Don't forget to check out http://www.auda.org.au/domain-news/ for the archive of the last 3 months of the news. And see my website - http://GoldsteinReport.com/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** Your Input Requested on Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Initial Report The GNSO Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group published its Initial Report on 31 May. The PEDNR WG was tasked to address questions in relation to what extent registrants should be able to renew their domain names after they expire. At issue is whether the current policies of registrars on the renewal, transfer and deletion of expired domain names are adequate. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12jul10-en.htm Brussels Fellowship Program Reached Successful Conclusion This 38th ICANN International public meeting marked the 3rd year and 10th round of the ICANN Fellowship Program, which was noted in the President?s report during the Welcome ceremony on Monday to start off the week. A note of thanks to all of those community members who have supported the program and its candidates, providing guidance and knowledge to help these participants understand the importance of their role in the ICANN community. http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12jul10-en.htm Letter from Peter Nettlefold to Rod Beckstrom Response to Questions about National Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT): Thank you for your questions of 21 April2010, conveyed through former Governmental Advisory Committee Chair Janis Karklins, seeking information on the CERTs operating in Australia. Please see attached responses to your specific questions. http://icann.org/correspondence/nettlefold-to-beckstrom-02jul10-en.pdf REMINDER - DEADLINE 15 JULY ? 23.59 UTC - Call for Applicants for a Position of Volunteer Review Team Member The Affirmation of Commitments calls for a periodic review of four key ICANN objectives, namely: http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01jun10-en.htm Chinese speakers get easier access to Internet [AFP] The web will soon be a lot more accessible for more than a billion people after the body that runs the Internet's naming system gave the green light for the use of Chinese script. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/chinese-speakers-get-easier-access-to-internet-20100713-108yo.html http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-technology/chinese-speakers-get-easier-access-to-internet-20100713-108yo.html http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/chinese-speakers-get-easier-access-to-internet-20100713-108yo.html ********************** - ccTLD & gTLD NEWS ********************** Battle Over .Jobs is Growing I wrote last month about a move to open up the .jobs domain name. Currently only companies can register .jobs domains, and only with their company name (e.g. ATT.jobs). The group behind this sponsored TLD wants to open it up, with the idea of creating a ton of (million?) job boards using the domains. http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/14/battle-over-jobs-is-growing/ ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** CIRA recommends government develop a Community Emergency Response Team [news release] In its submission to Industry Canada's Digital Economy consultation, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) recommends the Government of Canada enhance its ability to respond to emergencies by developing a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). CIRA also strongly encourages the government to ensure the CERT has the ability to respond to threats to the Domain Name System (DNS) in Canada through a DNS-CERT. http://www.cira.ca/2010-IC-consultation/ Clarke and Knake's "Cyberwar" by Steven Bellovin I just finished reading Richard Clarke and Robert Knake's book Cyberwar. Though the book has flaws, some of them serious, the authors make some important points. They deserve to be taken seriously. http://www.circleid.com/posts/clarke_and_knakes_cyberwar/ How to test your resolver for DNS reply-size issues The DNSSEC protocol will bring improved security to the internet but also larger packet sizes. Before you run into problems, you can check that your resolver is able to cope with these larger packets, as Anand Buddhdev explains. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2010/07/12/how-to-test-your-resolver-for-dns-reply-size-issues-40089489/ ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** Microsoft Gets Patent for ?Cybersquatter Patrol? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted Microsoft U.S. patent number 7,756,987 for ?Cybersquatter Patrol?. The patent is for a system of generating lists of typo and cybersquatted domains and peeling back the onion to determine their ownership and revenue source. It also refers to methods to block these cybersquatted domain names. http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/13/microsoft-gets-patent-for-cybersquatter-patrol/ Toyota loses domain name trademark appeal The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday ruled that an authorized Lexus dealer can use the word "Lexus" in its Internet domain name. It also ruled that the Japanese automaker took advantage of two auto brokers who represented themselves in court. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20010327-48.html Trademark And Domain Names... Two Very Different Rulings From One Judge If you're looking for one of the most entertaining judges on the bench today, Alex Kozinski may be your judge. He's famous for being both clear and entertaining in his rulings, and for pulling such stunts as nominating himself for a contest on "Judicial Hotties" with an email to the organizers stating: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100708/16170710136.shtml ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** au: CSIRO mulling WAN accelaration The CSIRO also leads the way with IPv6 deployment ? the next generation internet protocol that many network operators in Australia have yet to implement, despite IPv4 address space quickly running out ? and has singled out the protocol as a key selection criteria as part of the expression of interest request. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/352964/csiro_mulling_wan_accelaration/ Does the First Amendment Forbid Spam Filtering? by John Levine ... Spam filters, and in particular DNS blacklists are intended to prevent e-mail from being delivered. Doesn't the First Amendment make it illegal to block speech? The short answer is no, but of course it's slightly more complicated than that in practice. http://www.circleid.com/posts/does_the_first_amendment_forbid_spam_filtering/ The good news on IPv4 address supply? ?Is that they are expected to run out in exactly 12 months from today, on 14 July 2011. The bad news is a forecast exhaustion date only nine months hence. http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/networking/40405-the-good-news-on-ipv4-address-supply US domain registrar does IPv6, DNSSEC Domain registrar Name.com has added IPv6 support to both its registrar and DNS services, with its registrar platform offering support for the DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC from next week. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/13/name_dot_com_does_ipv6_and_dnssec/ ********************** - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET ********************** Is a .Net Worth 10% of .Com? Answer: rarely. There?s an old adage in the domain name industry that a .net domain name is worth 10% of the same .com. Some also like to say that other extensions (.biz, .info, etc.) are worth 1% of the .com?s value. http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/12/is-a-net-worth-10-of-com/ ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy As dusk descends on the Sinchon neighbourhood of Seoul, a wave of Saturday shoppers melts away, on cue, into restaurants and bars. But in a windowless room several floors above the throng, Ji Yu-tae is steeling himself for a very different night's entertainment. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/13/internet-addiction-south-korea German minister calls for Internet 'honour code' [AFP] Germany's consumer minister, who vowed to delete her Facebook account in protest at the networking site's privacy policies, called Monday for an Internet "honour code" to protect personal data. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/german-minister-calls-for-internet-honour-code-20100713-1083h.html http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/german-minister-calls-for-internet-honour-code-20100713-1083h.html Internet hailed as a 'net win' for humanity [AP] Social networking should reduce friction between humans by 2020 but our real life relationships could suffer and become more shallow, a US study has suggested. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10658390 Internet addiction: A growing worry WHILE eating toast and drinking tea at the breakfast table, freelance writer Lisa Teo, 26, boots up her laptop and goes online to check her e-mail and Facebook accounts. http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100713-226688.html ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Enabling our future: experts to advise Commission on upcoming technologies Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today. We use no typewriters any more and most information is available and exchanged electronically. How will the industrial world look in 10 years time? Which products and technologies will we use to produce goods, to do business, to learn, to live and to communicate? http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/934 Facebook snubs British MPs' calls to drop Raoul Moat fan page Facebook said it would resist MPs' calls to remove a page set up in honour of Raoul Moat, the fugitive who shot his former girlfriend, her boyfriend and a police officer before killing himself after he went on the run for a week. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/14/david-cameron-raoul-moat Facebook resists No 10 pressure over Moat tributes The online networking site Facebook refused on Wednesday to act against members paying tribute to Raoul Moat after Prime Minister David Cameron said there should be no sympathy for the dead gunman. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66D32920100714 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50131020100714 On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant People who have been out of school for decades are expressing sentiments they dared not express in their youth. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/nyregion/14facebook.html Social Networking Takes Flight On a flight from Newark to the West Coast not long ago, Jeff Jarvis, author of the book ?What Would Google Do?? fell into a conversation with a fellow passenger familiar with his work. But it was not a face-to-face chat. Rather, it started as an exchange of Twitter posts at the boarding gate. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/business/13social.html Outlook gets Facebook integration Microsoft has integrated Facebook into its Outlook e-mail system in its latest move towards the social web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10611027 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ Fractious ISPs may fumble their chance on internet filter Australian ISPs have an opportunity to see off Labor's mandatory internet censorship laws, but their disunity could let it slip. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/fractious-isps-may-fumble-their-chance-on-internet-filter/story-e6frgakx-1225890925760 Mandatory filtering should be dropped If ISPs blocked child sexual abuse pages voluntarily, the government would not need to impose filtering, a child protection group says. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telstra-and-optus-agree-to-act-on-internet-filtering/story-e6frgakx-1225890933053 Facebook to launch child safety 'panic button' Facebook has announced it will allow a "panic button" application on its social networking site. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10572375.stm Facebook ClickCeop app to offer optional 'panic button' After months of pressure to improve its online safety features, Facebook has reached an agreement to provide an application not dissimilar to the "panic button" critics have called for, which users can add to their homepage and links to the UK's online child protection watchdog. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jul/12/facebook-clickceop-app-optional-panic-button Cooment: Facebook: Let's not call it a 'panic button' What exactly is a 'panic button'? I've written before that child safety and online behaviour is a far more nuanced problem than a single Batphone-style button could solve, but it's an image that still obscures the detail in the ongoing tussle between Facebook and Ceop, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jul/12/facebook-ceop-online-safety au: Child porn filter move hits snag Hopes that a voluntary filter of child pornography will become industry standard across all internet service providers have been dealt a blow, with significant mid-sized carrier Internode declaring yesterday that it will not participate. http://www.theage.com.au/national/child-porn-filter-move-hits-snag-20100712-107w3.html http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/child-porn-filter-move-hits-snag-20100712-107w3.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/child-porn-filter-move-hits-snag-20100712-107w3.html http://www.watoday.com.au/technology/technology-news/child-porn-filter-move-hits-snag-20100712-107w3.html Sexting and child porn: are they any different? The difference between "sexting" and "child pornography" might seem obvious, but it's not. Take one common metric for labeling something "child porn"?was it produced voluntarily? That question has its limits. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/sexting-and-child-porn-are-they-any-different.ars ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** A copyright ruling no one can like Legal experts sympathetic to copyright owners as well as those known for supporting technology companies are criticizing a federal judge's decision to lower a jury award in a high-profile lawsuit about file sharing. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010428-261.html Songwriters call for music piracy levy British songwriters and composers want a levy on broadband providers based on the pirated music they allow to pass through their networks http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2876e320-8ec0-11df-8a67-00144feab49a.html ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** Design Flaw in iPhone 4, Testers Say Did Apple make a lemon? Problems with low signal strength and dropped calls on Apple?s iPhone 4 are caused by a faulty antenna, researchers say. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/technology/13apple.html Don't buy Apple's iPhone 4, Consumer Reports warns Consumer Reports magazine today said it won't recommend Apple's Phone 4 because of major reception issues when users touch the external antenna. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179101/Don_t_buy_Apple_s_iPhone_4_Consumer_Reports_warns http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/352897/don_t_buy_apple_iphone_4_consumer_reports_warns/ Consumer Reports Slams New iPhone Consumer Reports said its tests show a hardware defect causes the iPhone 4 to lose reception when held a certain way, challenging Apple Inc.'s claims that the problem is rooted in software that can be easily fixed. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575363011516770540.html Steve Jobs, Apple feed backlash with response to iPhone 4 reception complaints Apple has a reception problem. No, not the one some users of its new iPhone 4 have complained about, in which holding the phone with your hand over a gap between its two antennas on its lower left side weakens the phone's grasp of AT&T's signal. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/13/AR2010071306501.html One in 5 Brits send sexy texts to wrong person [Reuters] Twenty percent of Britons have managed to send racy texts to the wrong person, and nearly one in 10 has been caught red-handed "sexting," according to a poll. http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3916771/One-in-5-Brits-send-sexy-texts-to-wrong-person ********************** SPAM ********************** The FTC Takes on the Spam Dispensers If you think you get too much spam, try visiting the second floor of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington. That's where a computer server holds the world's largest collection of spam e-mail?314 million messages, with 200,000 more arriving every day. The machine sits in the agency's Internet lab, a bunker crammed with electronic devices that help investigators hunt down spammers, spyware makers, and identity thieves. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_29/b4187039938736.htm FTC's role as watchdog expanding If you think you get too much spam, try visiting the second floor of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/12/BU1I1EBVF9.DTL Does the First Amendment Forbid Spam Filtering? by John Levine A friend of mine wrote to ask: The Supreme Court overturned the Jaynes conviction on First Amendment grounds, yes? I'm wondering what that could mean from the spam filtering perspective. http://www.circleid.com/posts/does_the_first_amendment_forbid_spam_filtering/ US Extends Spam Lead: twice as much spam comes from the United States as any other country in the world, finds Sophos. Received a spam e-mail lately? No matter where you are in the world, statistically speaking, a report finds that it's most likely to have come from the United States. http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225800147 UK re-enters spam relaying 'Dirty Dozen' The US is still the country most likely to relay spam emails, but the UK is gaining fast, according to the latest figures from Sophos. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2266447/usa-top-spam-relayer UK comes 4th in list of spam relaying counties The amount of spam the UK is producing has surged, causing Britain to take fourth place in Sophos' 'Dirty Dozen' list of the top spam-producing countries. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3231981 Coventry is top of the UK spam charts Coventry has claimed the dubious honour of being the most spammed place in the UK, according to the latest stats from Symantec Hosted Services, which estimates that the average inbox in the area comprises 92.8 per cent spam. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2266483/coventry-top-spam-charts USA extends lead as top spamming nation as European output rises, Sophos reports [news release] IT security and control firm Sophos has published its latest report into the top twelve spam relaying countries, covering the second quarter of 2010. The USA continues to be the number one spam polluter, piping out 15.2% of all global spam messages - an increase from 13.1% in the first quarter of 2010. http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2010/07/dirty-dozen.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** British juries may be banned from using internet to research cases Jurors in criminal trials should be banned from using the internet to research their cases, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10634238 Facebook's assets frozen in ownership lawsuit Facebook has rejected as "frivolous" a lawsuit filed by a New York man who claims he owns an 84 per cent stake in the social network. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/13/2952201.htm Man Claims Ownership of Facebook A New York judge has issued a temporary restraining order restricting the transfer of Facebook Inc.'s assets, following a suit by a New York man who claims to own an 84% stake in the social-networking company. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703283004575363330101240888.html Facebook fights New Yorker's claim of 84 percent stake Facebook has moved to overturn a New York judge's recent order temporarily blocking any transfer of the company's assets, as the world's No.1 social networking responds to a lawsuit by a New Yorker claiming to own 84 percent of the company. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE66C01Y20100713 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50073620100713 http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3913737/Man-claims-to-own-84-of-Facebook us: White House cybersecurity chief calls meeting to discuss President's agenda White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt will host a meeting Wednesday to discuss progress and ways to move forward on the cybersecurity agenda outlined by President Barack Obama in May 2009. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179149/White_House_cybersecurity_chief_calls_meeting_to_discuss_President_s_agenda http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071410-white-house-cybersecurity-chief-calls.html Phishing, Spam Containing Malware Increase Last month saw a surge in malware-containing spam, according to a new study by Symantec. Interestingly, while Symantec said that malware-containing spam never comprised more than 3% of all spam on any given day in 2010, all of that changed in June. "Malware spam made up almost 12% of all spam on June 13th, and topped 5% on June 3rd and 15th," according to the report. http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225702834 Pit security 'networks' against cyberattackers Government officials from Estonia and Singapore call for coordinated, well-planned cybersecurity responses involving various stakeholders within a country as well as globally to counter sophisticated cyberterrorist networks. http://www.zdnetasia.com/pit-security-networks-against-cyberattackers-62201355.htm eBay sued for $3.8 billion [AP] Internet auction site eBay is being sued for $US3.8 billion ($4.3 billion) for allegedly infringing patents held by XPRT Ventures for its payment systems. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/ebay-sued-for-43-billion-20100714-109tz.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/ebay-sued-for-43-billion-20100714-109tz.html ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** China Green Dam web filter teams 'face funding crisis' Reports from China say a controversial government-backed software project to filter internet content could be on the brink of collapse. State media said the developer behind the Green Dam Youth Escort software had closed its Beijing project team because of a lack of government funding. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10614674 China's Green Dam may be ready to collapse China's Green Dam software-filtering project has been staying afloat without government funds for the past year, but the project may now be in danger of collapse, according to a story in Tuesday's Beijing Times as covered by BBC News. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20010499-38.html Indonesia to ask internet providers to block porn Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, is planning use a controversial anti-pornography law to restrict porn websites in the next few months, a communications ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66D2MQ20100714 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50121320100714 ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** Iceland aims to become a legal safe haven for journalists ... After some terrible blows to Iceland's image ? its most famous recent exports being financial turmoil and volcanic ash ? the country has turned its creative energy towards creating a catch-all freedom of expression law, which would protect journalists from all manner of legal threats. Over the past couple of years a group of journalists, freedom of information campaigners and political activists living in Iceland have been working on turning this idea into reality. A resolution proposing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), has already been unanimously passed by the country's parliament. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/12/iceland-legal-haven-journalists-immi China's plan to use internet for propaganda The Chinese Communist Party has detailed its ambitious but secretive strategy for transforming the internet into a force for keeping it in power and projecting ''soft power'' abroad. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/chinas-plan-to-use-internet-for-propaganda-20100713-109hc.html http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/chinas-plan-to-use-internet-for-propaganda-20100713-109hc.html Britain's House of Lords set sights on Digital Economy Act review The Digital Economy Act could be reviewed by the House of Lords next year, if peers are given the right to scrutinise legislation after it has been passed into law. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/07/14/lords-set-sights-on-digital-economy-act-review-40089538/ UK Government outlines new libel law plans The UK Government will overhaul libel laws in the new year. It said that it will publish a Defamation Bill early next year in an attempt to give publishers more rights and clamp down on 'libel tourism'. http://out-law.com/page-11219 Net neutrality comes back to haunt Google ?Search neutrality? becomes the rallying cry of activists who believe the search engine has too much power to decide which internet sites are granted the attention that comes with a high ranking http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b6bc780-8ea5-11df-8a67-00144feab49a.html International anti-counterfeiting talks hit snags says EU [IDG] The European Union "will not swallow" U.S. hypocrisy when negotiating an anti-counterfeiting agreement, said the senior E.U. representative involved in the talks. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071310-international-anti-counterfeiting-talks-hit-snags.html ********************** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ********************** Costs rise for broadband Britain It will cost billions to fulfill the coalition government's vision of getting fast broadband to every part of Britain, BT has said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10628273 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2010 --------- David Goldstein email: goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au web: http://davidgoldstein.tel/ http://goldsteinreport.com/ phone: +61 418 228 605 - mobile; +61 2 9665 5773 - office/home "Every time you use fossil fuels, you're adding to the problem. 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