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  • Aust businesses embrace .au domains

    The combined number of .com.au and .net.au domain names has reached the 500,000 mark, two and a half years after .au Domain Administration (auDa) took over management of the .au domain space.

  • Domain bureaucrats: Bungling the .gov.au space

    Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.

  • auDA launches legal attack on domain company

    Australia's domain name administrator, auDA, has unsuccessfully applied to the Federal Court to restrain a registry from using funds secured as a result of a mail-out earlier this year of domain registration documents the administrator claims resemble invoices.

  • Australia to get more domain names?

    In the future, Australians may have access to a greater number of domain names, after board of the domain name space regulatory body, auDA, approved a report by its Name Policy Advisory Panel.

  • Can ICANN help the rich get richer?

    The Internet's governing body was supposed to open up the landscape to small Web address registrars. So why were so many big players awarded new top-level domains?

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