ICANNWiki.org
As you can see from information about the wiki, ICANNWiki.org is based in the city of Portland, in the state of Oregon.
Oregon is one of the world leaders for the Open Source community. In fact, it is not uncommon for companies from around the globe to open up a research and development arm [...]
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The below is what was printed in today’s Sedo newsletter, with content assembled by Crystal Peterson of The Public Interest Registry.
With the increased focus on the importance of corporate social responsibility and green issues, businesses are reaping the rewards of maintaining a separate .org website alongside their commercial .com.
Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across [...]
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We have made a correction to the Oversee.net layoff article. The previous article mentioned in the last paragraph “The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of . . . ”
Domain Name News was made aware of the rumored news of Oversee layoffs on Friday and had received rumors of layoffs at [...]
In order to make DNSSEC effective, there is one additional step that is needed - "signing the root". If a digital signature is applied to the root of the Domain Name System, end-to-end assurance of the data is possible. Without a signature on the root, it is impossible to assure the validity of any of the other signatures in the system.
Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, rolling with .travel
Monday, August 18, 2008
One of the many new faces in .travel is www.Alabama.travel. Alabama known as “Sweet Home Alabama” is one of the most beautiful areas in the Southern United States. With over 4.6 million people calling it home, Alabama is among the nation’s leaders in aerospace, [...]
The .travel community is growing, www.Alabama.travel…..
Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, Rolling with .travel
One of the many new faces in .travel is www.Alabama.travel. Alabama known as ?Sweet Home Alabama? is one of the most beautiful areas in the Southern United States. With over 4.6 million people calling it home, Alabama is among the nation?s leaders [...]
Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, Rolling with .travel
One of the many new faces in .travel is www.Alabama.travel. Alabama known as ?Sweet Home Alabama? is one of the most beautiful areas in the Southern United States. With over 4.6 million people calling it home, Alabama is among the nation?s leaders in aerospace, education, and healthcare.
The News of Our Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - Mark Twain
Rick Schwartz announced in an email a few days ago that the upcoming TRAFFIC show would be auctioning sponsorship positions. My gut reaction to reading this email was that it had a ring of desperation. I posted on a forum to [...]
Network Solutions announces the launch of its new corporate website. Visible online at www.About.NetworkSolutions.com, the site illustrates the company?s philosophy, people and products in an up close and personal manner.
(PRWEB) ? Network Solutions, a leading provider of e-business solutions and pioneer of the domain name registration service, announces the launch of its new corporate [...]
Network Solutions announces the launch of MySolutionSpot, an online community where business owners can access information and share ideas with one another. This online community is exclusively for small and medium-sized businesses.
(PRWEB) ? Leading e-business solutions provider Network Solutions® announces the launch of professional networking Web site MySolutionSpot, visible online at MySolutionSpot.com. MySolutionSpot is [...]
Travel Trade’s largest and longest running show has added a new feature, the “.travel pavilion”
Travel Trade Magazine, with over 79 years of continuous publication, will be hosting the 25th Annual Leisure Travel Conference November 15th through the 18th in Miami at the Hyatt Regency. As this is a historical year for the Leisure Travel Conference, [...]
Recently we teamed up with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to express our concern to ICANN that the rights and needs of end-users are taken into account in the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Namely, IDNs are to be seen as a technical measure to allow for multi-lingual direction navigation of the internet and not used as a tool to control access, impose censorship or limit freedom of expression online.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the first phase of Aftermarket.com. This first phase is a dual online & offline auction system using the new platform of DomainTools created specifically for the Aftermarket.com. Many people may be familiar with DomainTools auction platform rolled out last year - we have redesigned most of [...]
I recall a year ago when, as a new CEO, I attended some industry events and first brought up the topic of DNSSEC in the .ORG zone. At that time, DNSSEC wasn?t as understood as now (notice I did not say it is now well understood), and there were major opponents to DNSSEC in very influential arenas who charged that the DNS did not need anything like DNSSEC and that the time for the type of technology like DNSSEC had come and gone. We went back to the drawing board, asked ourselves some very tough questions, and still came up convinced that the way to secure the future of the foundations ? namely DNS ? was through DNSSEC.
In April, we launched the Registrant Alert service. This is an extremely valuable service. It can save tons in time and money. Jay points to an example of the service in action: alerting him when he was about to lose a domain due to expiration. Another scenario that can be far [...]
I have been playing with Google Ad Planner for about a week now and it is by far the best third party metrics tool out there. I can now directly query Google for how popular a website is and how many users they have. I have found that if a website doesn’t have more then [...]
I am pleased to welcome Tim Chen to our company. Tim is our VP of Corporate Development at Thought Convergence. As many of you may know Tim has worked in online media and advertising for ten years, including the last 2 1/2 years as the VP of business development and domain acquisitions at Internet [...]
ICANN’s recent announcement that businesses can now apply for domain extensions outside of the TLDs (top level domains) currently in use, like .uk, .com or .org, has caused a huge buzz in the business community. But should companies really start defensively registering extensions and stumping...
SedoCares’ Wishing Well Promotion:In the domain industry, we deal with property that can’t be touched and we build relationships with people we may never meet. Well, isn’t it about time we join together and unite beyond the marketplace? With this question in mind, we created...
NATO and Russia remain at loggerheads as senior figures within the military alliance accuse Moscow of failing to honor the full terms of the cease-fire agreement, brokered by the European Union to end the fighting in Georgia.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Poland's foreign minister Wednesday signed a formal agreement to base U.S. ballistic missile interceptors in the country.
Si ça pouvait permettre de fin au spam, ça se saurait... En tout cas, une nouvelle disposition légale est introduite par la loi de modernisation de l'économie, à l'article L. 122-11-1 (3°) du code de la consommation : "Sont réputées agressives (...) les pratiques commerciales qui ont pour objet (...) de se livrer à des sollicitations répétées et non souhaitées par téléphone, télécopieur, courrier électronique ou tout autre outil de communication à distance". Concrètement, un registrar n'est donc pas plus censé qu'auparavant envoyer des mails pour proposer l'enregistrement de noms de domaine !
Une autre disposition ne pourra être utilisée dans les cas de slamming, car elle concerne la fourniture de produits, alors que l'enregistrement de noms de domaine est une prestation de services : il est désormais interdit "d'exiger le paiement immédiat ou différé de produits fournis par le professionnel sans que le consommateur les ait demandés" (L. 122-11-1 6°).
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it is a jaw-dropper. We saw a half-dozen six-figure sales this week and all of those domains were purchased by the same person. In fact the Aspen, Colorado based buyer wound up spending over $1.1 million on a total of 11 domains for a cryptic new project his company is working on.
Widget company loses UDRP arbitration for 128 domain names.
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and his internet widget company Slide have lost a UDRP decision to obtain the domain SlideTV.com and 127 other associated domain names.
Slide has raised over $50 million to date, and the last round was rumored to have been raised at a valuation north [...]
Major League Baseball continues aggressive campaign for team names.
Major League Baseball and the San Francisco Giants want to to get their hands on GiantsBaseball.com. The domain is owned by a Carmel, California man and was registered in 1999, and is subject to arbitration at National Arbitration Forum commenced on August 15.
Rick Latona, one of the world's most successful .com investors, spends a lot of time traveling around the globe. While hopping from one country to another he has been seeing ccTLDs and IDNs blossom before his eyes. Latona doesn't miss many boats - did he really miss one here?
Our servers went down due to new chat implementation (new module we are testing) as well as massive traffic due to today’s excellent auction item, FixedLoans.com.
Will update more later. We expect to run this auction again tomorrow at 1PM EDT.
Three character domain name leads sales chart for Sedo this week.
Domain brokerage Sedo has sold JTR.com for 60,000 EUR, or about $90,000. This is a solid three character domain name with many acronyms.
Sedo also concluded a good Great Domains sale, Doctor.net for 21,760 EUR.
La loi "Chatel" du 3 janvier 2008 avait modifié les dispositions relatives à la publicité mensongère, pour évoquer désormais les pratiques commerciales trompeuses. Un nouvel article du code de la consommation (L. 121-1-1) est créé par la loi de modernisation de l'economie, pour préciser ce que sont ces pratiques commerciales trompeuses. Cet article est applicable aux pratiques qui visent tant les consommateurs que les professionnels. Il interdit notamment : - « Pour un professionnel, de se prétendre signataire d'un code de conduite alors qu'il ne l'est pas" (L. 121-1-1 1°). C'est l'hypothèse d'un registrar qui annoncerait se plier au code de conduite EURid, alors qu'il n'en est pas signataire - "D'afficher un certificat, un label de qualité ou un équivalent sans avoir obtenu l'autorisation nécessaire" (L. 121-1-1 2°). Ce serait le cas par exemple d'un registrar qui se prévaudrait de l'accréditation ICANN alors qu'il ne l'a pas - « (...) ne pas respecter les conditions de l'agrément, de l'approbation ou de l'autorisation reçue" (L. 121-1-1 4°). Naît ainsi une possibilité pour le client d'un registrar de lui opposer les normes contenues dans l'agrément que lui a donné le registre [sauf à supposer qu'un tel agrément, de source privée, ne soit pas considéré comme entrant dans le champ du texte] - « De s'engager à fournir un service après-vente aux consommateurs avec lesquels le professionnel a communiqué avant la transaction dans une langue qui n'est pas une langue officielle de l'Etat membre de l'Union européenne dans lequel il est établi et, ensuite, assurer ce service uniquement dans une autre langue sans clairement en informer le consommateur avant que celui-ci ne s'engage dans la transaction" (L. 121-1-1 8°). Les registrars qui ont des clients à l'étranger devront mesurer les conséquences de cette nouvelle disposition légale... - « De décrire un produit ou un service comme étant " gratuit ?, " à titre gracieux ?, " sans frais ? ou autres termes similaires si le consommateur doit payer quoi que ce soit d'autre que les coûts inévitables liés à la réponse à la pratique commerciale et au fait de prendre possession ou livraison de l'article" (L. 121-1-1 19°). En soi, cette disposition invite les registrars à ne pas faire de promotion du type "votre nom de domaine gratuit", mais "votre nom gratuit pendant un an" - « D'inclure dans un support publicitaire une facture ou un document similaire demandant paiement qui donne au consommateur l'impression qu'il a déjà commandé le produit ou le service commercialisé alors que tel n'est pas le cas" (L. 121-1-1 20°). Une disposition qui pourrait être utile - en théorie... - pour poursuivre les auteurs de certaines formes de slamming
BJ08.Asia Cheers for Asia Athletes at the Beijing Games DotAsia Contributes in Multiple Areas to Support the Games held in Asia
Hong Kong, 15 August 2008 - DotAsia Organisation announces grassroots website http://www.BJ08.asia to cheer for Asia Athletes competing in the games held in Beijing. Breaking the traditional focus on medals by country, BJ08.Asia will post medal standings by regions: Asia, America, Europe and Africa.
"Much is reported about the medals race between China and the USA. BJ08.Asia aims to encourage fans from China, Japan, Australia, India and all across Asia to cheer for all athletes from Asia," says Edmon Chung. "We are excited to see after 6 days of competition, Team Asia leading with 42 gold medals, while Team Europe has 31 and Team America with 11."
According to the statistics presented at http://www.BJ08.asia, Team Europe is the predominant force throughout the games' modern history. In recent years, medals from Team Asia grew rapidly and had surpassed Team America in gold and total medals in 2000. This year in Beijing, with home court advantage, Team Asia has a chance to challenge Team Europe for most Gold medals. A recent 'Economic Briefing Paper: Modeling Olympic Performance' from PricewaterhouseCoopers illustrated the relationship between the number of medals won versus the economic wealth of a region. The rapid growth for Team Asia seems to mirror the economic growth in the Asia market. With that perspective, it is not surprising to see Asia surpassing America and challenging Team Europe's dominance in this Asia Century.
Besides BJ08.asia, DotAsia is also working with local authorities in Hong Kong during the games to curb infringement on .Asia domains. "We are excited that .Asia domains are being deployed to bring users around the world to the official website of the games in Beijing. DotAsia is committed to the protection of intellectual property rights and a secure, stable Internet in Asia. Our team will work closely with local authorities during the games in Beijing to support responses against infringements and malicious activities on .Asia domains," says Chung.
Earlier in February, DotAsia participated in a commemorative TV series for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (www.OlympicILoveYou.asia) aired across China during the Lunar New Year featuring former Olympic Gold Medalists and medal hopefuls for China. Star athletes including GaoMin.asia (diving), BaoChunLai.asia (badminton) and ZhangGuoZheng.asia (weightlifting) among others graced the show with their presence.
Oversee.net has confirmed that the company has let go of 10% of its staff as of Friday. The company blames the downturn in the economy. A spokesperson told SocalTech “the cuts were in response to the general economic weakness and pressures in the industry.” According to the report cuts were made across [...]
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We have made a correction to the Oversee.net layoff article. The previous article mentioned in the last paragraph “The news of Oversee executives being canned comes in the wake of . . . ”
Domain Name News was made aware of the rumored news of Oversee layoffs on Friday and had received rumors of layoffs at [...]
One of the world's leading domain companies, Oversee.net, reduced its workforce by 10% Friday. Oversee VP Mason Cole spoke with us about the tough decision to lay off team members.
Cybersquatter offering threesome with Scarlett Johansson! | Latest News The seemingly fake website isn?t so much of a surprise as the domain that it sits on ? scarlettjohansson.com. While the website has an offer that??s hard to believe, it??s even...
Promulguée en pleine trève estivale, la Loi de Modernisation de l'Economie fait évoluer sensiblement le cadre juridique des affaires en France. Que vient-elle changer dans le secteur des noms de domaine ? Réponse en plusieurs volets. Aujourd'hui, le "statut de l'entrepreneur individuel" (articles 1 à 20).*
La première modification intéressera les personnes qui font du "domaining" un hobby. L'activité de revente de noms pouvait se faire sans addition de la T.V.A. jusqu'à un chiffre d'affaires de 27.000 ?. Ce plafond passe à 32.000 ?, toujours sous la condition que ce revenu soit déclaré. Cela concerne également les revenus de la monétisation (affiliation, parking...). Les opérations doivent être retracées dans un document mentionnant chronologiquement le montant et l'origine des recettes perçus au titre de l'activité professionnelle. Ceux qui exercent en tant que travailleurs indépendants bénéficient désormais d'un règlement simplifié de leurs cotisations et contributions, et sont aussi dispensés d'une inscription au registre du commerce et des sociétés.
* C'est une présentation très simplifiée, référez-vous au texte pour le régime exact
Officials at Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet in Boulder were shocked to discover recently that their Web site had disappeared off the face of the Internet.
“We had bought the domain name from NameSecure, which is kind of ironic,” said Jenifer Sher, the ballet company’s executive director. “I guess it must have expired, but we didn’t [...]
The first federal court review of open source software licenses was recently undertaken by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The decision, Jacobsen v. Katzer (docs/jacobsen.pdf), No. 2008-1001, slip op. (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008), is important because it finds that infringers of open source licenses are subject to Copyright laws, as opposed to only being in breach of contract for a violation of an open source license.
The court determined that the “conditions” of the open source license were violated when the Defendant removed some of the license notices and other non-critical portions of the software. This was different from the “covenants” that are violated under a contract analysis.
Why does it matter? Remedies for breaching a contract are generally more limited, usually to the economic losses of a contractor. Violations of federal copyright laws, however, provide for more substantial remedies. Such remedies include statutory damages, infringer profits obtained as a result of the breach and other damages that would be more substantial than the aggrieved party’s economic loss.
This result is important, perhaps critical, to the open source movement. Had the court concluded that violations of open source licenses were simply breaches of contract violators would use open source software with virtually no liability concern. The reason? Open source copyright holders would virtually never be able to show “classic” economic loss, because their software is generally provided for free.
While a boon for open source authors, the opinion does create a problem for business and industry that may have taken liberties with open source licenses in the past. While always a good idea, now is a sensible time for IT departments to do an audit of its software licensing, both as to open source and more traditional (closed source) software packages to ensure compliance.
2008-08-18: The Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group has published five Working Drafts. The purpose of the Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) is to provide a means for individuals or organizations to describe a group of resources through the publication of machine-readable metadata.
The fifth Impact 08 seminar was run in mid August over the high-speed Access Grid network, with participation from four universities nationwide. Chaired by Donald Matheson of Canterbury University the seminar featured three academics speaking on the impact of ICTs on ?Social Interaction?.
Mary Allan, a post doctoral Fellow in the Social Science Research Centre [...]
Over the years, the venerable traceroute command has become a less useful tool, due to the fact there may be some devices like load balancers along the way from your computer to the other.
Enter Paris-Traceroute, which tries to be smarter. In addition, it can also do traceroutes in UDP and TCP, in addition to ICMP, [...]
A series of regional consultative meetings about crucial changes to ICANN will take place over the next three months in an effort to reach out to and involve the organization?s global stakeholders.
Four dates had been set so far*, with at least one other due to be announced shortly. They are:
There?s some concern that basic human rights to free expression, privacy, and other civil liberties might be getting pushed too far away from the center of the UN Internet Governance Forum?s (IGF) meeting agenda. The IGF will meet in Hyderabad, India the first week of December this year, and the Secretariat has just published a draft agenda. The agenda is very heavy on security concerns and weak on individual rights protection. A coalition of groups promoting an ?Internet bill of rights? has sent a letter to the Secretariat complaining that ?rather than promoting positive discussion about how to expand the opportunities that the Internet offers for realizing our fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in international law, the title of the main security theme plays on negativity and fear of the Internet.? That letter was endorsed by the civil society Internet Governance Caucus, which IGP participates in.
The Federal Circuit held this week in Jacobsen v. Katzer, that Java Model Railroad Interface author Robert Jacobsen’s release of software under the Artistic License gave him the right to sue for copyright infringement those who distributed modified JMRI software without obeying the conditions of its license. The decision confirms an important cornerstone to [...]
2008-08-15: Web-based video is exploding, for advertising, enterprise collaboration, entertainment, product reviews, and other applications. As prices drop for consumer electronics, amateur and professionals alike are creating increasingly high quality videos. Social networks are sprouting up around Web-delivered media. W3C today launched a new Video in the Web Activity to make video a "first-class citizen" of the Web. The initial scope of work, determined as a result of a successful W3C Workshop on Video will be conducted by three groups:
