• China to compete in dot-com domains
  In a move that ignores the U.S. stranglehold on domain names, China has announced it will start its own domain-name system beginning tomorrow, reports the People's Daily Online.
  China's Ministry of Information Industry plans to add three top-level domain names: dot-net, and dot-com and dot-net.
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• China Creates Own DNS
  Last year there was ample criticism of ICANN by foreign countries, who suggested that the organization was far too America-Centric. Some wanted to see a new ITU supported coalition formed for Internet governance, though others (like China & Turkey) proposed more drastic measures. China tomorrow will launch their own DNS system, with three temporary top level domains, (.CN, .Com and .Net) that will be available only via Chinese networks. Chinese users will be routed directly through the Chinese domestic analysis server, bypassing ICANN entirely
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02/24/2006

• Switzerland seeks UN help to win domain names
  The Swiss government has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization, in an attempt to win the rights to Switzerland's in cyberspace, an AFP report said.
  The report said the Federal Chancellery was seeking control of the Internet domain names schweiz.ch, suisse.ch and svizzera.ch, which mean "Switzerland" in the country's majority German, and minority French and Italian respectively
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02/23/2006

• Afilias Transfers .aero Registry
  Domain name registrar Afilias (afilias.info) announced on Tuesday that it has completed the transition of registry services for the .aero top-level domain associated with the aviation industry
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02/22/2006

• Nominet responds to rule-change concerns
  Nominet's chairman and chief executive have hit back at claims that changes to the company's Memorandum and Articles of Association will over-commercialise the not-for-profit company
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• UK companies told to embrace .eu domains
  Relations between the EU and the UK have at times been strained but that should be no reason for UK companies to ignore the potential of registering a dot-eu domain name
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02/21/2006

• Nominet faces rebellion over rule changes
  Nominet, the company in charge of the .uk registry, is facing a grassroots rebellion over proposed changes to company rules that will see it enter a more commercial phase
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• Entrepreneur Ups the Ante and Sells Domain Name for $1 More Than Sex.com for Chance at Breaking World Record
  What's in a name? Apparently, a lot. TheRecordBreakingDomain.com Website is excited to announce that they are upping the ante for their domain name from $7,500,001 to $12,000,001 -- $1 more than the unofficial record of Sex.com, whose sale recently made international headlines -- and millions more than the official record holder, Business.com
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02/20/2006

• .EU Domains Open for General Registration on April 7, 2006
  .EU Domains Open for General Registration on April 7, 2006
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• ICANN Appoints New Staff Members
  Internet regulatory body the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org) announced last week that it had appointed new staff members to its Global Partnership regional liaison network.
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02/18/2006

• What's In a .eu Domain Name?
  It is important that your brand is protected internationally through the use of the .eu domain name
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02/16/2006

• .travel: Nice, But Not Necessary
  New Sponsored Domain Name Will Benefit Its Sponsors But Few Others
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02/13/2006

• Cyber squatting hits four-year high
  Illegal acts of cybersquatting where people abuse trademarks or domain names are surging to their highest level in over four years, The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has warned
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02/12/2006

• ICANN Posts Accountability Frameworks Documents
  ICANN welcomes the ccNSO's "Guidelines for ccTLD managers Accountability Framework discussions with ICANN" recently published by the ccNSO. The guidelines are the result of consultation among the ccTLD community and they provide a basis for ccTLD managers and ICANN to formalize their existing relationship
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02/09/2006

• Nominet flip-flops on industry code of conduct
  Nominet UK, the outfit that administers the .uk domain, says it's committed to "raising standards in the UK internet industry" four years after insisting a code of conduct was "not feasible".
  Ten years after Nominet was created it is now consulting the industry on how to improve standards in the domain name industry
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• Nominet seeks to rais standards in UK internet industry
  A survey of registrars by Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, has revealed that two-thirds agreed with the need for improved self-regulation in the domain name industry and over 80 percent supported a code of conduct for registrars
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02/07/2006

• Rule change aids China cyber-squatters
  New regulations will make it more difficult for companies to protect their domain names from cyber-squatters in China
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• Domain name contact information and the right to anonymity
  The conflict between the open Internet--the one we all love for its small users and free speech--and the commercial Internet--with high barriers to entry--continues. The conflict's back this week in ICANN, which came into being in the midst of the conflict and has been subject to its vicissitudes for over seven years
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02/03/2006

• Over 16,000 .travel Domains Registered
  travel sponsored domain name registrar Tralliance (tralliance.info) announced this week that 16,162 .travel domains have been registered during the first 16 weeks
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02/02/2006

• ICANN Chairman, Vinton Cerf, To Present Keynote at Domain Name Conference
  ICANN Chairman and Google Chief Internet Evangelist, as well as co-designer of the original TCP/IP protocols of the Internet, Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, has been named as a keynote speaker at the second annual Domain Roundtable Conference
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02/01/2006

• Domain Prices Set to Rise
  The days of ever cheaper domain names may well be numbered, thanks to a newly-revised agreement between ICANN and online security provider VeriSign .
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• New Domain Deal Fails to Appease
  ICANN (icann.org) said this week that it had revised its agreement with VeriSign (verisign.com), which gave the company control over the .com registry until 2012.
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• First results in: People not happy with new dotcom contract
  Is it any more than an ICANN staff fudge?
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• English teacher Web sites in row over domain names
  An online service for finding English teachers--a-kaiwa.net--has taken rival FindaNet, Ltd., to court over purchasing and using a similar Internet domain name (a-kaiwa.com) for the alleged purpose of drawing away a-kaiwa.net customers, it was learned Wednesday
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