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• auDA pushes back implementation of direct .au domain registration

  .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA), the custodian of the .au domain space, will delay introducing the direction registration of .au domains.

• Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia denounce decision on Amazon domain

  The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia criticized a recent decision by the organization that manages internet protocol to grant global retailer Amazon Inc the rights to the .amazon domain.

• Domain name businesses fined $1.95m over ‘renewal’ notices

  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.

• auDA consults on direct .au registration, non-ASCII domains

  auDA has launched a public consultation on a potential radical shakeup of the .au domain space.

• Government scrutinises auDA oversight of .au

  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.

• Eight reasons why you should conduct a DNS audit

  As the Mirai botnet attack on 21 October 2016 proved, the DNS (Domain Name System) is not immune to cyber-attacks. If there is one key lesson to take from it, it’s that organisations relying on online assets for their day-to-day activities simply cannot afford to lose a service like DNS.

• auDA asks registrar to delete 1025 .au domain names

  auDA — the administrator of the .au domain — has requested a domain name registrar place into policy delete more than 1000 domains it says were used to impersonate Australian businesses.

• auDA recruits new CEO

  The board of .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) has appointed Cameron Boardman as the organisation’s new CEO.

• auDA seeks new CEO

  auDA, which administers the .au domain space, is looking for a new CEO after the board decided it would not renew the contract of its founding chief executive Chris Disspain.

• auDA and .au registrars work together to improve security

  We live in an era where information security breaches can affect businesses of all types and sizes, causing significant damage and distress not only to the business itself but also to its customers.

• ​ICANN, Vocus team up for Domain Name System security

  ICANN and Vocus Communications ​have installed an L-Root server node in Sydney to increase the Domain Name System (DNS) resilience against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

• A change in Australia's web rules would open up the .au space

  If you want to register an Australian web address, your options may be about to change due to a review of domain name policy that is currently underway