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Registrar Hijacking of Expired Domain Names
By changing the Registered Name Holder's contact information, registrars are able to stifle any effort by the public to contact a registrant about their expiring domain name - preventing registrant from benefiting from the sale of rights to the domain name. And that's just the beginning! Learn more here:
City Domain Names - The Internet User's view
Local Web addresses could improve relationship between the state and civil society / Survey by German ISP association eco
End of Summer Time in Europe and Remote Participation
Europe moved from summer time to winter time last night but the California won't do so until next weekend. This means that for the week of the ICANN meeting the time difference between Europe and the US is different than normal.
Anyone who wants to follow the sessions at this week's meeting will need to take account of the difference in the normal time calculations this week.
On Monday at 9am in Los Angeles it will be 5pm in Brussels and 4pm in Lisbon which is one hour earlier than last week.
.lac or .latino?
It seems that Latin American Community movement for an own TLD get some momentum. Comparable to .eu and .asia it it suggested to create a similar string for the community. Proposal are welcome
IGF Workshop on TLD for cities and regions
Under the title "Broadening the Domain Name Space: Top Level Domains for Cities and Regions?" an IGF workshop on TLD for cities and regions is planned. Participants will be also represenatives of the leading city development organisations, Telecities and UNITAR. Speakers include some of the GeoTLD initiatives like .berlin (be .berlin), .paris, .nyc.
Michael Leibrandt on GeoTLDs
Some weeks ago Michael Leibrandt, the German GAC representative until end of 2006, has issued on the CPSR mailing list an article about his personal view on the new gTLDs, especially the GeoTLDs.
Werner Staub, Tom Lowenhaupt and me (Dirk Krischenowski) made comments to Michaels article here:
ICANN confusing new gTLD applicants
ICANN caused some confusion among potential applicants for new gTLDs when stating that the timeline by which ICANN staff operates sees the application process "in the latter half of 2008". After all it has been a mere 6 weeks ago ICANN issued a press release (http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may07.htm) in which the date was announced to be in early 2008. No one seems to remember this press release, but it is still on the website.
Whois information page
Welcome to the Whois information page where you can find out what Whois is, why it is important, why there has been so much argument over it, and where the resolution process is at the moment.
German Parliament calls upon Government to support advancement of the Internet Domain Name System
The factions of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in the German Parliament have submitted the resolution "Advancement of the adress space in the Internet" (printed paper no. 16/4564; courtesy translation) to the plenary on March 7. In it, the federal government is called upon to support new developments in the Internet name space.
RegisterFly, Class Action, ICANN and Registries
I got notice yesterday evening of a class action brought to in a US Court against RF, eNom and ICANN.
Although I can understand why the plaintiff is naming eNom and ICANN ( though i don't think that she will succeed in demonstrating that there were illegal conduct from both ) it is somewhat baffling why some other registrars and registries are left alone from this action.
On the process of trying to solve the problem ICANN stated that it had come to an agreement with the registries (all? some of them?) so domains would not be lost.
