There’s a new law on data protection in Russia, and under its provisions, information for web site owners should not be accessible online. The .ru WHOIS database has almost three years to fulfill the law requirements (until January 1, 2010), but Ru-Center, (largest registrar for .ru), says they have discussed the issue with RIPN (the technical contact for .ru) may be ready to implement it in the coming months.

You can read unofficial translation of the law here (PDF), or the original - here (in Russian, html).

During previous drawing lots Norid has seen an increasing tendency of some people trying to abuse the system in order to get the names they want. The problem has been discussed with The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPTA) as supervisory body for .no. NPTA and Norid have decided that a stricter regime is necessary when opening for numeric domain names.

Norid would like to draw your attention to the following:

The drawing of lots mechanism has been chosen in order to give all applicants an equal opportunity to register the domain names they want. Organisations cooperating with other organisations in applying for the same domain names, thus increasing their chances to get the names at the expense of other applicants, violate the basic principle of the drawing.

If we discover obvious abuse of the drawing mechanism we reserve the right to

close/reject all applications from the organisations, and withdraw the right to participate in the drawing
suspend the registrar who submits the applications
The suspension of the registrar will occur if Norid considers the registrar to be either an obvious accomplice to the abuse or that the registrar should have understood that his system was being abused.

The NPTA will be kept informed about the development in any possible cases involving obvious abuse of the drawing mechanism.

At the same time we wish to emphasise that the applicant has, as with other domain names, the responsibility to make sure that the name does not violate Norwegian law or the rights of third parties.

Source : Norid.no

“Le Néerlandais qui a eu un conflit avec Google UK Ltd. au sujet d’un certain nombre de noms de domaine a cessé d’utiliser ces domaines.”

“The Dutchman who had a conflict with Google UK Ltd. about a number of domain names has stopped using the domains.”

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D’après un sondage réalisé par DomainNameWire, 73% des sondés enregistrent un .net si le .com est déjà pris.

Avec 73%, le .net relègue loin derrière les .info, .org et .biz avec respectivement 17%, 9% et 2% (dans cette étude, les sondés ne pouvaient pas prendre d’extensions nationales (ccTLDs), telles que les .fr, .de, .it …).

73% of survey respondents say they’d register .net if .com was taken.

Finding good .com domains is getting harder and harder. Respondents to Domain Name Wire’s 2007 survey were asked If a .com is taken, what’s your second choice of a TLD?. For the second year in a row, .net came out on top with 73% of the vote. Last year .net took 63% of the vote. The rank order from last year stayed the same, although .org slipped a bit:

1. .Net 73%
2. .Info 17%
3. .Org 9%
4. .Biz 2%

(Total greater than 100% due to rounding). Respondents were not allowed to select country code domains, such as .de and .us, as alternatives.

I was somewhat surprised by .org’s drop given some high dollar sales in December 2006, including Date.org for $150,000 and Loan.org for $105,000. However, .org is still recognized as a non-commercial domain by most web users.

There have been a number of notable .net sales over the past year:

Sex.net $454,500
RealEstate.net $300,000
CreditCards.net $118,500
Bingo.net $56,500
Career.net $52,500
Model.net $50,000

Of course, most domain investors will simply select an alternative .com domain if their first pick is unavailable or the price is too high.

Source : DomainNameWire

L’association du NIC.CZ, administrateur du domaine national .CZ, a annoncé que la téléphonie sur Internet basée sur le système d’ENUM est maintenant disponible aux clients de deux fournisseurs supplémentaires de service tchèques de télécommunication, NETWAY.CZ et CL-NET. Ces deux sociétés enregistrent également des domaines ENUM, nécessaires pour les appels bas tarifs ou même totalement gratuits sur Internet.

The CZ.NIC association, administrator of the CZ national domain, has announced that the Internet telephony based on the ENUM system is now offered to customers of two more Czech telecommunication service providers, NETWAY.CZ and CL-NET. Both companies also register ENUM domains needed for more cost-efficient or even totally free Internet calls.

Appel à la protection de votre identité sur Internet

Le lancement de la campagne ‘ You are the Net (Vous êtes Internet) ‘ est la première étape d’une série de campagnes de promotion du ‘ Year of the name (l’année du nom, du nommage) ‘ sur internet.

Toutes les activités publiques de nic.at - le registre autrichien - en 2007 sont concentrées sur la protection de l’identité des utilisateurs sur l’Internet.

Source : nic.at

Appeal for securing your identity in the internet

Kicking off the campaign “You are the net” is the first step within a series of campains for the proclaimed “Year of the name” for the internet.

All public activities of nic.at - the austrian registry - in 2007 are focused on securing the identity of users in the internet.

Source : Nic.at