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au/uk: Internet fraudsters must pay
TWO internet geeks who made a fortune by misleading
net users must pay $2.3million, after a court found
they flagrantly broke copyright laws in an elaborate
scam.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17546213%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Kazakhs pull plug on Borat
The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British
comedian's satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist
and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the
plug on his alter ego's website. ... A
Government-appointed organisation regulating websites
that end in the .kz domain name for Kazakhstan
confirmed on Tuesday it had suspended Cohen's site.
http://smh.com.au/news/people/kazakhs-pull-plug-on-borat/2005/12/14/1134500898053.html
http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=6969&mhnews_page=1

eu/nl: Dutch church bids for sex.eu
A Dutch Full Gospel Church was seconds too late to bid
on sex.eu, the most sought after domain name using the
European Union's own top level domain.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/13/church_bid_on_sex/
http://www.out-law.com/page-6453

cn: Nearly all Chinese festival domain names
registered
Nearly all Internet domains named after Chinese
festivals have been registered, the People's Daily
reported.
http://english.people.com.cn/200512/12/eng20051212_227364.html
http://en.ce.cn/Industries/IT/200512/12/t20051212_5492323.shtml

The end user: Get with the protocol
Incredible as it may sound, we could run out of
Internet addresses, even with the billions and
billions available. That's because even billions are
not enough to keep up with our rush to connect devices
and post to the Web everything under the sun.
http://iht.com/articles/2005/11/25/business/ptend26.php

US CAN And Others CAN?T: The Story of ICANN by Prabir
Purkayastha (from the Weekly Organ of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist))
THE recently concluded World Information Summit in
Tunisia last month was supposed to address the yawning
digital divide: both between nations and within
nations. Instead, most of the public focus was in who
would control the Internet, not only the information
highway of today but also a major channel for global
commerce. Though the results from the summit was not
decisive, the issues somehow getting pushed under the
rug for the time being, it is increasingly clear that
an Internet controlled by the US as it is today is not
acceptable to the rest of the world.
http://pd.cpim.org/2005/1211/12112005_snd.htm

New ICANN Information Page on Proposed VeriSign
Settlement
ICANN has posted a new information page on the
proposed settlement with VeriSign. The page includes
links to previously posted announcements and
constituency statements, and also includes newly
posted material: a copy of Paul Twomey's presentation
on the settlement from Vancouver, and a summary and
analysis of the community feedback on the proposed
settlement.
http://icann.org/topics/verisign-settlement.htm

us: Could a U.S. Shift to IPv6 Cost $75B?
Moving to IPv6 will present a number of challenges for
the U.S. federal government, not the least of which is
the associated price tag, which could hit $75 billion.
http://internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3570211

ch: EasyGroup refused entry to easyhotel.ch
EasyGroup has lost an attempt to eject the resident of
easyhotel.ch, the director of a Swiss technology firm
who was using the domain name to promote his firm's
services to Swiss hotels. EasyGroup was accused of
trying to monopolise the word "easy".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/12/no_easyhotel/
http://www.out-law.com/page-6446

ca: Police domain names send web users on political
detour
A B.C. man is using web addresses that appear to be
police departments in Vancouver and several other
Canadian cities ? to send people straight to the main
website of the federal NDP.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_web-ndp20051209.html

us: Foxwoods Casino Wins Cybersquatting Case
As reported by the Connecticut Day: "U.S. District
Judge Janet C. Hall has found that a Dracut, Mass.,
man engaged in 'cyber-squatting' and violated the
Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act when he created
the domain name www.foxwood.com and attempted to
profit from Internet surfers looking for information
about the world's largest casino.
http://www.casinocitytimes.com/news/article.cfm?contentID=155285
http://rgtonline.com/Article.cfm?ArticleId=61679

us: Illinois Attorney General sues jewelry store using
copycat web addresses
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed suit
against a Chicago-area jewelry store for allegedly
using copycat web addresses to redirect consumers from
competitors? sites.
http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=16968

us: Inventor of the DNS, Paul Mockapetris to Speak
Internet naming and addressing company, Nominum, has
announced that Paul Mockapetris, Nominum Chairman and
Chief Scientist, will be discussing ENUM and the next
wave of networking at Networld + Interop, in New York
City on December 12-15th, 2005.
http://www.thehostingnews.com/article1878.html
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ITU Launches New Publication: The Internet of Things
The internet as we know it is set to transform
radically, according to a new ITU Internet Report
entitled The Internet of Things, specially prepared to
coincide with the WSIS in Tunis. From an academic
network for the chosen few created in the late 1960s,
the internet is now a mass-market, consumer-oriented
network being accessed by over 900 million people
worldwide, through personal computers, mobile phones
and other wireless devices. But this is only the
beginning. According to ITU?s report, we are standing
on the brink of a new ubiquitous computing and
communication era, one that will radically transform
the Internet, and with it, our corporate, community,
and personal spheres. The new ITU report looks at key
enabling technologies for ubiquity (e.g. RFID, sensors
and sensor networks, telematics, robotics,
nanotechnology) and how they might impact the future
human and technological landscape.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/ITU+Launches+New+Publication+The+Internet+Of+Things.aspx


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