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2008/11/04

Weekly Wrap for 2008-11-04

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INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE   .   WEEKLY WRAP: Oct 28, 2008 - Nov 04, 2008

News Briefs

UK ISP Terminating Customer Accounts with Open WiFi
Nov 04, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Egyptian Minister Demands ICANN to Become an Independent Organization
Nov 04, 2008  -  Include Your Comments (1 posted)

Cyberspace is Man-Made and Its Laws Can Be Rewritten to Favor Defensive Forces, Says US Air Force
Nov 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Government and Private Sector Partnering for Cyberspace Security
Nov 03, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Sinowal Trojan May Be One of the Worst Crimeware Ever Created
Oct 31, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

UK's Utility Companies and Large Financial Firms Facing Major Cyber Espionage Attacks
Oct 31, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Economic Crisis Fueling New Cybercrime Wave, According to UK Cybercrime Report
Oct 30, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Malicious Email Attachments Spiked Last Quarter
Oct 30, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Anti-Phishing Working Group Join Domain Registrars in Fight Against Phishing
Oct 29, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

ICANN Terminates EstDomains, Seeks Bulk Transfer of Customers
Oct 29, 2008  -  Include Your Comments

Financially Based Cybercrime is Recession-Proof
Oct 28, 2008  -  Include Your Comments


Featured Blogs

The Real White Spaces Debate: To Create or Abolish a Market in the Airwaves
I've been following the "white spaces" for as long as it has been happening -- four, maybe five years -- and I must admit that I am surprised by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's sudden fondness for them. Until the last days of his chairmanship, Martin never cared for this somewhat radical notion: allowing techies and community activists to spew electromagnetic frequencies in zones currently occupied (at least ostensibly) by the broadcasters. more »
Nov 04, 2008  -  by Drew Clark  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Mobile, Wireless

Who is Responsible in Our Cloudy World?
A number of large technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, have announced that they have signed up to a voluntary code of conduct on how they do business in countries that curtail freedom of expression like China and Singapore... It's not surprising to see this sort of self-regulation being proposed as otherwise political initiatives like the Global Online Freedom Act, passed in one US Senate committee but currently floating in legislative limbo, could actually make it into law. more »
Nov 02, 2008  -  by Bill Thompson  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Web Hosting

CAN-Spam-a-Friend? The Case Against Reunion.com
Hoang v. Reunion.com sidesteps an eagerly anticipated legal dispute over the legality of commercial address book scraping and 'send-to-a-friend' emails, and also highlights the damage that can cascade when a federal Circuit Court woefully misreads a statute. more »
Oct 30, 2008  -  by Ethan Ackerman  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law, Spam

Domain Slammers Go Phishing
ICANN introduced a requirement for domain name registrars to send out annual notices to all their customers (registrants) to check the Whois on their domain names to ensure the information is correct. While this seemed fairly reasonable (if cumbersome), the fact is it confuses the heck out of people -- and creates a whole lot of confusion for registrants. But that was a problem we could deal with. Fast-forward to October, 2008... more »
Oct 30, 2008  -  by Paul Holmes  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Policy & Regulation, Security, Spam, Whois

Expansion of Top-Level Domain Names: Why Current Brand Protection Procedures Will Be Impractical
As ICANN introduces new generic top level domains (gTLDs) and separates itself from US oversight, it has the opportunity to distance itself from the taint of cybersquatting, brand abuse, and criminal activity involving domains... To underscore the scope of the issue, consider this research on just 30 top Interbrand-ranked global brands. The most recent MarkMonitor Brandjacking Index found cybersquatting incidents increased over 40% in the last year for the brands that were studied; these leading brands suffered as many as 15,000 incidents per brand... more »
Oct 29, 2008  -  by Margie Milam  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Cybersquatting, Domain Names, Law, Top-Level Domains

Phishing Registrar Accounts: eNom is First Target
Criminals are now looking to use established domain names, via phishing targeted at domain registrars. This is possibly related to ICANN finally moving to stop the black hat registrars of the world. According to the first report on the matter sent yesterday to Registrar Operations (reg-ops) mailing list, the attacks seem to be run by gang of child pornography spammers. more »
Oct 29, 2008  -  by Gadi Evron  -  Comments: 4
Related Topics: Domain Names, Security, Top-Level Domains

ICANN Sends Termination Notice to Registrar
ICANN has sent EstDomains a termination notice: "BBe advised that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for EstDomains, Inc. (customer No. 919, IANA No. 943) is terminated..." more »
Oct 29, 2008  -  by Gadi Evron  -  Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Internet Governance, Law

IPv6: Zeno's Paradox and Invisible Brick Walls
As we continue our ride toward the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, Regional Internet Registries public discussion groups remain filled with endless discussions on how large swaths of allocated IPv4 addresses are unused, should be reclaimed or recycled one way or another, maybe be put on the free market and sold to the highest bidder or parsed out in more egalitarian controlled ways. Although everyone now accepts the notion of IPv4 address exhaustion, it seems to be for some an invisible glass wall and for others a gold brick wall worth the death of the internet to get a piece of it. more »
Oct 29, 2008  -  by Yves Poppe  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: IP Addressing, IPv6

The Trouble with White Spaces
Like several other engineers, I'm disturbed by the white spaces debate because it focuses on what I regard as the wrong question. The White Space Coalition argues that showing that a system can be constructed that prevents interference between White Space Devices and television broadcast signals compels the Commission to offer up the White Spaces for unlicensed use. This is far from obvious. more »
Oct 28, 2008  -  by Richard Bennett  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Mobile, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Wireless

The Global Network Initiative
After more than two years of work behind closed doors, the Global Network Initiative is launching this week. That's the corporate code of conduct on free speech and privacy I've been talking about in generalities for quite some time. By midnight Tuesday U.S. East Coast time, the full set of documents and list of initial signatories will be made publicly available at globalnetworkinitiative.org. more »
Oct 28, 2008  -  by Rebecca MacKinnon  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Censorship, Internet Protocol, Privacy

Did Navigation Catalyst Systems Get Off Easy in Verizon's $100 Million Plus Lawsuit?
Navigation Catalyst Systems (NCS) has settled the well publicized cybersquatting lawsuit brought against it by Verizon. The terms of the settlement are simple and straight forward, amounting to little more than an agreement by NCS to no longer register domains similar to Verizon's trademarks again. No money was apparently paid by NCS as part of the resolution. more »
Oct 28, 2008  -  by Enrico Schaefer  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Cybersquatting, Domain Names, Law

DMCA Reaches the Decade Mark
My friend Kevin Thompson over at Cyberlaw Central reminded me this morning in this post that President Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ten years ago today. Tempus fugit. It's interesting to reflect on how this critical piece of legislation has affected (I think fostered) the growth of the online infrastructure with its safe harbor provisions found at 17 U.S.C. 512. more »
Oct 28, 2008  -  by Evan D. Brown  -  Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law

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Industry Updates

Internet Domain Industry Veteran Pinky Brand Appointed as Director of dotMobi Global Domain Sales
Oct 31, 2008  -  by dotMobi

One Million .mobi Registered Names Help Drive Evolution of Mobile Web
Oct 29, 2008  -  by dotMobi

DNSSEC "FUD" Buster: Don't Panic
Oct 27, 2008  -  by PIR

PIR Announces Formation of Registry Internet Safety Group
Oct 22, 2008  -  by PIR

NeuStar Completes Trial of SIP-IX VoIP Interconnection Exchange Service with COMPTEL Members
Oct 06, 2008  -  by NeuStar


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