Hi all

The domain name news collected for today, Thursday 30 November. Following
the posting yesterday and the feedback, I will continue to post the news
while I am collecting it. Further Internet news is available at
http://www.nic.at/english/community.html.

Cheers
David

Questions remain as CIRA takes over dot-ca domain (National Post) 30Nov
http://www.nationalpost.com/tech/story.html?f=/stories/20001130/387726.html
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) takes over operation of
the dot-ca domain tomorrow morning, just as new questions are being raised
about the way the non-profit corporation chooses its own governing body.

The third wave of Net names (Globe & Mail) 30Nov
http://www.globetechnology.com/archive/gam/News/20001130/TWNAME.html
The tricky art of picking a catchy Web address in a crowded field enters a
new phase as dot-coms shun generic product names for lively, more
descriptive monikers.

China, Taiwan to discuss uniform domain names (South China Morning Post)
30Nov http://technology.scmp.com/internet/DAILY/20001129230614123.asp
Officials on both sides of the Taiwan Straits will meet in December to
discuss a uniform system for registering Chinese-language domain names,
Xinhua News Agency reported.

New boss vows to rescue MelbIT (Australian IT) 30Nov
http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1468497%5E442,00.html
New Melbourne IT chief executive Adrian Kloeden says the company has cut
"several million" dollars in costs and is working on boosting earnings
through a four-pronged strategy.

MyPalm.com bleibt seinPalm.com (Der Standard) 30Nov
http://derstandard.at/dyn/aktuell/article.asp?channel=WEBSTANDARD&ressort=PD
A&ID=406271
Im Streit über die Domain MyPalm.com (der WebStandard berichtete) scheint
sich eine Einigung abzuzeichnen: Der Eigentümer der Domain, Dominic
Hulewicz, verwendet die Domain hauptsächlich für seine E-Mail-Adresse und
gibt selbst an, die Webseite kaum zu verwenden.

Domain names fail to make the grade (South China Morning Post) 29Nov
http://technology.scmp.com/internet/DAILY/20001129225255691.asp
More than half of the Chinese-language domain names registered with the
China National Network Information Centre (CNNIC) have been declared invalid
because of technical violations and problems with the registration system.

Of Fraud and Sex.com (Standard) 29Nov
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20438,00.html
A judge takes one of the most valuable names on the Web away from its owner,
and the media get red in the face.

Network Solutions Adds '.tv' (Washington Post) 29Nov
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1585-2000Nov28.html
Network Solutions Inc., the Herndon company that sells the most .com
Internet address registrations, struck a deal yesterday that gives it access
to what many say is the most recognized two-letter symbol in the world: TV.
Also see dotTV and Network Solutions Sign Strategic Alliance; .tv Featured
Along With .com and .net (VeriSign news release) 28Nov
http://www.nsol.com/news/2000/pr_20001128b.html

The Sun in Page 3 cybersquatting row (Guardian) 29Nov
http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,404149,00.html
The Sun has settled a row over the rights to the use of Page 3 on the
internet.

The Problem of Domain Name Hoarding (ClickZ) 29Nov
http://clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/article.html?article=2906
The ongoing U.S. election has done more than highlight the problem of
hanging chads. It's highlighted a problem of much greater potential
consequence: domain name hoarding.

$50 million for genetherapies.net? (Register) 29Nov
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15099.html
Surfers seem to have lost the plot when it comes to trying to cash in on the
domain name scramble. Not only are they snapping up any old domain creation
that sports a trademark - auctions this month on eBay included
microsoftcriticalupdates.com and microsoftofficeupdates.com - but they also
seem to expect to make a mint by pitching any URL with a TLD.

Palm, Brit agree to share MyPalm.com (CNET) 29Nov
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3917481.html
Although Palm has been working for months on its MyPalm portal site, there
was one detail that apparently got overlooked: Someone already registered
the MyPalm.com domain name.

What's in a name? (San Jose Mercury News) 28Nov
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/mg112800.htm
It was just a few short years ago when people would offhandedly remark, `All
the good Web names are gone.` Of course, they meant the easy ones like
`shoes.com.` You know, I've always felt that reaction was a little absurd. I
mean, if you were the first one in line the first time you could register
domain names, and you could lock in 1,000 names, I think the odds are slim
you'd have come up with `amazon.com` or `yahoo.com`.

New sub-domains for Portugal (Europe Media) 27Nov
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=560
The new rules for internet domain names registration in Portugal will be
valid from 1 of January, 2001, according to Pedro Veiga, president of the
Fundação para a Computação Científica Nacional (FCCN), which administrates
registrations under the domain name 'pt'.

Familiar Problems in Top Level Domain Names (Online Journalism Review) 27Nov
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm/request/498/
Registration of Internet domain names has become increasingly difficult over
the past two years because of the lack of name availability. A Wired survey
in April of 1999 found that of 25,500 standard dictionary words, only 1760
had not been registered.

ICANN and the Seven New Top-Level Domains (TidBITS) 27Nov
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06221
Bored with .com? Nagged by .net? ICANN has finally announced seven new
top-level domains, the last part of the domain names we see so often in
email addresses and URLs. Depending on how fast new registrars can establish
approved registry agreements and get operations underway, we might see some
of these new top-level domains operating by the end of the year, though
others probably won't be operational until the second quarter of 2001.

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