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us: House Approves Penalties for False Web Records
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved
a bill that would increase jail time for identity
thieves and other fraudulent Web users who register
sites under false identities.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6297075

ICANN Saves $1bn Annually - From gTLD
THE establishment of market competition for the gTLD
by ICANN is saving both users and business sector over
$1 billion annually.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200409210614.html

ICANN Advisory: Registrar Expired Name Market
Developments
This Advisory describes changes in operations by two
registrars in their treatment of expiring names.

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-21sep04-1.htm

ICANN Update: Implementation of New Consensus Policies
Applicable to gTLD Registrars
This announcement updates implementation progress of
four "consensus policies" including the new Expired
Domain Deletion ("Deletes") Policy.

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-21sep04-2.htm

Shorter S'pore domain names now available
SHORTER domain names are now available to Singapore
businesses and consumers.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,273840,00.html

Destra & Yahoo enter domain deal (reg req'd)
DESTRA has announced it has extended its existing
business relationship with Yahoo Australia and New
Zealand by signing a strategic domain names deal.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/20/1095647526102.html

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/20/1095647526102.html

us: Media groups wrestle over domain name
A Clark County District Court judge has been asked to
sort out who has the right to one of the world's most
coveted Internet domain names, lasvegas.com.

http://lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/business/2004/sep/21/517545357.html

Internet Domain Owners to Converge for Worldwide
Traffic-Building Conference  	
Anonymous writes " "Domainers" who collectively own
millions of dotcom addresses will be coming from
Europe, the Pacific Rim and throughout the United
States for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2004 - an innovative
four-day conference presented October 20-23, 2004 at
the Delray Beach Marriott Resort in Delray Beach,
Florida, by the World Association of Domain Name
Developers, Inc.
 http://thehostingnews.com/article569.html

Network Solutions Offers New, Enhanced Backorder
Service that Provides Preferred Access to Expired
Domain Names (news release)
Network Solutions, the world's leading domain name
registrar and web solutions provider, today announced
a new backorder service that helps Network Solutions'
customers get the domain names they really want by
giving them preferred access to expired .COM and .NET
domain names. The enhanced backorder service allows
customers to place requests for currently registered
domain names and enables them to get the name, if the
registration on the domain expires and the name
becomes available. There is no upfront fee to place a
backorder and customers only pay if the backorder is
successful.

http://networksolutions-customerfeedback.com/pressreleases.html#20040920

uk: Three domain names - £800 bargain?
A Net4Nowt reader, Phil Kind, has notified us of a
recent approach by domain name registry firm
'Domain.uk' to try to encourage him to pay £800 for
three domain names.

http://net4nowt.com/isp_news/news_article.asp?News_ID=2337

WebHosting.Info To Publish Performance Reports On
Domain Registrars Worldwide
WebHosting.Info announced that it has officially
started publishing comprehensive statistical reports
on the performance of all Domain Name Registrars
worldwide.
 http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?001216.html

.Pro Internet Registry Open to Canadian Professionals
The newest space on the Internet, the .Pro top-level
domain (TLD), will expand on September 27 to serve
qualified professionals in Canada. For the first time,
RegistryPro will offer the security and
identity-verification benefits of the new domain to
doctors, lawyers and public accountants outside of the
United States.

http://registrypro.pro/pressroom/newsdisplayc.php?release=2004-09-15

Malls.com - Rare Domain Name Being Auctioned on eBay
(news release)
Malls.com, a short domain name that describes a
multi-billion dollar industry is up for auction on
eBay. The prestigious domain name has a minimum bid
price of $100,000 with no Minimum Reserve price. For
those unfamiliar with Ebay or auction terminology,
this basically means that the bidder who has the
highest bid when the auction ends, as long as it
exceeds the $100,000 opening bid, will be declared the
winner.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20040921/bs_prweb/prweb160097_1
 http://prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prwebxml160097.php

Domain renewal time raised
What’s in a name? A lot. For those who have registered
their internet addresses like NIIT.com or
Businessworld.com, it means a brand, a medium for
communication and a sense of belonging. And if your
name is registered on the internet, the chances are
that it is up for grabs the minute you fail to renew
it.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040920/asp/business/story_3779403.asp

US Government Domain Names
Michael Ravnitzky, a regular contributor to The Memory
Hole, has supplied a third now-forbidden list of
dot-gov domains. This one is from April 2000, and,
unlike the others here, it lists exactly who
registered each domain (including point of contact).
(Interestingly, some of the entities that registered
dot-gov names are private corporations. What's that
about?) He received the list through a FOIA request in
the pre-9/11 era, back when a list of government
domain names wasn't considered a threat to national
security. The list is here.
 http://www.thememoryhole.org/govt/dotgov-domains.htm

L’Afrique veut peser dans les négociations mondiales
Comment améliorer la qualité de la participation de
l’Afrique aux réunions internationales sur les
technologies de l’information. C’est le but d’un
atelier de deux jours ouvert à Mbodiène.

http://africatime.com/afrique/nouv_pana.asp?no_nouvelle=143539&no_categorie=2

Le .FR et les collectivités locales : lobbying d'un
prestataire AFNIC
Certains prestataires AFNIC ne veulent pas supporter
les conséquences du projet de loi sur les
collectivités locales et le .FR. L'un d'entre eux mène
des actions de sensibilisation auprès des députés et
de la presse généraliste.

http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=466&z=100&PHPSESSID=ea9e1ee5ac8d00d77da6975985376dac

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gh: Media urged to propagate ICT messages
Mr. Albert Ken-Dapaah, Minister of Communication on
Wednesday charged the media to play a lead role in the
propagation of messages about Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) since it has the
ability to reach greater proportion of the populace.
He said the rapidly changing socio-economic
environment in a global scale, has become more
important to engender public discussions on issues
with respect to ICT on the global level.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=66057

Good Governance And Press Freedom
ICANN believes that if African journalists can be
fully sensitised to reporting online, people around
the world will have chance of benefiting from ICTs.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200409200225.html

Fresh Opportunity Beckons for Africa in Internet
Governance
Africa will soon have a Regional Internet Registry
(RIR), an administrative system to oversee Internet
address allocation and registration, following the
submission of an application by the African Network
Information Centre to ICANN.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200409200226.html

Africa: Unfavourable Internet Traffic: a Commercial
Question
The persistent complaints by Internet Service
Providers in the African continent that they are
unfairly treated by current Internet traffic routing
methods that make them to pay for inbound and outbound
internet traffic would not change except African ISPs
decided to a solution to it.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200409200858.html

Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance -
Part I
This is the first part of a three-part series
interview by Geert Lovink with Jeanette Hofmann,
policy expert from Germany, where she talks about her
experiences as a member of the ICANN's Nominating
Committee and her current involvement as a civil
society member of the German delegation for the World
Summit of the Information Society (WSIS).
 http://www.circleid.com/article/717_0_1_0_C/
Part II
 http://www.circleid.com/article/718_0_1_0_C/
Part III
 http://www.circleid.com/article/721_0_1_0_C/

WGIG will Reassess - or Reassert? - Governments' Role
in Internet by Milton Mueller
The United Nations consultation exercise on the WGIG
attracted a surprisingly large number of governments.
About 250 people attended the event, including
delegations from most of the world's governments. The
consultation was held in Geneva's Palais des Nations.
Nitin Desai of India, the Under-Secretary-General for
economic and social affairs who presided over the
meeting, announced at the end that it "has been more
constructive than expected." South Africa either was
absent or completely silent but Brazil, one of the key
critics of ICANN and a driver of the creation of the
WGIG, clarified the rationale underlying its push for
a UN working group.

http://icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/1812238&mode=thread

Internet governance under spotlight in Geneva
Representatives of governments, companies and other
organizations will meet in Geneva today to set up the
group that will lay the groundwork for the United
Nations' entry into the field of internet governance.

http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2997C172-8203-48DA-A759-FEBC1C769346

Highway Africa to assess information summit outcomes
More than 300 delegates from across the African
continent are attending the Highway Africa conference
that began in Grahamstown this morning. They are
debating issues related to the use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) in journalism.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,87927,00.html
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Sources include Quicklinks (www.qlinks.net) and BNA
Internet Law News (www.bna.com/ilaw)".

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