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APTLD Bi-monthly e-Newsletter / July 2003 |
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Contents1. What’s New2. Members’ Corner3. Future Meetings |
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Next APTLD Meeting will be
held on 23rd August at Busan, Korea
As several AP
meetings are to be held at Busan, Korea, next APTLD meeting is
scheduled on 23rd August 2003 at Busan Marriott Hotel. Detailed information
on meeting agenda will be announced soon on the website. (more) APTLD
On-line Meeting to Discuss Draft APTLD Membership WG Charter
Called and chaired by Vice
Chair Yumi Ohashi (.jp), an on-line meeting was held on 30th July
to discuss about APTLD Membership WG Charter. WG members Richard St. Clair
(.nu), Chris Disspain (.au), Chanki Park (.kr) and the Secretariat were
invited to the meeting. Some ideas about new members recruitment were brought
into discussion. APTLD
Recommended Peter Denagate Thrush to Participate in ccNSO LG
On 9th July, ICANN called
for expressions of interest in serving on the Launching Group. After seeking
members' expressions of interest in serving on ccNSO Launching Group and
undertaking a voting procedure, APTLD recommended Peter Denagate Thrush to
participate in the ccNSO Launching Group. Peter Denagate Thrush has served as
APTLD's board member since June 2000. It is believed that he will contribute
a lot to ccNSO Launching Group in its future's work. (more) Professor
Hualin Qian nominated for ICANN Board
Professor Hualin Qian
(CNNIC), APTLD Board Member, was nominated for a position on the board of
ICANN serving from 26 June 2003 ICANN Montreal Meeting to the conclusion of
Annual Meeting 2006. On 16th June, ICANN
Nominating Committee announced nominees for the ICANN Board, the Council of
the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), and the new Interim At
Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). (more) ICANN
Submits Seventh Status Report to US Department of Commerce
This is the third quarterly report on ICANN’s progress toward achieving the objectives of the MOU between DOC and ICANN. (more) ICANN
Meetings in Montreal, Canada
ICANN's Transition Board of Directors held a meeting in Montréal, Canada, on 26 June 2003. Several meeting topics were discussed and resolved by the Board. (more) Deployment
of Internationalized Domain Names
On 20 June, ICANN announced the commencement of global deployment of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), which will allow use on the Internet of domain names in languages used in all parts of the world. (more) |
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.au |
30 July 2003 Web
Access breaches transfers policy auDA has found that Web
Access, a reseller of Enetica, has breached the Transfers (Change of Registrar of Record) Policy.
(more) 17 July 2003 Latest
"net.au" mail out by Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd auDA has become aware
that Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd (DNA) is sending letters and/or faxes to
some domain name registrants regarding the net.au version of their .au domain
name being available or unregistered. (more) 03 July 2003 The new Australian
internet domain name regime has paid handsomely for the company which now
runs the .au internet name database, with registrations for the first year of
its operation far higher than forecast. (more) 19 June 2003 Domain
Names Australia Pty Ltd auDA has become aware
that a company named Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd (DNA) is sending letters
and/or faxes to some domain name registrants regarding the .com version of
their .au domain name being available or unregistered. (more) 18 June 2003 Discount
Domain Name Services breaches new transfer policy auDA has found that
actions by Discount Domain Name Services (DDNS) breached the new Transfers (Change of Registrar of Record) Policy (auDA
published policy number 2003-03). (more) 16 June 2003 auDA
- New transfers policy commences Monday 16 June 2003 The new Transfers
(Change of Registrar) Policy (2003-03) came into force at 10am AEST on Monday
16 June 2003. (more) 2 June 2003 AU domain administrator reviews info access The .au domain
administrator is considering relaxing some of the limits on information about
domain name holders in a move designed to help academic institutions conduct
research about the Internet. (more) |
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.cn |
27 May 2003 Chinese Domain Names Officially Released The China Internet
Network Information Centre has officially released a series of Chinese domain
names. Web surfers can visit websites by directly typing Chinese characters
in the address bar of their browser. (more) |
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.hk |
22 July 2003 Simplified
Procedure for New Domain Name Registration To make new domain name
registration easier for customers, we are pleased to announce that a
temporary name server record will be provided for new domain name
registration with NO valid name server details supplied during registration.
(more) 30 June 2003 HKDNR
launches the New Service Partner Porgram Version 2.0 Responding to request
from the public, HKDNR has officially launched our new Service Partner
Program v.2.0 on 30-June-03. (more) 18 June 2003 Lucky
Draw Of The HKDNR Survey On Second-Level ".HK" Domain Name HKDNR held a 2-week
User Survey on Second-Level ".hk" domain name in June 2003. The
survey has received an overwhelming response with a considerable number of
replies received. To express our appreciation, ten individual domain names
were offered in a lucky draw to all respondents who have provided their
feedback. (more) 3 June 2003 HKIRC
holds User Survey on DotHK Domain Name from 2nd June to 16th June 2003 Complete the Online
Survey and Get Your FREE Individual Domain Name (".idv.hk") (more) |
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.jp |
31 July 2003 JRRS started to
distribute IDN standards (RFCs) -compatible i-Nav™ plug-in for Japanese JP
Domain Name on July 30, 2003. The i-Nav™ (version 4.0) can be downloaded at
JPRS i-Nav™ distribution website (http://jprs.jp/i-Nav/). If you have
installed previous version of i-Nav™ plug-in, you do not have to re-install
version 4.0, as your i-Nav™ will be automatically updated within around a
week. (more) 11 July 2003 JPRS launched IDN
standards (RFCs)-compatible Japanese JP Domain Name registration Service on
July 10, 2003. This enables the use of Japanese JP Domain Name through the
browsers such as Netscape® 7.1(*). (more) 23 June 2003 Japan Registry Service
Co., Ltd. (JPRS; Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Koki Higashida), the
company responsible for the management and administration of the .JP
top-level domain and operation of the domain name system (DNS), announced
today that its Japanese JP domain name registration and management services
will comply with RFCs for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) from July 10,
in accordance with the release of ICANN document of June 20 (US time)
regarding the framework for IDN registrations, which has been developed
collaboratively by JPRS, ICANN, and other domain name registries in the
world. (more) |
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.kr |
18 July 2003 KRNIC
gives an impetus to the preparation to trace Spam/Hacking/Virus! KRNIC stepped in the
real time reflection of Whois information to fix the healthy Internet culture
and to form the basis of clean Internet with Ministry of Information and
Communication. (more) 18 July 2003 KRNIC and C&F Law
Office celebrated the business agreement for the supplement of legal advice
service connected with Domain name dispute with about ten participants at the
conference room of KRNIC in the morning Jun 25. (more) 18 July 2003 Korea Network
Information center held <The Fourth Human, Society@internet Academic
Conference> with Ewha Institute of Science and Technology at Seoul Kyoyuk
Munhwan(in Yangjae-dong)from Jun 17 to Jun 20 for three days. The subject for
the academic conference was " the effect of Internet on human and
society". (more) 18 July 2003 KRNIC
is going to hold Korean Internet Operation Workshop 2003 KRNIC is going to hold
Korean Internet Operation Workshop 2003, and the 16th APNIC Open Policy
meeting is opened together. (more) 18 July 2003 URI
Standardization Form general meeting and Workshop is hold URI Standardization
Forum in KRNIC is going to open <2003 URI Standardization Forum and
Workshop> in occasion of the second anniversary of the forum foundation at
Gyeonggi Small & Medium Business Center for two days July 3 and July 4. (more) 2 June 2003 KRNIC,
Global Root DNS Mirror Site Installation within South Korea Possibly as early as
the later half of this year, a root DNS mirror site will be installed here in
Korea. To install in South Korea a mirror site of the sixth root DNS
among 13 that are currently in existence in the world, KRNIC (President, Song
Kwan-ho) has, jointly with the Ministry of Information and Communication,
negotiated with its operating agency, the Internet Software Consortium
(www.isc.org) and has announced that the involved parties have mutually consented
on the installation. (more) |
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.my |
26 May 2003 Malaysian
Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and MYNIC, Mimos Berhad
(MYNIC) Personal Domain Name Public Consultation Paper (more) |
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from
.nz |
22 July 2003 InternetNZ
international chairman sees victory for country-code rights A meeting of internet
body ICANN has achieved recognition of a new structure for country-code
top-level domain organisations (ccTLDs) like InternetNZ to run their own
affairs. (more) 17 July 2003 InternetNZ
unlikely to act on child-trapping domains If you want to start a
pornographic website with the name pokemom.co.nz, InternetNZ is unlikely to
stand in your way. (more) 15 July 2003 InternetNZ
By-Election Results (more) 7 July 2003 Internet
Use Statistics (more) 4 July 2003 Geeks
may not inherit anything yet The way .geek.nz
backers want to implement their proposed new 2LD looks like holding the
process up. (more) 2 July 2003 Bidders from New
Zealand and overseas have been selected to proceed to due diligence in the sale
of InternetNZ domain name registrar, Domainz. (more) 27 Jule 2003 Review
team surveys public on 2LD The InternetNZ working
group reviewing the future of New Zealand's second level domain (2LD) has
heard that a quarter of the respondents would prefer not to have a second
level at all. (more) 19 June 2003 New Internet Society Fellows
Announced Nevil Brownlee is well
known in New Zealand having guided Auckland University's networking
endeavours for nearly twenty years. Nevil was an key contributor to
Kawaihiko, the early university network, and Tuia, the consortium that
brought together the interests of both the university sector and the CRIs.
Nevil and his staff at the University of Auckland provided the majority of
management support for Kawaihiko, minuting meetings, managing its funds and
producing periodic reports on traffic. (more) 16 June 2003 Domainz
looks to future ahead of sale Domainz, the company
which used to have sole charge of the register of ".nz" Internet
addresses, has begun reinventing itself ahead of its imminent sale by its
sole shareholder, the non-profit Internet Society, InternetNZ. (more) |
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.ph |
25 July 2003 Domain
name registrar to give '.ph' domains for free Local Philippine domain
registry dotPH is giving out the ".ph" domain to Philippine
residents for free in a bid to boost adoption of the country domain, an
official told INQ7.net on Friday. (more) |
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from
.tj |
30 June 2003 IANA
Report on Redelegation of the .tj Top-Level Domain The Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (the IANA), as part of the administrative functions
associated with management of the domain-name system root, is responsible for
receiving requests for delegation and redelegation of top-level domains,
investigating the circumstances pertinent to those requests, and reporting on
the requests. This report gives the findings and conclusions of the IANA on
its investigation of a request for redelegation of the .tj (Tajikistan)
country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). (more) |
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from
.tw |
25 July 2003 TWNIC
Seminar on Internet Trend 2003 (Traditional
Chinese Version) (more) TWNIC held its annual seminar
on Internet Trend on 22nd to 24th July. The theme of
this year was Future Development of Internet and Telecommunication Technology.
Local experts and governmental authorities were invited to give speeches on this
topic and join the later panel discussion. (more) 21 July First
TWING Camp (Traditional Chinese Version) (more) In conjunction with TWNIC’s
annual Seminar on Internet Trend 2003, the first Taiwan Internet Next
Generation Camp (TWING) was held on 21st July. The Camp is
programmed to provide Taiwan’s young generation the guideline of how to take
part in the international Internet events. The TWING participants were
encouraged to join the August Busan APNG Camp. (more) 1 July 2003 2 letter idv.tw Released (Traditional
Chinese Version) (more) TWNIC has officially
released 2-letter idv.tw domain name at 12:00, July 1 2003. (more) 13 June 2003 DNS Online Tutorial (Traditional
Chinese Version) In order to promote the
better utilise of Internet resources, TWNIC has programmed series of DNS training
courses from July to September. The relevant training materials were put
online for trainee’s easy access. (more) 29 May 2003 IANA Report on Redelegation of the .tw Top-Level Domain The Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (the IANA), as part of the administrative functions
associated with management of the domain-name system root, is responsible for
receiving requests for delegation and redelegation of top-level domains,
investigating the circumstances pertinent to those requests, and reporting on
the requests. In September 2000, the IANA received a preliminary request for
redelegation of the .tw (Taiwan) country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). This
report gives the findings and conclusions of the IANA on its investigation of
that request. (more) |
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.vn |
19 June 2003 Vietnam
now has 5 levels of Internet domain name This is the
recently-released regulation of the Ministry of Posts and Telematics (MPT) of
Vietnam for better management and use of Internet resources in the country. (more) |
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