 The 2009 ICANN Nominating Committee (Nom Com) has been convened and met for the first time on 7-8 November, immediately following the 33rd International ICANN Public Meeting in Cairo, Egypt.Prior to the Cairo meeting, on 28 August 2008, the ICANN Board appointed Tricia Drakes as Nom Com Chair. Tricia has selected Alan Levin as Associate Chair. Due to the bylaws, Hagen Hultzsch, the previous Nom Com Chair will serve as an advisor to the current Nom Com. 2009 Nom Com will select:  Nominet, the governing body of the .uk domain space, has not been a happy place since the contentious Board election earlier this year. Events have really come to a head in the last week.
On November 10, 2008, one of the domainer members of the Board of Directors, Jim Davies, issued a public letter calling for the resignation of both the CEO, Lesley Cowley, and the Executive Chairman, Bob Gilbert, of Nominet. In his letter, Mr. Davies claims that the CEO and the Executive Chairman have engaged in a campaign against him since his election, including making false allegations, including allegations of criminal conduct, and mishandling complaints against him.  ICANN has selected Sydney as the venue for their June 2009 meeting that they expect around 1,700 experts from around the world to discuss issues regarding the future of the Internet such as new gTLDs, internationalised domain names and the security of the DNS.
Sedo’s domain name sales for the week to 11 October resulted in a big
.net sale with pisos.net selling for €150,000. “Pisos” means “story” in
Spanish. Other notable sales were aed.nl, selling for €25,500,
rencontre.org (€25,000 – meeting in French), voyance.net (€25,000 –
clairvoyance in French) and telefonbuch-deutschland.de (German
telephone book) selling for €19,500.
In his speech at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, the ITU's Hamadoun Touré "spoke openly of the ongoing 'war' between ICANN and the ITU writes Milton Mueller. Mueller notes Touré demanded a stronger role for governments in ICANN, dismissed ICANN's GAC as "cosmetic" (quite wrong says Mueller) and correctly accused the IGF of "avoiding issues" but also rather harshly dismissed it as a "waste of time." Mueller commended "Touré for his forthrightness, which is all too rare in international organizations. Unfortunately, his blunt speech supports the wrong cause."
The TRAFFIC Down Under Conference starts in Australia tomorrow. They are featuring two live domain auctions, one held by Aftermarket.com and a second held by RickLatona.com . Today RickLatona.com released the list of domains that they will be offering on auction on Thursday. You can view the list of domains here. There are a range of domains for all budgets. Highlights of the auction include stellar geo domains, such as Belgium.com and Venice.com. As well, many domains are offered without reserve. It is also possible to bid on the auctions in advance, or to bid online during the auction. To participate, you can go here.  Amsterdam/Prague
17th November - A few hours before the launch of its Grandfather
period, the CO.NL Operator is proud to announce that the Czech Arbitration
Court (CAC) has agreed to commit the resources of its Online Dispute Resolution
Platform to .CO.NL domain names.
If you go do Wikipedia.de, which is how many Germans access the German version of Wikipedia, instead of forwarding to the German version of Wikipedia, you will find a legal notice which, translated into English says:
Taverse Legal asks "Have you implemented a domain name strategy?" The reason they ask this questions is "Many established businesses and entrepreneurial start-ups fail to account for their use of domain names in their general business planning. A comprehensive and effective domain name strategy can often boost profits and extend your marketing to new niches, all while defending from would-be cybersquatters and others that would seek to cash in on your business's goodwill. An effective domain name strategy consists of a plan to protect your trademarks in domain names, to register generic domain names related to your business niche, to defensively register domain names similar to your trademarks, to monitor for confusingly similar domain names, and to handle cybersquatters and typosquatters through legal and extra-legal means."
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In the continuing saga of Kentucky Judge Wingate's attempt to seize 141 gambling related domain names, three civil liberties groups have filed a