Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. Within 24 hours of this news being posted, a more recent edition of the news will normally be posted to the auDA web site. The domain name news is supported by auDA. Also see http://greta.electric.gen.nz/mailman/listinfo/internet-news for an archive or to subscribe to the domain name or general internet news. Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RESEARCH PAPERS *************** Could IP Addressing Benefit from the Introduction of Competitive Suppliers? by Paul Wilson, Director General of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), and Geoff Huston, Senior Internet Research Scientist at APNIC. "In recent months proposals have been made for the introduction of competition into the system of allocation of IP addresses. In particular, calls have been made for new IP address registries to be established which would compete with the existing Regional Internet address Registries (RIRs). Specific proposals have been made by Houlin Zhao of the ITU-T and by Milton Mueller of the Internet Governance Project, both of which propose that the ITU itself could establish such a registry group, operating as a collection of national registries." ...It would appear that part of the rationale for these proposals lies in the expectation that the introduction of competition would naturally lead to outcomes of "better" or "more efficient" services the address distribution function. This article is a commentary on this expectation, looking at the relationship between a competitive supply framework and the role of address distribution, and offering some perspective on the potential outcomes that may be associated with such a scenario for IP addresses, or indeed for network addresses in general. http://www.circleid.com/article/1045_0_1_0_C http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-04/compete.html The Geography of Internet Addressing by Paul Wilson, Director General, APNIC The ITU-T has proposed a new system of country-based IP address allocations which aims to satisfy a natural demand for self-determination by countries; however, the proposal also stands to realign the Internet's frontiers onto national boundaries, with consequences which are explored here. http://apnic.net/news/hot-topics/internet-gov/internet-geography.pdf *************** DOMAIN NAME NEWS *************** us: Florida Man Registers BenedictXVI.com Name A St. Augustine, Fla., man, Rogers Cadenhead, registered the address BenedictXVI.com on April 1, hoping that would be the name of John Paul II's successor. To cover his bases, Cadenhead, 38, also registered ClementXV.com, InnocentXIV.com, LeoXIV.com, PaulVII.com and PiusXIII.com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3122-2005Apr19.html http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/04/20/papal_domains_for_auction_on_ebay_sedo.html http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050419PopeDomainSpeculation.html http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67278,00.html http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160903186 us: Google sues Froogles.com Google has sued Froogles.com, charging the rival shopping search engine with trademark infringement. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5676955.html http://www.computerweekly.com/Article138043.htm us: Montpelier man accused of 'cybersquatting' The Vermont Country Store has gone to court to prevent a Las Vegas “cybersquatter” who used to live in Montpelier from operating Web sites with names similar to its own. http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050420/SERVICES02/50420001/1003 Imminent Domain (about .jobs) Millions of people use the Internet each day to find jobs. Those who have tried it know that it can be a frustrating experience. How do you know if you posted your resume at all the right sites? Is it enough to just use Monster.com? What about Careerbuilder.com? What about your local newspaper's Web site? What about professional societies' Web sites? Wouldn't it be nice if there were a centralized resource? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A669-2005Apr19.html Security Concerns Boosted VeriSign's Dot-Net Bid When the nonprofit organization that oversees the Internet's domain name system announced last month that the world's fourth largest domain would remain in the hands of VeriSign Inc., technology workers and Internet policy wonks around the world were incredulous, wondering aloud how the company had managed to navigate a process that was, in many ways, designed to reduce its hold on key pieces of Internet real estate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62302-2005Apr18.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050418/tc_washpost/a62302_2005apr18 Some Say ICANN Too Heavy-Handed Domain approval has been an issue since at least 2002. Of the 191 domain names proposed that year -- when .com, .org and .net had been the only domain suffixes on the block -- ICANN approved a mere seven, rejecting bids for .mobile by Nokia, .health by the World Health Organization, and .travel by the International Air Transport Association. http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=33074 How vulnerable is the 'Net? The unusual activity began two weeks before the attack. Officials from the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, which had begun monitoring Internet nameserver behavior at the start of 2002, noticed varying levels of performance degradation in early October of that year. Little did they realize that on Oct. 21 they would witness a flood of ping messages on the Internet's 13 DNS root nameservers that would cause the most notorious denial-of-service attack on the Internet to this date. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/041805-internet-security.html Brits pay through nose for domain names WEB HOSTING COMPANY 1&1 charges UK residents £10.45 to register a .com Internet domain name, while customers in the USA or Canada are charged just $5.99 (£3.15) for the same service. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22620 Dropped-Domains.com Helps Business Owners To Drive Traffic To Their Sites (news release) Dropped-Domains.com, a free expired domain name search engine allows business owners to search for expired domain names. http://i-newswire.com/pr15890.html Mediating domain name disputes CASES of domain name abuse or cyber-squatting are expected to rise in Malaysia, particularly in the .com top-level domain (TLD), with the increased usage of the Internet as a channel of trade and communications. http://www.ctimes.com.my/Highlight/20050418092827/wartrevamp EV1Servers Becomes ICANN Registrar EV1Servers has been approved as an ICANN_accredited domain name registrar, the company said today. The Houston provider was approved for top level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us. The ICANN approval follows a similar move by The Planet. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/04/18/ev1servers_becomes_icann_registrar.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2005 David Goldstein address: 2/4 Dundas Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 0015 - home Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.comReceived on Fri Oct 03 2003 - 00:00:00 UTC
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