Google's indexing service dropped all Web sites with a .com.au extension for a few hours on Friday afternoon, effectively leaving millions of sites unattainable from the Net's most popular search engine.
AusRegistry, the company responsible for the registry of the dot-au domain space, is planning a multi-million marketing push to promote Australian domain names so they are no longer confused with the more generic dot-coms.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has formally announced a proposal to make domain tasting a thing of the past by changing the way it charges for domain names.
Google has become accredited to register and sell Web addresses under ICANN, the governing body of domain names.
Google's Web site was inaccessible for a brief time on Saturday and some visitors reported being rerouted to another site, leading some to believe that the search giant had been hacked.
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If the size of the World Wide Web was measured by the number of domain names then it is growing faster than at any time in its history, according to figures released by research and analysis firm Netcraft last week.
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