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Friday, 27 December 2002
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Further stories on newzealand.com
Another couple of stories about newzealand.com:
The Seattle Post story has quotes from the registrant that to defend the UDRP action cost 'six figures'.
9:16:40 PM
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Tuesday, 24 December 2002
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newzealand.com sold?
The buzz around the capital yesterday was that newzealand.com was purchased by the New Zealand government (or an arm of it). Inexpensive was not used in the same sentence. No updates have occurred on the name but time will tell.
11:59:06 PM
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Stories on newzealand.com
Further newzealand.com stories (note most of these are very similar as based on AP story):
11:34:58 PM
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IANA updates .nz details
I just noticed that the IANA record for .nz was updated on December 5th. The address of the "Sponsoring Organization" and "Administrative Contact" have been updated at last (but thinking about it I thought maybe the admin contact should be the DNC?). The technical details are still nearly 3 years out of date but things take time I guess :-)
11:16:47 PM
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Monday, 23 December 2002
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18 accredited registrars
18 registrars have now been accredited by the DNC. Of these seven registrars have live access to the registry and can take registrations. The remaining are still going through the connection/technical process. One of the 18 is Catalyst IT which is buried at the bottom of the page.
11:31:24 AM
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Friday, 20 December 2002
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NZ Government gets smack on the hand
UDRP panel accused New Zealand government with reverse hijacking on the newzealand.com UDRP filing. A summary of the decision by BNA Internet Law News said:
"A three-member WIPO ICANN UDRP panel has ruled against the Government of New Zealand in its bid to obtain the transfer of the newzealand.com domain. The panel found that the country does not have a trademark in the name New Zealand. Further, the panel termed the action "baseless" and "misconceived" as it unanimously found that the government engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in bringing the action."
This is in contrast to the newzealand.biz STOP case that the opposite outcome occurred.
9:25:25 AM
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Monday, 16 December 2002
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Infotech story
Infotech has a story on the 'website registry' going well. You would think that Infotech would be able to at least create an accurate title for the story or maybe they do believe that domain names are only used for websites.
9:36:46 AM
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Sunday, 15 December 2002
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Former Domainz CEO on IANA
Patrick O'Brien has written a paper on IANA. Now, a quick read of it shows nothing interesting or remarkable. The only reason I am pointing to it as he was the egregious CEO of Domainz and thus InternetNZ started his 'Internet Governance' experience.
8:04:20 PM
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Wednesday, 11 December 2002
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Tuesday, 10 December 2002
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More registrars accredited
A total of 15 registrars have now been accredited by the DNC. A complete list of the registrars is on the DNC website.
10:47:05 PM
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NZOC is .nz verison of ICANN
I noticed the other day that the NZOC held a meeting on the 25th of November. NZOC has a standing policy that the mere public should not know the agenda nor even when they are held. They did agree that InternetNZ members are to be informed before hand. Curious that no agenda was issued at all for this meeting and not even members knew that it was going to meet. Even more interesting is that the last meeting of the NZOC was August 5th and that it is only the 3rd meeting it has ever had (according to the DNC website).
.nz is one of the few ccTLD's that has gone through reform in the last few years that does not have an elected policy committee. Off hand I can only think of .us that has an appointed policy committee like .nz.
Let see, meets rarely, does not announce agenda's, members are unelected and no one knows what it does. And you thought I was talking about ICANN!
10:23:16 PM
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ICANNWatch on .geek.nz
ICANNWatch has a short blurb on .geek.nz. I did find it funny that one of the DNC links does not have the .nz TLD in it (are www.dnc.org and www.dnc.org.nz linked? :-)
Also the slashdot comments are up to 188... and counting...
10:06:47 PM
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Herald on .nz prices
NZ Herald has a story today about the SRS and prices offered by registrars. Quite a good read with comments and prices from many parties.
11:42:18 AM
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Domainz announces new services
Yesterday Domainz sent this message to a subset of .nz name holders. I am guessing that this was sent to name holders that had unallocated as their '.nz name provider'. Some backlash has occurred on this but mainly from competitors to Domainz so far. Domainz has full right to communicate with their customers but I would have thought this page would have been enough (perhaps on the front page thou). I notice that they do not have appeared to have sent their other 'announcements' to name holders.
11:11:35 AM
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geek.nz on slashdot
geek.nz was the lead ramble, err, posting on slashdot tonight. For your leading pleasure it has a direct link, some of the 128 and counting comments, are interesting.
12:48:32 AM
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Domainz drops 6,000 names over night
Domainz is still running the stats part on their website on the left hand side. I do find it interesting that when I saw it today it had a shade under 114,000 names listed. I understand that they use the DRS to get these figures which until this last weekend would have been the same as the SRS data. My guess is that last weekend .nz had about 120,000 names (growth of 2,000 names over 1st of Novembers figures from Mark Davis). This would mean the three registrars coming on board over the weekend accounted for approx. 6,000 names being transferred from Domainz.
12:20:31 AM
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Saturday, 7 December 2002
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geek.nz process starts
geek.nz has entered the first stage of the creation approval process. The Request for Discussion (RFD) has been issued and debate is already occurring on the list A website has already been created for the application. Further detail can be read in the announcement or the 2LD area of the InternetNZ website.
9:10:37 PM
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SRS truly live
Today the SRS truly went live with WebAddress, iServe and Iconz joining Domainz in gaining registrar access to the .nz registry.
9:05:47 PM
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Wednesday, 4 December 2002
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ccTLD Goverance website lauched
A ccTLD Governance Project website has been launched by Michael Geist. It has listed the governance structure of 45 ccTLD's. The listing for New Zealand is interesting as it states that "The Society is discussing whether to execute a simple MOU between the Society and the NZ government" which is news to me.
9:52:54 AM
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Tuesday, 3 December 2002
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The SRS will soon be live.
December 7th at 10am the SRS will be live, at last. Some people think this is already the case but as only Domainz can access the registry maintained by NZRS it can hardly be called shared can it?
This is a moment long awaited by the New Zealand local internet community.
8:54:29 AM
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