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• Internet pioneer Paul Vixie: Build roads, not walls

  ​'Are you an optimist?' was the question put to Paul Vixie last week at Kaspersky's security analyst summit in Singapore, when he took to the stage to receive the security company's 'MVP' award.

• Govt review: auDA needs to fix its problems — or else

  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 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.

• 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

• World-first security measure for .au combats increased cybercrime

  Last month, Prime Minister Tony Abbott chaired an unprecedented cyber security summit with CEOs and executives from Australia’s leading companies to address the increasing threat of online risks to Australia’s digital economy.

• Tourism to help drive .sydney take-up, says ARI boss

  Sydney’s tourism industry should help drive interest in the city’s new top-level domain when it launches later this month according to the chief executive of ARI Registry Services, the company that managed the application for the new TLD.

• Turnbull supports new governance model for DNS

  Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has described as a "momentous day in the history of the Internet" the announcement by the US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration that it will end its role in the Domain Name System.

• 5 years after major DNS flaw is discovered, few US companies have deployed long-term fix

  Five years after the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Domain Name System dubbed the Kaminsky bug, only a handful of U.S. ISPs, financial institutions or e-commerce companies have deployed DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC ) to alleviate this threat.