Check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for 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 supported by auDA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ICANN GNSO Whois Task Force 3 Open Forum (16 June 2004) Agenda: Whois task Force 3 Open Forum by telephone to discuss Whois task Force 3 Preliminary report. Please publisize this as widely as you can. All interested participants are welcome. A MP3 recording will be made of the call. The intention is to have the wisdest possible particpation and the request comes from the Whois task force 3 Chair Brian Darville. http://gnso.icann.org ICANN GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda for 16 June 2004 http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-15jun04.htm ICANN: Public Comment Period for GNSO Whois Task Force Preliminary Reports Extended to Monday, 5 July 2004 Comments for the Whois Task Force 1 Preliminary Report can be submitted to whois-tf1-report-comments§gnso.icann.org. The archive of comments for this report is available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf1-report-comments ICANN: Comments for the Whois Task Force 2 Preliminary Report can be submitted to whois-tf2-report-comments§gnso.icann.org. The archive of comments for this report is available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf2-report-comments ICANN: Comments for the Whois Task Force 3 Preliminary Report can be submitted to whois-tf3-report-comments§gnso.icann.org. The archive of comments for this report is available at: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/whois-tf3-report-comments ICANN Meetings in Kuala Lumpur ccNSO Meeting Agenda; 19th and 20th July 2004; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://icann.org/meetings/kualalumpur/ccnso-agenda.html Web Addresses Extending Their Global Domain Europe's new ".eu" Internet domain names go on sale next year. Internet addresses written in Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters, meanwhile, recently went live after years of technical work. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46214-2004Jun16.html Web outage blamed on zombies Akamai has blamed a 'bot net' of zombified PCs for the Internet downtime that affected sites such as Yahoo this week. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39157876,00.htm http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=131309&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=22&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9869469%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html A quick chat with Akamai's chief scientist Akamai Technologies said Wednesday that the Domain Name System problems it encountered the day before were the result of a sophisticated and targeted distributed denial-of-service attack against the company. Tom Leighton, the company's chief scientist, talks about what happened. http://techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=1751 Akamai hoses down cyber attack fallout About 2 per cent of Akamai Technologies customers were affected significantly by the internet attack on the company's network on Tuesday morning. http://afr.com/articles/2004/06/17/1087245008864.html VeriSign Amends ICANN Suit VeriSign has filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit against the Internet's main domain-name oversight body. http://eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1613873,00.asp auDA Advisory Panels - call for nominations auDA invites people with an interest in Australian (.au) domain name issues to nominate for a position on one of two Advisory Panels: 1. Name Policy Review Panel; and 2. Registry Competition Review Panel. http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=14 .au domain registration fees drop Australian businesses and consumers are increasing their Web presence, with more than 433,000 .au domains registered over the last year. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39150787,00.htm http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9870635%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245032475.html http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/17/1087245032475.html http://auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=13 au: Demand for web delivers cost savings to consumers (ministerial news release) The rapidly increasing demand for web addresses is pushing down the price of registering '.au' domain names. http://www.dcita.gov.au/article/0,,0_1-2_1-4_119204,00.html za: User May Relinquish Anti-Sentech Sites A Sentech user who launched the Web sites www.sentechsucks.co.za and www.mywirelesssucks.co.za has agreed to give up ownership of the domain names, if Sentech informs users why there was a problem. Sentech is seeking legal advice. http://allafrica.com/stories/200406150733.html fr: La paradoja francesa El 11 de Mayo, el AFNIC -www.afnic.fr-, organismo que regula los dominios .fr, equivalente al ESNIC español, comenzó a aplicar las nuevas normas que regulan la adjudicación de los dominios .fr. http://www.larioja.com/rioja/internautas/200406/15/internet.html at: Active ISP: sensationeller Preissturz bei Domains und KMU-Webpaketen Der Internet Service Provider-Markt startet mit einem heißen Preiswettbewerb in den Sommer. Active ISP ( http://www.activeisp.at ) eröffnet ab sofort mit neuen Domain- und Web-Angebotspaketen den Preiskampf um Business- und Privatkunden. http://www.pte.at/pte.mc?pte=040617007 Entrevista a Oscar Robles, sobre los nuevos servicios del NIC .MX Los nuevos servicios del ccTLD .MX revolucionarian la forma como se delegan los nombres de dominio en América Latina, para eso recurrimos a Oscar Robles, para saber la motivación de estos nuevos servicios. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=625&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Doctrina Digital de Dominios: DNS de primer nivel en México Francisco Arias, nos presenta un interesante artículo sobre el DNS en Mexico. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=624&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 NIC México te ofrece nuevos servicios adicionales ¡SIN COSTO! NIC México te ofrece a partir del 9 de Junio, nuevos servicios adicionales, con los cuales podrás tener presencia en Internet, al registrar tu nombre de dominio .MX. http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=623&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 ****************** RESEARCH ARTICLES ****************** Recent WHOIS Report Overlooking Fundamental Issue? ICANN indirectly controls the mother-of-all personal database systems. Never, before, has a world-wide database exposed personally identifying information of so many to so many. ... With this policy in place, it is not unlikely that every Internet user one day may have personal data recorded in ICANN's database as result of owning a domain name. The management of this scope of data collection, alone, should be a matter of far-reaching public concern. Instead, few know about ICANN, and fewer know what it does. Consequently, the media has remained relatively mute about this growing Internet privacy crisis. http://www.circleid.com/article/614_0_1_0_C **** ITU **** ITU: Global Forum for Least Developed Countries The First Global ICT Forum for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), co-organized by ITU and the Commonwealth Business Council will be held in Mauritius from 7-9 July 2004. It will bring together high-level decision makers to identify innovative development solutions and practical strategies for deploying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) projects to help integrate the poorest countries into the global economy. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/06/15.html#a685 Metro Ethernet cruises toward mainstream The ITU has announced a set of new standards designed to make it easier for telephone and Internet service providers to offer Ethernet services over their existing networks. http://news.com.com/Metro+Ethernet+cruises+toward+mainstream/2100-1033_3-5235847.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sources include Quicklinks (www.qlinks.net) and BNA Internet Law News (www.bna.com/ilaw)". +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2004 ===== David Goldstein address: 2/4 Dundas Street COOGEE NSW 2034 AUSTRALIA email: Goldstein_David§yahoo.com.au phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 0015 - home Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! 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