Thursday, June 19 to Friday, June 20, 2008

Meridien Hotel, located right at the heart of Paris (France). The glamorous Paris setting will prompt some exciting nights after rigorous days of learning. The Domainer Meeting will feature Paris-style entertainment, and an amazing welcome party.

The event is open to all interested domain industry professionals.

Great minds will connect to share knowledge, build new ideas, and explore new avenues to keep our progress going.

Pass of €450 each participant, including food and beverage.

On June 15th, the pass will cost €650, and onsite we will sell it for €700.

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Starts Ends Event Room

Saturday, June 21, 2008
9:00 17:30 GNSO Council Working Session Chagall
14:00 17:00 EURALO General Assembly Jacob
15:00 18:00 IDNC WG Meeting Miller

Sunday, June 22, 2008
9:00 11:00 GAC Working Group on IDNs - Discussion of Fast Track Modalities (CLOSED) Picasso
9:00 10:00 ALAC & GNSO Joint Session Rodin
10:00 17:30 GNSO Council Working Session Chagall
10:30 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 18:30 ALAC/At-Large Policy & Planning Meeting Rodin
14:00 16:00 ccNSO IANA Working Group (CLOSED) Cendrars
14:00 15:45 GAC Working Group on IDNs - Discussion of IDN Issues Paper (CLOSED) Picasso
15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 18:00 GAC Interaction with GNSO Council Picasso

Monday, June 23, 2008
8:30 9:00 Welcome Ceremony Utrillo (Main Room)
9:00 10:00 ICANN Public Forum - President’s Report & Comments Utrillo (Main Room)
9:00 15:00 ccTLD Technical Meeting Chagall
10:00 11:00 Workshop: Operating Plan Utrillo (Main Room)
10:00 12:30 Workshop: Presentation of Recommendations of IDNC WG for Fast Track Process IDN ccTLDs Hemingway
10:00 11:30 Workshop: Internet end-users & the Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 Rodin
10:00 10:10 BUSINESS ACCESS: Welcome from the Chairman Picasso
10:10 12:30 BUSINESS ACCESS: Info. Session on new gTLDs & IDNs Picasso
10:45 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 12:30 Workshop: Protection for Registrants in an Evolving Market Utrillo (Main Room)
12:30 13:30 BUSINESS ACCESS: IPv6 Presentation Giacometti
12:30 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 15:30 Workshop: JPA Discussion & President’s Strategy Committee Presentation: Public Input Utrillo (Main Room)
13:30 15:00 SSAC Open Meeting Hemingway
15:00 16:30 Workshop: At-Large Review Hemingway
15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 18:00 Workshop: New gTLDs - Shaping the Future of the Internet? Utrillo (Main Room)
19:00 21:30 Welcome Cocktail off-site

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
9:00 17:00 gTLD Registries Constituency Meeting Hemingway
9:00 13:00 GAC Plenary (CLOSED) Picasso
9:00 17:00 Registrars Constituency Meeting Modigliani
9:00 17:00 Non-Commercial Business Users Constituency (NCUC) Jacob
9:00 17:30 ccNSO Members Meeting Chagall
9:00 10:00 At-Large Regional Secretariats Rodin
10:00 12:30 Cross Constituency Meeting Hemingway
10:30 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 12:30 At-Large Community with ICANN Board Members Rodin
12:30 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 17:00 Intellectual Property Interests Constituency Meeting Cendrars
14:00 17:00 Internet Service & Connectivity Providers Constituency (ISP) Miller
14:00 17:00 Commercial and Business Users Constituency (CBUC) Hemingway
15:00 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 16:30 GAC Plenary (CLOSED) Picasso
15:30 17:00 At-Large Advisory Committee Meeting Rodin
17:30 18:30 GAC Meeting with the ICANN Board (OPEN SESSION) Picasso

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
8:00 12:00 Open GNSO Council Meeting Utrillo (Main Room)
8:30 9:00 GAC Program Committee Meeting (CLOSED) Picasso
9:00 13:00 GAC Plenary (CLOSED) Picasso
9:00 15:30 ccNSO Members Meeting Chagall
10:00 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
12:00 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 14:00 GNSO Improvements Implementation Utrillo (Main Room)
13:00 14:00 Workshop: Internet Governance & International Organisations Hemingway
14:00 18:00 GAC Drafting of Communique (CLOSED) Picasso
14:00 16:30 DNSSEC Public Meeting Hemingway
14:00 15:30 Workshop: Board Governance Committee At-Large Review Working Group Discussion Utrillo (Main Room)
16:00 19:00 ICANN Public Forum Utrillo (Main Room)
16:00 17:00 ccNSO Council Meeting Chagall
19:00 23:00 Gala Event @ Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) off-site
0:00 0:00 Thursday, June 26, 2008
9:00 12:00 Workshop: IPv6 for Registries & Registrars Hemingway
9:00 12:00 Workshop: IDNs Utrillo (Main Room)
10:00 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 12:00 At-Large Community | Meeting on At-Large Summit Proposal TBD
12:00 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 14:30 Workshop: Translation Programme Utrillo (Main Room)
13:00 14:30 Workshop: Registrar UDRP Compliance Hemingway
14:30 15:00 COFFEE BREAK
15:00 16:00 Public Forum: Reports of Supporting Organisations & Advisory Committees to the Board Utrillo (Main Room)
16:00 18:00 Meeting of the ICANN Board Utrillo (Main Room)

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Montenegrin Sunrise period begins May 1st

All interested legal entities from Montenegro can apply for registratrion of .me domain trought
Irist.com .me domains registrar.

Rollout Schedule (.me domain)

03/24/08:
• .me - Registration of Government second level domains
Migration from cg.yu to “co.me” “org.me” “net.me” “its.me” .

03/25/08 - 04/16/08:
•accepting migration requests “co.me” “org.me” “net.me” “its.me” .

04/18/08 - 04/21/08:
•requests processed.

05/01/08 - 05/06/08:
.ME - Montenegirn Sunrise

• Applications from Montenegrin entities are allowed.
• Applications from Montenegrin Sunrise will be evaluated in the Quiet Period, along with applications from the General Sunrise.

05/06/08 -05/20/08:

.ME SUNRISE

• Accredited registrars allowed into registry.
• Application info available to registrars.
• Ongoing registrar accreditations.

05/20/08 - 06/06/08: - Quiet Period

06/06/08 - 06/26/08 :
.ME Landrush

• Landrush application info available to registrars.
• .me - Sunrise Challenges begin

06/26 -07/15: - Quiet Period

• Registry closed to registrars.
• 7 day Landrush auctions held for names that received multiple applications.
• .me Domains are billed for at the time of allocation.

07/17/08:

.me Registration

.me Domain names are registered on a first-come, first-served basis

“Premium .me Names” auctions expected to begin in September 08.

BELGRADE, February 28, 2008

Serbian National Register of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS) informs Serbian and international public that registration of the new Internet domain names of the Republic of Serbia with .rs extension, will commence on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 12h noon.

RNIDS will accept requests for registration of new .yu domain names until Friday, February 29, 2008 at 12h noon. After this date registration of new .yu domain names will no longer be possible. All .yu domain names registered until this date will continue to function normally at least until September 30, 2009.

Registration of new .rs domains will be conducted through 27 Serbian companies, which were accredited by RNIDS as the accredited registrars of .rs domain names.

List of the accredited registrars of .rs domain names, as well as detailed rules and procedures regarding .rs registration and transition from .yu to .rs, are available at Web site www.rnids.rs.

What does a customer do when they want to generate Web traffic to their site, but the visitors they’re trying to reach will be using non-ASCII characters on their keyboards? The solution is Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). An IDN is a domain name where the non-ASCII characters have been converted to ASCII to be read in web browsers. Non-ASCII characters can range from the entire character system found in Japanese or Hebrew to a few special characters found in French or Italian.

What does an IDN look like? Let’s take a look at BJÖRGVIN.COM. Since this name has a non-ASCII character Ö, the IDN domain will be XN- -BJRGVIN-B1A.COM. The XN- - indicates the domain is encoded, BJRGVIN-B1A is the ASCII version of the original name, and the .COM extension is standard and requires no encoding.

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• UNIX can communicate with many different types of computers, it is not limited to a specific brand, type, or operating system.
• Most UNIX operating systems come with a free email program called Sendmail.
• UNIX provides tight administrative control, it has a mechanism for limiting a user’s disk usage in addition to passwords and file permissions.
• UNIX allows shared network filesystems to be mounted at any point in a directory structure. A network share can also span multiple disk drives (or even different machines) in UNIX, thus allowing administrators to maintain pre-existing directory structures that are well-known to users, yet allowing them to expand the available disk space on the server, making such system changes transparent to users.
• UNIX was conceived as a client/server operating system for professional use.
• UNIX operating systems are equipped with scripting languages such as Bourne Shell, Korn Shell, C Shell, and sometimes Perl, and a “cron” facility for scheduling jobs to run at fixed intervals (every n minutes, every n hours, once a week, once a month, etc.). Cron scheduling is highly configurable.
• A great deal of UNIX system administration is automated and customized for site-specific needs, which in effect cuts down on personnel costs.

What companies are using UNIX?

The exact number and type of companies using UNIX servers is difficult to determine however a partial list is below.

Cisco Systems, Several Universities, NASA, Boeing, Amazon.com, Dow Corning, Hotmail, United States Postal Service

Strengths vs. Windows hosting

In a Comparison of Web Hosting Platforms Unix is the most widely used operating system for Internet servers.

• UNIX allows for more flexibility in web site use. The functionality of UNIX allows for more users to access the site and the site features without bogging down.
• UNIX is reliable and stable. No more ‘blue screen of death’. A UNIX server’s uptime can be measured in years whereas a Windows server has to be rebooted frequently. This translates directly into monies earned as who knows how many transactions you are missing while your server is down.
• UNIX has secure systems less vulnerable to attack and has proven dependable. The Windows OS is more vulnerable to security breaches and hackers and is less portable.
• You need technical expertise to run a Unix server while Windows server management is easier to learn and someone with little experience can use advance features quickly.
• Because it is open-source there are many free server applications available and Unix handles high traffic more efficiently. Windows server software on the other hand is more expensive.

In a recent court decision, the The Beijing First Intermediate People′s Court stated that a Beijing Football Club, Juventus (Juventus), had the right to use the domain name “juventus.com.cn” over Nanjing Yixun Technology Co Ltd who was using that domain.

Nanjing registered the domain name “juventus.com.cn” in June 2003 and set up a fan site. Juventus owned international marks in the term “JUVENTUS” since 1996. It set up a coresponding Chinese website “cn.juventus.com” in March, 2005. One year later, Juventus complained to the Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, which decided that Juventus was the rightful owner of “juventus.com.cn” and that the domain should be transferred to them. Nanjing brought the matter to court on appeal.

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China’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy states that a complainant, in this case, Nanjing, must prove the following in order to win his/her case:

A. The disputed domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a name or mark in which the complainant has civil rights or interests;

B. The holder of the disputed domain name has no right or legitimate interest in respect of the domain name or the major part of the domain name; and

C. The holder of the disputed domain name has registered or has been using the domain name in bad faith.

Basing their decision on those factors, the court stated that even though it was legal for Nanjing to set up a website for fans to use, they did so in bad faith. The court found bad faith existed because Nanjing included commercial links to make a profit on its site and Nanjing registered “juventus.com.cn” knowing that the term “juventus” was a well-known football club in China. Lastly, the court decided that it was evident that in registering the domain, Nanjing sought to make money from the “juventus” name, to mislead end users, and to prevent Juventus from using the domain at issue. Nanjing’s claim of appeal was denied and they were required to transfer the domain “juventus.com.cn” to the Juventus Ball Club, as the rightful owner.

Other ccTLDs also had reason to celebrate: Russia (.RU) and Switzerland (.CH) both reached 1 million domain registrations this year. Aflilias the registry for .INFO domain names reported that the 5 millionth domain registration mark was also surpassed in 2007. The Chinese .CN ending also recorded a notable increase in registrations.