Foxbane Ltd and Steven Heath: DNCLinks and postings regarding the .nz Domain Name Comissionerparliament.nz details in .nz newsletter- October 25, 2005 Office of the DNC has updated the .nz October newsletter with the actual links. The two documents of interest are: Revised parliament.nz application Revised moderation policy Both of these are interesting reading but raised some interesting questions to me. The first is that if I was a policital party in parliament I would nto activly use any domain name in this 2LD. It reduceds the 'brand' of the party and also puts it in the whim of the moderator if it will exist in the future, ie, after an.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/25.html#a613 .nz newsletter and the missing PDF links- October 25, 2005 DNC has issued the October .nz newsletter. The main information in this is the parliament.nz recommendation and the supporting material. The PDF newsletter claims to link to them but the documents are not linked in the newsletter. I have alerted the DNC office and they are looking into it.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/25.html#a612 Interview with Debbie Monahan (DNC)- October 20, 2005 This is the first of a number of interviews I am doing with people involved with .nz. The lucky person I picked first is Debbie (Deborah to her friends) Monahan, the .nz Domain Name Commissioner. After reading it you have any feedback, questions or suggestions drop me a line.Email interview with Debbie Monahan Domain Name Commissioner (DNC) of the .nz ccTLD.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/20.html#a610 .govt.nz vs parliament.nz- October 13, 2005 I agree that Parliament 'legally' is separate (and equal) to 'government' but I think 99% of the population does not really realise this and in fact care. I have not yet seen all the material that NZOC was presented about the parliament.nz application and perhaps this was addressed.Many things are simplified for ease of the many at the expense of the few and I thinkt his should have been one of them. I think we have now reached the 'tipping point' for 2LD applications in NZ. Anyone for...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/14.html#a609 NZOC recommends parliament.nz be approved- October 13, 2005 I fired off some emails about the NZOC meeting and in the end got one back from Frank March, NZOC Chair (I guess I should have emailed him first :-)In response to my 'what occurred for parliament.nz' request Frank sent a detailed update which I have placed online but the lead sentence is the key one: NZOC agreed to recommmend to Council at its next meeting on 28 October that .parliament.nz be established as a moderated second level domain. I understand several trees were used to outline the...http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/14.html#a608 parliament.nz- October 12, 2005 On Monday the NZOC had a meeting and one of the items on the agenda was the parliament.nz 2LD application. I heard that this meeting had a member that came as an observer. I would have liked to go but had prior commitments. I am tracking down who this person is and see if I can find out what occurred at the meeting. Reading from the minutes from the previous meetings I expect that parliament.nz was approved (or at least not rejected).http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/13.html#a606 (Untitled)- October 9, 2005 IDG has a story about the bankdlrect.co.nz phish. It has a screen shot of the phishing 'error' and some quotes from the DNC, DiscountDomains and ASB but other than not much new.It does however have a curious error. The story claims that the name is still registered. This is clearly incorrect and it was deleted by the registrar the day the phish was discovered. It is in the PendingDelete status which ALL names are in after they are cancelled or lapse due to non payment.http://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/10.html#a603 EU saying one thing and doing another- October 3, 2005 Internetnews.com has an interesting angle on the USA vs the World issue. They have a quote from Bret Fausett:But it wasn't a particularly risky move for the EU to make, he said, because they are secure in the knowledge the U.S. is adamant about not giving control to the U.N. Many of the member nations within the EU, he said, still support the U.S. role for Internet governance. That is an interesting approach. Is EU playing both sides of the fieldhttp://www.nznews.org.nz/categories/dnc/2005/10/03.html#a596 |