From: TheStandard.com [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:18 PM
To: Intelligencer Europe
Subject: INTELLIGENCER EUROPE: New Domain Names to Hit Europe
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THE INDUSTRY STANDARD'S
I N T E L L I G E N C E R E U R O P E
This Week in the European Internet Economy
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Wednesday, 20 June 2001
TOP STORY:
* New Domain Names to Hit Europe
WORTH REPEATING:
* Wishful thinking?
THE WEEK:
* News highlights
BY THE NUMBERS:
* Brits online
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TOP STORY
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New Domain Names to Hit Europe
By James Ledbetter - European Executive Editor
Have you been hotly awaiting the chance to give your European business
a Web address ending in ".golf"? Starting this week, you should be
able to.
New.net, a California-based domain registry firm, today announced that
it will make available ten new domain extensions to help Web sites
describe their function more precisely. The ten extensions are: .arts,
.school, .church, .love, .golf, .auction, .agent, .llp, and .llc.
These extensions are not - like the veteran .com, .net, or .org
Extensions - approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN). Rather, new.net uses routing software to divert
Web surfers who type in the new domain and switches them to a New.net
server.
So, for example, visitors to a Web site called cantbuyme.love would
actually be diverted to cantbuyme.love.new.net. The routing software
can be provided through an ISP, or downloaded by individual users via
the New.net site.
The company said the address extensions would be available later this
week, priced at $25 per year.
Earlier this year, New.net released 20 such renegade domain
extensions, including .xxx, .hola, .mp3, and .gmbh. The company
declined to release a figure for how many such domains it has sold,
but said it was in the tens of thousands.
Steve Chadima, new.net's chief marketing officer, told The Standard he
had predicted that .xxx would be the firm's best-selling extension.
"It sells," he said, "but not as well as .inc and .shop."
Chadima said that New.net's technique would allow it to begin selling
multilingual domain extensions, even using non-Western characters; he
said the company would begin offering those before the end of 2001.
The firm acknowledges that it could run into conflict if ICANN decides
to release one of its extensions (such as .llp) as a new top-level
domain. "That's the bet we're taking," says Chadima. He argues that
while ICANN is well positioned to make technical decisions about the
Net, "the subject of which domain names get to be used is a political
and economic question that ICANN is ill-equipped to deal with."
Given how slowly ICANN moves to issue new top-level domains, New.net
is betting that it will have an advantage with any given extension.
"If that happens, by the time that happens," Chadima says, "we'll have
tens of millions of viewers and tens of thousands of site. They will
be the collider at that point."
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WORTH REPEATING
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"The recovery plan lacks the necessary transparency towards creditors
and it excels in vague and theoretical construction based on wishful
thinking."
A Belgian judge on Wednesday rejecting Lernout & Hauspie's recovery
plan. He ordered that the insolvent speech recognition company draw
up a new restructuring proposal. (Quoted by Dow Jones Newswires)
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THE WEEK
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WIRELESS FEATURE: Wireless promises a bold future of mobile commerce
and multimedia. But before we get there, the telecom industry will
have to overcome 5 unspoken hurdles. Technical problems with
third-generation devices need to be addressed, as do content provision
models and consumer concerns over 'm-commerce'. Meanwhile, Bluetooth
wireless networking suffers some serious problems: technical glitches,
compatibility issues and security holes.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27206,00.html
BLUEYONDER CALLS: Cable television and telephony provider Telewest is
planning an advertising and education blitz over the summer months in
order to increase the number of UK households connected to its
Blueyonder broadband Internet service. Broadband Britain became
something of a buzzword last year, but so far take-up of Internet
connections roughly ten times faster than current household modems has
been poor.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27300,00.html
McAFEE HEADS EAST: McAfee.com, the software security specialist that
allows subscribers to download software from its site rather than buy
it in boxed form, is planning a push into the European market over the
summer. The group intends to combat what it sees as a serious lack of
knowledge of security issues among European Internet users. The group
is hoping to capitalize on the rise of broadband services in Europe,
which opens up consumers to potential attack from hackers.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27204,00.html
UPBEAT IN SPAIN: The chairman of Telefonica, Spain's largest
telecommunications provider, said his company would have 100 million
clients by the end of 2004, a nearly 50 percent rise from its current
67 million users. Cesar Alierta also reiterated Telefonica's
commitment to its money-losing Internet and media divisions saying the
company's needs those arms to pursue the convergence among telecom,
media and the Internet.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27209,00.html
SEX SELLS: Thema1, a German online tabloid based in Berlin, has picked
the winner of its "In Bed For Madonna" contest. A reader from
Frankfurt will get his ticket for a sought-after Madonna concert on
Friday in exchange for sex with Thema1's sex columnist Shelley
Masters. The bizarre gimmick has seen traffic to the site skyrocket
more than ten-fold.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27269,00.html
NEW OUTLOOK: Microsoft and Vodafone announced the launch of a new
service delivering real-time e-mail, SMS and voice communication to
corporate customers via the Outlook platform. Company officials
declined to say how much money they will invest in the project, to be
known as Vodafone OfficeLive, but said at a joint news conference here
that it marked the beginning of a long-term relationship between the
two companies.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27242,00.html
BOEING LUFTHANSA CONNEXION: In the ongoing Boeing vs. Airbus dogfight
over in-flight Internet access, Boeing got another boost Sunday when
it announced that Lufthansa would use its service. Boeing, which last
week announced a joint venture with the three largest U.S. airlines to
deliver Internet access to commercial jets, would equip Lufthansa
intercontinental planes with its Connexion high-speed Internet service
starting in 2003.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27236,00.html
BURNING ISSUE: MPO, a French record and CD manufacturer, announced a
program aimed at enabling portals and e-commerce sites to offer
personalized CDs. The idea is that Internet users choose tracks
online, which are then compiled and made into a CD by MPO. Though
other services offering personalized CDs have already proven
unsuccessful in the U.S., MPO believes its business-to-business
approach will enable it to make the service profitable in three years.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27119,00.html
SNOOPING PROTEST: European Internet service providers and
data-protection commissioners are stepping up their resistance against
the demands from police agencies to snoop on electronic
communications. German ISPs, joined by small-sized local telecom
firms, spoiled a meeting held last week by Germany's minister of
economics and technology. Beforehand, the chairman of the European
data-protection watchdogs, sent a letter to European lawmakers warning
against "unacceptable" demands by police agencies to pre-emptively
store telecom data.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,27121,00.html
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BY THE NUMBERS
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Whichonline has conducted a major survey of British Internet
consumers. The report highlights disenchantment with email-induced
information overload and gender parity.
http://www.which.net/surveys/intro.htm#intro1
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,509230,00.html
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,509236,00.html
Forrester research says 22 million Britons now regularly use the
Internet compared with 15.4 million less than a year ago.
http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,507723,00.html
The British telecom regulator Oftel says the cost of dial-up Internet
access in the UK has fallen below Californian levels for the first time.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,507340,00.html
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