.AU DOMAIN NEWS – Page 2

Opportunity & Red Tape

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 Neddy 284 Views

auDA took a long time to arrive at the decision of implementing direct registration of Australian domains e.g. the ability

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auDA Announces Delay

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 Neddy 279 Views

In a statement on the auDA website yesterday, current Chair Suzanne Ewart announced that there will be a delay to

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.AU DOMAIN NEWS The Drops

Funny business going on at Drop.com.au? – Part I

May 1, 2019May 5, 2019 Robert 792 Views

What you are about to read, in my opinion, is red-handed proof that an Australian domain name drop catching platform has potentially manipulated catching of the premium dropping domain name, Company.com.au(.)

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Why the sudden rush, auDA?

March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 Robert 722 Views

Why the sudden rush to railroad the latest PRP Consultation Paper into the boardroom to be quickly voted on, auDA?

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February 2019 Update

February 12, 2019February 13, 2019 Robert 511 Views

Why so quiet, Domainer?

Not quiet. BUSY!

Plus, we’re all waiting to hear some updates/news from auDA about “certain topics”.

So, in the meantime, let’s have a general February 2019 update…

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australia.net.au Back to its Rightful Owner!

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Robert 1755 Views

You may remember we initially noticed and contacted the owner of Australia.net.au to let him know he’d lost his domain name. He was “gutted” and rightfully so.

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Are the PRP to blame for generic domains being confiscated?

November 14, 2018November 14, 2018 Robert 717 Views

With so much turmoil surrounding our Australian domain name space over the past few years, many of us were enjoying the new-concept of possible stability.

For as many positive steps forward we’ve seen in this industry as of late, we’ve also seen some very-outdated backward steps. And most of those, in my opinion, have been initiated by The PRP.

Alarm bells started ringing again when the generic domain name Banking.com.au was lost on the weekend, opening up a brand new muddy can of worms.

.AU DOMAIN NEWS Daily Drops

Locked By Registry

November 12, 2018November 19, 2018 Robert 467 Views

On Saturday just gone, the domain name Banking.com.au was accidentally dropped by CSC Global for ING Bank.

According to Wikipedia, ING Bank is a $53 Billion company with over 1000 employees.

Banking.com.au was an AWESOME domain name for this company. I am sure they are (will be) quite upset when they notice they will never be able to leverage it’s marketing power, ever again, from this moment forward.