Uncontrolled Interruption? Dozens of “Blocked” Domains in New gTLDs Actually Delegated by Burt Kaliski, Verisign
The Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions report, just published by JAS Global Advisors, under contract to ICANN, centers on the technique of “controlled interruption,” initially described in a public preview shared by Jeff Schmidt last month.
With that technique, domain names that are currently on one of ICANN’s second-level domain (SLD) block lists can be registered and delegated for regular use, provided that they first go through a trial period where they’re mapped to a designated “test” address. The staged introduction of new SLDs is intended to provide operators of installed systems the opportunity to assess the potential impact of an impending name collision on their own, before any external operators have an opportunity to exploit it.
The new technique is subject to a public comment period before being adopted (including discussion at the upcoming Name Collisions Workshop). However, if this technique (or any other) were adopted, it would stand to reason the staged introduction would need to be monitored carefully. Someone would need to check that SLDs on the block lists actually did go through the trial period, and were not put into regular use without the appropriate opportunity for assessment by operators of installed systems.
(Note that Verisign isn’t endorsing the technique; we are reviewing the just-published Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions report, and we’ve already expressed reservations about the statistical invalidity of SLD block lists as an indicator of name collision risk. That being said, the point still remains that if such a technique were adopted, it would need to be monitored to ensure correct implementation.)
Given the anticipation of “controlled” interruption, it’s ironic that while ICANN specifically precludes the delegation of domain names on the SLD block lists, dozens of them were actually registered and delegated!
That fact was recently duly noted by one of Verisign’s researchers who has been analyzing the daily progress of new gTLDs. As it turns out, nearly all delegated SLDs that should have been blocked were cancelled over the past weekend after independent reports citing the existence of inappropriate delegations began to circulate.
That the delegations of SLDs on the block lists could have caused name collisions with installed systems is not our primary concern. (And, as noted above, we don’t consider the block lists – which are based solely on query frequency at specific points in time – to be the final word on which delegations might or might not cause name collisions. As our chief security officer Danny McPherson has well explained in one of his blog posts, “Query frequency data without query context isn’t enough.”)
Our concern, rather, is that domain names on the SLD block lists were delegated at all, given ICANN’s clear direction to the contrary. As Pat Kane and I have noted in a broader-ranging letter to NTIA on operational miscues in the new gTLD delegation process, a policy that’s unenforced is worse than no policy at all.
If this is the state of affairs when the answer is “no” – effectively, a state of “uncontrolled interruption” – what happens when the answer changes to “wait 120 days”?
This Verisign blog post by Verisign’s Burt Kaliski was sourced with permission from:
blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/uncontrolled_interruption_dozens_of_blocked
ICANN: Video: Details on the President’s Globalization Advisory Groups
On February 17, 2014, ICANN ’s Board of Directors approved a resolution creating several President’s Globalization Advisory Groups to support ICANN ’s globalization efforts.
In this video interview, Theresa Swinehart, Senior Advisory to the President on Global Strategy, explains the rationale behind the creation of these Groups and how they will provide guidance on globalization issues.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-25feb14-en.htm
ICANN: Independent Report Maps Possible Way Forward in Mitigating Domain Name Collisions
An independent report commissioned by ICANN has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions.
A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolve a name used in a private name space results in a query to the public Domain Name System ( DNS ).
“This report takes an in-depth look at the collision issue and the potential risks and impacts, and gives us some very clear advice aimed at how to help system operators detect and mitigate those risks,” said Akram Atallah, President of ICANN ‘s Global Domains Division. “The next step is to seek input from our community on the report’s findings.”
The report stressed that name collisions are nothing new and that any issues that arise from expansion of the Top-Level Domains (TLDs) under ICANN ‘s New gTLD program would resemble those that occur in other parts of the DNS . But the report noted that expanding the number of TLDs will not fundamentally or significantly increase the risks of name collisions.
Specifically, the study outlines a set of recommendations on how ICANN and the TLD operators should handle the issue of name collisions in the expanding TLD space:
- ICANN should require new TLD registries to implement and publish a 120-day controlled interruption zone monitored by ICANN immediately upon delegation in the root zone.
- After the 120-day period, there shall be no further collision-related restrictions on the TLD .
- ICANN should have emergency response processes to analyze and act upon reported problems that present “clear and present danger to human life”.
- ICANN and others in the community should continue to collect and analyze data relating to the root servers and to the controlled interruption.
- The Top-Level Domains .corp, .home and .mail should be permanently reserved.
The report, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, is posted for public comment until April 21, 2014.
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To review the report and/or make comments, go to: www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/name-collision-26feb14-en.htm
For more information on name collisions, go to: www.icann.org/en/help/name-collision
For more information about the new gTLD program, go to: newgtlds.icann.org/en/
This ICANN news release was sourced from:
www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-26feb14-en
Sedo Reports $1 Million in Domain Name Sales! Copella.com Topped Sedo’s Weekly Sales List at $20,000
Copella.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $20,000. Highlights also include Apuestas.cl ,leading the ccTLD category at 7,500 and Evolution.org, leading the “Other” category at $2,999.
Other notable domain name sales include :
.COM
artofindia.com 13000 USD
assistcard.com 11500 USD
wejo.com 10000 USD
homestudio.com 10000 USD
casiola.com 9450 USD
onehotel.com 9000 USD
tmsoftware.com 9000 USD
azs.com 9000 USD
capitalcredit.com 8000 USD
youanimate.com 7500 USD
bondr.com 7200 USD
realfly.com 6580 EUR
defensemobile.com 5800 USD
econimo.com 5500 EUR
vegasweddings.com 5200 USD
screwsandbolts.com 5000 USD
inspiringpeople.com 5000 USD
thepainwhisperer.com 5000 USD
ccTLD
ads.es 5500 EUR
mouser.in 5000 USD
moneual.de 5000 EUR
jobzilla.co.uk 5000 USD
usenet.eu 4000 EUR
skins.es 3400 EUR
waffenwelt.de 3140 EUR
rencontresexe.fr 2900 EUR
hanfblätter.de 2500 EUR
hanfblüte.de 2500 EUR
merino.cn 2500 USD
raychem.cn 2500 USD
favor.me 2500 USD
grundstücksportal.de 2500 EUR
carbo.com.cn 2499 USD
onpage.nl 2400 EUR
semper.no 2400 EUR
salumi.it 2350 EUR
flg.co.uk 2200 GBP
gartner.kr 2000 USD
stylebook.tv 2000 USD
sosav.de 2000 EUR
hhp.us 2000 EUR
pie.me 2000 USD
motobecane.fr 2000 EUR
Other
evolution.org 2999 USD
topdomain.org 2500 EUR
innovex.net 2500 EUR
housemusic.org 2100 USD
saib.net 1800 EUR
engineoil.org 1777 USD
alojamientos.net 1750 EUR
lebed.biz 1277 USD
project.pro 1250 EUR
phpscripts.net 1000 USD
digitalb.net 995 USD
fuckoff.org 990 USD
dictator.org 945 USD
artopia.org 901 USD
Check out Sedo.com for more information .
.CLUB Domain Name Auction Ends Today! None of the Domain Names Have Hit Their Reserve
Sedo’s .Club domain name auction ends today. The auction features 25 .Club domain names and none of them have hit their reserve at the time of writing this article.
All the domain names included in the auction received bids. Skiing.club received the highest bid – $950, followed by Skate.club with a $750 bid. However, at the time of writing this article, none of the domain names included in the auction have hit their reserve.
One of the reasons for which no domains have hit their reserves so far is that some of reserves are rather high. Many domain names in new extension sell for under $1,000.In this case, many of them have a 1,000 – 4,999 USD reserve range and even 10,000-24,999 USD reserve range .
Here is the inventory :
icehockey.club
snowboard.club
snowboarding.club
snowboarders.club
snowboarder.club
skiing.club
crosscountryskiing.club
figureskating.club
figureskater.club
skater.club
skate.club
bobsleigh.club
bobsled.club
wintersports.club
xcountryskiing.club
xcountryski.club
sochi.club
medals.club
powder.club
alpineski.club
alpineskiing.club
iceskating.club
skier.club
skiers.club
speedskating.club
To place your bids check out Sedo.com