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  • 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.

  • Cybersquatting escalates in Asia

    Inexpensive domain names are fuelling the growth of cybersquatting in the region

  • 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.

  • Domain Names Australia fires back at regulator

    A legal dispute between Internet company Domain Names Australia (DNA) and domain name regulator auDA has turned nasty, with the company publicly questioning auDA's legal authority to regulate the industry.

  • 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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