DOMAIN NAME NEWS
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ICANN Studienkreis Warschau
A short video on the ICANN Studienkreis Warsaw has been posted on YouTube by dotBerlin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByKS_ex4NtY

New gTLDs Questions Not Answered: Which Kind of Auction? by Eric Brunner-Williams
I was expecting something that would discuss the unique properties, if any, of the domain name market, and the types of inventory theoretically available to allocate, and the expected outcomes for the various types of auctions, and some showing that for some desired policy goals, whether greatest gain to seller or lowest loss to buyer, or something entirely different, the expected outcomes.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/89342_new_gtld_question_auction/

Dot-Mobi, We Hardly Knew Ye
Dot-mobi ... lived a brief (and not particularly productive) life. The iPhone killed it. Marketers, as well as consumers, will ultimately be better off without it because it's getting easier to build sites for, as well as to browse, the mobile Web without jumping through too many additional development, architectural and duplicate content issues.
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3630696


INTERNET-LAW
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On the Web, battle over trademarks begins
Trademark issues may take on a higher profile, fueled by the escalating value of brands in general and trademark holders increasingly trying to assert their rights, especially on the Internet.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/09/01/technology/01copyright.php
http://nytimes.com/2008/09/01/technology/01copyright.html

Domain Arbitration Inconsistency: FoodEmporium.com/.net/.org
If you think UDRP panel decisions are inconsistent, look no further than three cases involving New York grocer The Food Emporium. It filed three separate actions under UDRP for FoodEmporium.com, FoodEmporium.net, and FoodEmporium.org. It won .org but lost the other two.
http://domainnamewire.com/2008/08/28/domain-arbitration-food-emporium/


CYBER CRIME
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Cybercrime Gets Its Game On
NASA's revelation this week that a computer virus had infected the International Space Station brought to mind images of cybercriminals sending astronauts plummeting toward a major U.S. city. Instead, the rogue software on the station's computer turned out to be doing something stranger: looking for passwords to the multiplayer online game "World of Warcraft."
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/08/29/videogame-hackers-nasa-tech-enter-cx_ag_0829hack.html

US hackers prepare UK supermarket sweep
Self-checkout systems in UK supermarkets are being targeted by hi-tech criminals with stolen credit card details.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7584258.stm


VARIOUS
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The US to implement DNSSEC in all federal offices
The US government has called on all federal offices to take measures to prepare their domains for DNSSEC. Starting in January 2009, the US government will use DNSSEC for all .gov top level domains Second level domains for federal offices will follow. The move is the US government's reaction to the increasing threat of cache poisoning attacks on name servers, which make it possible to redirect even .gov addresses to servers controlled by criminals.
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/The-US-to-implement-DNSSEC-in-all-federal-offices--/111417

Internet access a human right, NZ minister says
The internet is now so much an essential part of life and commerce that access to it can be seen as “a human right”, says Culture and Heritage Minister Judith Tizard.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6DC929097F31FF8ECC2574B8006D45D8