John Demco
.SE Domain Brought Down Due To Misconfiguration – The registry for Sweden’s .se domain published an incorrect .se zone file on October 12, effectively removing all .se domain names from the zone file and making them inaccessible. Corrected data was quickly published, although the old incorrect information may have remained available for some time due to DNS caching.
.DE Domain to Ease Registration Rules – DENIC, the registry for Germany’s .de domain, has announced that as of October 23 it will remove many restrictions on .de registrations. Among other things, it will now be possible to register one-character, two-character, and numeric domains. The announcement follows a 2008 court decision to allow the registration of vw.de to Volkswagen.
Picks To Click
- Yahoo wins a dispute over yahoo.tel.
- Professional basketball player Chris Bosh wins a court case over chrisbosh.com. The court also ordered the release of some 800 other personal domain names to Bosh, who will transfer them for free to legitimate claimants.
- VeriSign, operator of the .com registry, comes out in support of new gTLDs.
Timeline
- Sun, Oct 18: last day to respond to CIRA/IISD Canadian Internet policy survey
- Sun, Oct 25 – Fri, Oct 30: ICANN meetings in Seoul, South Korea
- Mon, Nov 16: proposed launch date for IDN ccTLD fast track process
- Thu, Dec 10: support for .eu IDNs commences
- Sun, Mar 7 – Fri, Mar 12: ICANN meetings in Nairobi, Kenya
- Sun, Jun 20 – Fri, Jun 25: ICANN meetings in Brussels, Belgium