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Companies spend $4 million influencing Capitol Hill.
Domain name companies and other companies with an interest in domain name matters spent about $4 million dollars lobbying Congress last year.
Using public records filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, Domain Name Wire has tallied total spending for 2009 by a number of companies. (See spending in the first half of 2009 here.)
VeriSign led the pack, spending $2.4 million to influence matters related to Domain name addressing, internet taxation, phishing and email legislation. In second place was Go Daddy, which spent $715,500 on a number of matters. In the second half of the year it focused on targeted online advertising and deep packet inspection.
With ICANN working to gain further independence from the U.S. government, the non-profit spent $240,000. It describes some of its interests as new gTLDs, “independence from UN/ITU/government capture”, and “post-JPA cooperation with USG”.
Neustar spent $140,000 on matters including those related to ICANN. Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse spent $130,000 compared to the $10,000 spent by Internet Commerce Association.
Both Demand Media and its eNom spent money on lobbying, totalling $170,000 between the two. eNom spent its portion on “Providing information to Congress regarding generic top level domain names.”
Banks.com spent $30,000, including on issues of “Treasury Department Symbols”. This should come as no surprise, since the company is fighting to hold onto its IRS.com domain name.
Some non-domain name companies spent money lobbying about domain name issues as well. Christian Coalition of America lobbied to try to stop the .xxx top level domain name. Both Xerox and Time Warner pushed issues related to internet domain names and trademarks.
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Google has released a government requests tool. It's highly illuminating and may end up being quite disruptive. That's what surprising data visualizations can do for us.
Google receives thousands of requests from governments around the world to provide user data, mostly relating to criminal cases. It also receives many government requests to take material down from search results, ads, YouTube (non-copyright requests, because those would be coming from private parties), Blogger, etc. Google didn't include child pornography take-downs in these numbers, because it does that on its own.
The tool allows us to see the number of requests from different countries that Google received during the last six months of 2009. More than 3600 data requests from Brazil during those six months and more than 3500 from the US. But just 40 or so from Canada and 30 from Israel.
Germany asked for removal of material more than 180 times in six months—mostly having to do with court orders related to defamation claims, according to Google. If you click on the country's results, you'll see what percentage of removal claims Google complied with during those six months. For Germany, it's pretty high—94% taken down. Germany also made more than 450 data requests.
At the moment, the data is pretty coarse-grained. We don't know how many data requests Google complied with. We don't know what the triggers were, precisely, for any of these requests. We don't know anything about China. (Why? Google says, essentially, "It's complicated": "As noted in the map, Chinese officials consider censorship demands as state secrets, so we cannot disclose that information at this time. During the period that Google's joint venture operated google.cn, its search results were subject to censorship pursuant to demands from government agencies responsible for Internet regulation.")
But the numbers are surprisingly high. Thousands upon thousands of requests for data about users?
Perhaps other companies will follow suit. That would be extremely helpful. It's hard to know how meaningful the Google data is without any comparables.
Written by Susan Crawford, Professor, University of Michigan Law School
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Last month a bill in the Israeli Knesset would have required ISPs to provide portable e-mail addresses, analogous to portable phone numbers that one can take from one phone company to the other. As I noted at the time (also cross-posted and discussed here on CircleID), e-mail works differently from telephone calls, and portability would be difficult, expensive, and unreliable. So I was wondering, idly, if we really wanted to provide portable e-mail addresses, how hard would it be?
Telephone number portability works by looking up the number in a global shared database before routing each call. The Internet has a global shared database in the DNS, and each time a mail message is sent, the sending system looks up each recipient address in the DNS to see how to route it. But the lookups are just for the domain name, the part after the @ sign, not for the whole address.
If we could adjust the syntax of mail addresses so both the user part and the domain got a DNS lookup, then it would be technically straightforward to port an address from one provider to another. I realized that some mail systems have done this all along. If someone's mail address were bob@example.com we can put the user name into the domain, and make the address something@bob.example.com, where the something is arbitrary. I've offered this option to my users for years, as a way to do tagged addresses, with the new form of the address equivalent to bob-something@example.com at delivery time, something that turns out to take one line of code to implement in the mail system I use.
Several ISPs offer user mail addresses in this form. Panix in New York and Demon Internet in London have done so since the early 1990s, and there are probably others I haven't run into. All of them do this to provide multiple addresses for their users, but with some degree (well, a large degree) of adminsitrative effort, they could arrange their DNS so that specific users' mail is delivered to other mail systems.
If you know in advance that you want to keep your mail address when you switch ISPs, you can register your own domain for $10 - $15/yr, but for people who aren't that adventurous, mail addresses with the user name after the @ sign offer, in principle, portable addresses too.
Written by John Levine, Author, Consultant & Speaker
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I’ve known about these plans for several weeks, and I am happy to share the press release from Fred Mercaldo and his team at Scottsdale.com, who have been working hard to make this a reality. This puts Fred and his company at the forefront of the geodomain industry, as they will have more pure city .com domain names under their management than just about any other company.
My company’s Burbank.com will be one of the first websites released under this marketing and development deal, and I am excited to be a part of it. I am confident Fred and his team will be able to drive considerably more revenue with Burbank.com.
Fred will be speaking at the Geodomain Expo in New Orleans at the end of the month, and he will be available to answer any questions city .com domain owners may have.
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GeoDomain Development Ventures, LLC announces development of over 40 Pure City.com Sites in Major Development/Marketing Deal
Scottsdale.com’s “City In The Box” Software to power sites; CitiesPlanet.com formed to Manage Advertising and Marketing Duties.
Scottsdale, AZ — April 21, 2010 — Fred Mercaldo, Managing Partner of Scottsdale.com, LLC and newly formed GeoDomain Development Ventures, LLC announced today a major software development and marketing deal that includes over 40 City.com sites. “Our proven software platform (www.CityInTheBox.com) will power the sites; once they are launched, CitiesPlanet will perform all marketing and advertising functions, and will procure local partnerships and contracts that will monetize the sites. We look forward to a successful launch, and our goal is to grow to 150 pure City.com properties under management within 24 months”
Based in Scottsdale, CitiesPlanet (www.CitiesPlanet.com) has worked with numerous creative technology and digital marketing specialists to develop a marketing platform that will successfully reach out to local business in each City.com area. Combined with a robust CRM system, each business will receive a custom media kit with their specific company featured, giving business owners numerous advertising and partnering options with their local, official City.com branded site. “Our success rate so far has been 15% to 30% response rate, depending on which Directory category is being marketed, which is incredible”, says Mercaldo. “In addition, our system features a “nurture” campaign in the event a business has not responded to our first offer, and will automatically continue to send the opportunity to the business owner 3 additional times”.
The majority of the initial City.com sites are owned by State Ventures, LLC. “Fred Mercaldo has the vision to foresee the future of local Internet advertising and the marketing talent to accelerate the shift of local advertising to city portals,” says Nat Cohen, President of State Ventures, LLC. “Fred is one of the stand-up guys in the Geo Domain industry. We are very pleased to be partnering with Fred in helping him realize this vision for the industry.”
The City.com properties included in the initial launch feature a very diverse group of demographics and economies. “Everything from Kalamazoo.com to Burbank.com to Sausalito.com to GreatFalls.com; each City will have its own distinct characteristics and opportunities. We look forward to the challenge to make each City.com property a household name in each community” says Mercaldo.
CitiesPlanet will also handle all of the marketing and advertising responsibilities for Scottsdale.com, Chandler.com, Mesa.com, FountainHills.com, Tempe.com, and ApacheJunction.com, all of which have been launched and are connected within the Arizona market. Mercaldo recruited former Travelocity and RazorGator executive Mark Wilson to head CitiesPlanet. “Mark brings a successful track record of accomplishment to the table, combining both marketing expertise and technology capabilities, which is exactly what this project requires”, says Mercaldo. The remaining City.com’s will begin launching the first week of May, and will continue to roll out through July until all 40 are established and successfully monetized. Mercaldo states, “Our entire staff, led by Becky Kelley, has worked tirelessly this past 5 months to get all of these sites ready to go. We are very pleased to be able to finally announce these partnerships, as it has been on the drawing board for quite some time. We are ready to go!”
For more information on GeoDomain Development Ventures, LLC, contact:
Fred Mercaldo, 602-859-3786, fred@scottsdale.com
For more information on Scottsdale.com, LLC and “City In The Box” software, contact:
Becky Kelley, 480-343-3654, Becky@scottsdale.com
For more information on CitiesPlanet, contact:
Mark Wilson, 602-363-3345, Mark@CitiesPlanet.com
State Ventures LLC owns and develops many geographic domain names and web properties, including Maryland.com, OceanCity.com, Annapolis.com, Pennsylvania.com, Virginia.com, NorthCarolina.com, Missouri.com, and Minnesota.com.
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What’s up with online creative agencies?
On the one hand, it’s great to see that creative agencies are starting to “get” the importance of having a good, easy-to-remember domain name. There was Media Rain, a Utah digital creative agency that tried to get the domain name Rain.com. Now we can also add Oasis Technology Partners, Inc to the list. The Boston company tried to snag the domain name Oasis.com through UDRP. It too has failed.
Oasis Technology Partners fell flat on its face, not even convincing the panel that it had rights to the term “Oasis”. The company has filed a trademark application for Oasis claiming a first use in 2001. Since that trademark hasn’t been granted, it needed to show some sort of common law rights. This is usually a very low bar.
Even if the company had shown rights to the term “Oasis”, it would have had a tough time trying to prove that the domain was registered in bad faith and that the owner had no rights or legitimate interests in it. After all, when I saw this case filed I assumed the rock band Oasis was the complainant.
The bottom line to Oasis Technology Partners: if you want this valuable, generic domain name, you’re just going to have to pay for it. Trying to hijack it through arbitration isn’t right.
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Two domain sales sites get upgrades.
BargainDomains.com, a site from Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com that offers domain names at a significant discount from their appraised value, is switching to an auction format. Previously, domain names were offered at a fixed price for 30 days. Little information about the auctions is available at this time, but submissions are open at the BargainDomains web site.
Another domain sales site from Carrillo — Catchy.com — has also received some significant upgrades. The first is the recent name change from Mocus to Catchy. Now, Catchy.com is obviously a great domain name. (Carrillo tells me he paid a lot for it, and given who the previous owner was I’m not surprised). But it’s even better since, frankly, Mocus.com never appealed to me because it sounds like mucus.
In addition to the name change, Catchy.com now accepts more types of domain names for inclusion. Previously domains had to be 4 letters or fewer; now five are OK. Also, ccTLDs are now accepted on the site. The site also went through a design overhaul and improved its affiliate program.
Most of the domains currently listed on Catchy.com are pronounceable four character CVCV domains such as Cafi.com, Pomi.com, and Pifo.com, although there are also some three character domains.
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Loser in arbitration case makes his case — publicly.
Author Barbara Kingsolver has won a case at National Arbitration Forum for the domain name Kingsolver.com. The soon-to-be-former owner of the domain name is none too pleased.
He has posted a tirade about the case at Kingsolver.com (warning: explicit), which will exist until his registrar has to hand the domain name over to Kingsolver on April 29.
Kingsolver’s agent forgot to renew the domain name and it was later auctioned on NameJet. The buyer sold it to the current owner of the domain, who was then hit with the UDRP.
The owner says he bought it for his computer company, and that he had never heard of Barbara Kingsolver before the complaint:
I have NEVER in my life heard about this person, I swear on my children. I asked many of my friends last week (many of them are from the USA) and they never heard about this person either.
Unfortunately, the owner had yet to change the nameservers on the domain name after purchasing it, so it still resolved to a parked page showing ads related to Kingsolver’s books.
Panelist John J. Upchurch found in Kingsolver’s favor, and ordered the domain transferred.
It would be unusual for a well known person to convince a panel that they have a trademark in their last name. As the owner points out in his tirade, Tom Cruise wouldn’t be able to win Cruise.com and Julia Roberts wouldn’t win Roberts.com. I suspect what happened in this case was that Kingsolver’s prior ownership of the domain played a role in the panelist’s decision. The parked page didn’t help, even though the owner had a legitimate excuse for it.
This isn’t the first time Kingsolver has used UDRP to get a domain name. In 2001 she won an arbitration for BarbaraKingsolver.com.
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A new report issued by the Number Resource Organization (NRO) has found that demand for both IPv4 and IPv6 address space is continuing to grow.
Moniker and SnapNames, both Oversee.net companies, will host an online auction from May 4-11, placing some of the best call-to-action .ME domains up for bid.
Telnic Limited, the organization behind the award-winning communications-focused .tel names, announced that its management app for .tel names, My.tel for Android, is now available for free download in the Android Market and direct from apps.telnic.tel.
Now with a few “daily” auctions under their belts, Latonas seems to have worked out the minor bugs and is progressing forward with more sales. Today’s most recent auction raised the prices from $1 reserves to $1000 reserves and netted $100,731 on 51 domain sales (according to our unofficial tally). 33 domains on the list went unsold at the $1000 reserve mark.
The last $1 reserve auction that we tracked only brought in $19,474 on 48 domains. The recent .com.mx auction had pretty pathetic results with 14 of 200 domains selling for a total of $880 (see below) and the Richard Whitney $1 reserve auction brought in roughly $46,000 in sales on 100 domains.
We’ve included the “unofficial” sales results we tallied from the past 3 auctions including today, the .com.mx auction and Richard Witney’s after the jump. The next auction is slated for tomorrow and includes a collection of 80 domains at $1 reserve from long-time domainer Edwin Hayward.
4-20-2010 $1000 Reserve Auction Results
| boxingticket.com | $1,000 |
| autoinsurancepolicies.com | $2,600 |
| layaways.com | $1,125 |
| autoinsuranceagent.com | $2,625 |
| assaultweapons.com | $3,200 |
| hockeyticket.com | $2,750 |
| hockeyscore.com | PASSED |
| snowshovels.com | $2,100 |
| skibums.com | PASSED |
| independentgame.com | PASSED |
| wemight.com | PASSED |
| imight.com | $1,000 |
| goldpieces.com | PASSED |
| equestrianhome.net | PASSED |
| equestrianhome.com | PASSED |
| castmembers.com | PASSED |
| callforsale.com | PASSED |
| waterproofers.com | PASSED |
| weddingvideos.net | $1,000 |
| recycledgames.com | PASSED |
| romantically.com | PASSED |
| rehearsalrooms.com | PASSED |
| recycledgame.com | PASSED |
| lesbianlawyer.com | PASSED |
| metrosexuals.com | $1,000 |
| usracing.com | PASSED |
| westernwear.net | $1,000 |
| sunpost.com | PASSED |
| koreantravel.com | PASSED |
| customtires.com | PASSED |
| freedomcycle.com | PASSED |
| virtualmarketing.com | $1,650 |
| wineguide.net | PASSED |
| brokerageservices.com | $1,925 |
| bettinggames.com | $1,925 |
| themovers.com | $1,000 |
| mediaconsultant.com | $1,465 |
| athleticshoe.com | PASSED |
| floridaholiday.com | $2,700 |
| groom.net | $2,600 |
| internetnewspaper.com | $1,000 |
| nerdsrule.com | PASSED |
| workhard.com | $1,125 |
| thelawoffice.com | $1,555 |
| freetriple.net | PASSED |
| certifiedcontractor.com | $1,000 |
| weddingoutlet.com | $2,266 |
| baseballticket.com | $5,250 |
| baseballscore.com | PASSED |
| romanticmovies.com | $1,325 |
| guitarclinic.com | PASSED |
| propertyvaluations.com | PASSED |
| steakrestaurants.com | $3,600 |
| keywestmotels.com | PASSED |
| doodling.com | $2,955 |
| keywestresort.com | PASSED |
| romanticfilms.com | PASSED |
| dartgame.com | $1,000 |
| gawkers.com | $2,650 |
| newautos.com | $2,375 |
| fishingseason.com | $3,900 |
| customcycle.com | PASSED |
| steakrestaurant.com | $1,650 |
| weddingpicture.com | $2,155 |
| maidenname.com | PASSED |
| dartgames.com | $1,000 |
| circusticket.com | $1,000 |
| fbnc.com | $1,000 |
| basketballscore.com | PASSED |
| circustickets.com | $1,655 |
| soccerscore.com | $1,925 |
| fremontstreet.com | $1,175 |
| footballscore.com | $1,025 |
| soccerticket.com | $1,175 |
| pathogen.com | $2,401 |
| rvsonline.com | $1,000 |
| stockinvestment.com | $2,901 |
| stockinvestments.com | $3,088 |
| vegasline.com | $2,855 |
| basketballticket.com | $1,175 |
| rosebushes.com | $3,751 |
| hardwater.com | $2,000 |
| huntingseason.com | $3,700 |
| seasonpasses.com | $1,434 |
freedomcycle.com PASSED
virtualmarketing.com $1650
wineguide.net PASSED
brokerageservices.com $1925
bettinggames.com $1925
themovers.com $1000
mediaconsultant.com $1465
athleticshoe.com PASSED
floridaholiday.com $2700
groom.net $2600
internetnewspaper.com $1000
nerdsrule.com PASSED
workhard.com $1125
thelawoffice.com $1555
freetriple.net PASSED
certifiedcontractor.com $1000
weddingoutlet.com $2266
baseballticket.com $5250
baseballscore.com PASSED
romanticmovies.com $1325
guitarclinic.com PASSED
propertyvaluations.com PASSED
steakrestaurants.com $3600
keywestmotels.com PASSED
doodling.com $2955
keywestresort.com PASSED
romanticfilms.com PASSED
dartgame.com $1000
gawkers.com $2650
newautos.com $2375
fishingseason.com $3900
customcycle.com PASSED
steakrestaurant.com $1650
weddingpicture.com $2155
maidenname.com PASSED
dartgames.com $1000
circusticket.com $1000
fbnc.com $1000
basketballscore.com PASSED
circustickets.com $1655
soccerscore.com $1925
fremontstreet.com $1175
footballscore.com $1025
soccerticket.com $1175
pathogen.com $2401
rvsonline.com $1000
stockinvestment.com $2901
stockinvestments.com $3088
vegasline.com $2855
basketballticket.com $1175
rosebushes.com $3751
hardwater.com $2000
huntingseason.com $3700
seasonpasses.com $1434
4-19-2010 .com.mx Auction Results
| baltimore.mx | PASSED |
| baltimore.com.mx | PASSED |
| banador.mx | PASSED |
| banador.com.mx | PASSED |
| bagdad.mx | PASSED |
| bagdad.com.mx | PASSED |
| bald.mx | PASSED |
| bakersfield.com.mx | PASSED |
| ayer.mx | PASSED |
| ayer.com.mx | PASSED |
| ayudantes.mx | PASSED |
| ayudantes.com.mx | $60 |
| autoridad.mx | PASSED |
| autoridad.com.mx | PASSED |
| avanzar.mx | PASSED |
| avanzar.com.mx | PASSED |
| austin.com.mx | $60 |
| austin.mx | $60 |
| austinpowers.com.mx | PASSED |
| australianopen.com.mx | PASSED |
| aun.com.mx | PASSED |
| aun.mx | PASSED |
| aunque.com.mx | PASSED |
| aunque.mx | PASSED |
| atreverse.com.mx | PASSED |
| attilathehun.com.mx | PASSED |
| audioslave.com.mx | PASSED |
| aumentar.com.mx | PASSED |
| asunto.com.mx | PASSED |
| asunto.mx | PASSED |
| atkinsdiet.com.mx | PASSED |
| atkinsdiet.mx | PASSED |
| bola.com.mx | PASSED |
| boisecity.com.mx | PASSED |
| blondie.com.mx | PASSED |
| blondes.mx | PASSED |
| blondes.com.mx | PASSED |
| blindfaith.com.mx | PASSED |
| blacksabbath.com.mx | PASSED |
| blackjackonline.com.mx | PASSED |
| billete.mx | PASSED |
| billete.com.mx | PASSED |
| bilene.mx | PASSED |
| bilene.com.mx | PASSED |
| berne.mx | PASSED |
| berne.com.mx | PASSED |
| berkeley.com.mx | PASSED |
| belladonna.mx | PASSED |
| belgrado.mx | PASSED |
| belladonna.com.mx | PASSED |
| beber.mx | PASSED |
| belgrado.com.mx | PASSED |
| beatles.mx | PASSED |
| beber.com.mx | PASSED |
| beastiboys.com.mx | PASSED |
| beatles.com.mx | PASSED |
| bastar.mx | PASSED |
| beastiality.com.mx | PASSED |
| bastante.mx | PASSED |
| bastar.com.mx | PASSED |
| bargain.mx | PASSED |
| bastante.com.mx | PASSED |
| bancarrota.com.mx | PASSED |
| bancarrota.mx | |
| burbank.mx | |
| burbank.com.mx | |
| butcher.com.mx | |
| bushido.com.mx | |
| buysoma.com.mx | |
| brucespringsteen.com.mx | |
| brownsville.com.mx | |
| buen.com.mx | |
| bucarest.com.mx | |
| buffalospringfield.com.mx | |
| buen.mx.com | $60 |
| buque.mx | PASSED |
| buque.com.mx | PASSED |
| borde.mx | PASSED |
| bordo.com.mx | PASSED |
| bordo.mx | PASSED |
| bragas.com.mx | PASSED |
| bragas.mx | PASSED |
| brazo.com.mx | PASSED |
| brazo.mx | PASSED |
| bridgeport.com.mx | PASSED |
| bola.mx | PASSED |
| bolso.com.mx | PASSED |
| bolso.mx | PASSED |
| bonjovi.com.mx | PASSED |
| boobs.com.mx | PASSED |
| boobs.mx | $60 |
| booty.com.mx | PASSED |
| borde.com.mx | PASSED |
| abandonar.com.mx | PASSED |
| abandonar.mx | PASSED |
| abastecedores.com.mx | PASSED |
| abuelo.com.mx | PASSED |
| abuelo.mx | PASSED |
| acabado.com.mx | PASSED |
| acabado.mx | PASSED |
| abrigo.com.mx | PASSED |
| abrigo.mx | PASSED |
| absoluto.com.mx | $90 |
| absoluto.mx | $60 |
| advertir.mx | PASSED |
| afectar.com.mx | PASSED |
| adquirir.com.mx | PASSED |
| advertir.com.mx | PASSED |
| ademas.com.mx | PASSED |
| ademas.mx | PASSED |
| adelaida.com.mx | PASSED |
| adelaida.mx | PASSED |
| alabama.mx | PASSED |
| alcanazar.com.mx | PASSED |
| airfare.mx | $60 |
| alabama.com.mx | PASSED |
| agujero.com.mx | PASSED |
| agujero.mx | PASSED |
| afectar.mx | PASSED |
| afirmar.com.mx | PASSED |
| acercar.mx | PASSED |
| acercar.com.mx | PASSED |
| aceptar.mx | PASSED |
| aceptar.com.mx | PASSED |
| acaso.mx | PASSED |
| acaso.com.mx | PASSED |
| acabar.mx | PASSED |
| acabar.com.mx | PASSED |
| acudir.com.mx | PASSED |
| actors.mx | PASSED |
| actors.com.mx | PASSED |
| acto.mx | PASSED |
| acto.com.mx | PASSED |
| actividad.mx | PASSED |
| actividad.com.mx | PASSED |
| acordar.com.mx | PASSED |
| amywinehouse.com.mx | PASSED |
| anaheim.com.mx | PASSED |
| anaheim.mx | PASSED |
| anchorage.com.mx | PASSED |
| anchorage.mx | PASSED |
| andreathompson.com.mx | PASSED |
| angelajolie.com.mx | PASSED |
| animatedgraphics.com.mx | PASSED |
| annakournikova.com.mx | PASSED |
| annarbor.com.mx | PASSED |
| annuity.mx | PASSED |
| ano.com.mx | $60 |
| ano.mx | $70 |
| anos.com.mx | $60 |
| anos.mx | $60 |
| anterior.com.mx | PASSED |
| alguno.com.mx | PASSED |
| alejar.com.mx | PASSED |
| aliceinchains.com.mx | PASSED |
| alguno.mx | PASSED |
| alonzo.com.mx | PASSED |
| allentown.com.mx | PASSED |
| alquileres.com.mx | $60 |
| alonzo.mx | PASSED |
| alyssamilano.com.mx | PASSED |
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The registries (gTLDS) are all moving towards signing in about a year. PIR and .org is going to be first with .edu, .biz, and others closely behind. The root is scheduled to be signed in the beginning of July (end of June looking at the holiday calendar) being the biggest milestone. Some of the roots already contain DNSSEC information. Other ccTLDs continue to turn DNSSEC on with countries on every continent signed.
Registrars will follow next but they have the toughest part to educate registrants and to do the bulk of the work for key management. Some popular zones in gTLDs will become signed this year and ccTLDs will continue to increase the zones that they sign.
The Validation Infrastructure
Major ISPs, who operate the bulk of the validation infrastructure, have been running trials to test large scale validation. Operating systems continue to improve their support for DNSSEC.
The user experience/application Support
One critically missing piece from the DNSSEC conversation has been the user experience. Even the DNS community is undecided how applications should handle DNSSEC responses. The cases where an answer is valid and signed is clearly defined. What happens for the non-signing DNS response or the one that is signed but is bogus?
Think about HTTPS. When you visit a site that is HTTPS and has a certificate from a certificate authority that your browser trusts, you see a padlock. You can then enter information, knowing that the channel is authenticated (who it is) and encrypted (not plain text). If you do not see a padlock, you shouldn't enter sensitive information. When you have a bad certificate, you see a warning. What's the equivalent for DNSSEC?
DNS validation occurs at a deep layer than most applications (the operating system just handles DNS and the application uses IP addresses) while the "secure" part of HTTP operates at the same layer (not technically true but the decryption is done at the same layer: the application layer). Anyway, there is no good mechanism for the application to tell the user there is an error. If the validation piece says that an answer is bogus, it may look there is no such answer. That's probably better since most users tend to just click through blindly. Different networks will have different policies for validation and this will have to be coordinated with applications (whether the OS or the actual application layer).
When Everything is Signed
What's exciting to me is what happens after there is a globally coherent, distributed, public key database. While I can see DNS records being signed, I am sure that there are others out there who are thinking about putting login keys or other crypto fingerprints into DNS. After the summer of this year, expect the attention to shift towards the validation infrastructure and the application support.
Written by Jeremy Hitchcock, DNS and networking engineer, CEO at Dyn Inc
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For most enterprise and security vendors, the cloud is fascinating both as a technology and a business disruptor. In fact, SAAS CEOs such as Successfactor, SalesForce and NetSuite are hot shots in Silicon Valley these days. Yet, most of us are still wondering how much IT budget is actually going to be thrown at the so-called private, hybrid and public clouds in 2010. So what is in the way of the big shift?
We had a good discussion on this topic at AlwaysOn today. At least, it seems that everyone agrees on the main challenges: integration is harsh, security is dicey and compliance seems out of reach. So, where do we start? I am starting to believe that there too, we need to provide a baseline for cloud security and trust. Like PCI for e-commerce, a certification for the cloud will not make the cloud completely secure, but it will at least provide a set of common definitions and best-practices for cloud security and trust. It will also make it much easier for enterprise customers to evaluate and rationalize the security of any cloud vendor. In fact, prospective cloud customers will be able to contractually commit cloud vendors to well documented certification levels and build additional SLA and security contractual requirements on top.
So whether you are a security vendor, a cloud provider or an enterprise, there is one more thing that we may be able to agree with: trust certification could drive cloud adoption by simplifying the definition, evaluation and contracts for cloud security, compliance and trust. Of course, it starts with identity, so time to get to work.
UDRP on the table at Thursday’s board meeting.
ICANN has posted the agenda for its April 22 meeting, and item 10 reads:
UDRP Policy – relationships with service providers; changes in procedures
What exactly is this about? An ICANN spokesperson told me there’s no additional information available, and what the topic is about won’t be known until the minutes from the meeting are published.
But my guess is this has to do with two things that have created buzz in the community over the past couple months:
1. The fact that there’s no contract between ICANN and UDRP providers.
2. Certain UDRP providers have been playing around with their Supplemental Rules to try to change the overall UDRP process.
For example, Czech Arbitration Court has created a sort of UDRP-lite, where complainants can pay reduced fees for simple cases if the respondent doesn’t submit a reply in the case. Although there may be some merit to such an idea, the supplemental rules certainly weren’t mean for making such a change.
Internet Commerce Association sent a letter to ICANN about the Czech Arbitration Court change over a month ago, and ICANN hasn’t responded.
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