News (205)

  • Registrars rally behind ICANN

    Forty-four accredited registrars have signed a letter supporting the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), amid mounting criticism over the Internet naming body's operations and tactics.

  • auDA moves to tighten grip on resellers

    Australia's domain name industry regulator has moved to tighten reseller compliance with its policies and codes in proposed changes to the current regulatory system.

  • .au domain registrations suffering glitches

    The Go-live for the new domain name registration system is plagued by teething troubles, as registrars battle with a new system and a flood of applications.

  • MelbourneIT terminates up to twenty resellers

    The new regulatory scheme for the Australian domain space has already found its first victims, with MelbourneIT reportedly terminating the contracts of up to 20 of its resellers.

  • Court rules in favour of ICANN

    A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against the organisation that oversees Internet domain names and addresses.

Blogs (1)

  • 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 (12)

  • ICANN urged to scrutinise domain claims

    An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.

  • Domain names: reforming the Internet?

    Domain names--a hot issue for businesses looking to protect their identity online. ZDNet Australia talks to ICANN's CEO about changes which are afoot in the policy arena.

  • Managing data at Melbourne IT

    Managing data can be difficult, especially if you have almost 500 terabytes of storage and spend $10,000 a month on backup tapes. This case study looks at how Melbourne IT, one of Australia's biggest web hosting companies, handles storage

  • 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.

  • Australian registry going global?

    An Australian domain name registry is looking to leverage its technical experience Down Under in a bid to become the registry for global top-level domain .org.

Reviews (5)

  • Google Apps for Your Domain

    Google Apps for Your Domain lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.

  • 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.

  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

  • Is Linux taking over the enterprise?

    These days, the question is not whether you can use Linux, but where you can best use it. Is there more to Linux than Apache and file and print serving? ZDNet Australia investigates.

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