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za: Authority Calls for Public Participation for Usage
.za Domain
The .za Domain Name Authority is embarking on a public
consultative process to obtain comment and input about
the structure of the .za domain to be inline with
global practices.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120879.html

http://www.businessreport.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2874307

http://mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=250683

http://www.businessreport.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=2874307
 http://corporate.hosted.inet.co.za/news/story/1944267

uk: Uk.com wildcard raises Net stability worries
A decision by British company CentralNic to make all
unregistered domains ending with "uk.com" direct to
its own webpage has raised concerns over the future
stability of the Internet.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/14/centralnic_wildcard/

us: Bill Cosby wins fight over 'fatalbert.org' domain
name
Comedian Bill Cosby won control of an Internet domain
name including the name of the Fat Albert cartoon he
created in the 1960s, under a ruling issued Monday by
a United Nations panel.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-09-12-cosby-fat-albert_x.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1117832

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091200544.html
 http://sacunion.com/pages/entertainment/articles/6141

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/12/entertainment/main834708.shtml

http://www.nynewsday.com/business/ny-bzcosby12,0,7311155.story

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0509130036sep13,1,7366247.story

Bill Cosby bekommt die Rechte an der Domain Fat Albert
 http://derstandard.at/?id=2172731

us: Officials Warn of Katrina Relief Web Scams
At least 4,000 Web sites claiming to be Hurricane
Katrina relief funds have popped up on the Internet
and top U.S. law enforcement officials warned Tuesday
that many could be fraudulent.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_WEB_SCAMS

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9642942

Pakistan offers .pk domain (reg req'd)
Pakistan is launching a country-code top level domain
name extension .pk and is operating a sunrise period
to allow legitimate trade mark owners to secure their
rights

http://managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=579904&ISS=20242&LS=EMS51365

.XXX as Proposed is Wrong for Families & Kids
On August 23rd, the Internet Governance Project posted
a letter Opposing Political Intervention in the
Internet's Core Technical Administrative Functions. I
disagree.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1189_0_1_0_C/

xxx: Porn foes, advocates settle on same side of .xxx
domain issue
Pornography fighters and some pornography producers
joined forces to oppose the proposal, in an article by
Paul K. McMasters is First Amendment ombudsman at the
First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=15699

xxx: Sex, the Internet and the future
Editorial: A devastating decision almost snuck up on
us recently: the provisional approval ? temporarily on
hold ? to add a new ".xxx" domain to the Internet,
alongside .com, .org and .net. This proposal was
lobbied for by pornographers, recently approved by the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), and met by outrage from think tanks,
therapists, average citizens and family groups.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002474812_woman06.html

au: NetRegistry takes charge of gov.au domain (reg
req'd)
The Australian government has selected domain name
provider NetRegistry to be the registrar for its
gov.au domain. 

http://managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&pubID=198&SID=579901&ISS=20242&LS=EMS51365

ICANN: Public Comment Forum on Combined Whois Task
Force Preliminary Report
The GNSO has opened a public comment forum on the
Combined Whois Task Force's Preliminary Report on
handling potential conflicts between registrar and
registry contractual obligations and privacy laws. The
comment period will be open through 2 October 2005.
 http://gnso.icann.org/comments-request/

.kid domain on the way?
The European parliament is now working on a
recommendation for a proposal on "the protection of
children and human dignity" in the audiovisual and
information services world.

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39152124,00.htm

http://managingip.com/default.asp?page=9&PubID=198&SID=580052&ISS=20242&LS=EMS51365
 http://p2pnet.net/story/6195

sg: IDA announces results for numbers auction and
launches ENUM pilot trial
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
has announced the results of its fixed-line, Internet
Protocol (IP) Telephony and mobile numbers auctions
conducted earlier last week.

http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=2618

ie: Call for lower prices for .ie domains
If the average retail price for a .ie domain
registration falls by 50pc over the coming 18 months,
Eoin Costello?s web hosting firm Novara.ie estimates
that a target of 100,000 .ie registrations can be
achieved in that time frame.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single5374

Brand New Domain Names Released to the Internet - The
Rush Begins Again (more or less a news release)
With over 40 million mostly forgettable ?.COMs?
already registered, there's very little left to
interest individuals or business.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=13055

.ORG Domain Name Registry to Donate $1 Per New Domain
The .ORG registry, has announced that it will partner
with its founding organization, the Internet Society,
and its technology services provider, Afilias Limited,
to donate $1 USD for every new .ORG domain name
registered between 8 September and 30 September 2005
to aid relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane
Katrina.

http://cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-org-domain-name-registry-to-donate-1-per-new-domain-1381.html

http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=6129&mhnews_page=1

Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, Father of
?Net and Chair of ICANN
This week Google hired Vinton Cerf, the ?father of the
Internet? and the Chairman of ICANN, to serve as their
Chief Internet Evangelist.
 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2181

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/9KMRGLtYNTEGNe/Google-Wins-Another-Mind-Game.xhtml

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Africa Close to Consensus On Internet Governance
African countries are closer to reach a consensus
about various aspects related to internet governance
in the world, after overcoming various differences on
the matter, during a meeting in Dakar, Senegal,
informed Saturday, here, the Angolan Science and
Technology vice minister, Pedro Sebati?o Teta.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200509120449.html

A Global Dialogue around WSIS Prepcom 3
As a contribution to the United Nations World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS), the Internet
Governance Project, led by Professor Derrick L.
Cogburn, is supporting a web-based Global Deliberative
Dialogue on Internet Governance, from 19-30 September
2005.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/1194_0_1_0_C/

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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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