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• New .sydney domain open for registrations tomorrow

  From 11am on 17 February, the new .sydney top-level domain will hit general availability.

• 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.

• First wave of .melbourne domain names go live tomorrow

  The first collection of second-level domains using the new .melboune top-level domain will be live on the Internet from tomorrow.

• .melbourne top-level domain moves closer to Web

  The Victorian government has signed a registry agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), moving the .melbourne domain one step closer to the Web. The first .melbourne domains are likely to come online in mid-2014, according to ARI Registry Services.

• ICANN seeks to tackle DNS namespace collision risks

  As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System.

• More than 100 gTLDs added to the root so far

  The Internet's name space continues to expand, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN, the organisation that manages the Domain Name System which is ultimately responsible for translating website domain names into IP addresses — this morning announcing that more than 100 generic top-level domains have been added to the root zone.

• Updated: Monash gets first branded top-level domain

  Monash University has received the .monash top-level domain name, becoming the first global organisation to be delegated a brand-name TLD by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

• First new gTLDs added to the root

  The Internet – or at least its namespace – just got bigger. Early this morning, while most of Australia was eating breakfast or getting ready for work, four new top-level domains were added to the Internet's domain name root zone.

• Rich-Phillips: auDA oversight for .melbourne domain space

  Victoria’s Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, has told an Australian Internet policy conference that he believes auDA – .au Domain Administration Ltd., the organisation that currently manages the .au top-level domain – should have a role in overseeing new Australian geography-based TLDs such as .melbourne.

• First top-level domain contract signed for Arabic .web

  The client of a Melbourne registrar has signed the first global top-level domain (gTLD) contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

• ICANN approves non-Latin 'dot word' domains

  ICANN published evaluation results of the first 27 new global top-level domains.

• Melbourne IT expects boom in defensive registrations when top-level domains arrive

  Melbourne IT said it expects a boost to business from defensive domain registering and other activity associated with new global top-level domains expected to go live later this year.

• .Melbourne scores higher ranking than .Sydney in ICANN top-level domain lottery

  The state of Victoria, iSelect, Open Universities Australia and Commonwealth Bank drew high slots in a lottery at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to determine the order in which ICANN will evaluate applications for new top-level domains.

• Critics stage last-ditch effort to derail domain name expansion plan

  Debate around a <a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/">controversial plan</a> to add hundreds of new domain name extensions to the Internet infrastructure has reached a fever pitch in the nation's capital, as critics engage in a last-ditch effort to scrap or delay the plan, which is scheduled to launch Jan. 12.

• State governments move to secure .sydney, .melbourne domains

  The NSW and Victorian governments have moved to begin securing new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) including .sydney, .melbourne and.victoria ahead of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) opening up applications in less than three months’ time.