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  • Australia backs Internet status quo

    Australia has backed the current Internet governance regime in the wake of the Bush administration's surprise announcement it would not relinquish control of the Net to any other body.

  • Aust businesses embrace .au domains

    The combined number of .com.au and .net.au domain names has reached the 500,000 mark, two and a half years after .au Domain Administration (auDa) took over management of the .au domain space.

  • Domain name changes on the way

    The industry body overseeing domain names has announced two measures to increase the number of domains available.

  • VeriSign slammed for helping spammers

    Network operators, anti-spam campaigners, security experts and engineers have all hit out at VeriSign over changes it made to the top level domain system on Monday.

  • Domain Names Australia fires back at regulator

    A legal dispute between Internet company Domain Names Australia (DNA) and domain name regulator auDA has turned nasty, with the company publicly questioning auDA's legal authority to regulate the industry.

  • auDA launches legal attack on domain company

    Australia's domain name administrator, auDA, has unsuccessfully applied to the Federal Court to restrain a registry from using funds secured as a result of a mail-out earlier this year of domain registration documents the administrator claims resemble invoices.

  • .pro escapes domain name hype

    Professional practitioners now have a top-level domain reserved just for them, and the domain name industry is working hard to keep it that way.

  • auDA director gets say in next ICANN board

    A director of auDA, Tony Staley, has been elected to ICANN's Nominating Committee as the delegate representing operators of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

  • .TM domain back on the market

    The .TM country-code top-level domain space is back in action after a four-year hiatus, bringing an additional source of funds to Turkmenistan.

  • Flak flies over ICANN contract renewal

    The US Department of Commerce has quietly renewed ICANN's contract to run the Internet - but other organisations are crying foul, saying ICANN is simply not up to the job.

  • Dyson ends support for ICANN 1.0

    Esther Dyson is increasingly distancing herself from the old ICANN as she seeks to create ICANN 2.0 to oversee the Internet's future. But experts are still divided over how the organisation should work.

  • Defending the DNS

    The domain name system was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain." But with this mastery comes the responsibility of contributing to the defense of the DNS.

  • Australia seizes the dot-biz deadline

    Despite the lacklustre local response to the launch of dot-info, Australian businesses have seized the opportunity to register with the new global top level domain (gTLD) dot-biz (.biz), according to domain name registry NeuLevel.

  • Australia goes slow for dot-info

    Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in the rush to register with the new global top level domain (gTLD) .info.

  • Is .sex a scam?

    Users who try to access Web addesses with the .sex suffix are in for a disappointment.

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