*************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** i2Coalition Joins US Businesses In Open Letter to Congress Supporting IANA Transition < <https://www.i2coalition.com/i2coalition-joins-us-businesses-in-open-letter- to-congress-supporting-iana-transition/> https://www.i2coalition.com/i2coalition-joins-us-businesses-in-open-letter-t o-congress-supporting-iana-transition/> Draft New ICANN Bylaws < <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en> New gTLD Program Delegation Deadlines by Christine Willett < <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-gtld-program-delegation-deadlines> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-gtld-program-delegation-deadlines> IANA Functions, DNSSEC Audits: ICANN Systems Have Appropriate Controls < <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-04-22-en> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-04-22-en> Australia?s ccTLD To Allow Direct Registrations < <http://www.internetnews.me/2016/04/20/australias-cctld-allow-direct-registr ations/> http://www.internetnews.me/2016/04/20/australias-cctld-allow-direct-registra tions/> Amazon attempts rule fudge to take exclusive control of new dot-words < <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/amazon_attempts_control_of_dotwords /> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/amazon_attempts_control_of_dotwords/ > IWF Finds Child Abuse On 2,000 Domains Including Over 400 New gTLDs < <http://www.domainpulse.com/2016/04/22/iwf-child-abuse-2000-domains-400-new- gtlds/> http://www.domainpulse.com/2016/04/22/iwf-child-abuse-2000-domains-400-new-g tlds/> ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** i2Coalition Joins US Businesses In Open Letter to Congress Supporting IANA Transition Today we joined with other US businesses and groups including, Dell, Amazon, The Internet Association, USCIB (United States Council For International Business), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, ITI (Information Technology Industry Council), and CCIA (Computer and Communications Industry Association) in an open letter to congress issuing our support of the IANA Transition. < <https://www.i2coalition.com/i2coalition-joins-us-businesses-in-open-letter- to-congress-supporting-iana-transition/> https://www.i2coalition.com/i2coalition-joins-us-businesses-in-open-letter-t o-congress-supporting-iana-transition/> ********************** ICANN ********************** Draft New ICANN Bylaws Purpose: This Public Comment period seeks community input on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws developed to reflect the recommendations contained in the proposals by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and Cross Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) as provided to the ICANN Board on 10 March 2016 and transmitted to NTIA. < <https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en> https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en> New gTLD Program Delegation Deadlines by Christine Willett Tremendous progress has been made in implementing the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program. To date, registry agreements are in place for more than 1,230 new gTLDs, and more than 950 of these new gTLDs have been delegated into the root zone. The ICANN team is here to help registry operators navigate the final few steps toward the shared goal of delegation. Our tasks include informing registry operators of key deadlines and their associated impacts. < <https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-gtld-program-delegation-deadlines> https://www.icann.org/news/blog/new-gtld-program-delegation-deadlines> IANA Functions, DNSSEC Audits: ICANN Systems Have Appropriate Controls ICANN has completed annual, third-party audits of the IANA Registry Management Systems and DNSSEC services it provides. < <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-04-22-en> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-04-22-en> Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN57 lCANN launches the application round for those interested in participating at the ICANN57 Meeting through the Fellowship Program. The Meeting will be held 29 October - 4 November 2016. < <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-22-en> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-22-en> ICANN?s WHOIS System Must Follow Local Laws and Best Practices in Data Protection by Ayden Ferdeline The Internet operates in a space far removed from Westphalian sovereignty, where mostly self-regulated private entities set policy through network architecture and engineering decisions. Among these bodies, ICANN, a California-based not-for-profit, holds a monopoly over the technical and functional workings of the Internet?s domain name and numbering systems. It is also responsible for the operation of the WHOIS database, a global directory service of domain name registrants. LSE alumnus and member of ICANN?s Non-Commercial Users Constituency, Ayden F?rdeline, argues that ICANN needs to do more to address concerns about the handling of sensitive personal data, and should adopt international best practices in privacy and data protection. < <http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2016/04/21/icanns-whois-system-mu st-follow-local-laws-and-best-practices-in-data-protection/> http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2016/04/21/icanns-whois-system-mus t-follow-local-laws-and-best-practices-in-data-protection/> ********************** ccTLD & gTLD NEWS ********************** Australia?s ccTLD To Allow Direct Registrations Australia?s ccTLD will allow ?direct? registrations in the .au ccTLD in the future. Following on from a consultation process last year, the board of auDA has announced their intention to update the domain registration policy to allow people and organisations to register .au domain names. < <http://www.internetnews.me/2016/04/20/australias-cctld-allow-direct-registr ations/> http://www.internetnews.me/2016/04/20/australias-cctld-allow-direct-registra tions/> Request for Proposal to Allocate Reserved Names fTLD is permitted by ICANN to reserve names, which it may use for itself, allocate in the future per the mechanisms enumerated in its Name Allocation Policy or keep permanently unavailable for registration. fTLD has reserved names comprised of Common Community and Generic and others such as single-character and two-letters. < <https://www.register.bank/request-for-proposal-rfp-to-allocate-reserved-nam es/> https://www.register.bank/request-for-proposal-rfp-to-allocate-reserved-name s/> More e-commerce security in the .be-zone An efficient collaboration between the FPS Economy (Federal Government Department for the Economy) and DNS Belgium took more than 200 .be websites selling fake goods offline during a recent inspection. < <http://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/more-e-commerce-security-be-zone> http://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/more-e-commerce-security-be-zone> dk: Sign up for Betalingsservice DK Hostmaster is currently distributing e-mails to you who experienced a suspension of your domain name last year. We encourage you to sign up payment of your domain name to Betalingsservice. < <https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/english/news/news-single/artikel/subscribe-for -betalingsservice/> https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/english/news/news-single/artikel/subscribe-for- betalingsservice/> Afilias Relaunches .GREEN Domain Afilias ... announces the relaunch of the .GREEN TLD. .GREEN celebrates the global green movement by providing a space that helps organizations and individuals show their support for green principles. The relaunch includes a new logo, new websiteand more activity designed to build awareness and accelerate adoption. < <http://www.afilias.info/news/2016/04/22/afilias-relaunches-green-domain> http://www.afilias.info/news/2016/04/22/afilias-relaunches-green-domain> nl: Identifying abusive domain registrations in real time Ever since domain names entered the mainstream, there have been people who abused them. Common abuses include phishing, spreading viruses and sending spam. The sooner after registration the domain names involved can be identified, the better. < <https://www.sidn.nl/a/internet-security/identifying-abusive-domain-registra tions-in-real-time> https://www.sidn.nl/a/internet-security/identifying-abusive-domain-registrat ions-in-real-time> nl: Read SIDN's 2015 annual report 2015 was the year that the world's first website ? designed in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, then working for CERN ? celebrated its silver jubilee. And YouTube turned ten years old. It was an interesting year, with some welcome developments, and some less agreeable ones as well. < <https://www.sidn.nl/a/about-sidn/read-sidns-2015-annual-report> https://www.sidn.nl/a/about-sidn/read-sidns-2015-annual-report> nl: DNSSEC in government organisations: state of play Everyone uses domain names. Which means that everyone depends on the DNS. Because the DNS makes all the world's domain names reachable. It translates them into the numeric IP addresses that computers use, so that people can find websites and get mail delivered. When you type the name of the tax office's website into your laptop, it's the DNS that puts you through to the right site. So, although the DNS does its job invisibly, the internet simply wouldn't work without it. < <https://www.sidn.nl/a/internet-security/dnssec-in-government-organisations- state-of-play> https://www.sidn.nl/a/internet-security/dnssec-in-government-organisations-s tate-of-play> .nl in numbers At the end of the first quarter, the total number of registered .nl domain names was 5,617,753. That equates to a net increase of 13,948. Although the growth was modest by historical standards (the domain grew by about 25,000 names as recently as the first quarter of 2015), it was higher than we had expected. Our forecasts had suggested that new registrations would start to fall gradually, but in fact they remained roughly unchanged. < <https://www.sidn.nl/a/knowledge-and-development/nl-in-numbers> https://www.sidn.nl/a/knowledge-and-development/nl-in-numbers> nl: Domain Name Surveillance Service pre-scan now available Since late 2013, subscribers have been using our Domain Name Surveillance Service (DBS) to successfully detect phishing and brand abuse. DBS detects and monitors domain names that look very like your brand name. Ziggo, various financial institutions and the Dutch National government are among the service's satisfied users. To make regular use of the DBS, you need a subscription. There are two service options: < <https://www.sidn.nl/a/sidn-services/domain-name-surveillance-service-pre-sc an-now-available> https://www.sidn.nl/a/sidn-services/domain-name-surveillance-service-pre-sca n-now-available> ru: 136 domain names blocked in March In March 2016, Group-IB sent 153 notices to accredited registrars to remove domain names that were in violation. As a result, 140 domain names were taken down. < <https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=9700> https://cctld.ru/en/news/news_detail.php?ID=9700> ********************** NEW TLDS ********************** Amazon attempts rule fudge to take exclusive control of new dot-words Amazon is trying to get around rules aimed at preventing it from gaining exclusive control of common words online. < <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/amazon_attempts_control_of_dotwords /> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/22/amazon_attempts_control_of_dotwords/ > Interesting data comparing .coms to premium new TLDs Which premium domain names are price competitively? Prices that registries set for premium domains in new TLDs sometimes border on the absurd. I?ve come across domains in the form of Word1Word2.com that are available for hand registration and the Word1.Word2 domain is priced at $8,000 a year. Huh? < <http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/22/rightside-premium-data/> http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/22/rightside-premium-data/> ********************** DNS SECURITY ********************** ENISA?s Executive Director addresses EP ITRE Committee on key points for cybersecurity for the EU Following the Commission announcement on the path to digitise the EU industry, ENISA participated at the ITRE meeting on 21st April in an exchange of views on cybersecurity in the EU, and ENISA?s role in the implementation of the Digital Single Market. < <https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa2019s-executive-director-addresses-ep -itre-committee-on-key-points-for-cybersecurity-for-the-eu> https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa2019s-executive-director-addresses-ep- itre-committee-on-key-points-for-cybersecurity-for-the-eu> The cyber security strategy: Australia can attack as well as defend A hospital worker, expecting delivery of an online purchase, opens an email purporting to contain details of a parcel delivery. Instead it delivers a virus, sitting dormant and undetected for months or even years until its creator decides to unleash hell. < <http://www.afr.com/news/special-reports/cyber-security/the-cyber-security-s trategy-australia-can-attack-as-well-as-defend-20160421-gobk99> http://www.afr.com/news/special-reports/cyber-security/the-cyber-security-st rategy-australia-can-attack-as-well-as-defend-20160421-gobk99> ********************** DOMAIN DISPUTES & SEIZURES ********************** uk: Polo club wins battle with IT expert over control of exclusive web domain One of Britain's top polo clubs has triumphed in a bitter dispute with a tech entrepreneur over control of its exclusive polo.co.uk web domain. < <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/22/polo-club-wins-battle-with-it-ex pert-over-control-of-exclusive-w/> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/22/polo-club-wins-battle-with-it-exp ert-over-control-of-exclusive-w/> Even Lawyers Have Domain Name Problems by Doug Isenberg No industry is immune from cybersquatting - not even the legal industry. In three recent (and unrelated) UDRP decisions, law firms won decisions ordering the transfer of domain names that contain their trademarks. One of the cases involved Alston & Bird, the large law firm where I began my legal career and first learned about domain name disputes 20 years ago. As the UDRP decision describes it, Alston & Bird is a well-known law firm founded in 1893 with offices throughout the world. < <http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160424_even_lawyers_have_domain_name_proble ms/> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160424_even_lawyers_have_domain_name_problem s/> au: Goodreads LLC, Amazon Technologies, Inc v. BDB Soti Pty Ltd. - Case No. DAU2016-0012 1. The Parties: The Complainants are Goodreads LLC of San Francisco, California, United States of America ("United States") and Amazon Technologies, Inc of Seattle, Washington, United States, represented by King & Wood Mallesons, Australia. The Respondent is BDB Soti Pty Ltd of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia, internally represented. 2. The Domain Name and Registrar: The disputed domain name <goodreads.com.au> is registered with Web Address Registration Pty Ltd (the "Registrar"). < <http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=DAU2016-0012> http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=DAU2016-0012> au: Arla Foods Amba v. William Wong - Case No. DAU2016-0007 1. The Parties: The Complainant is Arla Foods Amba of Viby, Denmark, represented by BrandIT GmbH, Switzerland. The Respondent is William Wong of Port Noarlunga, Australia. 2. The Domain Name and Registrar: The disputed domain name <arlafood.com.au> (the ?Domain Name?) is registered with GoDaddy.com, LLC (the ?Registrar?). < <http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=DAU2016-0007> http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=DAU2016-0007> ********************** REGISTRAR NEWS ********************** GoDaddy updates investor app, domain search and hijack protection GoDaddy announced a bunch of updates yesterday, several of which I think will be interesting to domain name investors. < <http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/21/godaddy-updates-investor-app-domain-se arch-hijack-protection/> http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/21/godaddy-updates-investor-app-domain-sea rch-hijack-protection/> ********************** IPv4/IPv6 ********************** IETF 95: Declaring IPv6 an ?Internet Standard? by Geoff Huston I?ve already shared my thoughts following a session of the IPv4 Sunset Working Group at IETF 95 that considered whether to declare IPv4 an ?Historic? specification. Of course, as one would expect for a meeting of a Standards Development Organization (SDO), that wasn?t the only standards process discussion through the week. Another session, this time in the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group, considered the related topic of whether to make the IPv6 specification a full Internet Standard. Let?s look at that proposal. < <http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2016-04/ipv6std.html> http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2016-04/ipv6std.html> ********************** MISCELLANEOUS ********************** IWF Finds Child Abuse On 2,000 Domains Including Over 400 New gTLDs The UK's Internet Watch Foundation found 68,092 URLs containing child sexual abuse imagery and hosted on 1,991 domains worldwide according to their latest annual report published Thursday. < <http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=24609> http://www.goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=24609> < <http://www.domainpulse.com/2016/04/22/iwf-child-abuse-2000-domains-400-new- gtlds/> http://www.domainpulse.com/2016/04/22/iwf-child-abuse-2000-domains-400-new-g tlds/> 68,000 child sex abuse URLs were removed in 2015 More than 68,000 URLs hosting images and videos of children being sexually abused were taken offline 2015, the Internet Watch Foundation has said. ... The 68,092 URLs hosting the child sexual abuse content were traced back to 48 countries, the IWF said in its annual report. Of the TLDs hosting the webpages .com .net .ru .org and .se, when combined, accounted for 91 per cent of all webpages identified containing the images and videos. < <http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-04/21/child-sexual-abuse-removed-i nternet-iwf> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-04/21/child-sexual-abuse-removed-in ternet-iwf> IWF finds child abuse imagery on new gTLD domains The Internet Watch Foundation said it found child abuse imagery on new gTLD domain names for the first time in 2015. < <http://domainincite.com/20315-iwf-finds-child-abuse-imagery-on-new-gtld-dom ains> http://domainincite.com/20315-iwf-finds-child-abuse-imagery-on-new-gtld-doma ins> ********************** WEBHOSTING ********************** April 2016 Web Server Survey In the April 2016 survey we received responses from 1,083,252,900 sites and 5,800,222 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of nearly 80 million sites and 18,100 computers. < <http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/04/21/april-2016-web-server-survey.h tml> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2016/04/21/april-2016-web-server-survey.ht ml> ********************** DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET ********************** What China giveth, China can taketh away Domain name marketplaces were buoyed last year by the market for short domain names. < <http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/20/china-giveth-china-can-taketh-away/> http://domainnamewire.com/2016/04/20/china-giveth-china-can-taketh-away/> .Coms Account for 11 of the Week's 13 Biggest Sales With Priority.com Setting the Pace It was a good week for the .coms as they posted the top six sales on this week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, as well as 11 of the first 13 and 13 of 20 overall. The top dog was Vinexa.com's $85,000 sale of Priority.com to a Minnesota shipping company - Priority Courier Experts. They are upgrading their current address- ShipWithPriority.com. < <http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2016/20160420.htm> http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2016/20160420.htm> ********************** SOCIAL MEDIA ********************** Tinder chief: we test new features in Australia because it's so far away Tinder?s chief executive has revealed the dating app tests new features in in Australia because users there don?t ?cross-pollinate? with the rest of the world very much. < <http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/20/tinder-australia-app> http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/20/tinder-australia-app> ************************** BRAND PROTECTION & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ************************** Copyright Experts: Fair Use is Not Getting a Fair Deal in Australia Fair use is one of the biggest undelivered promises of a report of the Australian Law Reform Commission to the Australian government two years ago, which recommended improvements to Australian copyright law. Instead of delivering a fair use exception, the government slapped users with onerous new enforcement provisions such as SOPA-style web blocking and data retention, along with a now-shelved attempt at a graduated response code for penalizing users suspected of infringement. < <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/copyright-experts-fair-use-not-gettin g-fair-deal-australia> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/copyright-experts-fair-use-not-getting -fair-deal-australia> ------ David Goldstein email: <mailto:david at goldsteinreport.com> david at goldsteinreport.com web: <http://goldsteinreport.com/> http://goldsteinreport.com/ Twitter: <https://twitter.com/goldsteinreport> https://twitter.com/goldsteinreport phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9663 3430 - office/home "Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. 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