Verisign: Colloquium on Collisions: Expert Panelists to Select Papers, Award $50K First Prize by Burt Kaliski
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the verb collide is derived from the Latin verb collidere, which means, literally, “to strike together”: com- “together” + lædere “to strike, injure by striking.”
Combined instead with loquium, or “speaking,” the com- prefix produces the Latin-derived noun colloquy: “a speaking together.”
Researchers and practitioners know well the benefits of the colloquium, the technical conference, a gathering of those speaking together on a topic.
So consider WPNC 14 – the upcoming namecollisions.net workshop – a colloquium on collisions: speaking together to keep name spaces from striking together.
Allison Mankin, director of Verisign Labs, has assembled an outstanding technical program committee to select the papers to be presented at this March 8-10 event in London:
- Geoff Huston (APNIC)
- Olaf Kolkman (NLnet Labs)
- John Levine (Taughannock Networks)
- Lixia Zhang (UCLA)
- Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder (.SE IIS)
- Paul Hoffman (VPNC)
- Andrew Sullivan (DYN)
(Allison and I are also members.)
The program committee will make the careful decisions over the coming weeks about which papers to accept for presentation at the workshop. From among the papers presented, the prize committee – a subset of the program committee – will then award $50,000 for the most valuable research contribution, the one that most advances the state of knowledge and/or most deeply analyzes and mitigates risk. A second prize of $25,000, and up to five third prizes of $10,000 each, also may be awarded.
Having a paper accepted at a selective workshop is itself a recognition of the strength of a research contribution. This workshop aims to do even more: to reward the strongest of the contributions with cash prizes that can both focus attention on this area of emerging importance, and encourage and support further work.
The panelists’ expert decision-making will be key to the success of the workshop as well as its ongoing impact. My appreciation to them and their organizations for their commitment to this “colloquy” – and to helping us look both ways before crossing to avoid the “collidere.”
Paper submissions are due Feb. 10. For more information on the workshop, competition and rules, please visit namecollisions.net.
This article by Burt Kaliski from Verisign was originally published on the Verisign blog at blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/colloquium_on_collisions_expert_panelists
Sedo Reports $1,1 Million in Domain Sales! Btb.com Topped Sedo’s Weekly Sales List at $38,350
BTB.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $38,350.Highlights also include Sandwich.co, leading the ccTLD category at $18,000 and Singular.net, leading the “Other” category at $13,400.
Other notable domain name sales include :
.COM
rottencredit.com 22,000 USD
webcambusiness.com 14,250 USD
customsbroker.com 10,500 USD
terminus.com 10,099 USD
skyterminal.com 8,000 USD
9air.com 6,500 EUR
snapsale.com 6,410 USD
propertyclaims.com 6,000 USD
mastered.com 6,000 USD
trafficash.com 6,000 USD
pornostar.com 5,590 EUR
bimby.com 5,500 USD
javadocs.com 5,000 USD
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prepaidmobile.com 5,000 USD
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bankjn.com 4,995 USD
n2w.com 4,790 USD
onboardcourier.com 4,500 EUR
sitewiki.com 4,500 USD
w-life.com 4,500 USD
nurtureme.com 4,500 EUR
consiva.com 4,400 USD
pswn.com 4,000 USD
ccTLDs
bau24.de 12,000 EUR
pling.us 10,000 GBP
360.tv 6,000 USD
loftladders.co.uk 5,350 GBP
makers.com.cn 5,000 USD
markenschutz.ch 5,000 EUR
onedrive.com.au 5,000 USD
blender.co.uk 4,999 USD
www.ht 4,600 USD
treated.co.uk 4,400 USD
wellwater.de 3,000 EUR
newcom.eu 3,000 EUR
404.cn 2,824 EUR
kapacitet.se 2,500 EUR
une.ch 2,500 EUR
amber.nl 2,349 EUR
gasket.io 2,206 EUR
attack.pl 2,200 EUR
ksbase.cn 2,000 USD
geldgewinnen.de 2,000 EUR
mundpropaganda.at 2,000 EUR
passedaway.co.uk 2,000 GBP
kidsfurniture.co.za 2,000 USD
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labels.info 5,500 USD
grafeno.org 5,000 USD
breeders.org 4,500 USD
arm.net 4,100 EUR
maisondesartistes.org 3,150 USD
watson.net 3,000 USD
startpage.info 2,500 USD
shareworks.net 2,500 USD
rewardscreditcards.org 2,499 USD
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tradesoft.net 1,800 EUR
colorama.net 1,500 USD
alhadath.net 1,400 USD
flightstatus.net 1,250 USD
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mpwh.net 995 USD
onlinetrading.org 990 USD
abierto.net 850 EUR
foret.info 800 EUR
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mpl.net 705 USD
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Afternic Reports $1,95 Million in Domain Name Sales, Led by Crafting.com at $51,500
Afternic/GoDaddy have just sent in their weekly sales report. Sales add up to a total of $1,954,130 .Crafting.com was the highest selling domain name at $51,500.
Other notable domain name sales include :
.COM
heard.com $40,000
spokes.com $40,000
hellomoney.com $24,000
rateworld.com $20,000
tradeblock.com $15,000
tradecoin.com $15,000
bwm.com $15,000
connectup.com $15,000
360eye.com $12,500
getyourshittogether.com $11,000
lockin.com $10,000
redde.com $10,000
3dprintingmagazine.com $10,000
easyfunding.com $9,610
vinylbanner.com $9,000
mjcolorado.com $8,650
finestresorts.com $8,500
bannersigns.com $8,000
nationallotteries.com $8,000
virtex.com $8,000
acnecenter.com $7,495
onlineboutiques.com $7,000
tritonwater.com $7,000
247web.com $6,900
lovebud.com $6,700
winns.com $6,551
gladstonepartners.com $6,507
outletclub.com $6,500
sourcewater.com $6,500
shoecase.com $6,500
lostdeals.com $6,500
perilloux.com $6,250
basketkase.com $6,000
goldboutique.com $5,995
safetywise.com $5,988
path360.com $5,525
lbq.com $5,500
buymyauto.com $5,300
inclineaviation.com $5,300
dawgvent.com $5,225
appgenius.com $5,000
factory360.com $5,000
thelifeyouwant.com $5,000
123apps.com $5,000
isostore.com $5,000
edgebander.com $5,000
twisttie.com $5,000
whitegown.com $5,000
shoppingbox.com $5,000
fnews.com $5,000
jzn.com $5,000
presentit.com $5,000
dubaiexpoguide.com $5,000
jovia.com $5,000
Non .COM Sales
picnic.co $9,999
random.co $9,999
heg.net $5,000
latest.org $4,000
cancerstages.net $4,000
centered.org $3,800
room.co $3,750
disabilityresource.org $3,600
sera.net $3,488
presidential.net $3,221
tomorrow.am $3,000
immointernet.org $2,990
niw.info $2,888
careerco.net $2,800
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ladyblog.net $2,500
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simplecapital.net $2,000
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beautystore.net $2,000
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ghape.org $1,725
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mindspa.org $1,477
enerconindia.net $1,477
scott.biz $1,475
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meet.net $1,277
twa.us $1,268
coin.biz $1,200
thepublic.org $1,188
evolve.info $1,188
binternational.net $1,096
settled.co $1,000
quatro-project.org $1,000
cobie.org $1,000
sirius.us $1,000
1diamond.net $1,000
ICANN : Invitation to Join the GNSO-SSR | A GNSO Sponsored Security, Stability, Resiliency (SSR) Mailing List
This charter briefly describes an open group sponsored by the GNSO. This group will informally review SSAC reports to determine whether they contain recommendations that might deserve broader consideration in the GNSO.
Problem Statement
Recommendations made by the SSAC sometimes are relevant to GNSO policy making, yet the mechanism for the GNSO to find out or act on them is not well developed.
The current process is for the SSAC to give advice to the Board, with the presumption that the Board will pass relevant issues along to the GNSO for consideration. This doesn’t appear to be happening in all cases, with sometimes-unsatisfactory results. Here are two examples:
The SSAC produced an extensive report (SAC007 [PDF, 400 KB]) in 2005 that addressed the issue of domain-name hijacking. In 2011, six years later, members of the GNSO IRTP-B working group stumbled across the following observation in that report and realized that it was a good idea:
“Collect emergency contact information from registrants, registrars and resellers for parties who are suited to assist in responding to an urgent restoration of domain name incident. Define escalation processes (emergency procedures) that all parties agree can be instituted in events where emergency contacts are not available.”
It took six years for that very common-sense idea to find its way into Consensus Policy and probably another year or two to implement.
The SSAC wrote a report (SAC045 [PDF, 507 KB]) in 2010 titled “Invalid Top Level Domain Queries at the Root Level of the DNS” which provided an early warning about the “name collisions” problem. Again, an opportunity to proactively research this issue was missed and ICANN finds itself scrambling to deal with an issue that is much complicated by the fact that a number of the highest-volume invalid strings are now applied-for strings and soon to be delegated into the root.
A related problem is that the stakeholder-group structure of the GNSO does not have an SSR-focused forum for this kind of cross-GNSO conversation.
How does not solving this problem get in the way of achieving ICANN’s objectives?
The implication is that the GNSO may sometimes fail to consider SSAC recommendations in a timely way, or at all.
Specifically, not solving the problem raises the possibility of:
Negative impacts on SSR of the DNS – as a result of not considering or implementing SSAC recommendations, or building trust relationships in an SSR community of interest
Increased implementation costs – as a result of delay in considering SSAC proposals that may bear on GNSO consensus policy
Lower quality of implementation – as a result of not taking fullest advantage of the rigor of the multi-stakeholder analysis and PDP processes
Value to be gained
In addition to addressing the problems listed above, the GNSO will benefit from having this group by:
Broadening the pool of participants — by identifying and engaging community members who have interest and skills in SSR of the DNS
Building trust relationships – by providing community members an opportunity to work together in a low-key setting
Approach
The primary work product of this group will be periodic informal suggestions of SSR-related topics to be considered by the GNSO. The form of that consideration may vary. Possibilities include:
An Issue Report
An alert to a currently-running working group or implementation review team
Notifications to constituencies and stakeholder groups
The group:
Will do its work via an email list – no teleconferences are planned
Is open to all members of the ICANN community – all AC’s and SO’s, staff, Board, etc.
Will require that all participants submit or update their GNSO Statement of Interest before they are subscribed to the list
Will maintain open public email archives – and thus will not discuss private or confidential information
Will be convened by Mikey O’Connor until somebody gets tired of him and offers to take over
To join the mailing list please RSVP
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This announcement was sourced from :
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04feb14-en.htm
NameJet Reports Over $800,000 in Domain Sales in January 2014, Led By Liu.com at $155,688
NameJet released its domain name sales report for January 2014, totaling $836,000. Liu.com was the highest selling domain name ,at $155,688.
Other notable domain name sales include :
bak.com $50,100
daum.com $50,000
zhao.com $50,000
jean.com $50,000
liang.com $45,000
juggs.com $41,600
authorization.com $35,100
haobo.com $16,703
woodshop.com $14,257
paye.com $13,900
firesafety.com $13,000
myauction.com $11,000
creditcheckonline.com $10,000
gsv.com $9,700
1939.com $8,703
discounthosting.com $8,200
ching.com $8,112
sxu.com $8,000
classified.net $7,800
goingon.com $7,800
simpledress.com $7,500
fashionforless.com $7,211
smartpoint.com $6,804
tianrong.com $6,766
seoservice.com $6,100
johnsmith.com $5,634
bedworld.com $5,600
yafei.com $5,200
5393.com $5,106
caretree.com $5,106
hornsby.com $5,102
icup.com $5,099
swagga.com $5,099
mycupid.com $5,000
apr.net $5,000
hyco.com $5,000
