Hi all

This is the final news for 2004, so for those who are
about to enjoy christmas and new year, have a merry
christmas and a happy new year, and I will be back
again with the news in the week commencing 3 January.

All the best
David

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in: Afilias to provide registry services for .in
domain
Afilias India Pvt. Ltd. Limited, a fully integrated
global provider of domain name registry services has
signed an agreement with the National Internet
Exchange of India (NIXI) to provide registry services
for the soon to be launched .IN country code Internet
domain.
 http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=51101
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/041223/20/sb4k.html
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/afi122104.cfm

http://domaintimes.net/newseng.php?mhnews_id=306&mhnews_newsid=4689&mhnews_page=1

Afilias Selected to Provide Registry Services for .in
Domain (news release)
Afilias Limited today announced that it's wholly owned
subsidiary, Afilias India Pvt. Ltd., has signed an
agreement with the National Internet Exchange of India
(NIXI) to provide registry services for the .IN
country code Internet domain. Afilias will assist NIXI
in the creation of the .IN Registry to implement the
recent liberalization of domain registration policies
by the Indian Government's Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology, by broadening the domain's
distribution channel, implementing new,
state-of-the-art registry technology and enabling near
real-time registration of new names.

http://www.afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2004-12-20-01

China to increase top-level nodes for "dot CN"
connection
China plans to increase the distribution of top level
nodes to smooth the connection with web sites ending
with "dot CN" in more regions. The domain name of "dot
CN" is the only Internet address system registered and
managed by China and is considered a top-level domain
name.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/22/eng20041222_168284.html

Netizens number over 90 million in China
To improve the function of Internet infrastructure in
China, the Ministry of Information Industry and China
Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) will
conduct a thorough evaluation and re-planning on the
top servers of domain names across the country. The
signing ceremony of national top domain name server
held in Shanghai on Dec. 21 marks China's first step
forward to the re-planning of national top domain name
service system, as well as a strategic readjustment to
China's domain name analytic service system.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/23/eng20041223_168378.html

Dutch companies fined €7k for eBay typosquatting
Dutch graphic design company JustDesign and customer
J. van Dalen have been ordered by The World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to pay a
fine of €7000 for registering the domain name
e-bay.nl. The name was used for a website with
information on Van Dalen, a company which inspects
buildings.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/dutch_firms_fined_for_ebay_typosquatting/

us: Cyber Trail Followed in Slaying of Pregnant Woman
In the end, it wasn't a fingerprint or a blood spatter
that led authorities to the woman suspected of
strangling a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from
her womb. It was an 11-digit computer code. Police
zeroed in on Lisa Montgomery in the most 21st century
of ways, by trolling computer records, examining
online message boards and - most important - tracing
an IP address, 65.150.168.223, to a computer at her
Melvern, Kan., home.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15227-2004Dec20.html

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2004/12/19/790312-ap.html

Registries Vie for .Net Domain
Internet registries around the world are preparing to
submit their bids on one of the oldest, and most
popular, domain extensions.
 http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3451011

ICANN will Gebühr für .net-Domains
 http://webhostlist.de/provider/news/1908/

George Foreman's domain name gets a grilling
The company behind the George Foreman Grill has lost
an attempt to stop George Foreman Foods Inc. using the
former boxing champion’s name as its web address
because a licence deal between the food company and
the boxer has not yet been terminated.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=georgeforemansdo1103549775

ca: Premier Bernard Lord angry over satirical N.B.
website that used his name
New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord says he's not
ruling out legal action against the creator of a
satirical website called bernardlord.com

http://www.canada.com/news/national/story.html?id=210f5816-182c-4b37-b832-ae9d0ab6e76c

http://nb.cbc.ca/regionalnews/caches/nb-lord-spoof20041221.html

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20041222/ca_pr_on_na/lord_website_1

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041222.gtlord1222/BNStory/Technology/

.Mobi's Contentious Ride
The .mobi domain name extension will hurt the
Internet, according to a number of industry folks
opposed to its potential approval. The Device
Independence Working Group (DIWG) of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) is just one group making noise
amidst .mobi negotiations.
 http://internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3451051

Why ".mobi" is Bad for the Web
On December 14, ICANN gave the go-ahead to the ".mobi"
top level domain. Does it stand for "more odious
business interests" or "might obnoxiously break the
Internet?"
 http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=101297

Independent GNSO Council Review Posted
In fulfillment of the GNSO Council Terms of Reference,
and ICANN Board Resolution 04.91, the independent
review of the GNSO Council has been completed and is
now available for public comment. The public comment
period will conclude on 24 January 2005.

http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-22dec04.htm

Chinese IDN in the News
News.com published a well-research article on the
Chinese Domain Names by Winston Chai: "This approach
works fine in the English-savvy world. However, for
non-English speakers, they could be faced with the
unenviable task of rote-learning numerical IP
addresses, which is highly improbable, or the English
spellings of dozens of Web sites they want to access."
Just a few points of interest.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/839_0_1_0_C

A Political Analysis of SPF and Sender-ID
In my spare time when I'm not dealing with the world
of e-mail, I'm a politician so now and then I put on
my cynical political hat.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/838_0_1_0_C/

The Rundown on 301 and 302 Redirects
The critical subject of redirecting a domain name to
another has always generated a lot of controversy and
has been the center of debate for many webmasters for
almost as long as the Internet has existed.

http://www.seotoday.com/browse.php/category/articles/id/477/index.php

ca: CIRA 2005-2008 STRATEGIC PLAN
The CIRA Board of Directors is pleased to present to
CIRA Members and the general public its first
strategic plan which will direct the corporation's
activities in 2005 and beyond.
 http://cira.ca/en/about_mission.html

RIPE Database to support RPSLng
From Wednesday 29 December 2004, the RIPE Database
will support RPSLng. RPSLng extends the Routing Policy
Specification Language (RPSL) allowing description of
IPv6 and multicast routing policies. It includes a new
object type, ROUTE6, and new attributes, such as
"mp-import:" and "mp-export:".
 http://ripe.net/db/news/rpslng-211204.html

ICANN partying like it's 1999
commentary: It's been five years since Internet users
had to worry about paying an extra US$1 or so annual
fee--akin to a tax--for each .com, .net or .org domain
name they own.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39174833,00.htm

http://news.com.com/ICANN+partying+like+its+1999/2010-1071_3-5495758.html
 http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11-5499437.html

Ronaldinho scores in cyberspace
IT'S a 1-0 to Ronaldinho who scored against a
cyber-squatter.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/top/story/0,4136,79819-1,00.html
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3131776a28,00.html

AIT Registering Domain Names for Free
The growth of the Internet as an economic and social
force continued this year and now, nearly 70-million
domain names are registered worldwide. At the same
time, millions of small businesses in the US still
lack web sites, cutting themselves off from a
potential global market and also limiting their reach
domestically. AIT, Inc (http://ait.com ) provides free
domain registration with each hosting account.
 http://www.tophosts.com/articles/?001460.html
 http://thewhir.com/marketwatch/ait122004.cfm

us: GoDaddy Steps Into SuperBowl Arena
According to various sources, GoDaddy, an ICANN
Registrar, has reportedly purchased an ad spot in the
upcoming Super Bowl Season which kicks off in
Jacksonville, Florida at the AllTel Stadium on 6th
February 2005.

http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/041222GoDaddy.html

Expired Domain Network Opened to Small Website Owners
(news release)
Leading expired domain network,
ExpiredDomainTraffic.Net, announces innovative new
advertising service for website owners. Expired domain
names from once popular websites are still listed in
the major search engines, have a large number of
links, and continue to receive traffic.
ExpiredDomainTraffic.Net provides a way for even the
smallest site operators to capitalize on these highly
targeted visitors at an appreciably lower cost than
using PPC search engine listings.
 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb190824.htm

Bidding War in Advertising Industry Expected for
Domain Name Advertise.com (news release)
Top internet domain name advertise.com has been
offered for sale and it is expected to spark
aggressive bidding by a number of interested parties.
The market for traditional offline and online internet
advertising continues to grow. In fact, online
advertising is projected to grow over 30% in 2004 to
over $9 Billion.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20041222/bs_prweb/prweb191171_1

Anti-Spam Website Greylisting.org Rewarded with
Ownership of the Domain from OpenDomain.org (news
release)
In appreciation of his work promoting the anti-spam
effort greylisting, the domain Greylisting.org was
transferred to Bjarne Lundgren by OpenDomain.org.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20041221/bs_prweb/prweb191002_1

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Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network
An ITU document entitled "Beyond Internet Governance"
crossed my desk earlier this week. Given that I had
absolutely nothing better to do, I decided to give it
a read. The audacity of the ITU Secretariat is nothing
less than shocking. It has been a long while since I
read such a self-serving, narrow-minded and inaccurate
document. The backbone of the ITU's contention rests
on the premise that something called the Next
Generation Network and the contention that this
network will act as one big bug fix for all the
problems created by current inter-networking
technology.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/842_0_1_0_C/

A Framework Convention: An Institutional Option for
Internet Governance: Concept Paper by the Internet
Governance Project
The paper, by John Mathiason, compares today's
situation to the controversies over climate change in
the 1980s. The UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change, rather than seeking to solve all of the
problems in a single treaty, pursued a "framework
convention," which first established the principles
and norms under which international action would
proceed. It also set up a procedure for future
negotiations over more detailed arrangements. The
paper suggests a similar approach for Internet
governance.
 http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/igp-FC.pdf

ITU chiefs target ICANN turf
Senior people at the ITU are pushing for reforms that
would see it take over management of the internet's
naming and addressing systems from the ICANN.

http://cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7BB966AD-2017-4673-A034-AA0083A2E492
 http://au.news.yahoo.com/041221/20/s9yu.html

ICANN Contributes to the WGIG Secretariat
The ICANN Board, yesterday announced that it has
agreed to provide a contribution to the WGIG
Secretariat.
 http://news.webhosting.info/t-3675

ICANN agrees to provide contribution to the
The ICANN Board agreed to provide a contribution to
the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
Secretariat. The WGIG was established by the Secretary
General of the United Nations in order to "develop a
working definition of Internet governance" and
"identify the public policy issues that are relevant
to Internet governance." The WGIG will prepare a
report for consideration for the second phase of the
World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in
Tunis in 2005.

http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-20dec04.htm

Annan Appoints Kenyan to UN ICT Workgroup
United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has
appointed a Kenyan to the World Working Group on
Internet Governance.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200412220646.html

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Sources include Quicklinks <http://qlinks.net/> and
BNA Internet Law News <http://www.bna.com/ilaw/>.

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(c) David Goldstein 2004


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