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.AU DOMAIN NEWS Domain Licensing Rules

auDA postpone new Licensing Rules until May 2021.

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Robert 976 Views

“It is likely the launch date for the new Licensing Rules will be late Q1 or early Q2 next year.”

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New AU Domain Policy Rules Approaching.

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Robert 585 Views

It looks like the new long awaited AU Domain Administration Licensing Rules are about to be implemented.

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Vexatious Complaints to auDA

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Neddy 560 Views

As growth in domain name registrations and aftermarket purchases surge due to the effects of Covid-19, unfortunately the number of complaints to auDA seem to be rising as well. Some of these could be described as vexatious (denoting an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant).

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Don’t Lose Your Parked Domain Like This Reader

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Ashlee 259 Views

Recently a member of our audience called Phil reached out to share a story of how he lost his domain

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Beware Of Unauthorised Business Use – “UBU”

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Neddy 896 Views

The scammers are really going for it again. They are illegally using the business details of others to register .au domains. This can obviously cause reputational damage to innocent parties e.g. scammers can put up a fake eCommerce sites and rip off the public. Check out the story here…

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auDA Needs To Audit ORG.au Again

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Neddy 393 Views

Some years ago, auDA audited .org.au domain names to make sure these were being used for a proper purpose i.e. as per auDA policy the org.au 2LD is for non-commercial organisations.

It appears that with no follow up audits, the growth in org.au domains has outstripped all other extensions.

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auDA Talks A Good Game

July 6, 2020July 7, 2020 Neddy 452 Views

Last Friday, I saw a post from Afilias (on LinkedIn) which motivated me to write this article.
The topic was a short interview with Steph Viljoen from auDA. Her position is “Compliance and Analytics Manager”.

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Update from auDA’s Chair

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Robert 484 Views

auDA’s new Licensing Rules have been published – with an implementation date yet to be set – and the Board has been working through the many considerations involved in introducing direct registration at the second level of .au(.)