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nz: New Zealand domains 'not at risk' of domain
slamming
New Zealand domain name holders are not at risk from
having their registrations hijacked thanks to
additional safeguards in the system utilised here,
says .nz Domain Name Commissioner Debbie Monahan.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/F7BE812E1B4BB7E0CC256F55001721B4

au: Would the 'Real' Casey Donovan stand up? (reg
req'd)
The whole "fiasco" with the Casey Donovan website
(remember her? she won Australian Idol last weekend)
need never have happened. In fact there are a number
of factors that conspired to make it happen, some
under Telstra's control, some not. For those
completely in the dark about this - Telstra rushed an
advertisement into the newspapers promoting her
brand-new website and the fact that fans could
download her first song. Unfortunately, the web
address they posted pointed to a very adult-oriented
site of particular interest to gay men.
http://theage.com.au/news/Soapbox/Would-the-Real-Casey-Donovan-stand-up/2004/11/25/1101219671476.html

ca: IDs of dot-ca domain holders to become private
It's fairly common knowledge that a savvy web surfer
can find out almost anything about anyone online,
especially who's behind a website.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/TopPhoto/2004/11/25/730789.html

Dot-ca privacy plan a Canadian compromise by MICHAEL
GEIST
While the Internet has transformed many aspects of
daily life, among the most important is near-instant
access to an unparalleled electronic library.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1101078609533

ICANN Appoints New Staff Members
ICANN announced yesterday that it has appointed Andrew
Savage as Head of Human Resources and Tim Cole as
Chief Registrar Liaison.
http://news.webhosting.info/t-3344
http://onlypunjab.com/webmasters/fullstory-newsID-1520.html

New ICANN Staff Appointments:
Human Resources and Chief Registrar Liaison
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-24nov04.htm

ICANN Announces Selection of Ombudsman
ICANN is pleased to announce that after an extensive
International search, the selection of an Ombudsman
has been completed. Frank Fowlie joins ICANN as
Ombudsman effective immediately.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-24nov04-2.htm

ICANN appoints ombudsman (reg req'd)
Nearly two years after it adopted its new by-laws,
ICANN has appointed Canadian Frank Fowlie as its
ombudsman.
http://smh.com.au/news/Breaking/ICANN-appoints-ombudsman/2004/11/25/1101219669031.html

us: Free speech claim in typosquatting dispute
The American Civil Liberties Union is supporting a web
site's fight for the domain name fallwell.com.
Christopher Lamparello is appealing a ruling that his
domain name infringes the trade mark of evangelist
Jerry Falwell.
http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=freespeechclaimin1101389519

Two New Instances of RIPE NCC Operated K-root Server
Deployed in Switzerland and Poland
The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network
Coordination Centre) in partnership with CERN and PSNC
(Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center) has
recently deployed two new mirror instance of the
K-root Internet root name server. One in Geneva,
Switzerland at CIXP (CERN Internet Exchange Point) and
one in Poznan, Poland at PSNC.
http://ripe.net/news/kroot-november.html

Communiqué of the 24th CENTR General Assembly
CENTR members convened in Zürich, Switzerland for the
24th CENTR General Assembly on the 18th and 19th of
November, 2004. The meeting focused on an ongoing
analysis of risk management, as well as examining the
requirements of Internet governance with respect to
the ITU, WSIS and WGIG. Members in attendance
represented 42 different top-level domains, and
included participation by ICANN, and the Internet
Governance Project.
http://www.centr.org/docs/2004/11/centr-ga24-communique.html

de: Denic Confirms .net Bid
Denic eG, which runs the German .de top-level internet
domain, said yesterday its members have voted to allow
the organization to submit a bid to run the .net
domain when VeriSign Incs contract expires next June.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/041125/20/rw92.html

uk: There's always another David
When ad agency Ogilvy had its domain hijacked,
advertising blogger Jack Cheng decided to do some
hijacking of his own. Here, he argues that even
smallest online Goliath's have a David waiting in the
wings with a pebble and a slingshot.
http://www.netimperative.com/2004/11/17/another_David/view

cn: Experts Say Using .cn Domains Can Protect State
Information Security
Local media report from CNNIC's (China National
Network Information Center) Web Address Resource
Application Exhibition held in Shanghai that experts
there are urging Chinese netizens to start using .cn
domains instead of the more popular .com domain name
extensions.
http://chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2151

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Civil Society processes in WSIS Phase II
Civil society groups involved in the World Summit on
the Information Society had some difficulties
concerning the transparency and inclusiveness of their
overall coordination structures. A review of the
structures and decision-making procedures was started
at PrepCom 1 in June and was finally kicked off at
last week’s meetings around the UN ICT Task Force in
Berlin.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/691.htm

WSIS PrepCom2 will be “stormy”
The UN Information and Communication Technology Task
Force (UN ICT TF) met in Berlin last week, and civil
society groups had a number of meetings around this
event. The conflicts and coalitions in the second
phase of the WSIS are becoming clearer now. One major
dispute is to be expected over financing.
http://worldsummit2005.de/en/web/689.htm

Is Internet Freedom In Jeopardy?
Reporters Without Borders (RSN, Reporters Sans
Frontieres) today expressed concern that several
countries which have harshly cracked down on use of
the Internet were members of a working group on
Internet governance that met in Geneva from November
23 to 25 in the run-up to next year's U.N.-sponsored
WSIS in Tunis.
http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2372

Repressive countries gain foothold before World Summit
on the Information Society
Reported Without Borders today expressed concern that
several countries that harshly cracked down on use of
the Internet were members of a working group on
Internet governance that met in Geneva from 23 to 25
November in the run-up to next year's World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11957

WSIS: UN alliance aims to promote IT in poor countries
Participants at a United Nations meeting in Berlin
this week proposed creating a global alliance that
would spur investment in communications technology in
the world's poorest countries as a follow-up to next
year's WSIS.
http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041126wis/
http://idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/2C800626E78A432048256F580012A188
http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/idgnet.asp?id=6488

Ghana to host preparatory conference of World Summit
on Information Society
Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chief Executive of the
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO),
last Wednesday met in Accra with the Secretariat of
the African Regional Preparatory Conference for the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to
examine the preparations so far made towards the
hosting of the summit scheduled for Accra in February
next year.
http://ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=70593

NGO.ZA, ICT Services for Civil Society
APCmember SANGONeT launched a new joint venture,
called NGO.ZA. The overall aim of NGO.ZA is to meet
and respond to the South African NGO sector's
connectivity, hardware and e-business infrastructure
requirements, and as a result, transform the
information and communication technologies (ICT)
usage, capacity and infrastructure levels of the
sector.
http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=28554

CENTR Response to "ITU and Internet Governance" Draft
Council of European National Top Level Domain
Registries (CENTR) comments on Mr. Zhao’s draft paper
on “ITU and Internet Governance”
http://www.centr.org/docs/2004/11/centr-response-itudraft.pdf
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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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