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\"This book provides a comprehensive overview of WHOIS. The text begins with an introduction to WHOIS and an in-depth coverage of its forty-year history. Afterwards it examines how to use WHOIS and how WHOIS fits in the overall structure of the Domain Name System (DNS). Other technical topics covered include WHOIS query code and WHOIS server details. The book also discusses current policy developments and implementations, reviews critical policy documents, and explains how they will affect the future of the Internet and WHOIS\"-- Provided by publisher.

Discusses the evolution of WHOIS and how policy changes will affect WHOIS' place in IT today and in the future This book provides a comprehensive overview of WHOIS. The text begins with an introduction to WHOIS and an in-depth coverage of its forty-year history. Afterwards it examines how to use WHOIS and how WHOIS fits in the overall structure of the Domain Name System (DNS). Other technical topics covered include WHOIS query code and WHOIS server details. The book also discusses current policy developments and implementations, reviews critical policy documents, and explains how they will affect the future of the Internet and WHOIS. Additional resources and content updates will be provided through a supplementary website. * Includes an appendix with information on current and authoritative WHOIS services around the world * Provides illustrations of actual WHOIS records and screenshots of web-based WHOIS query interfaces with instructions for navigating them * Explains network dependencies and processes related to WHOIS utilizing flowcharts * Contains advanced coding for programmers * Visit the book's companion website http://whois.knujon.com for technical and policy documents concerning WHOIS, WHOIS code examples, internet locations for WHOIS databases and more. WHOIS Running the Internet: Protocol, Policy, and Privacy is written primarily for internet developers, policy developers, industry professionals in law enforcement, digital forensic investigators, and intellectual property attorneys. Garth O. Bruen is an Internet policy and security researcher whose work has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Since 2012 Garth Bruen has served as the North American At-Large Chair to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In 2003 Bruen created KnujOn.com with his late father, Dr. Robert Bruen, to process and investigate Internet abuse complaints (SPAM) from consumers. Bruen has trained and advised law enforcement at the federal and local levels on malicious use of the Domain Name System in the way it relates to the WHOIS record system. He has presented multiple times to the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) as well as other cybercrime venues including the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at The University of Mississippi School of Law. Bruen also teaches the Fisher College Criminal Justice School in Boston where he develops new approaches to digital crime.

This book provides an exposition of key issues in the development, steering, and management of the Internet. Much of its focus is on the governance of the infrastructure for Internet communication, particularly data transmission protocols, protocol addresses, and corresponding domain names. It also maps the development and application of core principles of network design for the Internet. A recurrent theme of the book is the challenges associated with establishing global, multi-stakeholder governance structures based on bottom-up, consensus-seeking decisional procedures, without direct foundation in a treaty framework. The book's basic argument is that the success of the Internet is largely due to its development within open and democratic cultures, and that Internet governance structures ought accordingly to continue to cultivate such cultures.

This article discusses the dispute settlement procedure set up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to assess whether applied-for generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) are contrary to accepted legal norms of morality and public order that are recognised under general principles of international law. The standard of general principles of international law for morality and public order exemplifies the introduction of a legal yardstick to assess gTLDs. First, the article argues that this standard was carefully crafted to fulfil, in theory, the goals of the settlement procedure. In practice, however, it is unclear whether such general principles are apt to articulate, in a legal form, the norms of public order and morality. Second, the article demonstrates that the expert panels adopted different approaches in deciding the cases brought before them either by prioritising the protection of the users’ health online over freedom of expression or by focusing on preserving freedom of expression under the human rights paradigm. The expert panels construed their mandates differently and implicitly applied different concepts and bodies of public international law into their framing of a new area of regulation. The analysis underlines that one should be cautious when conceptualising and balancing competing interests in the domain name space, such as, on the one hand, the availability of information online and economic considerations and, on the other, the accommodation of public interest concerns in the Internet’s root zone. The article concludes by emphasising that international law is not a panacea for highly debatable policy issues in Internet governance.

Since the mid-1990s, efforts have been under way to construct an international regime for global Internet governance. Beginning with the formation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, efforts at regime construction were a main focus of the 2001–2005 UN World Summit on the Information Society. However, little progress was made toward an international agreement. This reflected policymakers' ill-advised attempt to shortcut regime construction: they attempted to define regime rules and procedures without first defining underlying principles and norms. This article offers example sets of principles and norms of the type that are missing and that could provide the foundation for an Internet governance regime. The authors conclude that a framework convention would be the appropriate institutional mechanism for advancing regime construction.

In just a few weeks, the Internet could be expanded to include a new .health generic top-level domain name run by a for-profit company with virtually no public health credentials - unless the international community intervenes immediately. This matters to the future of global public health as the “Health Internet” has begun to emerge as the predominant source of health information for consumers and patients. Despite this increasing use and reliance on online health information that may have inadequate quality or reliability, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently announced it intends to move forward with an auction to award the exclusive, 10 year rights to the .health generic top-level domain name. This decision is being made over the protests of the World Medical Association, World Health Organization, and other stakeholders, who have called for a suspension or delay until key questions can be resolved. However, rather than engage in constructive dialogue with the public health community over its concerns, ICANN chose the International Chamber of Commerce—a business lobbying group for industries to adjudicate the .health concerns. This has resulted in a rejection of challenges filed by ICANN's own independent watchdog and others, such that ICANN's Board decided in June 2014 that there are “no noted objections to move forward” in auctioning the .health generic top-level domain name to the highest bidder before the end of the year. This follows ICANN's award of several other health-related generic top-level domain names that have been unsuccessfully contested. In response, we call for an immediate moratorium/suspension of the ICANN award/auction process in order to provide the international public health community time to ensure the proper management and governance of health information online.

Sepulveda discusses the role of leadership in internet governance. The internet is composed of thousands of networks voluntarily interconnected to each other. Data is transmitted over those networks using market-driven standards, delivering services and information to devices and people worldwide. No single government or international treaty controls or regulates the global internet, its workings, the standards it relies on, or the ways people around the world access it. From a technical and operational perspective, the internet's functioning is coordinated and enabled through the use of multistakeholder organizations and standards-setting bodies. How people, firms, and governments use the internet and what they do on it is governed by laws and regulations in multiple individual jurisdictions. A combination of these activities from operational coordination of domain names to the laws that govern human activity on the internet, constitute internet governance.

Are Tier 1 ISPs and “hyper-giant” content providers using preferential interconnection agreements to create Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that allow them to provide an improved Quality of User Experience inconsistent with network neutrality principles? Yes, say the authors, and they recommend that regulators address these possibly oligopolistic and anti-competitive practices. The effects arising from these CDNs, the authors show, are the same as those of regulated traffic prioritization. Using innovative models, original data, and analysis based on the experience of the Internet ecosystem in Spain, the authors conclude that lesser long tail content providers without significant market power are being cannibalized into such CDNs.

On Dec 5, 2012, the US Congress unanimously passed a resolution with an extraordinary 397-0 vote calling for US opposition to government control of the Internet and the preservation of a multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. The bipartisan resolution was responding to global proposals surrounding a 2012 Dubai gathering known as the World Conference on International Telecommunications. The event was convened by the International Telecommunication Union, the UN specialized agency for information and communication technologies, to review the International Telecommunication Regulations, a global treaty adopted in 1988 to establish guidelines for how telecommunications operators exchange traffic across national borders. Against a backdrop of hyperbolic media reports about the UN trying to \"take over the Internet\" and after two weeks of contentious deliberations, the conference ended with nations divided about whether they would sign a revised treaty. Enforcing democratic conceptions of multi-stakeholderism in international fora similarly raises the question of whose conception of democracy to instantiate in Internet policies.

The process of introducing new top-level domain names (TLDs) for use on the Internet, which is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is fraught with rhetoric about an increase in costs and abuses, or an increase in choice and reduction in scarcity. Mr. Nicholls argues that there has been very little empirical research on the potential impact of new TLDs, and analyzes issues of cost and scarcity in domain name registration practices. Mr. Nicholls concludes that some of the perceived threats of new TLDs have not manifested though others have, and that data-driven research is necessary.