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  • What's in a name?

    Australians setting up in business with what they think is the perfect company name, are increasingly finding when they come to register it as a domain name that they don't necessarily have the rights to it.

  • auDA to auction rare domain names

    Domain names which in the past have been unavailable, will be up for auction as part of the auDA's new Domain Name Policy.

  • AusRegistry go-live date delayed

    Go live date for the new.com.au, .net.au, .asn.au, .org.au and id.au registry has been pushed back, a move touted as being to give registrars more time to prepare for the changeover.

  • MyDomain and NamesDirect Web sites offline

    Technical problems have taken up to 600,000 Web sites of MyDomain.com and NamesDirect.com customers offline.

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    A Web site claiming to be a registrar of the domain name extension .sex is in question for its authenticity, tempting Internet users to purchase a domain name which actually exists outside of the Internet as we know it.

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    "If you own an .australian Web site you need to know who we are," screamed an orange and grey advertisement the nation's domain regulator placed in several newspapers.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

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    The Internet has long been an egomaniac's paradise, but there have been some major developments on the tech side for all matters narcissistic.

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  • Do we need alternative domain names?

    Proponents are touting the benefits of alternative top-level domain names. But are there any benefits for businesses? ZDNet Australia investigates the pros and cons.

  • Protecting corporate Net assets

    You might be surprised to learn that although you've registered the names, you may not 'own' them, and you may be scammed into paying a fee to reacquire them. Learn how to secure your Internet assets.

  • Site to pool scrutiny of Linux security

    A government-funded initiative aims to boost code review of open-source software to prevent security holes.

  • 50 significant moments from internet history

    We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.

  • Web domains hit new high

    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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  • Are .net and .info domains a .complete waste of time?

    Lots of people think .com when they think about the Web. If the domain you use has an extension other than .com, you can bet that potential visitors will get it wrong.

  • Moving to a new Web site? Leave a forwarding address

    When the truck full of armed soldiers pulled over and encouraged me to hightail it off a country road, I got the impression that I was in the wrong place.

  • Terapad Pro

    Hosted CMS and blog solutions litter the market, yet none offer Terapad's combination of simplicity and functionality.

  • Microsoft Office Live beta

    Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.

  • Policy Central Enterprise

    Enforcing the acceptable use of business computers is often a tricky business. Policy Central Enterprise is an application that offers to help manage an AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) by placing the onus on individual users.

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