 years in jail and $1 million fine.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bennett-l-gershman/adam-swartz-prosecution_b_2496485.html>

Austrian neo-Nazi sentenced to nine years in jail for website glorifying Nazism
Gottfried Kuessel sentences despite denying wrongdoing and saying he?d turned over a new leaf since previous jail term.
<http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/austrian-neo-nazi-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-jail-for-website-glorifying-nazism-1.494300>

'Nightclub bouncer' phishing scam found by researchers
Cyber-criminals have invented a cunning new method of targeting victims by developing a system that behaves like a bouncer at an exclusive nightclub.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058591>

Financial services firms warned against complacency over threat of cybercrime as expert warns of insurance risks
Financial services companies that do not take sufficient steps to address the risk of being exposed to cybercrime will find it difficult to obtain insurance that covers them for any damages or costs they incur from such incidents, an expert has warned.
<http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/january/financial-services-firms-warned-against-complacency-over-threat-of-cybercrime-as-expert-warns-of-insurance-risks/>

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SECURITY
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Inside the 1,000 Red October Cyberespionage Malware Modules
The Red October espionage malware campaign is providing security researchers with a deep dive into the complexity of targeted attacks, which in this case made use of more than 1,000 malware modules for everything from reconnaissance on targets to exfiltration of data to command and control servers.
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/inside-1000-red-october-cyberespionage-malware-modules-011713>