Mid January 2008 the Dutch registry SIDN will make it possible to register numerical domain names under the .nl extension. In December 2007 the possibility is offered to holders of prior rights, like a trademark or a trading name to register their protected name first. SIDN organized a procedure to award the domains during a Sunrise in association with Deloitte.
Holders of trademark rights or rights to a trading name can submit their application for a numerical .nl domain during the 2 weeks Sunrise from December the 1st until the 14th.
More information: http://www.sidn.nl/numeriek/
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AsiaDNS informed us that the .Asia Registry System planned closing of Sunrise 2a, on Tuesday, 30 October at 23:59:59 UTC is being extended. Due to extensive and accelerating activity towards the end of the application period and provision for conclusion on October 30 for all time zones, the close of Sunrise 2a is extended until Wednesday, 31 October at 11:59:59 UTC.
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201 Bidders from 37 Countries Participated in Auction that Resulted in 40 Premium Domains Transferring Ownership, Including Turntable.com, Memorycard.com and Silkscreen.comCambridge, Mass., October 30, 2007 – On October 25, 2007, GreatDomains closed its latest live auction powered by Sedo. Bidders from 37 countries participated in the auction, which featured premium .COM and .NET domains being sold by members from around the world. At the close of the auction, 40 domains were sold to new owners from countries including the United States, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, and Australia.
Participating in the auction was turntable.com, which closed at $45,000, memorycard.com, which closed at $41,267, and silkscreen.com, which closed at $32,500. The total dollar amount of the auction neared the $300,000 mark, thanks in part to other domains such as fold.com ($25,000) and wwi.com ($22,500).
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The Washington Post has published a story from its Foreign Service that begins, “After ignoring the Internet for years to focus on controlling traditional media such as television and newspapers, the Kremlin and its allies are turning their attention to cyberspace, which remains a haven for critical reporting and vibrant discussion in Russia’s dwindling public sphere.” The article goes on to say “ there is talk of creating a new Russian computer network — one that would be separate from the Internet at large and, potentially, much easier for the authorities to control.” (Read more…)
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ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee is “investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an individual or business can register them.” The practice is referred to as “domain name front running” and likened to a stock broker buying or selling shares ahead of a client’s trade, in anticipation of a movement in price. (Read more…)
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There’s an interesting story from Associated Press on Vint Cerf stepping down from his position as chair of ICANN. His last moment in charge is the upcoming ICANN meeting in Los Angeles next week. Vint Cerf has been one of the people responsible for developing the internet’s technical foundation and is often regarded as the father of the internet as we all probably know. This article looks at ICANN and how it has grown, developed and its role in the current day internet. (Read more…)
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Download the IPv6 factsheet here [PDF, 402K].
ICANN today released a factsheet covering Internet Protocol 6, or IPv6. The factsheet is intended to provide an explanation of the protocol upgrade for a non-technical audience in the hope of enlarging public understanding surrounding this and related issues. (Read more…)
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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Ombudsman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released his annual report today, which lays out how his office has helped individuals and organizations with disputes come to a resolution while avoiding formal processes like the courts.
“I’m proud to say that thanks to the Ombudsman’s office, ICANN is at the forefront of dispute resolution and the use of online tools in helping people in dealing with their concerns and complaints,” said Frank Fowlie, ICANN’s Ombudsman. “The annual report provides a real snapshot of what a successful tool Alternate Dispute Resolution really is.”
Highlights from the annual report include: (Read more…)
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TELNIC has a problem writes Milton Mueller in this posting on the Internet Governance blog: ICANN’s contracts require it to display all the personal contact data of its registrants through a service known as “Whois.” But unrestricted access to personal contact data, aside from being a rather bad idea, is against the law in the UK. It follows European, not American, privacy and data protection rules. So after consulting with the UK’s data protection authorities, TELNIC asked ICANN to modify its Whois requirement. But the US government, responding to trademark and copyright interests, won’t let it, and is manipulating ICANN to get its way. (Read more…)
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Wendy Seltzer writes on her blog, “Doc’s post and the impending comments deadline for the next iteration of ICANN’s never-ending WHOIS saga finally pushed me to write up my thoughts on the latest iteration of ICANN debate. As Doc points out, much of the current debate is very inside baseball, tied up in acronyms atop bureaucratic layers. Small wonder then that ordinary domain name registrants and Internet users haven’t commented much, while the fora are dominated by INTA members turning out responses to an “urgent request” to “let ICANN know that Whois is important to the brand owners I represent”: see the call reproduced in this response. (Read more…)
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