Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for
the latest domain news. By close of business Melbourne
time on 16 March, a more recent edition of the news
should be posted to the auDA web site.

The domain name news is supported by auDA.

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Date for the first meeting of the IGF
 http://www.igfgreece2006.gr/?tid=22&aid=28

Wellington to host XXX debate

http://theage.com.au/news/breaking/wellington-to-host-xxx-debate/2006/03/10/1141701678502.html

eu: Don't let cyber-squatters steal Euro identity

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0300business/0100news/tm_objectid=16795616&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=don-t-let-cyber-squatters-steal-euro-identity-name_page.html

cx: IANA Report on the Redelegation of the .CX
Top-Level Domain
 http://www.iana.org/reports/cx-report-07mar06.pdf

nz: Govt funds ICANN meeting
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/680950

nz: Internet conference gets government funding (news
release)
 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0603/S00198.htm

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Date for the first meeting of the IGF
Following informal consultations held by the
Government of Greece, it was decided that the first
meeting of the IGF will take place in Athens from 30
October - 2 November 2006.
 http://www.igfgreece2006.gr/?tid=22&aid=28

UN Secretary General's response to CENTR Chairman's
letter on Internet Governance Forum
 http://www.centr.org/docs/2006/03/UNSG.pdf

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Wellington to host XXX debate
The issue of whether or not the world needs a virtual
red-light district will be on the agenda when the
powerful body that oversees internet domain names
meets this month in Wellington, New Zealand.

http://theage.com.au/news/breaking/wellington-to-host-xxx-debate/2006/03/10/1141701678502.html

eu: Don't let cyber-squatters steal Euro identity
COMPANIES across Europe are battling to register their
businesses under the new .eu domain name.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0300business/0100news/tm_objectid=16795616&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=don-t-let-cyber-squatters-steal-euro-identity-name_page.html

cx: IANA Report on the Redelegation of the .CX
Top-Level Domain
This report gives the findings and conclusions of the
IANA on its investigation of various requests for
redelegation of .CX, the ccTLD for Christmas Island ?
an external territory of Australia.
 http://www.iana.org/reports/cx-report-07mar06.pdf

Communiqu? of the 29th CENTR General Assembly and AGM
 http://www.centr.org/docs/2006/03/Communique.pdf

Netcraft March 2006 Web Server Survey 	
In the March 2006 survey we received responses from
77,568,868 sites, an increase of 1.38 million from
February 2006. This month's hostname growth has a
somewhat speculative flavor, as the survey found
nearly 2.8 million new hostnames this month, but just
237K new active sites. That ratio of one active site
for every 12 hostnames is much lower than in recent
months (in September 2005 the ratio was one in five).

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/03/06/march_2006_web_server_survey.html

nz: Govt funds ICANN meeting
The government has granted almost $100,000 to help
fund the ICANN meeting in Wellington later this month.
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/680950

nz: Internet conference gets government funding (news
release)
A meeting of the international internet body ICANN in
Wellington this month will receive $95,500 in
government funding, Economic Development Minister
Trevor Mallard announced today.
 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0603/S00198.htm

uk: Tesco beats affiliate in domain name battle
Tesco won a trade mark action on Wednesday against an
affiliate company that tied to earn sales commissions
from a suite of domain names such as tesco-diets.co.uk
and tescodvd.co.uk which redirected visitors to the
supermarket's website.
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6721
 http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2006/403.html

Why convergence marketing is suffering from "domain
poisoning"
I have this theory about folks who are new to
technology, don't know much about a tech company, but
maybe see an ad or get word-of-mouth recommendations.
More than a few such folks are liable to mis-spell the
name of the vendor or service and give up out of a
sense of confusion.
 http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/index.php?p=960

us: What's in a domain name?
With the primary election still five months away, the
race to replace outgoing Routt County Sheriff John
Warner is getting heated.

http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/news/story/35876

us: Speedway seeks to consolidate domain names
An unofficial Web site for Mansfield Motorsports
Speedway appears to have been dismantled. But the
track's majority owner, Michael Dzurilla, wants
control of the domain name from Dean Bolton, who owns
a minority share in the track.

http://mansfieldnewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/NEWS01/603090311/

Nominet collaborates with ISC to enhance security in
open source nameserver software
Nominet announces a collaboration with Internet
Systems Consortium to enhance security standards of
the BIND nameserver software.
 http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/4866_BIND.pdf

"Som una TLD"
Tausende Menschen haben in Barcelona f?r die
Anerkennung Kataloniens als Nation demonstriert. Im
virtuellen Raum sind die Katalanen mit ihrer neuen
sTLD schon einen entscheidenden Schritt weiter.
 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22224/1.html

"Vater des Internet" Vint Cerf kritisiert
Internetprovider [6]Foto: Archiv
Google-Lobbyist: "Geld f?r den Transport von Inhalten
gef?hrdet Freiheit des Internet"
 http://derstandard.at/?id=2372968

Les premi?res proc?dures ADR du .EU
Ouverte depuis le 7 d?cembre 2005 aux titulaires de
droits ant?rieurs, l'extension .EU va conna?tre ses
premiers litiges extra-judiciaires.

http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?cahier=eu&vde_id=851

Definici?n de Normas T?cnicas para los nombres de
dominio de las embajadas y consulados de Venezuela
El Centro Nacional de Tecnolog?as de Informaci?n
(CNTI) a trav?s del Centro de Informaci?n de Red de
Venezuela (NIC-VE) ha venido trabajando en la
definici?n de una normativa t?cnica para la asignaci?n
de nombres de dominio para embajadas y consulados de
Venezuela. Para ello, se ha acordado conjuntamente con
la Presidencia de la Instituci?n, emplear el modelo
que se sigue para la asignaci?n de estos recursos de
Internet a Municipios y Estados en Venezuela, como es
el caso de los dominios para las Alcald?as.

http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1229&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


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

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