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  • CeBIT nurses cause Twitter uproar

    Domain name specialist NetRegistry has come under fire for using women dressed as nurses to promote its services at Australia's largest trade fair CeBIT this week.

  • Filter plans a step too far: NetRegistry

    Australia's biggest domain name seller NetRegistry has slammed the government's proposed internet content filtering scheme, claiming that the proposal would hurt small business.

  • Aussie domain aftermarket stalls

    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.

  • auDA loosens up domain name sales restrictions

    The rules governing domain name sales and transfers in Australia were relaxed this week as domain name registry body auDA released its new change of registrant policy.

  • auDA introduces new rules to block domain hogs

    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.

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Is Office 2010 worth the upgrade?

    Patch Monday delivers the verdict on a build of Microsoft's next version of its Office suite that has found its way on the internet. We look at what happened in the Federal Budget as well as discuss the fallout from CeBIT.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    auDA trying to raise profile?

    "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.

Features and Case Studies (1)

  • Property business sunk after domain dispute

    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.

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