Australian domain name regulator auDA is investigating a possible breach of policy following the launch of a controversial marketing campaign by Bottle Domains.
The mail-out of 500,000 advertisements by Domain Names Australia (DNA) was the biggest issue in the domain name market to affect consumers in 2003.
The number of .au domain names will pass one million this month, after five years of strong growth.
In a series of reforms announced this week, the Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) has regulated against domain traders by outlawing the practice of registering a domain name for the sole purpose of reselling it.
While Australia never suffered the extreme examples of Internet domain mania seen in the US, it seems many local registrars are still prepared to go to extreme lengths to secure desirable domains.
A group of Australian Web technology thinkers and entrepreneurs have started a new Google Group to build the Down Under version of California's famous high-tech development locality. They call it: Silicon Beach Australia.
An Australian domain name registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to become the registry for global top-level domain .org.
While UK businesses worry that Linux lacks the technical support options to make it an enterprise player, Australian businesses believe the open source operating system already enjoys the robust support they need to put it to work.
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