auDA Domain Name News - 11 January
11/Jan/2010
auDA Domain Name News is compiled by David Goldstein on auDA's behalf. The views expressed in the news items linked from auDA's website (Linked Documents), do not necessarily reflect the views of auDA. auDA does not warrant the accuracy or reliability of the information contained in the Linked Documents, and assumes no liability to any person for any reliance placed upon any information contained in the Linked Documents.
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- ICANN
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Nonstandard standards action at ICANN by Brenden Kuerbis
This week's post on DNSSEC requirements for new gTLDs piqued my curiosity - what exactly are the differences between the registry agreements ICANN has executed to date and the proposed registry agreement in the DAGv3 with respect to technical standards requirements? A quick review of the documents reveals a stark difference.
blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/1/8/4421904.html
CSPAN: The Communicators: Organizing Domain Names
Rod Beckstom, President of ICANN, discusses the registration and organizing of domain names on the Internet. Program from Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hol7lDYifdc
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- ccTLD & gTLD NEWS
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New .CZ registration rules
New version of .cz Registration Rules is in effect as of 1 January 2010
www.nic.cz/page/711/new-registration-rules/
DENIC Goes Ahead in the Signed DNSSEC Zone
The DNSSEC testbed for Germany has met another milestone of its roadmap: Exactly as planned, DENIC made available the signed version of the .de zone in the DNSSEC test environment on 5 January 2010. What does this mean precisely?
www.denic.de/en/denic-in-dialog/news/2457.html?cHash=e05ad63200
Montenegro's .me domain name gain
When it comes to top level domain names, some countries are luckier than others. Take the Pacific Ocean island of Tuvalu, for instance, which offers the attractive .tv for the broadcast media. Or Tonga, whose .to domain has spawned sites such as go.to and how.to. Perhaps most fortunate of all in the name game is Montenegro.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8448593.stm
Stichting ISP Belang withdraws NMa complaint
SIDN has been informed that the stichting ISP Belang (an organisation that speaks for some of the ISPs in the Netherlands) has withdrawn the complaint that it made to the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa) about the graduated discount scheme introduced by SIDN last year. SIDN had previously been told that the complaint would not be upheld
www.sidn.nl/ace.php/c,728,6229,,,,_i_Stichting_ISP_Belang_i_withdraws_NMa_complaint.html
no: The tug of war over the Internet goes on
At the beginning of 2010 the tug over the Internet continues at full force on more fields. On the one side there is a democratization going on as the Internet gets accessible for more people and will increase the commercial possibilities. On the other side we can see the outline of a diversity which will mean challenges for all Internet users.
www.norid.no/nytt/nyttarsbrev2010.en.html
EnCirca offers bulk purchase program for .pro domain names
Effective January 6, 2010, EnCirca.com, registrar of the .pro top level domain, is offering a bulk purchase program designed to promote widespread use of the .pro domain name. EnCirca is soliciting expressions of interest from parties willing to commit to a minimum purchase of 5,000 .pro domain names. Selected parties will receive a discounted price lower than that available for dot-com domain names. The .pro bulk purchase program is ideal for professional trade associations, domain resellers and professional domain investors.
encirca.com/html/press/EnCirca_offers_bulk_purchase_program_for_dotpro.pdf
Why Nominet disconnected 1,000 sites with no court oversight
The body responsible for the .uk internet addresses disconnected over 1,200 websites without any oversight from a court. The much-publicised action last month was based only on police assertions about criminal activity on the sites.
out-law.com/page-10652
www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/nominet_disconnection/
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- DNS SECURITY
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DNSSEC requirement for new gTLDs raises concern outside US by Brenden Kuerbis
As noted by previously by IGP, it is not entirely clear where requirements for DNSSEC in the Draft Applicant Guidebook emerged from within the ongoing consultation.
blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/1/4/4420157.html
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- DOMAIN DISPUTES
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Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop
When you own domain names associated with the trademarks of a large company, more often than not, they’re going to file a complaint with the ICANN UDRP. And more often than not, they’re going to win control of the name. Such was the case yesterday with 16 names related to Apple that one man happened to own.
www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/07/apple-domain-names/
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704421.html
Apple wins 16 web domains via ICANN complaint
Apple has won the rights to 16 domain names through a complaint to ICANN reports say.
www.macnn.com/articles/10/01/08/accused.fails.to.respond/
Apple takes control of iPhone and iPod domain names
When somebody owns domains names which is related to a large company, most of the cases, these big companies file a complaint with the ICANN UDRP. Most of the times, they win the control of name associated to big company/business.
www.sindhtoday.net/news/1/90602.htm
Federal prosecutors unseal charges in "massive" cybercrime conspiracy
Today federal prosecutors in Dallas announced an update in a case that made headlines last April when FBI agents shut down servers of several companies in order to investigate what is now being described as a "massive" cybercrime conspiracy. ... The eight-count indictment also charges 15 of the defendants (*) with fraud and related activity in connection with electronic mail and aiding and abetting. Michael Blaine Faulkner is also charged with one count of obstruction - threatening a witness or informant; one count of obstruction - hiding assets; one count of obstruction - destruction of evidence; and one count of false registration of a domain name.
crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/more-charges-in-a-massive-cybe.html
False Registration of Domains Leads to Severe Criminal Punishment in the U.S.
A story in Dallas that made headlines regarding a massive cyber-criminal ring that defrauded telecommunications companies of millions of dollars, has also shed some light on a little cited provision in US law that involves domain names.
www.domainnamenews.com/legal-issues/false-registration-domains-leads-severe-criminal-punishment/6898
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- IPv4/IPv6
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IPv4 Not Dead Yet: 625 Days of IPv4 Addresses Remain
The new year has barely started, but it's already become apparent that at least one dire prediction about 2010 isn't going to come to pass.
www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/article.php/3857201
www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-08-018-35-NW-NT
IPv4 Safe for Now, but Address Shortage Looms
Is IPv4 running out of gas -- er, address space?. EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet reports on the latest developments and the IPv6 alternative. IPv4 address space will not be exhausted in 2010 as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) had once forecast. But that doesn't mean that network managers or even consumer electronics vendors should sit on the sidelines.
www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3857231
IPv4 Isn't Dead ... Yet
The new year has barely started, but it's already become apparent that at least one dire prediction about 2010 isn't going to come to pass.
www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3857476
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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ITU on root signing and ccTLDs by Brenden Kuerbis
The ITU, in its comments submitted to the UN Secretary-General for a report to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on "Enhanced cooperation on public policy issues pertaining to the Internet," states that concerning management of critical Internet resources, specifically domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC) root signing authority:
blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2010/1/4/4420238.html
Netcraft January 2010 Web Server Survey
In the January 2010 survey we received responses from 206,741,990 sites. The biggest change this month is that 30M hostnames at qq.com expired from the survey. Last year all qq.com blogs were made public, leading to a large number of hostnames being added to the survey in February 2009.
news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/01/07/january_2010_web_server_survey.html
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- DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET
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.Com GeoDomain and 8 ccTLDs Dominate This Week's Domain Sales Chart
... With a double dose of data to draw from, Sedo wound up dominating our new Top 20 Sales Chart, sweeping the first six spots and taking 16 of 20 positions overall. A nice geodomain, Kiev.com, set the pace at $88,000. ccTLDs claimed the next four positions and a total of eight spots on the Big Board.
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2009/20100106.htm