Domain Name Corp Pty Ltd and an associated business, Domain Name Agency Pty Ltd, have been slapped with fines worth $1.5 million and $450,000, respectively, over breaches of the Australian Consumer Law.
The government has called for significant changes to .au Domain Administration (auDA) — and says that in the absence of reform it will seek expressions of interest from other organisations for the management of Australia’s top-level .au domain.
auDA has launched a public consultation on a potential radical shakeup of the .au domain space.
The government will review the management of Australia’s country code top-level domain, .au. Communications minister Senator Mitch Fifield today released terms of reference for the review.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched Federal Court action Domain Name Corp Pty Ltd and Domain Name Agency Pty Ltd, with the ACCC alleging that the businesses “engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations to Australian businesses about the domain name services they offered”.