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 *************************************************** Vinton Cerf on the power of packets: Video - Tea with The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2010/12/vinton_cerf_power_packets 2 Million .PL Domains Registered http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13320 Update on proposals for trade mark protection in the new gTLD system http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=25b7f32c-5de8-48aa-abff-722619e1b706 au: PM needs to take reins on cybersecurity http://www.zdnet.com.au/pm-needs-to-take-reins-on-cybersecurity-339308286.htm Groupon sues Australia's Scoopon [Wall Street Journal] http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/groupon-sues-australias-scoopon/story-e6frg90x-1225982858482 Australia's Scoopon Won't Sell URL for $286,000, so Groupon Sues http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Australias-Scoopon-Wont-Sell-allthingsd-2401388149.html US government getting more interested in IPv6 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/us-government-getting-more-interested-in-ipv6.ars Europe's Internet Registry Introduces Routing Certification [IDG] http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/215580/.html ********************** GOVERNANCE ********************** Vinton Cerf on the power of packets: Video - Tea with The Economist One of the inventors of the internet protocol wants to bring broadcast back, and believes that open systems will win in the end. http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2010/12/vinton_cerf_power_packets http://video.economist.com/?&fr_story=1ea524e824c7f90fe95afc71d289608bc8e86005 ********************** DOMAIN NAMES ********************** ********************** - ICANN ********************** ICANN Board - GAC Geneva Meeting: Open to Observers? by Michael D. Palage The ICANN Board and GAC will be having a meeting in Geneva next month to resolve outstanding issues in connection with the new gTLD implementation process. Unfortunately to date details of whether this meeting will be open or closed to observers has not yet been publicly addressed. As a strong advocate toward openness and transparency I have drafted the following text which calls for the meeting to be open to observers. more? http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_board_gac_geneva_meeting_open_to_observers/ ICANN wants to make millions from SF meeting ICANN hopes to sign millions of dollars in sponsorship deals for its San Francisco meeting in March. http://domainincite.com/icann-wants-to-make-millions-from-sf-meeting/ An Internet Divided Americans paid little attention in September 2009 when the Obama administration relinquished the traditional U.S. role in supervising policy for the global Internet. The eyes glaze over, after all, at the profusion of acronyms and the allusions to obscure functions in uninteresting federal agencies. When the U.S. Department of Commerce terminated its exclusive policy relationship with ICANN, the tech world was aflutter, but the event seemed to have no impact on the average American?s interactions with the Web. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/j-e-dyer/385611 ********************** - ccTLD & gTLD NEWS ********************** Third .at report Looks At Domain Lifespans, Control Domains With the one million active domain name registrations approaching for .AT, the Austrian registry nic.at has released its third .at report. There are currently 998,478 .AT domains registered and with over 7,000 already registered this month the one million mark is only days away. http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13328 http://www.domainpulse.com/2011/01/05/third-at-report-looks-at-domain-lifespans-control-domains/ http://domainnews.com/en/third-.at-report-looks-at-domain-lifespans-control-domains.html 2 Million .PL Domains Registered There are now two million active .PL domain names the Polish registry NASK has announced. http://goldsteinreport.com/article.php?article=13320 http://www.domainpulse.com/2011/01/05/2-million-pl-domains-registered/ http://domainnews.com/en/2-millionth-.pl-domain-registered.html ********************** - NEW TLDS ********************** Update on proposals for trade mark protection in the new gTLD system The implementation of the new gTLD System appears imminent. The latest version of the much commented upon applicant guidebook (?Final Applicant Guidebook?) setting out the framework for the new system, including for resolution of disputes, was issued by ICANN on 12 November, 2010. http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=25b7f32c-5de8-48aa-abff-722619e1b706 ********************** - DNS SECURITY ********************** Anonymous activists target Tunisian government sites Key websites of the Tunisian government have been taken offline by a group that recently attacked sites and services perceived to be anti-Wikileaks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110892 Internet censors move into top gear in response to widespread unrest [news release] Reporters Without Borders condemns the reinforcement of online censorship amid a wave of protests and rioting in Tunisia that began two weeks when a young man set himself on fire outside a police station in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid. http://en.rsf.org/tunisia-internet-censors-move-into-top-04-01-2011,39213.html us: Protecting Government Against Cyber Crime: a Q&A Government Executive Media Group co-hosted two recent briefings with the SANS Institute on the subjects of "Cybersecurity: The Role of Congress" and "The U.S. Navy's Cyber Fleet: Protecting America's Information." Attendees had several questions about the subjects that the speakers could not answer in their allotted time. Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, and Tim Clark, Editor at Large of Government Executive, agreed to address some of the questions. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20101117_5572.php au: PM needs to take reins on cybersecurity Australia's lacklustre cybersecurity plans are set to fail unless they are given oversight by the Prime Minister and long-term strategies are developed by top-level federal ministers and bureaucrats, according to a report into the nation's cybersecurity strategies. http://www.zdnet.com.au/pm-needs-to-take-reins-on-cybersecurity-339308286.htm ********************** - DOMAIN DISPUTES ********************** Groupon sues Australia's Scoopon [Wall Street Journal] GROUPON co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason said the company was suing Australian competitor Scoopon for allegedly "domain squatting". http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/groupon-sues-australias-scoopon/story-e6frg90x-1225982858482 Australia's Scoopon Won't Sell URL for $286,000, so Groupon Sues Here?s the kind of attention you get when everyone thinks you have deep pockets. In an appeal to customers today, Groupon co-Founder and CEO Andrew Mason explained in a blog post why it is suing an Australian competitor, Scoopon. And the story is pretty juicy: The two brothers who started Scoopon in Australia have purchased the Groupon.com.au domain name, registered the company name of Groupon Pty Limited and tried registering the Groupon trademark in Australia. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Australias-Scoopon-Wont-Sell-allthingsd-2401388149.html Groupon details Aussie trademark stoush Online coupon website Groupon has outed further details of a dispute it filed in the Federal Court last year against Aussie website Scoopon, which it accuses of trademark infringement and cybersquatting. http://www.zdnet.com.au/groupon-details-aussie-trademark-stoush-339308316.htm Andrew Mason: Why Groupon Isn?t In Australia Since Groupon started in 2008, we?ve grown from one to thirty-seven countries. Australia, however, remains conspicuously absent from our lineup. Australian customers and press have been asking why we still haven?t formally launched ? we?re very sorry for the delay and would like nothing more than to grow Groupon to Australia. I put this post together to shed some light on why it?s been such a challenge. http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/why-groupon-isnt-in-australia/ Groupon Files Lawsuit Against Australian Clone ?Scoopon? An interesting post just went up on the Groupon blog announcing a lawsuit filed against Australian Groupon clone Scoopon. The post explains the unprecedented move of taking legal action against a Groupon clone, which apparently is squatting on the Groupon.com.au domain name. The case goes to Australian court on February 4th, and in the meantime Groupon will be doing business in Australia under the name Stardeals. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/04/groupon-files-lawsuit-against-australian-clone-scoopon/ ********************** - IPv4/IPv6 ********************** US government getting more interested in IPv6 The US federal government seems to have IPv6 on the brain as of late: both the Federal Communications Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) came out with IPv6-related documents recently. The FCC document is a collection of previously known information?it's not about FCC policy?but they managed to include a few things we weren't aware of. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/us-government-getting-more-interested-in-ipv6.ars US Government Releases Two IPv6 Papers by Robert Cannon During the last week of December, two US Government agencies released papers on IPv6. NIST released Special Publication 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. This comprehensive 188 page paper provides guidelines for federal agencies (and anyone else who might want to take advantage of it) to securely deploy IPv6. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110105_us_government_releases_two_ipv6_papers/ Uptake of IPv6 in All Regions by Mirjam Kuehne Our recent cooperation with the OECD on IPv6 deployment inspired us to provide more IPv6 deployment statistics to a wider audience - from network operators to national governments. The result is an infographic that shows the percentage of networks or Autonomous Systems that announce one or more IPv6 prefixes in the global routing table. This metric shows how many networks have actually deployed IPv6 in a country or group of countries. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110104_uptake_of_ipv6_in_all_regions/ ********************** - MISCELLANEOUS ********************** Europe's Internet Registry Introduces Routing Certification [IDG] The organization that manages Internet addresses in Europe and the Middle East has started issuing certificates to network operators to prevent routing snafus such as the one that made Google's YouTube site inaccessible in 2008. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/215580/.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010511-europes-internet-registry-introduces-routing.html Ripe NCC introduces IP certification Organisations will be able to get certificates for IP address blocks, which Ripe NCC says will cut down on incidents where internet traffic is badly routed around the world http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-management/2011/01/05/ripe-ncc-introduces-ip-certification-40091316/ Go Daddy Explains Whois Blocking Users of third party whois search tools have been frustrated in the past few days whenever they look up a domain name registered at Go Daddy. Instead of seeing who owns the domain name, they are given a URL to look up the whois information directly at Go Daddy. Here?s an example from DomainTools: http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/04/go-daddy-explains-whois-blocking/ My Thoughts on the Moniker Whois Privacy Incident I?ve waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt in a few days. http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/04/my-thoughts-on-the-moniker-whois-privacy-incident/ ********************** - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET ********************** So You Just Bought Sex.com For $13 Million ? Now What? Sex.com. It?s a domain name with quite a history ? heck, it was rocky enough for a book to be written solely about it. I?ll spare you that story and let you discover it on your own, though. http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/04/so-you-just-bought-sex-com-for-13-million-now-what/ Sedo Increases Sales Commission 50%; From 10% to 15% : For ?Domain Sales By Our Sales Team? Without Notice Thanks to a reader who noticed that Sedo.com is raising their commission rate 50%, from 10%-15% effective TOMORROW. http://www.thedomains.com/2011/01/03/sedo-increases-sale-commission-50-from-10-to-15-for-domain-sales-by-our-sales-team-without-notice/ Why Creating and Canceling TRAFFIC at ICANN Were Both Smart Moves When ICANN announced that its Spring meeting would be held in San Francisco, I immediately thought ?this would be a great time to hold a domain name conference.? An hour later I received an email from Rick Schwartz saying that TRAFFIC would hold a ?retreat? in conjunction with the ICANN meeting. Great idea. http://domainnamewire.com/2011/01/05/why-creating-and-canceling-traffic-at-icann-were-both-smart-moves/ ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** We didn't kill newspapers, says Google [The Times] Krishna Bharat does not believe that Google has killed the newspaper industry. But he does think that the search company can help to save it. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/we-didnt-kill-newspapers-says-google/story-e6frg90o-1225982291673 Google hits web translation barrier [The Times] In Google's self-prescribed mission to "organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", it has encountered a stumbling block: language. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/it-business/google-finds-translation-barrier/story-e6frganx-1225982303839 Firefox Leads in Europe, Firm Says For the first time in a decade, Microsoft?s Internet Explorer is no longer the leading Web browser in Europe, ceding the position to Mozilla?s Firefox, an Irish research company that tracks Web use said on Tuesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/technology/05browser.html Firefox becomes most-used browser in Europe [IDG] Firefox was the most-used browser in Europe in December, edging out Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the first time, according to new data released by the Web analytics service StatCounter on Tuesday. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/372268/firefox_becomes_most-used_browser_europe/ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010411-firefox-becomes-most-used-browser-in.html Firefox takes top browser spot in Europe: StatCounter Mozilla's Firefox browser has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the leader in Europe, the first time Microsoft's browser has lost its top spot in a major market, a web analytics firm StatCounter said. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70324V20110104 http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-53914820110104 ********************** SOCIAL NETWORKING ********************** Email is so passe for Facebook generation Here's a staggering fact: almost half the Australian population are users of Facebook, a virtual den for nearly two million teenagers. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/email-is-so-passe-for-facebook-generation/story-e6frg6z6-1225981885878 MySpace 'set to cut up to 50% of staff' MySpace is preparing to cut up to 50% of its 1,100 jobs by the middle of the month, according to reports, as the flagging social network struggles with falling revenues and traffic. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/04/myspace-job-cuts ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** Microsoft Alliance With Intel Shows Age The technology industry's most lucrative partnership?the long-running alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp.?is coming to a day of reckoning. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808704576062073117494078.html http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/rise-of-tablets-a-bitter-pill-for-the-wintel-alliance/story-e6frg90o-1225982819178 ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ MouseMail filtering program traps kids' cyberbullies Parents will soon have a formidable new weapon in the war against cyberbullying, sexting and other inappropriate messages sent to their kids. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2011-01-05-1Acyberbully05_ST_N.htm Porn: a multibillion-dollar industry that renders all authentic desire plastic by Gail Dines January in Las Vegas. The sun, the shows, the casinos ? and yes, the Adult Entertainment Expo, the world's biggest porn convention. Every January pornographers from all over the world descend on Las Vegas to participate in seminars, learn about industry trends, network with peers, meet the new "creative" talent, and keep up with the latest technology. When I attended the expo, from sitting in the business seminars it quickly became clear that what excites these guys (and it was overwhelmingly men) is not sex, but money. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/04/pornography-big-business-influence-culture ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** Downloads fail to fill gap as UK album sales plummet for sixth year running The music industry had another miserable year in 2010,with new figures published today showing that album sales had dropped for the sixth year running. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/05/album-sales-plummet-sixth-year-running us: Big media fails to turn ISPs into copyright cops Last month marked the second anniversary since the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the four largest music labels, stopped filing copyright lawsuits against people suspected of illegal file sharing. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20027202-261.html http://www.zdnet.com.au/isp-three-strikes-flops-riaa-defiant-339308305.htm us: Pay TV industry moves to adapt to Internet age The pay television industry, under growing threat from the Internet, disclosed plans to prevent technology companies from luring away its customers. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-ces-cable-tv-20110106,0,4006820.story au: Telstra and Foxtel are close to a TV deal Foxtel is close to finalising a deal to supply internet television channels to Telstra's T-Box digital recorder. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/telstra-and-foxtel-are-close-to-a-tv-deal/story-e6frg8zx-1225982649668 ********************** MOBILE/WIRELESS ********************** Microsoft shows Windows running on mobile phone chips Microsoft has shown a full version of Windows running on chips usually found in mobile phones. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12124887 ********************** SPAM ********************** Spam Volumes Drop as Botnets Go Quiet The infamous Rustock botnet, responsible for almost half of all spam sent last year through its command-and-control system exploiting over a million compromised PCs, has suddenly slowed to a crawl, Symantec said today, noting the unexplained event has led to a substantial drop in spam. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010511-spam-drops.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/215675/.html ca: New spam bill hopes to block unsolicited emails Change is afoot for those who rely on email for marketing. The federal government has passed a law that will bar the sending of unsolicited email or spam. http://www.financialpost.com/news/goodbye+spam/4057886/story.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** Europol to reveal cybercrime risk level [IDG] European law enforcement agency Europol on Friday will present its assessment of the threat posed by cybercrime, along with its strategy to tackle it. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/372417/europol_reveal_cybercrime_risk_level/ au: PM needs to take reins on cybersecurity Australia's lacklustre cybersecurity plans are set to fail unless they are given oversight by the Prime Minister and long-term strategies are developed by top-level federal ministers and bureaucrats, according to a report into the nation's cybersecurity strategies. http://www.zdnet.com.au/pm-needs-to-take-reins-on-cybersecurity-339308286.htm Anonymous activists target Tunisian government sites Key websites of the Tunisian government have been taken offline by a group that recently attacked sites and services perceived to be anti-Wikileaks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110892 Anonymous Shuts Down Tunisian Govt Websites After Violence and Web Censorship Websites run by the Tunisian government have been successfully targeted by Operation: Tunisia, a cell within Anonymous' Operation Payback, in a distributed denial of service action, which dropped this image and message on several government sites before the Anon-fueled DDoS knocked them offline. Reminder: DDoS is illegal and people have been arrested for launching them and participating in them. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-derrick/anonymous-shuts-down-tuni_b_804342.html Internet censors move into top gear in response to widespread unrest [news release] Reporters Without Borders condemns the reinforcement of online censorship amid a wave of protests and rioting in Tunisia that began two weeks when a young man set himself on fire outside a police station in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid. http://en.rsf.org/tunisia-internet-censors-move-into-top-04-01-2011,39213.html us: Protecting Government Against Cyber Crime: a Q&A Government Executive Media Group co-hosted two recent briefings with the SANS Institute on the subjects of "Cybersecurity: The Role of Congress" and "The U.S. Navy's Cyber Fleet: Protecting America's Information." Attendees had several questions about the subjects that the speakers could not answer in their allotted time. Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, and Tim Clark, Editor at Large of Government Executive, agreed to address some of the questions. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20101117_5572.php Court reverses Microsoft victory in patent case [IDG] A U.S. appeals court has restored a jury verdict in a multimillion-dollar patent infringement case against Microsoft but ordered a new trial on damages. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9203200/Court_reverses_Microsoft_victory_in_patent_case ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Opinion: Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet by Stanley Fish In McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995) the Supreme Court overturned a statute requiring any person who prints a notice or flyer promoting a candidate or an issue to identify the communication?s author by name. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, grounded his opinion in an account of meaning he takes from an earlier case (First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti): ?The inherent worth of . . . speech in terms of its capacity for informing the public does not depend upon the identity of its source, whether corporation, association, union, or individual.? Or, in other words, a writing or utterance says what it says independently of who happens to say it; the information conveyed does not vary with the identification of the speaker. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/anonymity-and-the-dark-side-of-the-internet/ ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** BT accused of creating two-tier internet in UK BT was yesterday accused of undermining one of the founding principles of the internet ? that of "net neutrality" ? by creating a two-tier system which would allow content providers on its network to charge for a faster video delivery service. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bt-accused-of-creating-twotier-internet-in-uk-2176091.html BT Content Connect service faces 'two-tier net' claims BT has introduced a controversial service that some say could allow broadband providers to create a "two-tier internet". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12112389 BT denies paving way for internet fast lane BT today rejected claims it is paving the way for a "two-tier" internet by creating a service that will allow broadband providers to charge the BBC, Google and other content companies for better delivery of their video to the nation's homes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jan/04/bt-denies-paving-way-for-internet-fast-lane BT denies new Internet offer to create 2-tier Web A new service from British telecoms provider BT that allows Internet service providers to pay for higher-quality video delivery will not create a two-tier Internet, BT said on Tuesday. http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70326I20110104 Google Wins One Against Microsoft Google Inc. won a key victory in a lawsuit against the U.S. Interior Department, two months after the Web giant accused the agency of improperly favoring rival Microsoft Corp. in a contract bid to provide a new email system. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063713471775694.html ********************************* MISCELLANEOUS ********************************* American Airlines in Fee Battle With Web Agencies A traveler searching two of the four largest online travel agencies, Orbitz and Expedia, is not going to find any listings for American Airlines flights ? at least for the moment. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/business/05air.html Dogfight Erupts in Plane Ticket Sales A battle to reshape the way airline tickets are sold escalated Wednesday, in what could become an industry-wide showdown between carriers and middlemen. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704405704576063670807756068.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (c) David Goldstein 2011 --------- 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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