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From Israel Internet Asscociation (ISOC-IL)
Hebrew Domain Names
ISOC-IL is expanding the Domain Name Registration service with the option to register Domain Names containing Hebrew characters, like איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il, which will soon be made available.
As a preliminary process prior to the opening of Hebrew Domain Names registration to the general public and following the globally-standard practice, ISOC-IL is launching a SUNRISE PROCESS.
See the full story HERE.
Tags: Hebrew Domain Names, IDNs, ISOC-IL
Posted in CCTLD's, IDNs by Ken Taylor |
From the Washington Post
Pentagon Considers Preemptive Strikes as Part of Cyber-Defense Strategy
The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary’s computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally.
The department is developing a range of weapons capabilities, including tools that would allow “attack and exploitation of adversary information systems” and that can “deceive, deny, disrupt, degrade and destroy” information and information systems, according to Defense Department budget documents.
See the full story HERE.
Tags: cyber-security, Pentagon, Washington Post
Posted in Enforcement, Internet Security by Ken Taylor |
From the Wall Street Journal
Are “Sext” Messages a Teenage Felony or Folly
State lawmakers around the U.S. are struggling to decide if teenage “sexting”—the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos by cellphone—is a serious crime, or juvenile folly run amok.
About 20 states have enacted or proposed measures that deal with teenage sexters. Generally, the legislation is aimed at treating minors in a more lenient fashion than if they were prosecuted under existing child-pornography or child-exploitation laws, which include the possibility of prison time and sex-offender status.
See full story HERE.
Tags: Sexting, Wall Street Journal
Posted in Enforcement by Ken Taylor |
From ICANN News Announcements
The Call for Statements of Interest (SOIs) for Candidates for the Post of ICANN Board Seat has been extended to September 6.
This Call for SOIs is part of the new process through which the user community within ICANN will appoint one voting member of the ICANN Board. While acting in a personal capacity as a member of the ICANN Board, this member must be able to reflect the users’ point of view and interests in the debate and decision making undertaken within the ICANN framework.
In seeking candidates for this post, ICANN’s At-Large Community is looking for an individual with a broad international perspective and a background in Internet users’ interests, consumer policy and/or civil society worldwide.
See full announcement HERE.
Tags: ICANN, SOIs
Posted in ICANN by Ken Taylor |
from the New York Times
Less Than 1 Year Until The Internet Runs Out of Addresses
The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was also stated recently by Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist.
See the full story HERE.
Tags: Internet addresses, IPV4, IPv6, New York Times
Posted in IPv6, World Events by Ken Taylor |
This is the story of enterprise in hard times. It is the story of a teen who dedicated himself to improving his lot. It is the story of how one young man turned an old cell phone into a Porsche. Without any money changing hands.
See full story at cnet.
Tags: Add new tag, cnet, craig's list
Posted in Cool Ideas, Tech News by Ken Taylor |
From PCWorld
Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.
ICM Registry, the company that proposed the dot-XXX domain, welcomed the vote.
“It’s been a long time coming,” ICM Chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement, adding that he is “excited” by the move.
“The decision should soon bring to fruition our six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN’s previous decision to deny dot-xxx was wrong,” he said.
ICM Registry says it is a “completely independent entity with no affiliation, current or historic, with the adult entertainment industry.”
That claim of independence gave ICANN board member Rita Rodin Johnston pause for thought. “I still question whether, in fact, there is a real sponsored community here,” she said in the board-meeting debate before the vote.
However, she went on to vote in favor of the new domain, saying that despite her personal reservations about the proposal, she felt obliged to by ICANN’s decision-making process. “It really doesn’t matter what I think. What’s important is that ICANN has a process that it set up and the process came back and said that sponsorship criterion was met, and that this board has the courage to follow that criterion,” she said.
Dot-XXX domains won’t start appearing right away. ICANN must first conduct a “due diligence” study of ICM’s business plan for the domain, and then the board will review the contract proposed for the operation of the domain. That may involve referring the matter to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, which is next scheduled to meet in December in Colombia, said board member Bruce Tonkin.
“There is a potential that this is a prolonged process,” he said.
For the full story go HERE.
Tags: .xxx, ICANN, new gTLDs
Posted in Events, ICANN, gTLDS by Ken Taylor |
From ICANN News Alert
ICANN is pleased to release three additional documents related to the New generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program. These materials are posted for public comment that will be open until July 21, 2010. We are looking forward to receiving your comments. These three documents are part of a series of publications recently posted.
To read all about it go HERE.
Tags: ICANN, new gTLDs, public comments
Posted in ICANN, gTLDS by Ken Taylor |
From ICANN News Alerts
On June 16, in the small town of Culpeper, Virginia, ICANN technical staff played host to an unusual and somewhat arcane event. Volunteers from over ten countries made their way by plane, train and automobile to witness and participate in the generation of the cryptographic key that will be used to secure the root zone of the Domain Name System using DNSSEC for the first time.
During the ceremony, participants were present within a secure facility and witnessed the preparations required to ensure that the so-called key-signing-key (KSK) was not only generated correctly, but that almost every aspect of the equipment, software and procedures associated with its generation were also verified to be correct and trustworthy. The ceremony was conducted with the goal of ensuring that there is widespread confidence throughout the technical Internet community that the root zone, once signed, can be relied upon to protect users from false information.
Ceremony participants referred to an extremely detailed checklist and were able to confirm that every aspect of the process was executed exactly as planned. The entire event was video-recorded simultaneously by three separate cameras, and ICANN arranged for the whole system to be subject to a SysTrust audit, a process supported by the archived, unedited video footage and the legal attestations of key participants.
The path down the long road to Culpeper has required considerable effort and investment by ICANN, and has benefited from an extremely productive collaboration between staff at ICANN, VeriSign and the US Department of Commerce. ICANN, with the help of some talented consultants, has designed processes that are thought to surpass those of many commercial Certificate Authorities not only in the degree of openness and transparency in their design and execution, but also in terms of the security engineering involved.
The design of the overall system requires ICANN to execute a ceremony like this one four times per year. The next ceremony is scheduled to take place on July 12 in El Segundo, California, where ICANN has built a second facility intended to ensure continuity for the DNS (and hence Internet users world-wide) in the event of a serious disaster in one location.
All design documentation for the ceremony will be published by ICANN, not only to promote transparency in the process for the root zone, but also to act as a valuable reference to any other organization that needs to build similar systems to support DNSSEC in top-level domains, enterprises, or anywhere else. The deployment of DNSSEC in the root zone of the DNS will hence not only act as a catalyst for global DNSSEC deployment because of the special nature of the root zone, but also because of the design and engineering investment ICANN is giving back to the wider community.
Tags: DNSSEC, ICANN, KSK
Posted in ICANN, Internet Security by Ken Taylor |
From ICANN Announcements
The Registration Abuse Policies Working Group has published its Final Report on 29 May. Following a public comment period on its Initial Report, the Working Group reviewed the comments received and issued this Final Report. The Report includes concrete recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs for consideration by the GNSO Council. Included are recommendations related to:
- Cybersquatting: recommending the initiation of a Policy Development Process to investigate the current state of the UDRP .
- WHOIS access problems: seeking ways to ensure that WHOIS data is accessible in an appropriately reliable, enforceable, and consistent fashion; and requesting that the ICANN Compliance Department publish data about WHOIS accessibility.
- Malicious use of domain names: recommending the creation of best practices to help registrars and registries address the illicit use of domain names.
- Front-running: recommending possible enforcement actions by ICANN Compliance
- Cross-TLD registration scam: recommending to monitor and co-ordinate research with the community
- Uniformity of contracts: recommending the creation of an Issues Report to evaluate whether a minimum baseline of registration abuse provisions should be created for all in-scope ICANN agreements.
- GNSO-wide practices for the collection and dissemination of best practices, and for uniformity of reporting.
- Fake renewal notices
- Domain kiting
- Deceptive and/or offensive domain names
For more go HERE.
Tags: Domain Registration Abuse, ICANN
Posted in ICANN by Ken Taylor |
