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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
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Africa: ICANN Needs to Support AfriNIC
ICANN should offer more support to the African Network
Information Centre AfriNIC - the organisation that was
recently set up to distribute and administer domain names
on the African continent. This is the view of Dr. Tarek
Mohamed Kamal, a senior adviser to the Egyptian ministry of
communications, who is also Egypt's representative on
AfriNIC.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405070277.html
 http://mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=66010

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm?id=128w9300&Section=Main&page=Homepage&channel=Features%2C%20Analysis%20%26%20Interviews&objectid=C5C3675B-FF61-11D4-867D00D0B74A0D7C

Introduction of user pay for the edu.au Domain Names
Announced
Policy decisions relating to the edu.au domain space are
managed by edu.au Domain Administration Committee [eDAC].
As from 6May 2004, eDAC advise that holders of edu.au
domain names will contribute to the costs of maintaining
the domain.
 http://www.domainname.edu.au/registrar/page1022.html

http://www.audomainnews.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=304

Commission publishes rules concerning ‘.eu’ domain name
The European Commission has published the public policy
rules concerning the implementation and functions of the
".eu" top level domain in the EU Official Journal.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=1713

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=policyrulesforeu1083942101

us: Civil Liberties Groups Raise Privacy and Speech
Concerns with Domain Name Registration Legislation
Five civil liberties groups, including CDT, sent a letter
asking the House Judiciary Committee to consider the
privacy and civil liberties impacts of a bill that would
expand penalties in copyright, trademark, and criminal
suits against Internet users who included false information
in domain name registrations. The groups asked the
Committee to put off approval of the bill until a hearing
on its impacts on private domain name holders and on
protected speech online could be held. May 4, 2004
 http://www.cdt.org/copyright/20040504cdthr3754letter.pdf
HR 3754, "The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act"
 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.03754:

nz: Roles and Responsibilities (RAR) policy review
InternetNZ, through the Office of the Domain Name
Commissioner (DNC), is reviewing its Roles and
Responsibilities (RAR) policy. The current policy can be
seen at
http://dnc.org.nz/content/roles_and_responsibilities.pdf.
Please email all comments to policies§dnc.org.nz or fax to
(04) 495 2115.
 http://dnc.org.nz/story/30164-35-1.html

Kenya Gets On With Internet Addresses
Africa is still lagging behind the rest of the world in
internet connections, but at least one country is tackling
the issue of who controls their internet addresses.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200405060350.html

Sex.com -- Domain Names, Not Property
Neither sex.com’s announcement of a final settlement with
VeriSign over the domain name nor the Appeals Court ruling
last July establishes domain names as property.
 http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/5/emw124088.htm

To Fight Domain Name Theft: Sex.com Gives Birth to a New
Property Right
For those who are Star Wars fans, the following scene from
the prequel, Attack of the Clones, will be easy to recall:
a young and misinformed Jedi, known as Obi-waan Kenobi,
opines about how an army of clones had been able to snatch
a victory from imminent defeat. Yoda, a Jedi Master and
virtual fountain of wisdom, immediately gushes forth an
important correction: "Victory? Victory you say? Master
Obi-waan, not victory." Yoda explains that winning a battle
is not a victory, if the win merely signals that the war
has just begun. Yoda's apparent perception seems
particularly apt for the precedent setting federal court
opinion involving the sex.com domain name. Notwithstanding
that individual domain name registrants may seek comfort in
the victory obtained from the Ninth Circuit's opinion in
Kremen v. Cohen, that decision merely signals a beginning
-- not an end -- to the controversy over the proper legal
framework for resolving domain name theft.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/584_0_1_0_C

JET Guidelines for Internationalized Domain Names
It is difficult to explain RFC 3743 or commonly known as
the Joint Engineering Team (JET) Guidelines without some
lesson on Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK), particularly
how it relates to Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).
Luckily, an Internet-Draft we wrote back in 2001 discusses
the issues quite neatly in this context. In brief, Chinese
characters (Hanzi) or Han ideographs are evolved from
pictographs (writing made up of pictures) across thousands
of years. Unlike other writing systems, Han Ideographs are
constantly evolving.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/585_0_1_0_C

A Tangled Web
A recent ICANNfocus article discussed the magnitude of
ICANN's legal fees. Specifically, ICANNfocus questioned
whether the extent of ICANN's legal fees, about 20% of
their total revenues, was related to the organization
functioning as a regulator instead of simply as a technical
manager of the internet.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/582_0_1_0_C

ITU/WSIS: Internet Governance
The Way from Geneva to Tunis by Markus Kummer was presented
today at ITU TELECOM Africa now underway in Cairo, Egypt.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, has
chosen Mr. Kummer, a Swiss diplomat, to head the
Secretariat for the Working Group on Internet Governance. 
The Working Group is the result of the United Nations
working group to be established on Internet governance,
resulting from the Declaration of Principles and Action
Plan adopted on 12 December 2003 at the first phase of the
World Summit on the Information Society.
 http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/05/05.html#a603

http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/intgov/doc/kummer-itu-telecom-africa-2004.pdf

ICANN publishes criteria for selecting independent
evaluators of sTLD proposals.
ICANN is selecting a team of outside technical,
business/financial and legal advisors to assist it in its
review of sTLD applications. The panel members will be
required to evaluate responses to the criteria and
questions posted in the sTLD application procedure. The
panel members will be selected based on their experience,
talent and skills as they apply to the evaluation task.
 http://www.icann.org/tlds/new-stld-rfp/panel.htm

ICANN: GNSO Council Subcommittee for .net Re-assignment

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/dotnet/dotnet-draft-reportv2.pdf

ICANN GNSO: Registry Services Flow Charts version 4 (PNGs)
   1. Reconsideration process, version 4, 5 May 2004. (54k)
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approvalprocessv4-page1.png
   2. Quick Look Process version 4, 5 May 2004. (65k)
http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approvalprocessv4-page2.png
   3. Detailed Review version 4, 5 May 2004. (68k)

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approvalprocessv4-page3.png
   4. Determine if Approval is required version 4, 5 May
2004. (47k)

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approvalprocessv4-page4.png
   5. Independent Review Process version 4, 5 May 2004.
(38k)

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/registry-services/approvalprocessv4-page5.png

Travel’s own domain on way
The travel trade could have its own Internet domain within
months, an international tourism conference has been told.
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/040507/13/ow0e.html

Domain Names and Google Search Engine Ranking
Using product-service-relevant keywords in your domain
names significantly improves the ranking of Web pages.
However, the presence of even an incidental string of
letters that spell adult words or the deliberate use of
words such as “girls” can block your non-adult Web site
from search results.
 http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/5/emw124090.htm

Domains Are Not Forever - How to Lose Your Domain Name
Without Even Trying
I recently heard a story about a young woman (we'll call
her Sheila) who, on visiting the Web site she had set up
for her deceased boyfriend — a victim of the 9/11 attacks —
discovered that the domain had been taken over by a porn
site. Anguished and appalled, she set out to recover the
domain and return the site to its original, inoffensive,
and informational state.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/domain_name_commentary_pcmag_040507.html

UltraDNS Provides International Domain Name --IDN--
Infrastructure Support (news release)
UltraDNS(TM) Corporation, the leading provider of DNS
infrastructure for the Top Level Domain (TLD) community,
today announced that its industry-leading Managed DNS
Service(TM) is now capable of supporting International
Domain Names (IDNs) within its Directory Platform. IDNs are
domain names or Web addresses, represented by local
language characters.

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040506006030&newsLang=en

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