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Contents
1.
What’s New
2.
Members’ Corner
3. Future
Meetings
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What’s New (01/12/2003 – 31/01/2004)
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APTLD
Kuala Lumpur Technical Workshop and Annual General Meeting
APTLD Kuala Lumpur
Annual Meeting will be held on 26th February at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in
conjunction with APRICOT 2004. In addition to internal matters, ICANN and
ccNSO issues will be drawn more attentions. AGM also includes a session with
IANA General Manager, Mr Doug Barton. He will do a short presentation on
what's in the pipeline for IANA in 2004, followed by a Q&A. Registration now is
available at http://www.aptld.org/meeting/2004KL/Online_Registration_01.htm
Detailed meeting
agenda will be soon posted on APTLD website. Focusing on Domain
Name System and its current trends, APTLD’s 2nd Technical Workshop is also
scheduled on 24th February. This workshop is included in the "Internet
Resource Management Essentials", which is the open tutorial session
co-hosted by APNIC. Schedule of the tutorials can be found at: http://www.aptld.org/file/APTLD_Technical_Workshop_Program.htm
and http://www.apnic.net/meetings/17/programme/index.html 2004
APTLD Board Election
Based on the
Constitution and the lawyers' confirmation, 5 Board seats are up for fresh
elections before APTLD Kuala Lumpur Annual General Meeting. Nomination for
the current election is available at APTLD website. (more) APRICOT 2004 will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 23-27 February
Hosted by PIKOM, APRICOT 2004, the ninth
eighth APRICOT, will be held at Kuala Lumpur form 23 to 27 February.
Pre-conference workshops are from 18 to 22. More information can be found at www.apricot2004.net.
Next
ICANN Meetings to be held in Rome, Italy
Hosted by Register.it
and The Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Italian National
Council of Research, the next ICANN Meetings will be held on 2-6 March in
Rome, Italy. On-line pre-registration is available now. Information regarding
the area, the meeting, and local hotels is available at ICANN and local websites. As usual, ccTLD
managers will meet in the first two days of ICANN Rome Meetings for discussion
and wrapping up issues before ICANN Board Meeting. Detailed agenda will be
available soon at http://www.wwtld.org/meetings/cctld/20040302.Rome-documents.html.
ICANN’s
Clarification of Legal Issues from ccNSO LG Questions
The ccNSO Launching
Group forwarded a set of questions it had received from the community,
requesting clarification of legal issues surrounding the ccNSO. Please find
below my response to these questions. (more) ccNSO
Membership Application Achieve in Dec 2003 and Jan 2004
6 ccNSO membership
applications are received from December 2003. A total of 33 applications were
approved. (more) Involvement
of Global Individual User Community Increasing in ICANN
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2.
Members’ Corner (01/12/2003 – 31/01/2004)
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from .au |
21-01-2004 Reforms were needed
to ensure high-profile personalities' names were not misused for websites,
Australia's domain administrator said today. (more) 30-12-2003 Domain
regulator labels DNA brawl as biggest consumer issue The mail-out of
500,000 allegedly misleading advertisements by Domain Names Australia (DNA)
was the biggest issue in the domain name market to affect consumers in 2003.
(more) 04-12-2003 Domain
name resellers face regular audits Resellers in the .au
domain name space will come under greater scrutiny after auDA introduced new
regulations this week. (more) 02-12-2003 Australian domain
names restricted for use by community website portals are being planned, with
domain administrator auDA calling for community feedback. (more) 01-12-2003 New Community Geographic Domain Names - Documents Published for
Comment auDA is seeking
public feedback about the implementation of new second level domains (2LDs)
for community use of Australian geographic domain names. (more) |
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from .cn |
31-12-2003 .CN
domain name usage surges 130% to over 300,000 The number of registrations
of .CN, China's top-level domain name, totaled over 300,000 as of the end of
November 2003, and the figure is growing at about 10,000 per month, CNNIC
(China Internet Network Information Center) official Sun Lemin told Interfax
in an interview. (more) 11-12-2003 CNNIC
Initiated 13rd Statistical Survey on the Internet Development in China The statistical
information on quantity of host computers, Internet users, the distribution
of users and information traffics, the registration of domain names and the
like are quite important for government decision makers and valuable for
commercial enterprises to make their business decisions. (more) 10-12-2003 China
promotes own Internet domain Local operators have
been encouraged to adopt "cn", China's national domain for domestic
Websites, and so far the number of Chinese Websites using "cn" has
exceeded 300,000, a spokesman for the Internet Bureau of the StateCouncil
Press Office said here Wednesday. (more) |
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from .kr |
05-12-2003 A
Further Advanced Internet Infrastructure in Korea KRNIC established
the "International Root DNS Center" with the aim of securing a safe
and reliable foundation for the Internet and to provide convenient services.
Its opening ceremony is to be held today (on the 2nd) in the presence
of government officials including Chin Dae-je, Minister of Information and Communication.
(more) 05-12-2003 Growing
Wireless Internet Penetration led by the youth population Wireless Internet
has not been deeply rooted in the everyday lives of Korean people but it is
spreading gradually. In particular Wireless Internet is showing a solid
growth rate among the youth population who tend to accept new technologies
readily. This is similar to what happened in the initial stage of wired
Internet penetration. (more) 05-12-2003 KRNIC
Holds 'International Seminar on Internet Resources Management' in Cambodia As part of an effort
to build IT fundamentals and promote informatization in less developed
Southeast Asian countries, the 'International Seminar on Internet Resources
Management' was held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for two days. (more) 05-12-2003 KRNIC
published "2003 Internet Statistics Korea" KRNIC published
'2003 Internet Statistics Korea' to provide an at-a-glance description of
Internet use in Korea. (more) |
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from .my |
26-01-2004 Launch
of New Personal Domain Name Category MYNIC is pleased to announce
that registration for its newly introduced personal domain names (PDNs)
category, ".name.my", will be open on Tuesday 10 February 2004. (more) |
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from .nu |
19-01-2004 Niue's
WiFi Internet Survived Cyclone's Devastation .NU Domain Ltd. today announced the
successful restoration of the devastated island of Niue's Internet link and WiFi
services. On January 5th, cyclone Heta, a category 5 cyclone with winds
travelling at 300 kph, ripped through the island, destroying everything in
its path, including the hospital, hotels, the island's telecommunications
antenna and numerous homes. All electricity and communications links were cut
and fuel storage tanks were destroyed, leaving Niueans with no communication
capabilities with the rest of the world until last weekend. (more) |
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from .nz |
21-01-2004 NZ
Registry calls for RFI over SRS The company that
runs the New Zealand register of domain names, .nzRegistry Services has
issued a "request for information" (RFI) relating to the
outsourcing of its various systems. (more) 14-01-2004 .NZ
Domain Name Fee Reduction Announced InternetNZ is
reducing by 12.5% the wholesale domain name fee charged to authorised .nz
registrars by nz Registry Services (NZRS). (more) 05-01-2004 InternetNZ
& CityLink Public IPv6 Test-bed InternetNZ is
funding the construction and operation of a “public access” IPv4/IPv6
test-bed jointly with CityLink, from January 2004, for an initial six month
period. The test-bed comprises
two IPv4/IPv6 tunnel gateways that connect with the already existing IPv6
peering network at Auckland’s APE6 and Wellington’s WIX6 Exchanges, joined by
a one megabit IPv6 data bridge between the cities. (more) |
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from .ph |
22-01-2004 New
ICT commission might decide fate of '.ph' domain THE newly created Information
and Communications Technology (ICT) Commission would likely become the
"external policy board" set to implement the new government
policies on the administration of the ".ph" Internet domain, an
official said. (more) 08-12-2003 Domain
name rules out by yearend More order in the
administration of domain names in the Philippines may be expected as the advisory
board completes the oversight guidelines by the yearend. (more) |
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from .tv |
12-2003 .tv -
False Hopes on Fantasy Island Of all the dreams
fueled by dotcom hype, few were more irrationally exuberant than those of
Tuvalu, a dirt-poor nation of 11,300 citizens living on nine South Pacific
atolls. (more) |
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from .tw |
29-01-2004 Survey
Report on Taiwan’s 2003 Q4 Internet Bandwidth Together with FIND
and Net Consumers Association/tw, TWNIC published survey report on Taiwan’s
2003 Q4 Internet Bandwidth. Until the end of December 2003, Taiwan’s International
Bandwidth has reached 44,923Mbps, up 81% from Q3. (more information in the
Traditional Chinese Version) 19-01-2004 Overseas .tw Registration
Service is now open With the worldwide
rollout of .tw, TWNIC and NeuLevel have forged a unique alliance. Businesses
and organizations worldwide can register third-level (.com.tw, .org.tw,
.idv.tw) .TW names on a "first come, first served" (FCFS) basis. (more) |
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3. Future Meetings (February/March 2004)
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APTLD
Bi-monthly e-Newsletter / January 2004