It's all about domain names
As growth in domain name registrations and aftermarket purchases surge due to the effects of Covid-19, unfortunately the number of complaints to auDA seem to be rising as well. Some of these could be described as vexatious (denoting an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant).
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The scammers are really going for it again. They are illegally using the business details of others to register .au domains. This can obviously cause reputational damage to innocent parties e.g. scammers can put up a fake eCommerce sites and rip off the public. Check out the story here…
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Some years ago, auDA audited .org.au domain names to make sure these were being used for a proper purpose i.e. as per auDA policy the org.au 2LD is for non-commercial organisations.
It appears that with no follow up audits, the growth in org.au domains has outstripped all other extensions.
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I’m talking about the domain name blockbuster.com.au. This hit the expired auctions over the weekend, and a domain investor friend of mine and I decided to try and acquire it. We were successful.
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It’s been just over a week since the AGM, and there has been virtual radio silence. I don’t mean or
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Yesterday, the 2019 auDA AGM was held in Melbourne. It was a timid and stage managed affair which officially lasted
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Like many previous members, I declined to become a new class of member after the overseas membership rort of 2018.
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In their mad rush to tick lots of boxes for the implementation of direct registration and new licensing rules, auDA
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Here are some selected images from Domainer’s history. They sort of tell the tale of the recently departed CEO (Cameron
Read moreUpdated – please scroll to bottom of article Did auDA’s former CEO Cameron Boardman “mislead” the organisation about his educational
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No domain name registrant likes to lose a domain name because they haven’t followed all the policy rules set down
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