domain name, WSIS & governance news - Mar 10

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Phishers using DNS servers to lure victims
Online thieves looking for personal data may be moving
to more active measures by redirecting people from
legitimate sites to malicious ones, security experts
said this week.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183847,00.htm
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5604555.html

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNCID=3D37&CIaNID=3D18164
 http://www.vnu.co.uk/news/1161743

au: Companies warned against .biz bluff
Overseas internet operator Michael Goodall uses images
of the US flag and a presidential-looking seal that
bears the legend: "In God We Trust".

http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160754019.html

NZ company victor in domain dispute
New Zealand polling company DigiPoll has gained
control of the domain name digipoll.com, more than
three years after it was registered by someone else in
the US.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3D3&ObjectID=3D10114039

Australian Domain Price War: The Gloves are off &
Domain Prices Have Crashed in 2005
The retail price for com.au domains has never been
this low! Premium full service registrars such as
MelbourneIT and Bottle Domains sell a 2-year license
for com.au domains at $140 and $99 respectively. You
can now register the same com.au domain at Domain
Central for only $49.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=3D11683

Australian domain administrator warns against .biz
scam
The administrator of .au domain names is warning
Australian businesses to be wary of contacts from an
organisation it believes is falsely positioning itself
as the global domain name administrator.

http://www.webhostdir.com/news/articles/shownews.asp?id=3D11671

uk: Domain seller leaves thousands in limbo
Thousands of UK domain owners have been left in limbo
by the actions of Cambridge-based registrar
Firevision.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/08/firevision_domain_customess_in_li=
mbo

ICANN Strategic Plan
ICANN has released for public comment a draft of the
three year ICANN Strategic Plan. The public comment
period began 16 November, 2004 and has been extended
until 28 February, 2005. ICANN encourages all members
of the community to participate in this public comment
forum.
 http://icann.org/strategic-plan/strategic-plan.html

GNSO Council Teleconference Agenda - 17 March 2005

http://gnso.icann.org/meetings/agenda-gnso-17mar05.htm

GNSO Council Election for ICANN Board seat 14 -
Procedure for Seconding Nominations

http://gnso.icann.org/announcements/announcement-07mar05.htm

us: Domain Owners Lose Privacy
As facts unfold, and the NTIA's decision to take away
our privacy comes to light, it is interesting to see
the NTIA struggling to explain its decision. Keep in
mind that an "as yet to be identified" bureaucrat made
this decision to take away your privacy, did it
without notice, and without holding hearings. Those
affected were not given an opportunity to explain how
the loss of privacy would negatively affect them.
Quite simply, this is NOT how our government is
supposed to work. We should be outraged.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/953_0_1_0_C

.US Domain Owners to Lose Anonymity
Owners of .us domain names are unable to have their
name and contact information details withheld from
public view.

http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=3Dviewarticle&type=3Dnews&ID=3D5705

Being Canadian Online More Popular Than Ever (news
release)
The 500,000th dot-ca Internet domain name was
registered according to figures released today by the
CIRA.
 http://www.cira.ca/news-releases/143.html

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/08/c2281.html

Top Level Domain .at hat keinen zwingenden Bezug zu
=D6sterreich
F=FCr viel Wirbel hatte im Dezember 2004 ein Urteil des
Landgerichts Hamburg (324 O 375/04) gesorgt, nach dem
die Top Level Domain ".at" keinen zwingenden Bezug zu
=D6sterreich aufweist. Das Landgericht hatte die Klage
der =F6sterreichischen Sartorius GmbH gegen eine
gleichnamige deutsche Privatperson auf Freigabe der
Domain "sartorius.at" abgewiesen.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/57146

Neue TLDs (.hn, .vc und .sc) bei Variomedia
Die Variomedia IT-Service GmbH bietet ab sofort die
Registrierung von .hn- (Honduras), .sc- (Seychellen)
und .vc-Domains (St. Vincent) an. Die Preise liegen
zwischen 47,40 und 83,40 Euro pro Jahr (inkl. MwSt.).
F=FCr Reseller sind bei Bedarf indivuelle Konditionen
m=F6glich.
 http://webhostlist.de/provider/news/1976.html

IETF will beim Standard f=FCr internationalisierte
Domains nachbessern
Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will am
Standard der internationalisierten Domains (IDN)
nachbessern, um der Gefahr von Phishing-Attacken
entgegenzuwirken. Beim 62. Treffen der
Standardisierungsorganisation in Minneapolis k=FCndigte
die Vorsitzende des Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
Leslie Daigle, ein Adhoc Kommittee an, das noch im
M=E4rz verschiedene Strategien er=F6rtern soll. "Wir
k=F6nnen uns vor dem Problem nicht dr=FCcken," sagte auch
der neue IETF-Chef, Brian Carpenter.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/57201

.EU (Europe) Le .EU reste dans l'attente du feu vert
de l'Icann
Le .EU continue de prendre du retard sur le planning
pr=E9vu. Point d'=E9tape avec Eurid, le gestionnaire.
 http://domaines.info/vie_extensions.php?vde_id=3D577

R=E9union d=E9terminante pour le .EU ?
Apr=E8s l'=E9chec des n=E9gociations sur le .EU lors de la
derni=E8re r=E9union de l'Icann en Afrique du Sud, la
prochaine devrait faire avancer le processus de
lancement du .EU
 http://domaines.info/article.php?art_id=3D602

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WSIS & GOVERNANCE
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tn: Preparing for the World Summit on Information
Society starts with violence and arrests of human
rights defenders and peaceful demonstrators
Amnesty International is concerned about the recent
escalation in intimidation and violence against
peaceful demonstrators in Tunisia, a few months before
the country is due to host the World Summit on
Information Society (WSIS), an inter-governmental and
civil society meeting organized by the United Nations
in November.
 http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE300022005

Preparatory Committee of WSIS Registered Azerbaijan=92s
Contributions
Members of the delegation of Azerbaijan having
participated at the Second meeting of the Preparatory
Committee of the World Summit on Information Society
(WSIS) held a news conference at the UN Baku
Representation.

http://azertag.com/en/index.shtml?language=3Denglish&catid=3D&news_year=3D=
&news_month=3D&news_day=3D&newsid=3D98642

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