Australian businesses and consumers are increasing their Web presence, with more than 433,000 .au domains registered over the last year.
.au Domain Administration (auDA) has sent out new warnings to domain name registrants regarding letters and faxes being sent by Domains Australia Pty Ltd offering a range of registration of a .com domain for AU$225.
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.
A month after Australia's domain name regulator started to allow domains ending in .au to be on-sold, companies are attempting to auction Australian domains for as much as AU$1 million. However, buyers have remained reluctant to pay top-dollar for the internet addresses.
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.
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A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.
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.
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A report released Monday by VeriSign, the company that maintains the Internet's .com and .net domain registry, indicates that attempted site hacks, online fraud and identity theft are growing rapidly, as e-commerce proliferates.
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