34-37. Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains Network Solutions is back in the news, accused of "hijacking unassigned sub domains and delivering link filled holding pages for hundreds of thousands of sites". Tech Crunch was contacted by GotGame.com who gave an example of theirs that resolves to a Network Solutions holding page. A search on Domain Tools revealed "there are 294,438 sites on the same Network Solutions IP address as GotGame.com." So Tech Crunch "ran a test on the sites listed (for free) by DomainTools and every single one had the same issue: unassigned domain names with link filled Network Solutions holding pages."<br>
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/">http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/</a><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm">http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm</a><br><a href="http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/">http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/</a><br>
<br>38. The warning signs of another RegisterFly Jay Westerdal asks how another RegisterFly situation could be predicted on the Domain Tools blog. Westerdal writes the "best way to predict the weakness of a registrar or a possible shortage of cash is when a customer buys or renews a domain name several years out and that renewal is not paid for at the Registry. A registrar can pocket the difference of the money and nothing bad will happen. The domain will continue to exist on the Internet and the customer may not notice the date field at the Registry." He also has an example of a customer who registered the domain name <a href="http://cccp.com">cccp.com</a> until 2017, but Whois, I presume, Westerdal says was reporting the wrong expiration date. Westerdal believes the registrar was cheating the registrant, and in short, that ICANN should be monitoring situations like these.<br>
<a href="http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/">http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/</a><br><br>**********************<br>RESEARCH PAPERS<br>
**********************<br>1. International Private Law Issues regarding Trademark Protection and the Internet within the EU by Zuzana Slováková<br>Abstract: Given the global nature of the Interest, online trademark infringements always involve multiple territories. When any litigation is brought, it is necessary to determine the relevant jurisdiction and applicable law and then to resolve various issues in the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. In resolving these questions, courts will proceed according to their own international private law regulations, which may differ considerably from state to state. Internet-related cases always have the additional complication that it is extremely difficult to determine with reasonable certainty the court with jurisdiction and the applicable law. Over the years, the legal frameworks on civil court jurisdiction have been unified somewhat on a European scale. Courts in the EU must currently proceed according to Community law, particularly the Brussels I Regulation and, in the near future, the Rome II Regulation.<br>
<a href="http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/viewArticle/60">http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/viewArticle/60</a><br><a href="http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/view/60/46">http://www.jiclt.com/index.php/JICLT/article/view/60/46</a><br>
<br>2. Deconstructing an Experiment in Global Internet Governance: The ICANN Case by Dr. Slavka Antonova [International Journal of Communications Law and Policy]<br>Abstract: The model of a global multistakeholder collaboration in Internet domain-name system management, as developed by U.S. government in 1998 and embedded in ICANN, held all the promises of a paradigm shift in global governance. Seven years later, the UN World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia (November 2005) adopted some of the vocabulary of the ICANN experiment and recognized the multistakeholder collaboration as a key organizational principle in global Internet governance. Yet, it reestablished the leading role of national governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the ITU, in the regulation of the global Internet. This paper examines what was lost during the four years of experimenting with "multistakeholderism" in ICANN and what the stakes of the parties that influenced the policymaking process the most were. Building on Governmentality Studies' understanding of the neo-liberal project of self-governance and Organization Studies' collaborati!<br>
on theory, the document and discourse analysis of ICANN's practices deconstructs the original model of a collaborative policymaking process conducted by a private multistakeholder corporation and formulates the expectations, stakes and strategies of the participating parties. Thus, it is suggested in the paper that, because the Internet technical elite was granted the managerial role in ICANN, the experts were able to influence the agenda of the policymaking process and its pace, and ultimately to take over the policy-proposal accumulation task and eliminate the working groups, which were open to all participants. It is concluded in the paper that, with the globalization of Internet, a cluster of new players entered the field, such as the developing countries governments, and, in the UN WSIS setting, the concerns of "protecting the public interest" reconnected with the familiar international arrangements.<br>
<a href="http://ijclp.net/article.php?doc=1&issue=12_2008">http://ijclp.net/article.php?doc=1&issue=12_2008</a><br><br>3. Info-communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy by Milton Mueller [First Monday]<br>
Abstract: This paper takes a new look at the debate over commons and property in information and communications. It warns against recreating the old communist-capitalist ideological divide by framing the movement for informational commons as "info-communist." The spectre of communism haunts the movement because of an unresolved ideological tension in its ethical and philosophical foundations. The case for free software and open information contains both deontological appeals to the virtues of sharing, and consequentialist arguments against the growing intrusiveness of the institutional and technological mechanisms used to enforce exclusivity in the digital economy. The paper argues that the deontological case is a dead end that leads to info-communism. The strongest case for open access and freedom in information and communications is grounded in a liberalism that takes maximizing individual freedom as its objective and relies on creative complementarities between property a!<br>
nd commons regimes as means to that end.<br><a href="http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2058">http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2058</a><br><br>4. Geo-identification and the Internet – A New Challenge for Australia's Internet Regulation by Dr Dan Jerker B. Svantesson** People interacting online may feel that they are in a different world. However, physically they are still located somewhere at a geographically identifiable location. Regardless of how sophisticated our presence in cyberspace becomes, this connection to physical locations will remain. Consequently, even acts carried out in cyberspace, are carried out by persons physically within the jurisdiction of some government. For example, a contract entered into online, is entered into by persons physically located within the jurisdiction of some governments. Similarly, Internet defamation cases have an offender and a victim, both of which are physically located within the jurisdiction of some government. Thus, while undeniably we are witnessing a decline in the significance of distance, the significance of location remains constant.<br>
<a href="https://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/issues/2007/2/Elaw_geoidentification_internet.pdf">https://elaw.murdoch.edu.au/issues/2007/2/Elaw_geoidentification_internet.pdf</a><br><br>**********************<br>GOVERNANCE<br>**********************<br>
5. Is Faster Access to the Internet Needed?<br>When it comes to Internet access, is there such a thing as too fast? That's a question U.S. Internet providers are grappling with as they place strategic bets on whether or not to upgrade their networks to offer high-priced, superhigh-speed Web connections.<br>
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120779422456503907.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120779422456503907.html</a><br><br>**********************<br>DOMAIN NAMES<br>**********************<br><br>**********************<br>
- ICANN<br>**********************<br>6. Prepare for battles over domain names An old friend sent me an email from Seattle last week. Things have changed in the 18 years since I last talked to Jothan Frakes. For starters, he's now an industry expert in the domain name industry, which didn't even exist the last time we talked. What brought about the email was a conversation I had earlier with Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN, an organisation that includes in its tasks the managing of domain names and IP addresses.<br>
<a href="http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Technology/10205046.html">http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Technology/10205046.html</a><br><br>7. Internationalizing the Domain Name System by Geoff Huston, APNIC The objective is the internationalization of the DNS, such that the DNS can support the union of all character sets while preserving the absence of ambiguity and uncertainty in terms of resolution of any individual DNS name. We need to describe all possible characters in all languages and allow their use in the DNS. So the starting point is the "universal character set," and that appears to be Unicode.<br>
<a href="http://cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/ipj_11-1.pdf">http://cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/ipj_11-1.pdf</a><br><br>8. au: Would you like yours filtered?<br>For the 100th time, filtering content at the ISP level does not work. The federal government is currently looking at making ISP's provide a "clean feed" into your home. However, a clean feed is not 100 per cent clean, can prevent you from accessing legitimate sites and is easily circumvented. Providing a clean feed does not address the major problems: children who are groomed, harassed and bullied via email, social websites, chat rooms and mobile phones. A more effective way to protect children (and adults) from accessing inappropriate content is for ICANN to mandate categorisation of websites, which is controlled through your browser. However, there is no substitute for parental supervision and education.<br>
<a href="http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7233">http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7233</a><br><br>9. ICANN, IISI join efforts to promote internet awareness [sub req'd]<br><a href="http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=210835">http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=210835</a><br>
<br>**********************<br> - ccTLD & gTLD NEWS<br>**********************<br>10. .ASIA adding 5,000 domains a day<br>.ASIA opened to all on March 26. We have the first official post-launch stats for Asia's new Internet domain.<br>
<a href="http://domainesinfo.fr/english/189/asia-adding-5-000-domains-a-day.php">http://domainesinfo.fr/english/189/asia-adding-5-000-domains-a-day.php</a><br><br>11. New .au registrant transfers policy - implementation update The new registrant transfers policy will take effect on 1 June 2008. In December 2007, the auDA Board approved a recommendation from the 2007 Names Policy Panel that the registrant transfers policy be relaxed to allow a registrant to transfer their domain name licence to another eligible entity, for any reason.<br>
<a href="http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-14042008/">http://www.auda.org.au/news-archive/auda-14042008/</a><br><br>12. 60% Growth in the Number of New .CZ Domains Within the six months from the launch of the new registration system for the .CZ domain administration the number of domains increased by 60 per cent comparing to the previous half-year. The current system enables easier and faster registration. The registration number growth has been definitely affected by prices; domains with the .CZ extension are less expensive in offerings of most registrars from the last year's October.<br>
<a href="http://www.nic.cz/page/447/60--growth-in-the-number-of-new-.cz-domains/">http://www.nic.cz/page/447/60--growth-in-the-number-of-new-.cz-domains/</a><br><br>13. .eu turns two [news release]<br>The .eu top-level Internet domain celebrates its second anniversary today. On April 7, 2006 .eu became available to the general public within the European Union. It quickly became one of Europe's largest top-level domains. Today there are more than 2.8 million registered .eu domain names, and approximately 2500 new .eu domain names are registered each business day.<br>
<a href="http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/eu-turns-two">http://www.eurid.eu/en/content/eu-turns-two</a><br><br>14. Over 300k .EU Registered in 2007<br>The past two years has seen the registration of over 2.8 million European Internet identities, with .eu ranking as the fourth most popular top level domain in Europe, and the ninth worldwide.<br>
<a href="http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_Over_300k_EU_Registered_in_2007.cfm">http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_Over_300k_EU_Registered_in_2007.cfm</a><br><br>15. Over 300,000 .eu web domains created in 2007 During the past two years, businesses, NGOs and EU residents have secured over 2.8 million European Internet identities, making .eu, at its second birthday last week, the fourth most popular 'Top Level Domain' in Europe, and the ninth worldwide.<br>
<a href="http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=954-26">http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=954-26</a><br><a href="http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=954-26">http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/article.pl?id=954-26</a><br>
<br>16. No change in .nz wholesale fee [news release] InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) is leaving unchanged the wholesale domain name fee charged to authorised .nz registrars by nz Registry Services (NZRS).<br>
<a href="http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2008/nzfee">http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2008/nzfee</a><br><br>17. February 2008 issue of 'The Browser' from InternetNZ InternetNZ have published the February 2008 edition of The Browser to let people know what is happening in New Zealand regarding internet issues. Issues covered include InternetNZ's support of the Separation Plan for Telecom NZ; APTLD marking ten years; highlights of the Local Government Broadband Forum held in February which includes an article on local councils discussing open access; Foo Camp 2008 - an invitation-only gathering of over 100 New Zealand technologists where attendees gather to network, share ideas and discuss a range of new and emerging technologies, including web applications, open source programming and wireless and web services. From the Domain Name Commissioner news that as a result of the Structural Review the Domain Name Commission will cease being an operational office of InternetNZ and will instead be incorporated as a company, fully owned by InternetNZ and that the consultation has now closed for the .nz Dispute Resolution Service Policy Review al!<br>
though submissions are available online.<br><a href="http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/feb08">http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/feb08</a><br><br>18. pl: NASK in the WOMBAT project [news release] NASK is one of the partners of WOMBAT project (Worldwide Observatory of Malicious Behaviors and Attack Threats - www.wombat-project.eu), planned for years 2008 – 2010 within the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The primary NASK's contribution to the project will be provided by - operating at NASK CERT Polska team, with the support of the Research Division within NASK.<br>
<a href="http://nask.pl/newsID/id/458">http://nask.pl/newsID/id/458</a><br><br>19. uk: Increased email spoofing activity During the past few days we have become aware of a large volume of email spoofing activity involving the <a href="http://nominet.org.uk">nominet.org.uk</a> domain name.<br>
<a href="http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4907">http://www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=4907</a><br><br>**********************<br> - DNS SECURITY<br>**********************<br>20. International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses Details have emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organizations respond to cyberattacks.<br>
<a href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62040077,00.htm">http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62040077,00.htm</a><br><a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1009_22-196879.html">http://news.zdnet.com/2424-1009_22-196879.html</a><br>
<br>21. DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise [IDG] With its latest Cyber Storm II exercise now completed, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it expects to release an after-action report analyzing the event, and is now beginning planning for Cyber Storm III in 2010.<br>
<a href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076458">http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076458</a><br><a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/85D4032CAAA6A4F0CC257427001A2EEB">http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/85D4032CAAA6A4F0CC257427001A2EEB</a><br>
<br>22. RSA - New Zealand's lessons learned in Cyber Storm II [IDG] Earlier this month, New Zealand completed its second Cyber Storm. Sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security Cyber Storm II gathered together about 2,500 people from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the US to play out several cyber attack scenarios in which critical parts of the infrastructure were disabled by computer threats. Although the results of Cyber Storm II are not expected to be made public until August, some of the participants shared their thoughts on the experience at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.<br>
<a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/6EECC03D01294778CC257428001E8327">http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/6EECC03D01294778CC257428001E8327</a><br><a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1">http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1</a><br>
<a href="http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1">http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;660807064;fp;2;fpid;1</a><br><br>23. Better co-ordination the key to fighting cyber-attacks Co-operation between different organisations is the key to coping with co-ordinated cyber-attacks. That's the view of Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at the US Department of Homeland Security describing the build-up to the Cyber Storm II exercise completed last month.<br>
<a href="http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11937">http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11937</a><br><br>24. Nato allies form cyber defence command Nato is creating a cyber command to protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national infrastructure.<br>
<a href="http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39184605,00.htm">http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39184605,00.htm</a><br><br>25. The New E-spionage Threat<br>The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data out of the $4 billion consulting firm's computer network.<br>
<a href="http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm">http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_16/b4080032218430.htm</a><br><br>26. Study Finds 'Alarming' Ignorance About Cybercrime "Consumers' unsecured computers play a major role in helping cybercriminals conduct cybercrimes," the National Cyber Security Alliance warns. At the RSA Conference on Wednesday, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reported that U.S. consumers don't understand botnets, networks of compromised computers that have become one of the major methods for attacking computer systems.<br>
<a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200253">http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200253</a><br><br>27. Bush's Cyber Secrets Dilemma<br>
There's a problem facing the Bush administration: It has $30 billion to spend over the next five to seven years to keep the U.S. safe from hackers and cyberspies. But to extend that protection to the nation's critical infrastructure--including banks, telecommunications and transportation--it needs the cooperation of the private sector.<br>
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/10/cyber-security-initiative-cx_tech_security_cx_ag_0410cyber.html">http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/10/cyber-security-initiative-cx_tech_security_cx_ag_0410cyber.html</a><br>
<br>28. Underworld economy runs on bots and spam The world of cybercrime is thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..<br><a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=73708">http://www.itnews.com.au/News/NewsStory.aspx?story=73708</a><br>
<br>29. Presidential campaigns clueless about Net threats The 2008 presidential campaigns are apparently oblivious to many of the threats that could damage their candidates' reputations and fund-raising abilities or disclose sensitive insider information, a security researcher said Friday.<br>
<a href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9077198">http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9077198</a><br><br>30. Walker arrest means business as usual for botnet fighters When Owen Walker was arrested for masterminding a massive international network of compromised computers last year, it seemed like a major victory in the war against botnets.<br>
<a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/0432E8683F616FB6CC2574270010D34A">http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/0432E8683F616FB6CC2574270010D34A</a><br><br>**********************<br> - DOMAIN DISPUTES<br>**********************<br>
31. Ace.com Owner Wins Arbitration<br>WebMagic Ventures, owner of Ace.com, has won an arbitration brought against it by ACE Limited, an insurance company. This is an extraordinary case given the value of the underlying domain name and egregious assertions brought by ACE Limited. However, the panel could not charge ACE Limited with reverse domain name hijacking. This is just one of many three character domain names currently in dispute.<br>
<a href="http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/11/acecom-owner-wins-arbitration/">http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/11/acecom-owner-wins-arbitration/</a><br><br>32. Failure to Respond To Trademark Threat Letters & Use of Privacy Services Can Support a Finding Of Bad Faith There are many risks to domain investors under the UDRP. The opportunity to capitalize on strong generic or descriptive domain names is in many ways dependent on a solid understanding of UDRP decisions and avoiding behavior which would increase a risk of transfer. As investors purchase domains at higher prices, the ability to protect those domains from transfer later on becomes more important.<br>
<a href="http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2008/04/failure-to-resp.html">http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquatting_consum/2008/04/failure-to-resp.html</a><br><br>**********************<br> - IPv4/IPv6<br>
**********************<br>33. CAIDA and ARIN Release IPv6 Survey by Dan Campbell The Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) and the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) presented the results of a recent IPv6 survey at the ARIN XXI Public Policy Meeting in Denver on April 7th. The survey involved over 200 respondents from a blend of Government, commercial organizations (including ISPs and end users), educational institutions, associations, and other profit and non-profit entities. The purpose of the survey, conducted between March 10th and 24th, was to capture IPv6 penetration data in the ARIN region.<br>
<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/84136_caida_arin_ipv6_survey/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/84136_caida_arin_ipv6_survey/</a><br><br>**********************<br> - MISCELLANEOUS<br>**********************<br>34. Network Solutions Hijacking Unassigned Sub-Domains Network Solutions is hijacking unassigned sub domains and delivering link filled holding pages for hundreds of thousands of sites.<br>
<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/">http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-sub-domains/</a><br><br>35. Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest Shameless domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its customers' sub-domains, filling these pilfered pages with a sea of money-making ad links. And you can guess where the money goes.<br>
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/</a><br><br>36. NetSol Runs Ads on Sub-Domains<br>Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Network Solutions is reportedly using its customers' sub-domains to run ad-generating links, according to The Register.<br>
<a href="http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm">http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/041108_NetSol_Runs_Ads_on_SubDomains.cfm</a><br><br>37. Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move Not content with the profits it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.<br>
<a href="http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/">http://www.domainbits.com/network-solutions-sucks/</a><br><br>38. The warning signs of another RegisterFly One of the questions I am asked is how can you predict another RegisterFly situation. A situation where a registrar goes bankrupt and stops servicing its customers. Lots of people were left in a lurch last year when RegisterFly tech support stopped answering tickets and RegistryFly didn't pay for renewals to the Registry. The result was that the Registry started deleting domains of the RegistryFly customers.<br>
<a href="http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/">http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/the-warning-signs-of-another-registerfly/</a><br><br>39. Should we drop the "dot com"? by James Koole Seth Godin has an interesting post over at his blog today in which he debates the question, "Drop the dot?" as in, can we get rid of the dot com when talking about websites. Godin says no, because saying dot com is easy to say - just four letters, two syllables - and pretty much leaves it at that. But let's weigh the possibilities:<br>
<a href="http://about.tucows.com/2008/04/10/should-we-drop-the-dot-com/">http://about.tucows.com/2008/04/10/should-we-drop-the-dot-com/</a><br><br>40. Drop the dot?<br>... The suffix is useful, and we'll have it for a long, long time in my opinion. That's because [dot] com uses just four characters to say, "we have a website and this is the address for it." No need to say "our website is" when you can just use four characters instead.<br>
<a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/drop-the-dot.html">http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/drop-the-dot.html</a><br><br>**********************<br> - DOMAINING & AFTERMARKET<br>**********************<br>
41. L'affaire Yahoo is tres banale to Madison Ave.<br>Advertising executives on Madison Avenue, who have always liked to watch a good fight, are more bemused by the Yahoo-Microsoft action than concerned by which company wins.<br>
<a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9917050-7.html">http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9917050-7.html</a><br><br>42. <a href="http://dollars.com">dollars.com</a> Going for Big Dollars in Sedo Auction Sedo currently has an auction underway for <a href="http://dollars.com">dollars.com</a>, and with four and a half days to go, there is already a bid for €750,000. So far there have been 15 bids.<br>
<a href="http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4605">http://technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article=4605</a><br><a href="http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/mega-dollars-for-dollars.com-sedo-auction.html">http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/mega-dollars-for-dollars.com-sedo-auction.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/dollarscom-going-for-big-dollars-in-sedo-auction/">http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/dollarscom-going-for-big-dollars-in-sedo-auction/</a><br><br>43. Casino770 Acquires <a href="http://770.com">770.com</a> through Sedo for £175,000 Sedo have announced via the news release below they have brokered the sale of the domain name <a href="http://770.com">770.com</a> to Casino770, an online gambling operator. It is another example of a simple domain name being acquired to make it easier for users to remember the domain name, and to improve their brand profile.<br>
<a href="http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/casino770-acquires-770com-through-sedo-for-175000/">http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/04/13/casino770-acquires-770com-through-sedo-for-175000/</a><br><a href="http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/175-000-for-770.com-sedo-brokers-sale.html">http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/175-000-for-770.com-sedo-brokers-sale.html</a><br>
<br>44. Buyer of $166,000 Shoppers.com Can Keep Domain Name Imagine buying a domain for $166,000 through a backorder only to be hit with a UDRP arbitration dispute a day later. That's exactly what happened to Xedoc Holding SA, which bought Shoppers.com at Pool in February. The domain was previously registered at Network Solutions, but was not auctioned at NameJet due to a glitch.<br>
<a href="http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/10/buyer-of-166000-shopperscom-can-keep-domain-name/">http://domainnamewire.com/2008/04/10/buyer-of-166000-shopperscom-can-keep-domain-name/</a><br><br>45. Domains going to auction for less then $10,000 I wanted to showcase a few of the domains going to auction at the Domain Roundtable this year that had reserves under $10,000. This is not the complete list, this is just a sample of domains that are priced under $10,000 reserves to start the auction.<br>
<a href="http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/domains-going-to-auction-for-less-then-10000/">http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/domains-going-to-auction-for-less-then-10000/</a><br><br>46. Deja Vu: Three More Six Figure Domain Sales Bask Atop the Big Board They say good things come in threes and in terms of domain sales that was true this week as we saw three six-figure sales at the top of our sales chart for the second week in a row. This week's trio was more impressive in dollar terms though. Last week's three chart leaders totaled $400,000. The three that head this week's elite list more than doubled that figure, totaling $810,000.<br>
<a href="http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2008/domainsales04-08-08.htm">http://dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2008/domainsales04-08-08.htm</a><br><br>47. .NU and .SH Auctions Start Today! (10 April) .NU Auction: Back by popular demand, Sedo is proud to present our second .nu auction. In the first .nu auction some excellent domains like <a href="http://casino.nu">casino.nu</a> and <a href="http://sex.nu">sex.nu</a> were purchased. Among the top names up for grabs in this auction are <a href="http://porn.nu">porn.nu</a> and <a href="http://store.nu">store.nu</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1709&tracked=&partnerid=&language=e">http://www.sedo.com/links/showhtml.php3?Id=1709&tracked=&partnerid=&language=e</a><br><br>48. HouseRemodeling.com for Sale!<br>
Home Improvement domains are worth a lot of money. So we are pleased to present HouseRemodeling.com is going to auction with only a $50,000 reserve. I can think of no better name for a HowTo site about House Remodeling projects.<br>
<a href="http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/houseremodelingcom-for-sale/">http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/houseremodelingcom-for-sale/</a><br><br>49. Spreadsheets and Country Western going to Auction Country Western SpreadsheetWhat do Country Western and Spreadsheets have in common? They are both owned by Rick Latona and they are going to auction on Monday the 21st in San Francisco at the Domain Roundtable. It is your chance to own some very generic domains. Spreadsheets.com and CountryWestern.com are killer domains.<br>
<a href="http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/spreadsheets-and-country-western-going-to-auction/">http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/04/spreadsheets-and-country-western-going-to-auction/</a><br><br>**********************<br>
- NON-ENGLISH NEWS<br>**********************<br>50. Internet-Surfen: Aller guten Dinge sind acht Obwohl es laut Denic derzeit knapp 12 Millionen registrierte .de-Domains gibt, konzentriert sich der Bundesbürger bei der privaten Nutzung des Internets nur auf acht Lieblingsseiten, die er regelmäßig besucht. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt zumindest das Berliner Forsa-Institut nach einer repräsentativen Befragung, die im Auftrag von SevenOne Interactive, dem Online- und Multimedia-Vermarktungsunternehmen der ProSiebenSat.1-Gruppe, durchgeführt wurde. Zwar würden jeden Monat im Schnitt 17 neue Seiten von den Nutzern angeklickt, in die Auswahl an Webpages, die vom jeweiligen Nutzer regelmäßig besucht werden (das sogenannte Relevant Set), schaffen es danach aber nur wenige.<br>
<a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Internet-Surfen-Aller-guten-Dinge-sind-acht--/meldung/106323">http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Internet-Surfen-Aller-guten-Dinge-sind-acht--/meldung/106323</a><br><br>51. Domain-Namen mit asiatischer Schrift für 2009 erwartet Edmon Chung, Chef der Domain-Vergabestelle Dot-Asia, hat bestätigt, dass in verschiedenen Arbeitsgruppen der Icann an der Weiterentwicklung von Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), zu deutsch laut Wikipedia Umlaut-Domains, gearbeitet wird. Chung ist selbst an dem Projekt beteiligt. Als möglichen Einführungstermin für Domain-Namen mit asiatischen Schriftzeichen nannte er Frühjahr 2009.<br>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39189462,00.htm">http://www.zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39189462,00.htm</a><br><br>52. LG Schwerin – Lücke im Namensrecht?<br>Das Landgericht Schwerin hat eine Namensrechtsentscheidung getroffen, die prima vista folgenschwer sein könnte: Durch nachträgliche Gründung oder Umbenennung eines Vereins, könnte man Dritten ihre früher registrierten Domains nehmen. Ob das in der Praxis machbar ist, darf bezweifelt werden. Doch die Entscheidung bleibt an dieser Stelle, mangels entsprechender Erläuterungen, zwiespältig.<br>
<a href="http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/lg-schwerin-luecke-im-namensrecht-id667169.html">http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/lg-schwerin-luecke-im-namensrecht-id667169.html</a><br><br>
53. Domain-Gebühren – Holzauge, sei wachsam!<br>Holzauge, sei wachsam – die alte Redewendung, die sich im Geschäftsverkehr seit vielen Jahren bewährt hat und zur Vorsicht rät, sollten derzeit auch Domain-Inhaber beherzigen: egal, ob China, USA oder Deutschland – nicht jeder (oft nur vermeintliche) Service lohnt die Investition.<br>
<a href="http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/domain-gebuehren-holzauge-sei-wachsam-id667168.html">http://www.domain-recht.de/magazin/domain-news-2008/domain-gebuehren-holzauge-sei-wachsam-id667168.html</a><br>
<br>54. Schon nächstes Jahr Domains auf chinesisch?<br>Am Rande der Konferenz E-Commerce Asia 2008 hat der Chef der Domain-Vergabestelle Dot-Asia, Edmon Chung, bestätigt, dass bei der Icann an der Weiterentwicklung von Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) gearbeitet wird.<br>
<a href="http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2008/kw15/s29591.html">http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2008/kw15/s29591.html</a><br><br>55. «.eu» feiert zweiten Geburtstag<br>Unter dem Internet-Domainnamen «.eu» sind im vergangenen Jahr 300 000 Adressen neu hinzugekommen. Insgesamt hätten damit seit der Einführung der Domain vor zwei Jahren gut 2,8 Millionen Privatpersonen, Unternehmen und Organisationen «.eu»-Seiten registriert.<br>
<a href="http://www.main-rheiner.de/dpa/artikel.php3?id=752544">http://www.main-rheiner.de/dpa/artikel.php3?id=752544</a><br><br>56. 5000 nouveaux .ASIA par jour<br>Le .ASIA est ouvert à tous depuis le 26 mars dernier. Voici en exclusivité les premiers chiffres officiels d'enregistrement.<br>
<a href="http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1488/asie-5000-nouveaux-asia-par-jour.php">http://domainesinfo.fr/extension/1488/asie-5000-nouveaux-asia-par-jour.php</a><br><br>57. Argentina, país con más dominios de A. Latina Argentina es el país con mayor cantidad de dominios nacionales de Internet de América Latina: 1.580.991 en total. Le siguen Brasil con 1.276.570, México con 240.428 y Chile con 205.295. Los números pertenecen al reporte de marzo de 2008 confeccionado por LatinoamerICANN.<br>
<a href="http://www.rosarionet.com.ar/rnet/empresas.vsp?nid=37992">http://www.rosarionet.com.ar/rnet/empresas.vsp?nid=37992</a><br><br>58. NIC Chile aclara situación de dominio <a href="http://salvadorallende.cl">salvadorallende.cl</a>.<br>
Diversos medios de prensa han informado que un tercero habría inscrito a su nombre el dominio <a href="http://salvadorallende.cl">salvadorallende.cl</a>, publicando durante algunas horas en el sitio web respectivo información contraria al ex mandatario. También se ha informado que NIC Chile habría corregido esta situación, redirigiendo dicho sitio hacia otro favorable al ex presidente.<br>
<a href="http://www.leandrotoscano.com/2008/04/nic-chile-aclara-situacin-de-dominio.html">http://www.leandrotoscano.com/2008/04/nic-chile-aclara-situacin-de-dominio.html</a><br><br>59. Tjener millioner: En amerikaner investerte 1400 kroner, nå selger han for 13 millioner.<br>
Amerikaneren Chris Clark (43) fra Maryland, registrerte internettdomenet <a href="http://pizza.com">pizza.com</a> i 1994, skriver <a href="http://di.se">di.se</a>.<br><a href="http://www.na24.no/naeringsliv/article1753968.ece">http://www.na24.no/naeringsliv/article1753968.ece</a><br>
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